Worker Misclassification Lawyers Employee Misclassifications in Texas Can Lead to Underpaid Wages A study released in March 2018 reveals that immigrants are twice as likely as native-born workers to be employed in industries where violations of core labor standards are pervasive – as much as 17% of the United States labor for[...]
Date: May 23, 2018 / Workers Compensation
Once again, the National Safety Council is telling us that May is National Motorcycle Safety Month. Its primary goal is to encourage driver awareness that they share the road with motorcyclists and they should drive with their safety in mind. Bikers need all the help they can get: According to the National Highway Traffic Safet[...]
Date: May 16, 2018 / Accident Attorney / Motorcycle Accidents / Vehicle Wrecks
As the state’s roadway infrastructure continues to expand, the price of progress means more than 2,500 active highway construction and repair work zones. According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), in 2017 there were over 27,000 work zone crashes in Texas. That’s an increase of 5% over 2016’s accident cou[...]
Date: May 14, 2018 / Vehicle Wrecks / Workplace Safety News
As it turns out, the number of women in Texas who died from pregnancy complications in 2012 has been cut by more than half through a new method for counting and confirming maternal deaths. The previous method made the maternal mortality rate of Texas and quite a few other states the subject of national news coverage. The study [...]
Date: May 9, 2018 / Medical Malpractice
In 2016, a total of 835 U.S. bicyclists were killed in accidents involving a motor vehicle, and 51% of those riders were not wearing a helmet. Wearing a helmet is the most important thing bicyclists hitting Texas roads can do to protect themselves from a serious head injury or death. There are many factors to consider when cho[...]
Date: May 2, 2018 / Accident Attorney / Bicycle Accidents / Personal Injury
Nobody ever anticipates that they're going to be injured at work, yet it happens every day. In fact, the state of Texas has led the entire country in worker fatalities and injuries for most of the past decade. What's even worse is that when workplace injuries or fatalities occur in Texas, these workers and their families aren't a[...]
Date: April 30, 2018 / Personal Injury / Workers Compensation
H-E-B Workers Compensation and Texas Non-Subscriber Employers Many employees may not know what coverage is available for H-E-B workers' compensation. It's best to start with an understanding of non-subscriber employers in Texas. For the past several years, the economy in Texas has thrived. New positions have been created, and h[...]
Date: April 24, 2018 / Personal Injury / Workers Compensation
The biggest auto recall in United States history, involving over 50 million Takata airbags installed in cars, trucks, and SUVs from 19 different automakers, continues to haunt U.S. drivers and the company which manufactured them. Takata airbags’ defective inflators can turn the device into a mini grenade which fires deadly shra[...]
Date: April 12, 2018 / Defective Products
In the face of warnings being issued for years about the dangers of unbelted back seat passengers in cars, it seems most are ignoring the fact that those same unsecured back seat passengers can suddenly become human missiles in a crash and seriously injure not only themselves, but those in the front seats. This is according to [...]
Date: April 11, 2018 / Personal Injury / Vehicle Wrecks
Distracted driving is a public health issue that affects us all. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the latest statistics show that each day about 9 Americans are killed and more than 1,000 are injured in crashes involving a distracted driver, including motorcycle crash injuries. It’s one of sev[...]
Date: April 10, 2018 / Pedestrian Injury / Personal Injury / Vehicle Wrecks
