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Workers’ compensation pays your medical bills and a portion of your lost wages when you are hurt on the job. What it does not pay is compensation for pain, suffering, emotional distress, full lost earnings, or future losses beyond what the statutory schedule allows. If a third party someone other than your direct employer was […]

A Texas personal injury claim generates more paperwork than most injured people expect. Before you reach the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building in Dallas, and often long before any lawsuit is filed, you may be asked to sign a representation agreement, medical authorisations, a Letter of Protection, interrogatory responses, a settlement release, and a […]

Under California law, a wrongful death claim produces a single, unified recovery. That recovery is not divided by the same percentages that would govern an inheritance. Instead, each eligible heir receives a share that reflects the personal loss that heir actually sustained as a result of the death. The court has authority to determine the […]

Texas law treats lost wages and lost earning capacity as two separate economic damages, and confusing them is one of the most costly mistakes an injured person can make. Lost wages cover income you already missed while you were out of work. Lost earning capacity addresses a different and often larger question: how has this […]

When someone dies as a result of another party’s wrongful conduct, California law creates two separate civil claims. The wrongful death claim belongs to the surviving heirs for their own losses. The survival action belongs to the decedent’s estate and covers the losses the decedent personally suffered before death. Under California Code of Civil Procedure sections […]

A life care plan is the document that converts a catastrophic injury into a dollar figure a court can evaluate. It catalogs every medical service, piece of equipment, therapy session, medication, and home modification a seriously injured person will likely need over a lifetime, assigns a unit cost and frequency to each item, and builds […]

California law limits who may bring a wrongful death lawsuit. Only the people specifically identified in Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60 have legal standing to file. The statute places the surviving spouse or domestic partner and the decedent’s children at the top of the priority list. Other relatives and dependents may qualify under separate […]

Yes. When a child is injured at a Texas daycare or school, a civil personal injury claim may be available. The exact path forward depends on whether the facility is privately operated or publicly funded, what caused the injury, and whose negligence contributed to it. Texas law treats private daycares and public school districts very […]

Which insurance coverage applies when a rideshare driver is injured on the job in Texas depends almost entirely on what the app showed at the exact moment of the crash. Texas Occupations Code Chapter 2402 divides every rideshare trip into three distinct periods, and each period carries its own coverage rules. A driver who is […]

Legal Snapshot Legal Topic: Product Liability E-Bike and Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Injuries Case Stage: Pre-litigation through civil litigation Primary Legal Issue: Strict products liability for manufacturing defect, design defect, and failure to warn Primary Authority: California Vehicle Code § 312.5; California Civil Code §§ 1714 et seq.; Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc., 59 Cal.2d […]