https://youtu.be/lFTIh9UzGWY How long does workers comp last in Texas? Workers’ comp in Texas lasts the entire lifetime for the claimant when it pertains to the medical care that the claimant receives. In other words, for your entire life, the workers’ compensation insurance company is supposed to pay for all your medical pay that you need for your injury. It’s different when it comes to the income benefits that you receive. Your income benefits only last…

https://youtu.be/j1ShHZ4Y5eU Can a car accident be a workers’ compensation case? Sometimes in certain situations, when you’re driving to and from work, if you’re involved in a car wreck, that is a workers’ compensation claim. For instance, people who have places of business that are frequently changing, the common example is a plumber or an air conditioner repair man, those types of things. People that drive for work but they’ve got their company truck, they keep…

Take a moment to read this investigative journalism piece. Men sent to work at a chicken processing plant for “treatment” rather than go to prison. Chicken processing plants have high incidences of on the job injuries. Program participants that got injured on the job were sent to prison while the owners collected the workers compensation payments. Oh, and the husband and wife got $168,000 a year salaries and the processing company furnished someone to…

https://youtu.be/l2e9tKauYk0 What happens to my workers compensation if I test positive for drugs or alcohol? Often times, someone gets injured on the job and they’re forced to do a urinalysis or a blood test and it tests positive for some type of an illegal substance. When that happens, their claim is denied. So the question arises, what do I do now? Well, it’s important that you talk to a lawyer if you’ve tested positive for…

https://youtu.be/ZHUZIErE_Q4 What is the difference between a workers’ compensation claim and a non-compensation claim? Texas is one of the few states where you don’t have to carry workers’ compensation insurance. There are employers in Texas that don’t have workers’ compensation insurance. it gets confusing because the employer may carry insurance and they may tell their employees that it’s workers’ compensation insurance but it’s what we call an occupational benefit fund. It’s a form of the…

https://youtu.be/xdsxeBRzbcs Can I sue my company for causing my injury? Unfortunately in Texas, if your employer carries workers compensation insurance, your only rights of recovery are through workers comp. That means that you can’t sue your employer for causing your workers’ compensation injury. There are certain times when maybe you can’t sue your employer for causing your workers’ compensation injury, but if someone else somehow did something wrong that caused your injury, you may have…

https://youtu.be/qaIou7mTgHc Can the company I work for fire me for filing a workers’ compensation claim? If you feel threatened by your company because you want to follow workers’ compensation claim, don’t feel threatened. In Texas, it is illegal for a company to retaliate both against an individual who gets hurt on the job, as well as to retaliate against any other person who assists someone who’s been hurt on the job. For instance, if you…