Texas Workers’ Compensation News

It is extremely important that you protect yourself from the insurance carrier and insurance carrier doctors when you file for workers’ compensation.  Once you report an injury to your employer, your employer should notify its workers’ compensation insurance carrier. ...

In Texas, you are required to notify your supervisor or someone in a supervisory role after sustaining an injury on the job.  You should do this in person and document this in writing as well, either by email, text, or if you fill out an incident report with your...

You just left physical therapy and are headed home and you notice a car following you. He turns into your neighborhood and parks across the street from your house. No one gets out. You get out of your car and go inside and don’t think twice. As an injured worker don’t...

​ Prior to your work-related injury, you were working full-time, without restrictions, and had an active personal life with your family and friends. However, the insurance carrier has told you that your current pain and injury are preexisting conditions or an ordinary...

To an injured worker, one of the most important aspects of their workers’ compensation claim is medical treatment. If medical treatment for an injury is delayed, that usually means that the injured worker is delayed in being able to get back to work. If medical...

If you get injured on the job, more than likely your employer sent you to a doctor to get examined and to receive initial treatment for your injuries. Many injured workers are obviously thankful for what they see as their employer extending help to them and looking...

You have been injured on the job and have been to the doctor, received some initial medical treatment and have started receiving paperwork from the insurance company about your injuries. In this mountain of paperwork that will be mailed to you, the insurance company...

During the course of a workers’ compensation claim, many injured workers’ find it difficult to make ends meet on just their weekly workers’ compensation checks. It can be both difficult and frustrating to wait and see if your weekly check is going to arrive on time in...

Time after time injured workers feel that they can handle their worker’s comp claim because they are being assisted by their adjusters, however don’t be fooled! The adjuster on a worker’s comp claim does not work for you. They work for your employer's insurance...