If you suffered an injury or illness at work, you must report the injury or illness to your employer within 30 days. Failure to meet this reporting deadline could jeopardize your opportunity to receive workers’ compensation benefits. In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional for private employers. If your employer does not carry workers’ compensation …
How to Prove Emotional Distress?
When you have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you may suffer a range of damages, including financial losses, physical pain and suffering, and emotional distress. While some damages can be easy to quantify, such as hospital bills, medical costs, and loss of income, other intangible losses are harder to prove. Emotional distress, also …
How Pain and Suffering Is Determined in Texas?
To understand how pain and suffering is determined in Texas, you must first know the difference between this and other types of damages. Unlike medical expenses and lost wages, pain and suffering does not have an easily definable monetary value. Therefore, you must assign a fair value to these damages based on factors other than …