At J.A. Davis & Associates, our experienced work injury lawyers in San Antonio and McAllen are dedicated to helping injured workers recover financially and physically after an accident on the job.
Fatal Work Accidents
Fatal Work Accident Lawyer Discusses Your Legal Options If a Loved One Dies in an On The Job Accident
You have lost a loved one in a fatal work accident. Right now it feels like nothing may ease your anguish. You also very probably think you have been victimized by the system. You may feel helpless to make sense of all that is happening. This doesn’t have to be the case for you.
You need someone to stand by your side in this troubling time. You may have one of our fatal work accident lawyers by your side. Our Law Firm has more than two decades of experience in getting justice for people in your situation.
Fatal work accidents may and do occur at construction sites, in industrial work environment accidents, fires, work-related vehicle crashes, slips and falls, and even as the outcome of criminal activity like a store robbery or shooting in a work environment. It’s so very painful to consider how your loved one died but our firm will work with you to make sure the cause of the accident is prosecuted. Fatal work accidents occur all too frequently here in Texas. It’s just an unfortunate reality. Many business owners want to make a buck more than they care to take the proper safety precautions that would protect their employees.
When the proper safety training is abbreviated, modern safety equipment is an afterthought, and other steps are traded in an effort to benefit a business owner’s bottom line, the outcome may be tragic. It is horrendous to lose a loved one in a fatal work accident. While you are dealing with the emotional ramifications of losing someone you loved you very probably do not feel or think you are prepared to deal with the implications of the lawsuit you will have to have to bring. Time is critical. The more quickly you call a lawyer, the better the outcome for both you and your family. Our attorneys and professionals will take over every aspect of the case you are bringing. You and your loved ones will be free to concentrate on healing while our firm handles the lawsuit. Let us now explain for you the parts and fundamentals of a wrongful death claim. More Information here
You may have heard and it is true that the survivor benefits for loved ones and children under Texas Workers’ Compensation law are curtailed and paltry. What they pay doesn’t begin to help address your loss, and neither does it get you the justice your loved one deserves. Texas workers’ compensation law does provide you the curtailed possibility of some defined death benefits – the lost or diminished income that is paid for a surviving worker is based on a percentage of the worker’s lost or diminished income. There exists a maximum ceiling and cap on these kinds of benefits, and you should understand that there is a minimum amount available for the surviving family. There exists an allowance of sorts for funeral bills that may be awarded as well. These minimal amounts will not give you the kind of relief you have to have when you have lost a loved one in a fatal work accident. More about Work Injury Lawyers San Antonio here
If you call us toll-free, our firm will show you how there are means to recover the damages beyond these basic mandated death benefits. With one of our attorneys by your side in court, our firm will be sure to look into every aspect of your loved one’s fatal accident. Our firm will bring to justice all of those who contributed to your loved one’s death. Our firm will use every legal means to ease your pain, get your damages and punish those who are liable.
No one likes the ugly work of filing a lawsuit, even one that’s justified. But filing a wrongful death action against the individuals or firms liable for your loved one’s accident has two essential purposes. You are able to pursue compensation and you are able to punish those who contributed to the fatal work accident. No amount of money will ever truly compensate for the loss of a loved one. No five or six or seven-figure settlement would ever ease the pain you are feeling. Such settlements and awards may go a long way to help a family get back on its feet again. Health care costs and funeral fees may pile up after a fatal work accident, and now you are deprived unjustly of your loved one’s income. While mere money certainly cannot make up for your personal loss, it may help to make your life a little easier.
Why should you have our Law Office file a lawsuit? When you pursue wrongful death lawsuits, you will punish the individual or firm who was the cause of your loved one’s death. You will send a warning to all of those liable. You will be saying to them that worker safety is more valuable than using cost minimization and corner-cutting to fatten their bottom line. When you sue third parties or a grossly negligent business owner, you will be saving lives in the future by minimizing the chance that your loved one’s surviving fellow workers still have to remain in a hazardous work environment.
Money cannot truly compensate a grieving family for the loss of a loved one, it may go a long way to help a family get back on its feet again. You will find bills even harder to tackle without the help of your loved one’s salary.
The Texas Workers’ Comp laws are intrusive against the rights of the survivors of those who are victims of fatal work environment accidents. Navigating the courts, examining the physical evidence, and making a compelling case against all of the liable parties is hard. But you don’t have to go it alone.
Also, there are cases where Texas Workers’ Comp curtails won’t hamper your ability to get damages. If a business owner shows gross negligence that leads to your loved one’s death, or in those cases where a business owner intentionally causes harm to a worker, it is said that the business owner/worker relationship is held legally severed. In cases like this, which are hard to show, it takes legal expertise and similar expertise to look into physical evidence. A business owner may be held liable for damages far beyond the curtails of the Texas workers’ compensation law. While the law rewards those Texas business owners that are not grossly negligent it punishes business owners that act carelessly. If they were grossly negligent, you may sue them for damages.
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