Sugar Land Workplace Accidents Attorney
The Leon Law Firm, P.C.
The very nature of some jobs puts the health of the people who do them in jeopardy on a routine basis. And when serious on-the-job accidents happen, catastrophic and fatal personal injuries can be the result. The sad fact is that many of these accidents could have been prevented if only the proper training, tools, and required safeguards had been provided or put in place.
The Leon Law Firm, P.C. is here to protect you and the rights of your family wherever employers have not. Our Houston injury lawyers represent a wide range of people—construction workers, machinists, printing press operators, refinery workers and others—in the Houston metropolitan area and throughout Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Brazoria, and Galveston counties. We provide efficient and effective legal services designed to get them the financial compensation they need to recover.
Many of these injuries are catastrophic in nature and include the amputations of hands, fingers, or toes, as well as brain and spinal cord damage resulting from serious falls or a severe burn injury resulting from a refinery explosion, electrocution, or chemical exposure. As such, the need for adequate financial remedies is even greater. Unfortunately, workers' compensation does not always come close to meeting the needs our clients will have.
Workers' Compensation and Workplace Accidents…
In Texas, employers have the option either to buy or not buy into the state's workers' compensation system. Most employers do opt for the protection afforded by workman's compensation insurance, primarily because, if they do, it is very difficult if not impossible for a worker who gets injured on-the-job to file a personal injury lawsuit against them.
If they do subscribe, then workers' comp coverage steps in to cover medical expenses and pays the injured worker two-thirds of their previous income (up to certain limits) for the time period that they are unable to work. However, not all Texas employers opt to buy into this system. In these cases, injured workers can file personal injury lawsuits against their employers.
Our Houston law firm can quickly determine if this is an option available to you.
If you have suffered a workplace injury—because of defective equipment, OSHA violations, or any other cause—contact The Leon Law Firm, P.C. in Sugar Land, Texas, today.
