The Texas Workers’ Compensation Act defines maximum medical improvement (MMI) as the earliest date after which, based on reasonable medical probability, further material recovery from or lasting improvement to an injury can no longer reasonably be anticipated. That...
We are Texas workers’ compensation lawyers. That’s how our whole firm got started in the first place. Our founders, Daniel Morris and Matt Lewis, are well-established work injury lawyers. Dan and Matt have both been selected as Texas SuperLawyers for their workers’...
In a previous post, we introduced the concept of extent of injury disputes. The most important thing to know about these types of cases is that the injured worker has the burden of proof. This means that you have the responsibility of proving what your...
We want injured workers to know how to beat insurance companies at the games they play. One of the more common games they play is disputing your extent of injury. Most of the time, the insurance company will accept liability for a very minor injury like a...
An impairment rating is a measurement of the permanent damage done to your body by a work injury. It is part of a Texas workers’ compensation claim. These impairment ratings are supposed to take into account all of the damage that you have to live with. However,...
Most Texas injured workers don’t know how a loss of reflexes affects impairment ratings in a Texas workers’ compensation claim. When there is a spinal injury, like a herniated disc or a disc bulge, the nerves can be affected. When the nerves are affected,...
