Once you reach maximum medical improvement from your Texas work injury, a doctor will perform an impairment rating exam. If you have any permanent impairment resulting from your work injury, then you will be owed impairment income benefits. These benefits are not a...
We just settled another car wreck at work claim. There were a lot of moving parts. So, I wanted to share a brief overview of how this type of claim is handled. When you are involved in a wreck while at work, you will likely have to deal with competing...
An impairment rating in Texas, as defined by statute, means the percentage of permanent impairment of the whole body resulting from a compensable injury. It is a measurement of the damage to your body resulting from your work injury. According to Texas workers’...
We handle a lot of workers’ compensation cases at our law firm in Texas. Insurance companies have turned workers’ comp into a game where they try to deny all liability for anything other than a bruise or a sprain. So, it has become increasingly hard for injured...
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’...
