Austin Bicycle Accident Lawyer Discusses Local Bike Wrecks Have you ever wondered where the most traffic accidents involving bicycles happen in Austin? The creators of a city-mapping project at MIT have an answer for you. You Are Here is a project created by a group of artists, mathematicians, designers and scientists that collects urban data...

Austin Personal Injury Attorney Discusses Federal Lawsuits The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 last month to allow judges to extend the deadline for liability lawsuits against the government. This landmark case will affect how many lawsuits the federal government will have to deal with each year, but for many victims of government negligence, the ruling is...

Our Austin Workers’ Compensation Attorney Discusses Options for Independent Contractors Injured at Work Unfortunately for many people, if they’re hurt on the job, even through no fault of their own, they might not be able to get any help from their employer, because they’re not classified as an employee. That is the struggle many independent...

Workers’ Comp Attorney Examines Problems in the System The insurance companies responsible for providing workers’ compensation benefits are subject to annual audits. These audits aim to identify unpaid benefits that should have gone to injured workers. Recently, a review headed by the Texas Department of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) found that over half of a million...

Austin Injury Attorneys Help Injured Workers The case of West Star Transportation Inc. v. Charles Robison et al. has come to a close after a Texas appellate court reaffirmed the plaintiff’s $5.3 million liability judgment against his employer, a workers’ compensation nonsubscriber. Robison worked for the Lubbock, Texas-based West Star Transportation, Inc. until April 2007...

Austin Workers’ Compensation Attorney Explains Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Ryan Brannan has determined that the maintenance tax rate, which applies to insurance companies, will decrease. This is not unusual for our state, as we have lowered the maintenance tax rate four of the last five years. The 2015 rate will be the lowest in five...

Austin Personal Injury Attorneys Explain Workers’ Comp Violations The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has recently released information about fines levied against companies that failed to provide health care and workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers. In the first ten months of 2014, the DWC has issued nearly $1.8 million in penalties, mostly to insurance...