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20 Mar

How Does Poor Weather Affect Drivers?

If the weather outside is poor, and conditions like ice or heavy rain are present, it may be in your best interest to avoid driving. Remember, even if there is poor weather at the time of a vehicle accident, if you are r...

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18 Mar

How Do Most Workplace Eye Injuries Occur?

Unfortunately, eye injuries can greatly limit a person’s ability to work or function normally, leaving victims permanently blind and/or disabled. Recently, the Upper Rogue Independent had an interesting editorial abo...

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16 Mar

Does Workers’ Compensation Differ State by State?

How much is your arm worth? In Texas, the value of your arm if you lost it in a workplace accident would be about $108,360. What about your thumb? Your thumb is worth about $39,732. We bring this up because recently, P...

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13 Mar

Could a Wearable Device Eliminate Warehouse Injuries?

A New York-based startup company, called Kinetic, may have found a way to prevent warehouse injuries. The company has created a device that alerts employees if they are lifting a heavy object incorrectly. Additionally, e...

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11 Mar

Will SXSW Learn from Last Year’s Fatal Accident?

Many of our readers may remember the deadly car accident from last year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event, which killed four pedestrians and injured at least 21 other people. The driver, Rashad Owens, had allegedly acc...

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9 Mar

Austin’s Hands-Free Ordinance Could Expand to Other Texas Cities

In one of our previous blogs, we discussed Austin’s new hands-free law, which has been in effect since January 1. This week we have learned from the Austin American-Statesman that this hands-free ordinance may influenc...

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6 Mar

Why Do Businesses Opt Out of Workers’ Comp?

In Texas, a business has the option to decline taking part in the Texas workers’ compensation system. When a company opts out, they are called non-subscribers. About 40 percent of Texas businesses do not subscribe for ...

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4 Mar

How Many Car Accidents Are Caused by a Driver’s Mistake?

Depending on your source, you will find that anywhere from 80 percent to 95 percent of car accidents are caused by human error, rather than by environmental factors or by defective auto parts. In short, we are talking ab...

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2 Mar

Family Firm Helping Injured Austinites for Over 35 Years

Our family-owned Austin personal injury law firm has helped injured people in and around Austin, Texas, since 1978 when Dick Allison started the firm. Today, Mr. Allison’s son, Aaron Allison, works at The Law Offices o...

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27 Feb

What Are the Top 10 Causes of Workplace Disabling Injuries?

Researchers at Liberty Mutual have released their annual top 10 list for the most common causes for disabling injuries. Their list was compiled using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and with the help of the National Acad...

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25 Feb

Is Airborne Grain Dust a Workplace Violation?

A feed mill in Navasota, Texas is looking at $58,100 in possible fines for violations, which includes airborne grain dust. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has tagged the Thomas Moore Feed facilit...

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23 Feb

Who is Liable If a Bouncer Injures Me

Last week we looked at a local Austin news story about a bar patron that received 55 stitches and an injured eye in a bouncer attack. Then we discussed why these injuries caused by bar employees might be happening. As a ...

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20 Feb

Why Are Austin Bouncers Injuring People?

An injured customer of the Recess Arcade Bar in Austin, Texas is filing a lawsuit after he had received injuries from the bar’s bouncer. The plaintiff claims that the employee launched an unprovoked attack on him, whic...

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20 Feb

Am I Working in an Unsafe Environment?

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 judgm...

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18 Feb

Nursing Assistant Musculoskeletal Injuries

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nursing assistants suffer more physical workplace injuries than any other profession, including construction workers, firefighters and maintenance and repair employees. ...

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