Have You Been Injured At Work and Your Employer Does Not Carry Workers’ Compensation? Contact a Non-Subscriber Attorney at our Law Office, A Premier Nonsubscriber Injury Law Firm in Texas
If you’ve been injured in a workplace accident, the type and amount of compensation you will receive is directly related to whether your employer carries workers’ compensation insurance backed by Texas law, or if your employer carries traditional liability insurance.
Employers who carry workers’ comp are called subscribers, and those who do not carry Workmans’ compensation are called non-subscribers. Workplace accident claims and court actions can be some of the most complex litigation our attorneys see in court.
The exact way your claim is addressed and handled is based on several issues. One of the biggest factors is whether the employer in question is a subscriber or non-subscriber. Texas law, with very few exceptions, protects subscriber employers from lawsuits from most injured employees. Texas law admits there may be other extenuating factors that can break or reinforce the employer-employee relationship in spite of the subscriber status.
Should you suffer harm or injury in the workplace, the first thing you must do is seek immediate medical attention. Your health, and thus your quality of life and ability to provide for your loved ones, is at stake, and neglecting your health can negatively affect your recovery. Seeking medical attention is important to your lawsuit or claim since you will need official medical diagnoses and documentation. You shouldn’t worry about the price-tag for your treatment, it is likely your medical care will be covered by the compensation you are requesting. In many instances, we can help you find medical attention from a large association of medical professionals we’ve met over time. And you shouldn’t worry about your financial situation here, either. They will consider your unique circumstances and finances, and sometimes, we may be able to help you find medical treatment with no up-front cost to you. Moreover, we can teach you how your time off to seek and receive medical care may be covered by workers’ comp or your employer’s insurance carrier. After you’ve received the necessary medical care, we can then begin to discuss the actions essential to finding the party or parties who are responsible for your injuries and losses.
A Word About Workers’ Compensation
If your employer has workers’ comp, you will need to inform your company immediately after the workplace incident. By law, you have thirty days to report the accident and your injury, but if you delay, many employers will try to deny or minimize your benefits. It is in your best interest to report your medical care as soon as you can. Texas law protects subscribers to workers’ compensation by giving them immunity, with strict exceptions to lawsuits by employees who’ve suffered an injury or loss in the workplace. Employees who’ve been injured due to outrageous carelessness or gross negligence are able to file a personal injury claim, and if the accident was fatal, the immediate family members of the deceased can file a wrongful death claim. Also, in many workplace accidents a third party, such as a contractor, vendor, or supplier may have partial or complete liability for the mishap that caused your injury or loss. Our attorneys can help you disentangle the liability of two or more parties that are responsible for your pain and suffering.
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What if My Employer Doesn’t Carry Workers’ Compensation and is a Non Subscriber?
Non-subscribers are those employers who do not buy state-supported Workmans’ compensation insurance. The procedures for seeking relief and filing claims is vitally different than seeking compensation and filing claims under workers’ comp. When you deal with a non-subscriber, you are in for an experience that can be very expensive, time-consuming, and completely frustrating.
The main difference between subscriber and non-subscriber claims is that a non-subscriber employee who has been injured in a workplace accident is that the injured worker has much more legal freedom to initiate a lawsuit against his or her careless or negligent employer for his or her harms and losses. With subscriber claims, most injured employees deal with workers’ compensation administrative bureaucracies and bureaucrats, and as a result, they are dealing with the force of state government. With non-subscriber claims, however, most injured or harmed workers find themselves dealing with the Texas judicial system and Texas civil law. Because these claims tend to find their way to the courts, it is easier for victims of workplace injuries to seek relief since they are not fighting against government-supported employers, but instead, they are up against negligent employers who’ve failed to provide safe and secure workplaces. Nevertheless, a lawsuit against a non-subscriber employer is an extremely difficult undertaking.
Though an injured worker as a non-subscriber employee has more workplace rights than the others, it doesn’t mean they should try to represent themselves when pursuing legal action or settlement. The law and regulatory regime in place are far too complicated to understand for those who have no experience of it and who do not work with it on a daily basis, so it is necessary to secure the services of a non-subscriber attorney to help you navigate your way through the dangerous shoals of non-subscriber workplace injury law. The non-subscriber specialist attorneys at our Law Office can help you seek, negotiate, or win the full and fair compensation that is rightfully yours.
If your employer is a non-subscriber and not enrolled in workers’ comp, you can bring a personal injury claim to seek compensation for your injuries and losses for:
Lost wages while recuperating and recovering for your injuries while hospitalized or otherwise on leave due to doctor’s orders
Loss of future wages and earning potential due to your accident and long-term disability.
Reimbursement for medical bills and expenses.
Property loss due to the workplace incident
Pain, suffering, and emotional distress.
Texas law grants non-subscriber employers only one real defense against liability for their negligence, and this legal defense is known as proximate cause. In order to prove proximate cause, your employer must demonstrate that you are solely and wholly responsible for your workplace accident. After your worksite mishap, your employer’s legal defense team will immediately begin to build a case against you in order to prove that you were in fact the negligent party and relieve your employer of any liability. For instance, if you have injuries that resulted from crushing your hand, your employer will try to show that you should have been wearing work-gloves for protection and the accident is your fault alone. Our non-subscriber attorneys have the skill and experience to show a relationship between your blameless actions and any harm by demonstrating that your employer did not exercise due care in providing you the right safety training and equipment necessary for you to perform your job with the utmost care. We can also show that other third parties may be negligent in providing for workplace safety, and we will accordingly hold them accountable for their carelessness and recklessness.
In order to prove a non-subscriber liable for your workplace injury and loss, it can only be done by engaging in difficult and complex legal work in which only the most experienced personal injury or wrongful death attorneys can be successful. We know how to establish to a judge and jury that your employer was careless in providing a safe work environment and that your injury is a result of employer negligence, and that you are truly innocent. We are dedicated to aggressively aiding you in receiving the compensation you deserve, regardless if your employer subscribes to workers’ comp or not.
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In Many Cases, There Is Little Difference Between Contract and Full-time Employees
Many employers wrongly believe that if they hire contract employees, then they will not be responsible for them should they suffer workplace injuries and losses. They hold this belief because Texas law usually exempts contract employees from enjoying the complete rights that regular full-time employees enjoy, including protection from on-the-job accidents and mishaps. Be that as it may, the State of Texas does not clearly define or distinguish between the rights of contract and full-time employees. In order for you to know and understand your status and its resulting rights, you will need the services of a workers’ compensation accident attorney to help you confirm your position. Texas law is extremely clear on this one position: when it comes to determining responsibility in the workplace, the real work done with the employer defines your status and your rights.
Many fundamentals can establish an employer-employee relationship, and the most direct is a contract of employment. Or, another instance of this relationship is when an employee serves as an agent of the activity of his or her employer. For example, even if you don’t have a contract to work for an event company, yet you wear the uniform, drive the company truck, receive the company’s money and set up and take down the company’s inflatable slides and bounce houses, then you are a company employee, despite the nonexistence of an agreement.
In many instances, however, the distinction between an employee and a contractor is not so easy to make. In the below situations, we’ve listed a number of circumstances which may determine your relationship with your current employer:
If the employee in question works for a number of clients: If an electrician is working on a number of assignments for several clients, he is an electrical contractor. If he works on many projects for one client, he is an employee
If the employee in question uses and is responsible for his or her own tools and equipment, then he or she is a contractor; if he or she uses and is responsible for the employer’s tools and equipment for the employer’s work, then he or she is an employee.
If the employee in question is paid at the end of a project, then the employee is a contractor. If the employee is paid hourly or paid a salary, then the worker is an employee.
If the employee in question has his or her work supervised and inspected at various stages of completion, then the worker is an employee. If the employer is only concerned with the final product, the worker is a contractor.
If the employee in question has the ability to determine how much time is spent on a project, then the worker is a contractor. If the employee cannot determine the amount of work time spent on a particular task, then the worker is an employee.
If you are a worker for an agency, the rules for establishing the relationship may be related, but there are significant differences. The conditions are:
If the employee in question’s employer has the right to fire the employee at any time, the worker is considered an employee.
If the borrowed employee is responsible for supplying his or her own tools and/or equipment, then the worker is a contractor; if the employer supplies the tools and equipment for the job, then the worker is an employee.
If the borrowing employer cannot replace an employee with another employee at will, then the employee in question is a contractor.
If the borrowing employer has the employee in question for only a specified length in time, then the worker is a contract employee. If the time period is indeterminate, then the worker is an employee.
If the borrowing company uses an employee due to a very specific skill. For example, if an employer borrows a legal researcher to interpret a certain contract, then the worker is a contractor. If an employer borrows an employee to do work that almost anyone can do, then the worker is an employee.
If an employer is responsible for paying an employee’s Social Security and income taxes, then the worker in question is an employee; if the borrowing employer is not responsible for paying Social Security and income taxes, then the worker is a contractor.
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A Non-Subscriber Attorney Can Help You With Your Situation
Our Law Office attorneys can help you receive your full and fair compensation for your work-related injuries and losses. Whether your employer has workers’ compensation or not, we can help you receive compensation for your harms. We can also aid you in identifying the party or parties who may be financially liable for the injuries you’ve endured from your job-site mishap. If your employer does not carry worker’s comp, we can aid you in building a strong and substantial case against non-subscribers, and if your employer uses a legal defense team, we will battle them to the end to show your innocence and prove your employer’s negligence for your workplace accident injury and loss. Before talking to your employer’s insurance company and being possibly manipulated, coerced or otherwise persuaded to settle for compensation that is far from adequate for your needs; or before you decide to take on an aggressive, skilled and legal defense team on your own, contact the non-subscriber attorneys at our Law Offices to learn about your legal alternatives and the true value of your claim and potential compensation.
Our Texas non-subscriber workplace accident law firm has over twenty years of experience negotiating and litigating full and fair compensation for our clients; and we’ve taken on cases the less experienced lawyers refused to take on. We just dealt with an incident in which an employee suffered a job site accident where he had signed a contract defining him as a contract worker. More than six law firms argued it was not a good case to litigate. Our Law Office, though, took on the negligent employer and won for our client a settlement valued at over a million dollars.
Our non-subscriber attorneys have over two decades of experience in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. We have successfully taken on hundreds of workplace injury cases in Texas and throughout the United States. We have negotiated with or litigated against every single major insurer in the nation, and defense attorneys know and respect our reputation. They know we are dedicated, aggressive, and relentless when we fight to protect our clients’ rights and interests, and they are scared to take on our attorneys in legal action. We have a reputation as tough and fair negotiators for settlements, but we are more than willing to enter a court of law. We will do everything we can to get you fair and full compensation for your injuries and losses. Call us for a free legal consultation do discuss your settlement and legal alternatives.
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IF You Have a Workplace Back Injury Or Are Suffering From a Job Site Lifting Injury, The Work Accident Attorneys At Our Law Office Can Be Of Service.
Our wrongful death and personal injury attorneys have over twenty years of experience handling cases involving worksite back and lifting injuries. If you’ve been injured while employed doing heavy lifting for your employer, it’s very possible you may have a cause for legal action in which you can receive justice and compensation for your employer’s negligence.
Should you be considering retaining a lawyer to help you in pursuing an insurance claim or if you are considering a legal action related to your on-the-job injury, then the skilled, experienced and aggressive personal injury attorneys at our Law Office can aid you in receiving full and fair compensation for your lifting injury. Even in what many consider to be “simple” cases, retaining the services of a skilled attorney is often a good move since the first instinct of most insurance companies is to try to prove your claim lacks merit. With over twenty years of experience in handling personal injury claims concerning lifting injuries, our legal team can aid you with detailed information that can in the end help you receive full and fair compensation for your pain and suffering.
The Problem With Doing It Yourself
Many people mistakenly assume that because some work-related injuries seem simple and superficial, it follows then that receiving fair compensation should be a rather simple and straightforward matter. Most people believe that if you hurt yourself while in the performance of your work, then the employer’s insurance will recompense you with little fuss, yet what most Texans don’t know is that this is often rarely the case. There are numerous factors that happen behind closed doors (that many people would be somewhat shocked to know) when it comes to workplace lifting injuries. The biggest shock comes when dealing with Texas Workmans’ compensation insurance.
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Texas Workmans’ Compensation Insurance in Truth Protects Employers
The primary reason employers carry workers’ comp insurance is not to provide quality insurance for their employees, but to protect themselves from lawsuits brought against them by injured employees. Employees who have received back or other injuries while at work will in all likelihood be compensated for their lifting injuries and lost income through Workers’ compensation insurance, but the reality is that most compensation realized through the workers’ comp program is usually far from adequate, and usually not enough to cover the injured employee’s true losses. Just because your employer is enrolled in workers’ compensation, doesn’t mean that you can’t seek relief and truly fair compensation. The work accident attorneys at our Law Office can aid you in determining whether there is another party or other parties who may be responsible for your work-related lifting injury, and if another party or other parties are involved they may hold partial responsibility for your claim. For example, if you were injured lifting stock off of a manual pallet jack and the pallet jack is somehow faulty or poorly designed, then the manufacturer of the jack may carry partial liability for your injury and pain. In addition to your workers’ comp payout, whatever damages the manufacturer is responsible for will be added to your total compensation.
More Employers Than You Would Guess Lie About Carrying Workers’ Compensation
Because workers’ compensation insurance has such a good reputation and can truly protect employers from lawsuits, many employers who do not choose to subscribe to the program simply lie about carrying the insurance. Our Law Office has seen this ploy numerous times. Owing to our experience in working with workers’ comp cases, we are very good at determining employers’ claims about belonging to this State of Texas program. In the possibility that your employer does not belong to workers’ comp, we can aid you in filing a personal injury lawsuit to ensure that you receive full and fair compensation for your lifting injuries.
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Contract Employees
Texas workers compensation law exempts contract employees from enjoying certain rights and privileges enjoyed by regular employees. Because of this fact, many employers believe they can shirk their employer obligations and duties by hiring what are known as “contract” workers. What this means is that if an employer deems you to be a contract worker, then certain necessary conditions required to form an employer-employee relationship for legitimate workers’ comp insurance claims is dissolved. It follows in this scenario that a contract worker who suffers an on-the-job back injury is not covered by workers’ comp or any other employer insurance. By hiring contract employees, many employers mistakenly assume that they are then not responsible for any back injuries that happen to contract workers because they are not addressed in Texas workers’ compensation law.
These employers are deceived, however. Our Law Office has over twenty years of experience has taught us that when dealing with workers’ compensation law and cases, we are usually able to establish that a true employer-employee relationship existed, even if you were hired on as a contract employee, even if you sign a document stating that this is the case or if the employer hires you under that condition. Texas law is unclear regarding the status of a general employee, so there are a number of ways to show your relationship to be one of a regular employee. For example, if your employer withholds federal income tax and Social Security, or if you have to sign and abide by an employee handbook and take mandatory drug testing, Texas law will consider you a regular employee, no matter if you were hired as a contractor. There are many other ways to show that you may be a regular employee, and our extensive experience has taught us every aspect to prove that a traditional employer-employee relationship exists. We can cut through your employer’s terminology to hold your employer liable for your back injury or other harms. Many cases such as these are turned down by many law firms due to technicalities such as these, but by speaking to one of our work accident attorneys about your back injury, we likely may be able to show your status as a regular employee and hold your employer accountable, and/or find other third parties who may also be responsible for your lifting injuries.
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Our Law Office Can Help With Cases Involving Lifting Injuries
If you’ve suffered a workplace back or lifting injury, then you may be entitled to full and fair compensation for your injury. It is wise to act as soon as possible and contact a work injury attorney at our Law Office. You can call so that we can begin to build a solid case for you so you can begin to seek full and fair compensation for your lifting injury. We will perform a thorough and detailed investigation of the mishap scene and we will comb through your medical history to establish that your employer’s carelessness, recklessness, or other negligence is in fact the source of your injury. With over twenty years of experience in working these cases, we can demonstrate that your injuries could have been caused by a lack of or poor training, a lack of satisfactory safety equipment, or the unavailability of a coworker to aid you in the performance of your job. These cases are never as easy as they seem on the surface.
Our Law Office has negotiated with or litigated against every major insurance corporation in the United States, and their defense attorneys and adjusters are more than familiar with our name and reputation. In many instances, they’ve offered our clients full and fair out of court settlements rather than fight us in a court of law. They know we are more than able to win court cases dealing with back or lifting injuries. We and our clients prefer this outcome because it saves all of us time and money and it allows our clients to begin to rebuild their lives. But should the case go to court, you should know that one of our work accident attorneys will dedicate his or her services to do everything to ensure that you receive full and fair compensation for your injuries.
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Non-subscriber Lawsuits
If your employer is not a Workers’ Compensation Insurance subscriber, you may pursue any of the following legal remedies:
Construction Accident Law Suit – This kind of lawsuit can help you recover:
Past and future medical expenses.
Lost wages from time spent recovering from injuries.
Compensation from lost earning capacity due to your injuries.
Compensation (damages) for your physical pain and mental anguish.
What if my employer thinks they are not liable because I was working alone and the accident was my fault?
Many construction companies may think that makes it a clear cut case in their favor, but the truth is, that even if you were working alone, your employer was responsible for providing you with the proper tools and safety training. Consider the following:
Did they provide you with proper training for lifting heavy objects, working high above the ground, or handling hazardous materials?
Did they provide you with proper safety equipment that was maintained and in good repair?
Did they fail to provide you with enough fellow employees to assist you in the task in which you were injured that the injury could have been prevented?
If the answer to any of these questions is NO, then your employer may still be liable for your injuries if they are a non-subscriber. Our experienced attorneys can trace back through the factors involved in your workplace accident and uncover any parties who may share liability for your injuries and help you assess which legal remedies are worthwhile for you to pursue.
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Subscriber vs. Non-Subscriber
The way your case is handled depends almost entirely on whether the construction company either purchased, or “subscribed” to, worker’s compensation, or chose not to pay for workers’ comp insurance, and is therefore a “non-subscriber.” There is a vast difference in the manner in which claims are handled between the two.
Subscribers
The State of Texas strongly encourages companies of all types to purchase workers’ compensation insurance in order to stem the tide of lawsuits involving injuries or death, lawsuits that further choke an already exceedingly over-burdened legal system. Thus, when an employer purchases workers’ comp, it’s getting more than just insurance – it’s buying lawsuit protection. The reason is simple; family members of those killed in construction accidents cannot sue a subscribing company unless gross negligence occurred. Workers’ comp is designed to compensate loved ones for the loss of a family member, however, a lot of times insurance companies will attempt to goad you into settling for an offer that doesn’t come close to compensating you for the tragedy you and your family have experienced.
Insurance providers are in business for one reason – to make money. They are not concerned with helping you and your family heal from your devastating loss. If there’s any way they can get you to accept less money, they will make more money. Hundreds of families of construction workers who die due to a workplace accident in Texas either see their claims flat-out denied or significantly under-cut, all in the name of making the insurance company more money.
Most insurance companies respect only negotiations with lawyers. If a representative of an insurance provider walks into a negotiating room and sees someone sitting at the table without legal help, he or she will probably laugh quietly, then celebrate later after you have settled for a ludicrously low amount of money. You simply must have an experienced lawyer on your side if you have any intention of getting fair restitution.
There are only two instances where family members of a loved one wrongfully killed in a construction accident can sue a subscribing company:
If the death occurred due to the gross negligence of the construction company.
When there may be more than one party in addition to the employer that may be to blame for the wrongful death. Other employees, other contractors, or independent third parties that provided malfunctioning equipment could be liable for either all or part of the death and a lawsuit may be filed against them as well.
A skilled wrongful death attorney is very familiar with examining all of the details surrounding a case and formulating a plan of attack to get the compensation you have coming. The attorneys at our Law Firm will immediately launch an investigation of the accident scene to ascertain what third parties may share responsibility and make them all pay dearly for your family’s tragic loss.
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Gross Negligence Defined
The only way you can sue a company that is a workers’ compensation subscriber it by proving its gross negligence led to the death of your family member. Instances such as the momentary lapse of focus or reason, or an isolated error, are considered standard negligence and are protected by workers’ comp. If either an employer or one of its employees habitually displays recklessness or carelessness in the performance of their duty to protect others, that is considered gross negligence. Say a fellow worker accidentally knocks a cinder block off the roof of a building and crushes an employee standing below. This is an example of standard negligence. But if the construction company habitually allows a construction site to pose a hazard due to debris constantly lying around, and other objects have repeatedly been knocked from the building, then that is gross negligence. The worksite’s foreman should have been reasonably able to anticipate the possibility that a fatal accident could have been a consequence of that hazardous environment.
One of our clients was the family member of a construction worker who died when his boss ordered him to work on a crane without a properly functioning safety harness. Not only did the worker’s harness malfunction and cause him to fall to his death, but the owner of the company also had the sheer audacity to race to a nearby hardware store, buy a new harness, and attach it to the corpse before the death was even reported. Because we undertook an investigation and interviewed other workers who were at the scene, we were able to expose the owner’s callous attempt at a cover-up.
In order for your family’s wrongful death lawsuit to be successful, you need to have an experienced attorney on your side who can strategize a rock-solid case that can meet the high standards necessary to prove gross negligence.
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Non-Subscribing Companies
Because a non-subscribing company did not purchase workers’ comp insurance, the only way to gain restitution is through a lawsuit. In this case, however, the plaintiff needs only prove the occurrence of standard negligence to win restitution, and standard negligence has a much lower standard of proof.
The State of Texas, in effect, punishes non-subscribers by making it easier for a plaintiff to win a wrongful death lawsuit. However, the litigation involved in such a case can be much more intricate and emphasizes, even more, your need to have an experienced attorney on your side. Not only must the plaintiffs in this kind of case prove their loved one’s death was due to the company’s standard negligence, but they must also prove the amount of compensation they are trying to obtain is fair and just.
Available Damages
The compensation associated with wrongful death damages include:
Medical and funeral expenses as a result of the construction fatality.
Financial support provided by the victim lost as a result of his or her death.
The mental and emotional trauma as a result of the family member’s death.
The consortium and love provided by the deceased that cannot be replaced.
Survival Damages
Restitution for survival damages include:
Medical expenses arising as a result of the construction site accident.
Salary lost while the victim would have been hospitalized, or salary that would have been lost by the victim because of long-term disabling injuries caused by the accident.
Mental and emotional turmoil that the deceased would have experienced had he or she survived.
The physical pain and suffering experienced by the deceased.
Hurdles in Obtaining Wrongful Death Case Compensation
Non-subscribing companies have very few options in trying to avoid paying a construction wrongful death claim, because, as stated above, the State of Texas designed workers’ compensation laws to try and reduce the number of lawsuits, and thus strongly encourage companies to subscribe. Even a non-subscriber has a couple of tools it can try to utilize to defeat a wrongful death claim. These are described in detail below.
Sole Proximate Cause
This only true defense a non-subscriber can use to avoid paying a claim is the Sole Proximate Cause defense – that the deceased employee was 100 percent responsible for his or her own death. The only way an employer can successfully prove this defense is by making your family out to be a habitually incompetent employee who was negligent on a regular basis. If successful in proving Sole Proximate Cause, the employer will be able to keep from paying your family the compensation that you deserve.
While it’s true the company did not see fit to pay for workers’ comp insurance, you can guarantee that company will open its checkbook and pay big money to a defense lawyer who is adept at dragging deceased construction workers through the mud. It is imperative you have an experienced and effective attorney by your side to defeat those lowdown tactics and protect your loved one’s reputation.
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The Employer/Employee Relationship
A few employers will try and skate the rules by claiming the deceased worker was never really a “true employee,” but a contractor. And in Texas, contractors are solely responsible for their own safety in the workplace. But merely making that claim does not mean that Texas law will view that worker as a contractor. Attorneys with our Law Office are very adept at proving that an employer/employee relationship existed by examining pay stubs and contracts and interviewing fellow workers in order to satisfy one of the several standards that prove an employer/employee relationship. These include:
The employer held back Social Security or taxes from the worker’s paycheck.
The employer was responsible for providing the equipment necessary for the worker to perform his or her job.
The worker was expected to follow a set schedule established by the employer.
Your family member either signed a document or performed a task, that limited his or her rights while working for that company. For example, he or she signed a document that stated he or she agreed to comply with an employee handbook or took a drug test.
The worker was not hired for an isolated, single job, but rather for an extended, undetermined amount of time.
Your loved one was paid via salary or hourly wage instead of job-by-job.
What Can You Do?
The first thing NOT to do is to ever, ever give up your right to sue by signing any sort of admission of your family member’s liability for the accident in exchange for a woefully inadequate settlement.
Next, you must act immediately to find a lawyer, or at least as soon as you can. It can be very difficult, and require a lot of proof, to protect the reputation of your deceased loved one.
Every minute you wait to hire an attorney is every minute that evidence disappears – witnesses’ memories become cloudy, and the physical characteristics of the accident scene itself begin to alter. The longer you wait to seek legal help, the more difficult time you’ll have unearthing the evidence that is crucial to prevailing in your case. A detailed investigation needs to immediately be launched; after all, the construction company, insurance provider, and defense lawyers will already be working for the other side. You need a tenacious and passionate attorney working on your side to match them stride for stride.
The wrongful death attorneys at our Law Office have helped the devastated families of construction fatality victims for two decades. We’ve won hundreds of wrongful death cases that resulted in millions of dollars in judgments for our clients. When hired, we will launch an immediate investigation into the circumstances surrounding your family member’s death and gather the evidence you will need to prove your case. We will not hesitate to pursue legal action against any liable third parties if necessary in order to ensure all of those responsible for the death of your loved one are held accountable. Our attorneys have either negotiated settlements with, or won lawsuits against, every major insurance company in the United States, so their high-powered operatives are well aware of our courtroom acumen. As a result, there are many times an insurer will choose to make our clients a reasonable settlement offer rather than risk losing a much larger amount of money in a lawsuit. And if they choose not to engage in negotiations, we’ll be well prepared to face them in court and make them regret that decision. If you have lost a family member due to a fatal construction accident, call our Law Office as soon as you can for a free and confidential consultation with an experienced wrongful death attorney and find out how we can help you get the justice and fair restitution your family deserves.
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