Austin and Houston Work Injury Victims — Our Attorney Can Help You

When a Texas worker in Austin or Houston or any Texas community suffers a significant work injury, the company usually takes care of the worker and a work injury attorney is not required. Unfortunately, though, some employers do not follow the law in providing adequate care and reimbursement to a worker who has suffered a work injury. When that happens, it is important for the injured worker to contact a Mundy & Singley work injury attorney as quickly as possible.

Work Injury Victims Have Rights Under the Law

People may be dying to go to work, but they should not die because of their work. Employers have a duty by law to provide a safe place to work. Strict workplace safety regulations such as those of OSHA are in effect to protect workers in some of the more dangerous occupations and trades. If your employer fails to comply with these safety regulations, you face serious permanent life-altering injury or even death.

If your employer provides workers’ compensation coverage, you are entitled to have medical treatment for injuries and diseases caused by your work as long as the injury or disease requires treatment. If the employer does not provide workers’ compensation coverage, you will have to bring a case against your employer. Our experience is that employers who do not provide workers’ compensation coverage will fight you for any injury or disease which you believe is related to your work. When an Austin, Houston, or Texas employer denies your work injury claim, you will need an attorney who is willing to stand up for you no matter how large the company may be.

In an especially reprehensible practice, some companies now purposefully employ illegal aliens in an effort to avoid workplace safety regulations thinking these workers will not complain. These employees are not even treated like humans in the eyes of the company, who sees them only as disposable worker units. These employers still may not injure their workers, who are human beings and are entitled to a safe work place.

When an employer denies you workers' compensation for a work-related injury or illness in Austin, Houston, or any Texas locale, contact a Mundy & Singley work injury attorney for representation to protect your rights.

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You Should Not Tolerate Work Injury Harassment

Employers sometimes pressure an employee who has suffered a work injury not to report it. Some employers harass work injury victims for filing a workers’ compensation claim. Some employers in Austin and Houston have even fired work injury victims for filing workers’ compensation claims. Your attorney will advise you that these practices are illegal and are very serious. If you have been abused by these illegal practices, your attorney will take the legal action necessary to pursue you the compensation you deserve including he will seek punitive damages to punish the employer for these prohibited abusive practices. It is important to keep in mind that your work injury case can stop an abusive employer from injuring, abusing or harassing other workers. Your bravery in fighting a bad or unethical employer can mean better conditions and a safer workplace for all of your coworkers.

Doing the Right Thing with Help from Our Austin Work Injury Attorney

Sometimes an employee tries to stop an employer’s abuse of workers’ compensation laws or safety regulations by reporting the employers’ dangerous practices. The employee might refuse to do work that is too dangerous or is illegal. Then, when the employee reports the company’s misdeeds, the employer retaliates against the employee in some manner. “Whistle-blower” laws offer protection for employees who try to do the right thing, but are punished by vindictive employers.

Austin, Houston and all Texas employees who have suffered significant work injury, or endured an employer’s retaliation after reporting illegal or unsafe acts should contact a Mundy & Singley attorney without delay. Your attorney will take prompt action to stand up for your rights and hopefully prevent others from suffering a similar injury in the future.

Austin, Houston and all Texas employees who have suffered significant work injury , or endured an employer’s retaliation after reporting illegal or unsafe acts should contact Mundy & Singley without delay.

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Austin and Houston residents who have suffered a work injury — contact a Mundy & Singley attorney today.

Mundy & Singley L.L.P.
816 Congress Avenue Suite 1670
Austin, Texas 78701

Telephone: 866-694-2816
Facsimile: 512-334-4256