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Category: Legal Process

  • Sus Derechos Tras un Accidente en Arizona, Sin Importar Su Estatus Migratorio

    Muchas personas lesionadas en Arizona nunca presentan un reclamo por una sola razón: creen que su situación migratoria se lo impide. Esa creencia cuesta caro y, en la mayoría de los casos, es falsa. Los derechos tras un accidente no dependen del estatus migratorio de la persona lesionada. Las leyes de responsabilidad civil de Arizona…

  • Plazo de Demanda por Lesiones en Arizona: Cuánto Tiempo Tiene para Actuar

    Un reclamo por lesiones puede ser sólido en los hechos y aun así perderse por el calendario. El plazo de demanda por lesiones en Arizona es, como regla general, de dos años, pero esa cifra esconde excepciones que acortan el tiempo a meses o lo extienden por años. Aquí explicamos qué dice la ley, desde…

  • Maritime Injury Lawyer Houston: Jones Act and LHWCA Claims

    A maritime injury lawyer Houston dockworkers and vessel crews call after a Ship Channel accident is working outside the ordinary Texas injury system entirely. The Houston Ship Channel moves an enormous volume of vessel traffic every year. Federal maritime law, not standard Texas personal injury law, decides who can sue whom after someone gets hurt…

  • The Texas Dead Man’s Rule: How It Changes a DFW Injury Claim When a Party Has Died

    In most injury lawsuits, the two sides testify about what happened and a jury sorts out whose account is more credible. Texas has an evidence rule that can quietly remove one side of that conversation when a party to the case has died — the so-called Dead Man’s Rule, found in Texas Rule of Evidence…

  • Texas Non-Subscriber Employers: Suing a Dallas-Fort Worth Company That Skipped Workers’ Comp

    In most states, an employee hurt on the job files a workers’ compensation claim and that’s the end of it — no lawsuit, no fault to prove, just scheduled benefits. Texas is different. Under Texas Labor Code § 406.002, workers’ compensation coverage is elective, not mandatory, for private employers. An employer who opts out is…

  • Suing a Texas City: The Tort Claims Act Notice Trap

    The Texas Tort Claims Act is the reason a Texas city can be sued at all. Cities carry governmental immunity by default. Chapter 101 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code waives that immunity, but only for specific kinds of injuries. That waiver comes bundled with a catch most injured claimants never see coming. A…

  • Texas Proportionate Responsibility: The 51% Bar Explained

    The Texas comparative fault rule draws a hard line most other states don’t. Cross it, and a claim disappears entirely, regardless of how badly the other driver behaved. Arizona readers moving to this coverage should set aside what they know about pure comparative fault, because Texas works on a fundamentally different structure. How the Texas…

  • Texas Statute of Limitations for Injury Claims: The Two-Year Rule

    Texas injury statute limitations rules give an injured person two years to act, but the calendar math hides real traps. The deadline lives in the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Missing it doesn’t just weaken a claim. It ends it completely, regardless of how clear the other side’s fault was. Where the Texas injury…

  • Federal Tort Claims in Tucson: Davis-Monthan and Government Vehicles

    A federal tort claim Tucson residents file after an incident involving Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the VA hospital, or U.S. Border Patrol runs through an entirely different system than a car accident with a city bus. The Federal Tort Claims Act governs these cases. It starts with an administrative claim, not a lawsuit. Skip that…

  • Suing the City of Tucson or Pima County: Notice of Claim Rules

    A notice of claim Tucson injury victims file against the city, Pima County, or any other public entity works on a much tighter clock than an ordinary lawsuit. Missing it can end a case before it starts. Arizona’s notice of claim statute, A.R.S. § 12-821.01, gives a claimant 180 days from the injury to serve…