Law Office of Alan Tysinger

Can I sue my employer when I'm injured on the job in Texas? It Depends

Tyson Chicken COVID-19 Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Texas

The family of a worker at a Tyson chicken facility in Texas has filed suit following her wrongful death due to COVID-19. How hard a case will this be? Depends how you frame the causation question. If it is "How can we know whether she got COVID-19 at work?" it... Read more →

Does Opting Out of Texas Workers' Compensation Mean "Going Bare?"

This article from a few years back illustrates some of the fallacies involved in defending the Texas employers who opt out of workers' compensation coverage under the state statutory scheme, opting instead for custom-crafted plans under federal ERISA law. I don't necessarily oppose the right of employers to "go bare"... Read more →

Workers' compensation in the gig economy

The shift in "employment," if you can call it that, in the last few years has been away from traditional employer-employee contexts and into what has been termed the "gig economy." This is the sort of ad hoc, off and on relationship between worker and company that is exemplified in... Read more →

Texas' most dangerous employers by incidents of severe injuries

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, tracks on the job injuries and records their severity. A recent report in the San Antonio news reflected this information for the last few years and found several notable employers with frequent severe injuries. The time period involved was 2015-2018. More than 6,000... Read more →