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Brain cancer risks increase with heavy exposure to pesticides, recent reports say. That's troubling news for states with large agricultural industries, like Texas, which not only employs millions of legal and illegal workers every year, but also has over 25% of its population going without health insurance. French researcher, ...

Many employees throughout Texas, but especially in the larger cities of Austin, Dallas and Houston, are finding it a challenge nearing on the impossible to find the affordable health insurance they and their families need.
 As an entire state, Texas already has the highest percentage of its population without ...

The chief causes of construction site injuries and industrial death claims are unsafe work practices and unsafe work site conditions. These most often are caused by employers' failure to comply with federal and state mandated safety practices, failure to provide adequate safety equipment such as scaffolding, safety harnesses and fall protection ...

Workers’ compensation benefits are paid to a worker who has a job-related injury or illness. These benefits may be paid by federal or state workers’ compensation agencies, employers or by insurance companies on behalf of employers.
 Disability payments from private sources, such as private pension or insurance benefits, do ...

In the event that you are injured on the job, your employer must provide you with prompt medical attention to include medical care, temporary disability benefits, permanent disability benefits, supplemental job displacement benefits or vocational rehabilitation and/or death benefits. If you are injured at work, your employer makes ...

There are over a million individual or family businesses in Texas, more people are considering opening their own business every day. For a small business owner the same question is always - beyond Texas Health Insurance. Take a look at what you are against. As an independent contractor in Dallas, ...

While Texas remains the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents in the nation, a key question is what is the impact of that, from a human and pure economic standpoint.
 A December 2006 report by the Texas Health Institute, sponsored by Methodist Healthcare Ministries, indicated that the ...

Workers Compensation is an insurance program that provides medical and disability benefits for work-related injuries and diseases. One of the basic premises of this insurance is an experience rating system that encourages injury prevention by charging higher premiums to employers whose workers have more injuries.
 While workers compensation is ...

After 9/11, many Americans decided to risk their lives working for companies who provided services for the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. War zones can sometimes prove as dangerous to civilians as to military personnel.
 Tragically, many of these workers became injured while overseas. Adding ...

A 2005 Commonwealth Fund white paper reported on two important trends in the U.S. workforce - the increasing prevalence of workers in part-time, temporary, contract or non-standard positions, and the decline in access to employer-provided health insurance.
 The fact that fewer and fewer individuals in Dallas, Houston and throughout ...