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Tex. Lab. Code § 409.002

FAILURE TO FILE NOTICE OF INJURY

Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act

The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Garcia (1995)

Most recently applied in Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance v. Laca (December 2007)

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff

How often courts cite this section

19952000200720
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Failure to notify an employer as required by Section 409.001(a) relieves the employer and the employer's insurance carrier of liability under this subtitle unless:

(1) the employer, a person eligible to receive notice under Section 409.001(b), or the employer's insurance carrier has actual knowledge of the employee's injury;

(2) the division determines that good cause exists for failure to provide notice in a timely manner; or

(3) the employer or the employer's insurance carrier does not contest the claim.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.