CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Staudt v. Glastron, Inc. (1996)
Most recently applied in Southern County Mutual Insurance Company v. Great West Casualty Company (May 2014)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
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.
An employee or a person acting on the employee's behalf shall file with the division a claim for compensation for an injury not later than one year after the date on which:
(1) the injury occurred; or
(2) if the injury is an occupational disease, the employee knew or should have known that the disease was related to the employee's employment.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.