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Match the records to the event

Identify the event category before requesting records. A roadway event may have crash-report and crash-data starting points through the Texas Department of Transportation. A boating event may involve the official Texas boating accident duties and reports subject. A product-related event may require reviewing the Texas products-liability chapter as an official source. A workplace event may call for injured-worker, coverage, and employer-record information from the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation. A health-care event may require consulting the official Texas health-care-liability chapter.

Preserve first-hand material

Preserve photographs, video, messages, names of witnesses, incident numbers, scene information, equipment details, and any written account made close in time. Do not assume that a report proves every disputed fact; compare it with witness accounts, physical evidence, medical records, and later corrections.

Use a dated file structure

A practical sequence is to collect records in four connected groups: event records; emergency, hospital, treatment, and medical-examiner or death-related records; work and financial records; and household and service records. Arrange medical material by date so the sequence from the event through later treatment or death can be reviewed without relying on memory alone.

• Event reports, photographs, video, messages, witness information, and scene documents
• Ambulance, emergency, hospital, clinician, laboratory, pharmacy, and death-related records
• Payroll, tax, benefits, employment, business, schedule, and work-absence documents
• Household schedules, caregiving records, service responsibilities, invoices, and equipment or property records

Separate fact from assumption

Keep originals unchanged and label copies with their source and date received. Separate confirmed records from family recollections, estimates, and unresolved questions. This makes gaps visible and helps avoid treating an incomplete file as a complete account.

Create an evidence inventory

Begin by writing a dated account of the event and identifying every person, business, agency, health-care provider, employer, insurer, and custodian connected to a record. Request and preserve the underlying documents, then build a medical and death chronology alongside work, financial, service, and household documentation.

• Save photographs, video, messages, and electronic files in their original form.
• Write down witness names, contact information, and what each person directly observed.
• Request incident, medical, death-related, employment, and household records from the appropriate custodian.
• Keep a chronology of requests, responses, corrections, and missing materials.
• Preserve letters, claim communications, bills, invoices, and other related documents.

Use the right official starting point

If an issue involves a crash, public entity, boating event, product, workplace, or health-care setting, identify the corresponding official source before drawing conclusions. The Texas Legislature and relevant state agencies provide the official subject-specific starting points listed on this page.