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Connect each fact to its source

Begin with a dated account of the event while details are fresh. Separate what you personally observed from what someone else reported. Note the location as precisely as you can, the sequence of events, visible conditions, names or descriptions of witnesses, and any immediate statements. Preserve photographs, video, messages, receipts, clothing, equipment, and other materials that may show conditions or changes over time. Do not alter, discard, or overwrite potentially relevant material.

• Create a timeline from the event through the first report, medical visit, and later communications.
• Keep original files when possible and make a separate working copy for notes.
• Record witness contact information and what each person personally observed.
• Identify missing evidence, such as deleted messages, unavailable video, or photographs not yet obtained.

Event and evidence map: point 2

A useful map distinguishes the fact from the record that may support it. For example, a time may appear in a message, a report, a calendar entry, or a medical record. Labeling those sources can make later review more precise without assuming that any single account is complete.

Keep symptoms and records distinct

Keep a chronological medical file with appointment information, instructions, bills, prescribed restrictions, diagnostic materials, and notes about symptoms or changes. Do not summarize a medical condition beyond what the records and treating professionals state. If health-care liability issues are part of the review, Texas Health Care Liability Claims are addressed in Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code; the supplied source does not authorize stating procedural requirements or deadlines.

• Record the provider, visit date, purpose, and documents received.
• Keep work schedules, wage or time records, restrictions, and communications about missed or modified work.
• Separate documents received directly from notes you create yourself.
• For an injured-worker issue, compare the available employer records with the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation resource.

Medical and work documentation: point 2

A personal symptom log may help preserve day-to-day observations, but it is not a substitute for medical records. Keep both, label each clearly, and avoid changing original documents.

Use the closest factual path

The event type determines which questions and records deserve attention. Use the detailed topic pages below as organizing paths, not as conclusions about what happened. A roadway event may call for a car, bicycle, bus, or catastrophic-injury record map. A worksite event may call for construction-site or amputation-injury documentation. Product, boating, aviation, birth, burn, and other injury circumstances may require different record holders.

• Car, bicycle, bus, aviation, boating, and jet ski accidents.
• Construction-site injuries, amputation injuries, burn injuries, and catastrophic injury.
• Birth injuries and other event-specific medical documentation.
• Potential product issues, with Texas Products Liability Statutes, Chapter 82, identified only as the official subject for review.
• Potential shared-responsibility questions, with Texas proportionate-responsibility Chapter 33 identified only as the official subject for review.

Topic selection: point 2

Choose the topic based on the facts you can document, not on a predicted claim value or outcome. Several paths may overlap; preserve the underlying records before narrowing the issue.