Puga Remembered for Changing Texas Law that Brought Comp to Farmworkers

The Texas woman credited with helping to bring workers' compensation coverage to most Texas farmworkers has died at age 92, almost 40 years after she won a landmark state Supreme Court decision. Genoveva Puga, who became a farmworker rights activist after her son was killed in an agricultural equipment accident, died Nov. 22 at her home in Alamo, Texas, according to her obituary and The Monitor, a McAllen newspaper. A service was held Tuesday. In 1977, Puga's son, Juan Torrez, was killed while working for the Donna Fruit Co.  Under Texas law then and now, workers' compensati...