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...
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