Yes.

• Employees have extensive internal and external rights to appeal any benefit denial, including access to state and federal courts.
• Federal law prohibits mandatory, final arbitration of injury benefit disputes.
• Some Texas employers require arbitration of negligence liability claims by injured workers, but that does not apply to any dispute regarding payment of injury benefits. 
• Injured workers covered by an arbitration agreement in Texas still retain all rights to sue for employer negligence and can recover the same damages allowed in a court of law. Many state and federal statutes and court decisions over the past 25 years have specified clear requirements to ensure fairness both to injured workers and employers.