Practice areas
Proving someone owed you care, failed to give it, and caused your loss — then finding insurance that can pay for it. You have two years, your recovery is reduced by your own share of fault and barred above 51%, and nothing is owed in fees unless the firm recovers for you.
Most Texas crash claims are decided by two things: who the evidence says was at fault, and how much insurance exists t…
A commercial truck claim is not a bigger car crash. It runs on federal regulation, reaches the company as well as the …
Texas gives a narrow group of family members the right to sue for a death caused by someone else’s conduct, and gives …
A motorcycle claim is won by dismantling an assumption. The physics are against the rider, and so is the instinct of e…
Texas is alone in making workers’ compensation voluntary, and which side of that line your employer sits on changes ev…
When an injury is permanent, the claim stops being about bills already received and becomes about a lifetime that has …
A Texas premises case is not about whether you were hurt on the property. It is about what the owner knew, and when.…
Medical negligence claims run under Chapter 74, a separate statutory regime with its own deadlines, caps and gatekeepi…
Texas treats a bicycle as a vehicle. The rights follow from that, and so does the argument the driver’s insurer will m…
Bus claims split at the first question. A public operator brings short notice deadlines and statutory caps; a private …
Texas does not impose automatic liability on dog owners. Recovery depends on what the owner knew about the animal, or …
Texas put e-bikes in the bicycle category by statute. The classification decides where you may ride and what insurance…
Neglect in a care facility is usually documented before it is visible. The records are the case.…
Pedestrian cases are decided on right of way and on visibility, and almost always involve an argument about shared fau…
A defective product claim asks what was wrong with the product, not what was wrong with the company’s conduct.…
Duty: did the other party owe you care? A driver owes it to everyone on the road; a shop owes more to a customer than to a trespasser; a doctor owes the standard of their profession.
Breach: did they fall short of it? Sometimes that is a statute or a regulation broken, which is far stronger than an argument about what was reasonable in the abstract.
Causation: did the breach cause this harm? This is where most contested cases are actually fought, particularly where you had a prior condition.
Damages: what did it cost you, in money and in the rest of your life?
Texas uses proportionate responsibility. A jury gives each party a percentage, your damages are cut by your share, and above fifty-one percent you recover nothing.
This is why an adjuster’s early questions are not small talk, and why a recorded statement given without advice is worth so much to them. A few points moved onto you is money; twelve points can be the case.
Economic damages are the arithmetic: medical care past and future, lost earnings and lost earning capacity, and out-of-pocket costs. Texas limits recoverable medical expenses to amounts actually paid or incurred rather than the sticker price on the bill.
Non-economic damages are usually the larger part: physical pain, mental anguish, physical impairment, disfigurement, and loss of consortium. Texas does not cap these outside medical malpractice and claims against governmental units.
Exemplary damages exist for gross negligence on clear and convincing evidence, and Chapter 41 sets the limits.
None of it can be valued honestly before maximum medical improvement, which is why early offers run low.
A case is worth what can be collected. Texas requires only $30,000 per person in auto liability coverage, and a serious injury passes that before the first surgery.
So a real part of the work is finding every layer: the defendant’s primary and excess policies, an employer’s commercial coverage, a property owner’s, a manufacturer’s, and your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage and PIP, which most people do not know they carry.
Nothing up front, and nothing at all unless there is a recovery. The fee is a percentage of what is obtained, and the firm advances the costs of building the case.
If there is no recovery, you owe no fee. You should have that in writing from any firm you speak to, including this one. The fee agreement is where the detail lives, and it is worth reading before you sign it.
Two years for most injury claims. Claims against a governmental unit require formal notice far sooner, sometimes within ninety days, and medical malpractice and product claims have their own additional limits.
You can still recover. Your damages are reduced by your percentage of fault, and barred only above 51%.
Nothing up front. The fee is a percentage of the recovery and there is no fee if there is no recovery. The firm advances case costs.
Most resolve without one. Cases are still prepared as though they will not, because a case visibly ready for trial settles for more.
Not before you have advice, and not on a recorded line. You are not obliged to, and the purpose is to find something usable against you.
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