How Do Insurance Companies Calculate Personal Injury Claims?

When you're injured in a motor vehicle accident, insurance companies enter your life in a big way. You may be working with your own insurer, the other driver's company or both. It's important to understand how insurance adjusters value injury claims. That way, you can get a bett...

Proving Pain and Suffering in an Injury Case

When you get hurt by the negligence of someone else, you're entitled to be compensated. Money can be requested for things like property damage, medical costs and wages you lose from not working. Those tangible losses are pretty simple to calculate by adding up bills. But many in...

6 Tips to Maximize Compensation in Your Personal Injury Case

Many people across Texas are injured due to things like auto accidents, defective products or dangerous conditions on someone's property. Injured people must often file personal injury claims to recover full and fair compensation for their injuries and trauma. As an injured pers...

5 Ways You Can Help Your Personal Injury Lawyer With Your Case

Talking to an attorney should be one of the first things you do after you get hurt or lose a loved one in a car accident, truck wreck or other motor vehicle crash. Once you find a Texas lawyer you're comfortable with and you decide to hire them, there are things you can do throug...

How Long Does it Take to Get a Personal Injury Settlement Check?

The vast majority—more than 90 percent—of Texas personal injury lawsuits end in a settlement. Settling a case is faster and less risky than going to trial in most situations. A settlement is essentially a deal between you and the party you sued. That person (or their insuranc...

Who Could Be Liable to Pay Damages in a Motorcycle Accident?

Motorcycles are among the smallest vehicles on the road, making them hard for other drivers to see and avoid. When collisions happen between a motorcycle and any other vehicle, the motorcyclist tends to bear the brunt of the damage because they don't have any airbags or seat belt...

5 Holiday Road Safety Tips From Personal Injury Attorneys

The holiday travel season is upon us, and according to forecasts it will be the busiest we've seen in a few years. AAA expects around 120 million people to travel at least 50 miles for Christmas and other year-end holidays between December 23 and January 2. That means travel is b...

Halloween Safety Tips From Personal Injury Lawyers

Halloween is around the corner, and kids around the Dallas-Fort Worth area are looking forward to putting on their costumes and going trick-or-treating. Plenty of college students and adults will be going to Halloween parties, too. While the spooky holiday is a lot of fun, it’s...

How Does Modified Comparative Fault Affect Your Injury Case?

You’ve been involved in a motor vehicle crash in Texas, and you believe it was the other driver’s fault. But the other driver is claiming you were at least partially at fault. Both of you report the accident to your insurers, and different settlement offers come in. Rather th...

Nearly 4,500 People Died on Texas Roads in 2022

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) released grim statistics at its monthly meeting in March 2023, showing that 4,481 fatalities happened on Texas roads during 2022. This fall, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) is expected to release na...