Personal Injury Resource Guide

Yes. Wrongdoers are legally responsible for covering all costs associated with your injuries. This includes costs of health care, medicine, home or vehicle modifications, and other medical expenses that are necessary for you to recover and/or live life as normally as possible.

Yes. When you miss work because of an injury caused by someone else’s negligent conduct, you have a right to recover compensation for all losses resulting from your injuries. This includes wages you have lost because you were unable to work, as well as future wages that you may not receive as a result of your injury. If, because of the severity of your injuries, you are never able to work again, the responsible party would be required to compensate you for those losses.

To prove that you have lost wages because of your injury, you must show that you were unable to return to work because of your injuries and, as a result, lost out on wages you otherwise would have received. If your injuries are of such severity that you will be unable to return to work in the future, our firm will work with economists and other experts to determine your future earning potential to prove the total loss of wages resulting from your injury. This provides you and your family with the financial security needed to move forward from a serious injury.

Yes. Under Texas and most other states’ laws, you are entitled to non-economic damages caused by your injuries. Non-economic damages are damages that are not readily quantifiable. While these types of damages do not have a price in the marketplace, they are nevertheless losses you are entitled to be compensated for. These damages include things like pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and disfigurement.

It is difficult to take an emotion or physical sensation and turn it into a dollar amount. However, this must be done for you to receive the compensation you are entitled to under the law. One of the distinguishing factors in the quality of a personal injury attorney is their ability to value your non-economic damages correctly. This requires great skill and experience and the help of industry experts in medicine, counseling, and other disciplines. It is very important to adequately value your pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment, and other non-economic damages if you intend to recover all compensation you are entitled to under the law.

No. You do not need a personal injury attorney to bring a personal injury lawsuit in Texas. You have a right to bring a claim against the person or company that hurt you as a pro se litigant. However, depending on your situation, you may find great value in consulting a personal injury attorney and will likely recover more compensation, even after your lawyer is paid.

A pro se litigant is a party representing themselves in court without the assistance of a licensed attorney. Pro se litigants are still required to know the laws and the rules of procedure applicable to the jurisdiction the lawsuit is filed. Navigating a personal injury lawsuit without the help of a personal injury lawyer is difficult.

Yes. Texas adheres to a modified comparative negligence standard. Under this standard, an injured person is entitled to recover compensation for their injuries as long as they are not more than 50% responsible for the accident. Even if you are partially responsible for the accident, it is often beneficial to speak with a trained personal injury attorney to determine if a personal injury claim is worth pursuing.

Hiring a personal injury attorney is like hiring any other professional service provider; you consult potential candidates, review their work, and decide whom you feel most comfortable with. Once you have decided whom you feel most comfortable working with, you and your attorney will enter into a contractual agreement that gives the attorney power to act on your behalf to prosecute your claim.

Personal injury lawyers generally work on a contingency fee basis, so their cost is dependent on how much you recover.  In a contingency fee agreement, the cost of your lawyer’s services is contingent on the claim resolving in your favor. If your attorney is not successful, then you are not required to pay for the lawyer’s services. A contingency fee allows an injured victim to bring a lawsuit without upfront costs.

No. As long as a lawyer is licensed to practice law in your state or works with a lawyer that is licensed to practice law in your state, they can represent you. In complicated cases, such as product liability lawsuits, it may be necessary to work with lawyers from different cities or states to bring a claim against the manufacturer. Many times, after being hired, local lawyers will reach out to larger firms to help prosecute complicated claims.