Texas Car Accident Lawyers

Most likely not. The large majority of car accident claims settle without anyone seeing the inside of a courtroom.

Whether a case goes to trial depends on how serious the injury is, whether the insurer will make a fair offer, and whether liability is genuinely disputed. We prepare every file as though it will be tried, because that is what makes the settlement offer reasonable.

Not before you have spoken to an attorney. That adjuster does not work for you, and you are under no obligation to give them a recorded statement.

These calls come within a day or two of the crash, before you know how badly you are hurt. An offhand "I'm doing okay" gets quoted back months later to cut your claim.

Yes. Adrenaline masks injuries for hours and sometimes days, and soft-tissue and head injuries frequently do not present until later.

There is a claims consequence too: a gap between the crash date and your first treatment is the first thing an insurer points to when arguing your injuries were not caused by the wreck.

That is what uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy is for, and Texas insurers are required to offer it — so unless you rejected it in writing, you likely have it.

A UM/UIM claim is made against your own carrier, and it is still a claim, not a phone call. It should be handled the same way as any other.

Property damage is usually handled on a separate track from the injury claim and often resolves much faster. We can help you push it along, but it does not have to hold up your medical treatment or your bodily injury case.

Yes, and passengers are rarely at fault for anything, which usually makes liability straightforward. You may have a claim against either driver, or both, depending on how the crash happened — including the driver of the car you were riding in.

Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee, which means our fee is a percentage of what we recover for you and there is no fee at all if we do not recover anything.

The case review is free, and you are not obligated to hire us after it.

In most cases, two years from the date of the injury. Miss that window and the court will almost always dismiss the case regardless of its merits.

The exceptions matter in both directions: the clock is paused for a child until their 18th birthday, while a claim against a city, county, or state agency requires written notice far sooner — six months under state law, and as little as 45 or 90 days under some city charters. Because the deadline depends on who is at fault, it is worth confirming early.

You can still recover. Texas uses proportionate responsibility: as long as you are 50% or less at fault, you collect damages reduced by your share of the blame. At 51% you recover nothing.

That threshold is exactly why adjusters work so hard to pin blame on the injured person early. Fault is argued, not decided at the scene.