Personal Injury Practice Areas

Truck and 18-wheeler accidents

Commercial truck crashes are the core of our practice. Interstate truck drivers hauling freight are subject to federal hours-of-service limits, including a cap of 11 hours of driving after 10 consecutive hours off duty, and a driver’s logs often show whether those limits were followed. Our Fort Worth truck accident lawyer page covers crashes in Tarrant County and North Texas, and our Texas truck accident attorneys page covers the trucking cases we take statewide.

Wrongful death

When a person dies because of someone else’s negligence, Texas law can allow two different claims. The family’s wrongful death claim covers their own losses, and a separate survival claim carries forward the claim the person who died could have brought. Our Fort Worth wrongful death attorney page explains who may bring each one and how the deadlines work.

Car wrecks

Serious car accidents usually start with a police report. Texas law enforcement agencies submit crash reports to TxDOT, and people involved in the crash can buy a copy through TxDOT’s online system once it has been filed. That report is only the beginning of the evidence, and our car accident lawyer in Fort Worth page explains how these cases are built and valued.

Not sure which of these describes what happened to you? Call (817) 531-3000 and talk it through with us. The consultation is free.

Personal injury

Some serious personal injuries fall outside the categories on this page: a slip and fall on a dangerous property, a severe burn, or a catastrophic injury caused by a business that cut corners. In every Texas personal injury case, what you can recover for medical care is tied to the amount actually paid or incurred for it, which is one reason careful medical billing records matter. Our Fort Worth personal injury attorney page covers these cases.

Uninsured and underinsured motorist claims

A Texas auto insurer must include personal injury protection coverage in your policy unless you rejected it in writing, and that coverage can help with medical bills and lost income regardless of who caused the crash. When the other driver carries no insurance or too little, your own policy’s uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage may be what pays, and our uninsured and underinsured motorist claims page explains how those claims against your own insurer work.

Construction accidents

Construction work brings together general contractors, subcontractors, equipment owners and property owners, and more than one of them may share responsibility for an injury. If the injured worker’s employer does not carry workers’ compensation, Texas law takes away several of that employer’s usual defenses, although the worker still has to prove the employer was negligent. Learn more on our construction accident attorney page.

Defective products

Product cases can reach well beyond the store that sold the item, to the manufacturer and the companies that designed or supplied its parts. Timing matters in a different way here too: Texas generally requires a products liability suit to be filed within 15 years of the product’s sale, in addition to the usual two-year deadline, with limited exceptions. Our defective product lawyer page explains these claims.

Oil and gas field injuries

Texas oil and gas operations are regulated by the Railroad Commission of Texas, and safety records, permits and incident reports can all become evidence after a well site or pipeline injury. These cases often involve an operator, several contractors and equipment suppliers at once. Our oil and gas injury lawyer page covers them in detail.

If your situation involves more than one of these areas, as many serious cases do, we’ll help you sort out which claims apply. Call (817) 531-3000 or use the form on this page.

What Most Personal Injury Claims Have in Common

Whatever the type of case, a few things stay the same. You generally need to show that someone was negligent, that the negligence caused your injury, and what your personal injuries have cost you: medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and in some cases property damage. Texas generally gives you two years to file a personal injury lawsuit, and an insurance claim does not stop that clock. Most injury lawsuits settle without a trial, and an insurance company will usually try to resolve a personal injury claim early and for as little as possible, but the cases that settle fairly are usually the ones prepared as though they won’t.

Fort Worth Personal Injury Practice Areas, Handled by Trial Lawyers

Our Fort Worth personal injury practice areas are all handled from our office at 1119 Pennsylvania Ave., and Fort Worth area cases are usually filed in the Tarrant County civil district courts. We also represent clients across the Metroplex and, in trucking cases, throughout Texas. Each partner is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law through the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and in Truck Accident Law through the National Board of Trial Advocacy. To learn more about the firm and the attorneys, visit the home page of our Fort Worth injury law firm.