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After Your Car Accident, Your Lawyer Has to Go Find the Coverage?
Houston Auto Accident Cases, Time is not on Your Side! After a car crash, sometimes, you can’t immediately determine how you are going to pay for the treatment for your injuries and the property damage to your vehicle. Consulting with a Houston car accident lawyer early in your case will give you the best chance of success at winning your case. As with every case, personal injury lawyers do their best to assess the specific facts of your case to provide you with a quick and comprehensive opinion about your case and, to attempt to give a reasonable opinion of your chances of success. Yet, ... Continue Reading
Drunk Drivers Tear Texas Families Apart?
Every year hundreds of Texans are killed in car accidents caused by drunk drivers. In Harris County alone, the Texas Department of Transportation estimates that over 100 individuals were killed in alcohol related accidents. Unfortunately, impaired drivers are on our roads and are causing catastrophic accidents that are tearing Texas families apart. When a tragedy like this occurs, it is difficult to focus on lawsuits or lawyers because there is no compensation or criminal penalty that is going to bring the loved one back. There does come a time that, we want to do what we can to make sure the ... Continue Reading
In a Serious Car Accident, Is Minimum Car Insurance Coverage Enough to Cover my Medical Bills and Lost Wages?
Unfortunately, the answer is that very often, a minimum limits policy is not enough to pay for all the damages caused by a negligent driver. Serious car accidents mean big injuries and serious medical bills. You could also lose time from work, which puts you and your family’s financial well-being at risk. So, what are the minimum limits for an automobile insurance policy Texas? $30,000 bodily injury per person $60,000 bodily injury per accident $25,000 property damage per accident Often, you will see a minimum liability policy referred to as a 30/60/25 policy. Under Texas law, in ... Continue Reading
After a Car Accident, Should I File an Underinsured or Uninsured Motorist Claim With My Insurance?
Houston car accidents are very common occurring at a rate of about 3,000 a week. When you are in a car accident, you are left wondering who is going to pay your hospital bills, your lost wages and, who is going to pay to have your car repaired? Quickly figuring out the type of insurance coverage available is crucial to getting your life back on track. That includes, looking into what coverage you may have under your automobile insurance policy. Read also: Most Common Car Insurance Topics Determining whether you will need to file an uninsured or underinsured motorist claim depends on the ... Continue Reading
After a Car Accident, How Can Medical Pay Coverage and Personal Injury Protection Help You?
About car accident claims in Houston, Tx Throughout the years of handling car accident claims, we have found that too often our clients have not adequately been educated on what insurance coverage they need in order keep themselves and their loved ones in best position to receive the treatment and care necessary following a serious car accident. By using the term “serious car accident”, we are referring to car accidents resulting in serious injuries, hospital stays, follow-up treatment or surgery. These are costly car accidents, and no one wants to be paying out of pocket for these ... Continue Reading
Houston Car Crash Cases And What You Should Consider
What Steps Should You Take Immediately After a Car Accident? CALL 911! then call a close family member or friend! It is going to be very important to your accident claim that you have someone that you can trust to help you gather information at the scene of crash! REQUEST MEDICAL ATTENTION! Delaying your medical treatment only causes you more problems. You will need to be able to prove how you were injured in the car accident. GET THE OTHER DRIVER’S INSURANCE INFORMATION and save all witness contact information. You can document everything by taking photographs with your ... Continue Reading
Not Your Typical Texas Workers’ Compensation Case
Texas Non-Subscribers Do Not Have Workers’ Compensation Coverage! Over the years, our firm has handled work injury cases for injured Texans employed by Texas Non-Subscribers. Our clients were injured employees who were being denied, what they thought, were workers’ compensation benefits. We found out that these were not workers’ compensation cases. But, if it these claims were not traditional Texas Workers’ Compensation claims, what are they? These are Texas non-subscriber claims. If you work for any of the following companies and you get injured on the job, your claim is not a workers’ ... Continue Reading
Should You Handle Your Own Personal Injury Case?
I strongly advise against attempting to handle your personal injury case on your own. First of all, the insurance companies are represented by adjusters that are trained to pay as little as possible on every claim. This means that, even you are seasoned negotiator, they will not budge when they know you cannot file a lawsuit on your own. Second, despite you knowing the facts of your case, you will not have the legal knowledge to know how to defend claims made by the insurance company (Read Most Common Car Insurance Topics). A lawyer’s knowledge of the case law applicable to your case is ... Continue Reading
What Work Injury Insurance Coverage Is There On the Construction Jobsite?
Construction Fatalities and Work Injuries Construction workers die on the job at very alarming rates. At one point, it had been reported that a construction worker died every 16 hours. While there are several ways workers get injured on the job, one of the most common causes of deaths in the construction setting are falls from structures. To put it bluntly, the construction industry is notorious for failing to carry insurance that covers injuries to all workers on the jobsite. The absence of work injury insurance coverage is more prominent as you go down the ladder from general contractor ... Continue Reading