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A Defective Drug Product Liability Lawsuit can be Brought

Some drug manufacturers may have earned their reputation as being called “pill-pushers” more than others who don’t behave quite so cavalierly in marketing their products. You can get a pretty good idea by watching those commercials for the latest “wonder drug (usually the latest dietary supplement that you can’t get from your doctor, and for good reason). With millions of dollars sometimes at risk in their efforts to get a drug to market, a drug manufacturer may cut corners in a variety of ways. Often, full and proper testing of the drug may not occur before the drug is released to the public. If this occurs and a detrimental side effect is not listed on the drug’s container causes harm to a person, that person can seek restitution for their injury through a defective drug product liability lawsuit. If a drug manufacturer produces a generic version that uses inferior ingredients which can be shown to have had a negative and injurious impact on a person, that manufacturer can likewise be held liable through a drug defect personal injury lawsuit. Lately, we have found that some of these drugs were developed overseas in countries that have less-stringent rules of manufacture. Then their developers and marketers try to circumvent US drug laws by classifying them as something different, only to turn around and market them “against registered type” that they have declared with the US FDA.

However, seeking legal action against a drug manufacturer is not for the faint of heart. Generally, conventional drug manufacturers are some of the most powerful industries in the U.S. And with millions and millions of dollars often at their disposal, drug manufacturers are always ready to protect their assets at all costs. For example, imagine that you were the first person to have suffered an injury due to a drug that was wildly popular or highly marketed, like Hydroxycut. Your lawsuit and the spotlight of negative publicity that was turned on the drug company may be enough to severely damage their bottom line sales figures of their popular pharmaceutical concoction.

As a result, they will work as hard as they can to ensure that you’re either paid off through an unmediated (and likely low-ball) settlement, or they will aggressively defend their company using a cadre of well-trained, highly experienced, and even more highly-paid, defense attorneys. In other words, they are certain to stop at nothing short of blatantly illegal in order to prevent any injured victim from receiving any type of compensation because such a defeat would mean that they erred and may face an avalanche of lawsuits following your successful injury damage award. While this is not an everyday scenario, the way that liable drug manufacturers may act is oftentimes all too true. And though you can’t really blame them for such aggressive defenses of their business, it’s something you must be prepared for if you decide to take on “Big Pharma.”

This is one of the reasons why many attorneys will not help a plaintiff/victim of a defective drug. The odds are often too-stacked against the victim’s rights, especially if a large drug manufacturer may be a defendant. The old “golden rule of business” saying of, “he who has the gold makes the rules,” can often apply to these types of cases.

However, the defective drug attorneys at our Law Office believe that every injured plaintiff (and their family) have the right to seek compensation for their injuries, regardless of the size or legal heft of a defendant. As proven by our past experience in assisting clients against large insurance companies and wealthy defendants, our attorneys have the knowledge, skill, fortitude, and attitude to aggressively defend your rights against even the toughest of opponents.

It should also be noted that some law firms will offer to assist a drug injury victim only to later sub-contract the work to another firm that has more experience in going up against big pharmaceutical companies. If we believe that our services can help you achieve full and fair compensation, we will take your case and process it from start to finish. We are not interested in how you can help pad our successes list; we’re interested only in your success.

If you have suffered further injury or illness as the result of defective drugs or malpractice, represented by misprescribing or management of your drug care anywhere in Texas, contact the local attorneys at our Law Office for a free and confidential legal consultation. Our personal injury lawyers are ready to help you hold all of these negligent parties accountable for their actions in causing you further harm or illness. We pledge to do that fearlessly, aggressively, thoroughly, and effectively.

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Pharmaceutical Error Lawsuits

When a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or another type of medical professional prescribes the wrong drug or the wrong dosage of a drug, and a patient suffers further injury or illness due to that mistake, injured victims may seek compensation for their further injury or illness through a pharmaceutical error lawsuit in Texas.

Pharmacy errors are a form of medical malpractice. However, pursuing legal action against a medical professional in Texas is quite challenging due to tort reform. While these tort reform efforts sought to prevent frivolous lawsuits from being brought against doctors and other medical professionals, who ended up tying up the court system with long-lasting civil suits, the tort reform had a more detrimental effect on injured victims who had a legitimate claim of medical malpractice. For instance, the tort reform set a cap on the amount of compensation that an injured patient could receive through a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit which – in most cases – is $250,000. This cap is often woefully inadequate in order to fully cover a victim with severe injuries and incurred damages. Due to this possible lack of full compensation, many medical malpractice attorneys in Texas avoid taking on such cases.

There are ways around that damage cap amount if your pharmaceutical malpractice attorney is able to identify more than one liable party through investigation. Our attorneys can use this tactic to help you seek full compensation for your injury, whether such compensation may come from a negligent doctor, a negligent hospital, a negligent third party (such as the drug manufacturer), or a combination of all liable parties. For example, three negligent parties (not counting the drug manufacturer itself) can bring a damage amount that far exceeds the quarter-million-dollar cap.

Additionally, another roadblock that often causes medical malpractice law firms in Texas to resist taking on medical malpractice litigants is the fact that the standard of proof required of an injured person in a medical malpractice lawsuit is quite high because the duty of care owed a patient by healthcare providers is correspondingly high as well. Medical experts must often be obtained to provide specific, technical information that can help to prove how a medical professional may have been negligent and produced your drug-related injury. Many law firms simply do not have access to such medical experts. Our firm does, and we have used countless medical experts in the past to assist our clients in regard to medical malpractice and pharmaceutical error injury cases in Texas.

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Powerful Forces Work Against you in any Drug or Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

The opposing attorneys use every trick they can think of to convince a jury that your lawsuit has no merit. The burden of proof is on you, the plaintiff. Not only must you prove your charges of neglect, you and your defective drug attorney must also prove every tactic and counter-charge that their defendant clients are not responsible, and therefore not liable, for your damages that can include medical bills, pain and suffering, lost wages (current and future?) as well as a disability if there is any.

If they fail with that tactic, they’ll then claim that the damages you seek are excessive and unreasonable. Somewhere in there, they’ll accuse you of frivolous civil action against them and wasting everyone’s time. They also do everything they can to delay your day in court with mountains of motions and other arguments in hopes of delaying the inevitable trial. At the same time, offering you so insulting a settlement amount that it couldn’t possibly pay all your damages, pain and suffering the defective drug or substandard medical treatment represented by a doctor or pharmacist’s erroneous prescribing of drugs to treat you. Even though it may be the true cause of your or someone in your family’s injury; maybe even your small child, they’ll do everything they can to avoid paying the rightful damages they owe.

Sometimes these manufacturers, lawyers, and insurance companies KNOW a product is unsafe but decided it was easier to pay a few insurance claims than change their ways. But that still doesn’t stop them from trying to frustrate you at every turn. If you fight them alone, or with an attorney who is not well-versed in product liability law, you do it at you and your family’s peril.

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Class Action Defective Drug Lawsuits: We Represent You, Not Some Lawyer in Some Far Away State

These days, you can’t avoid seeing some of the many lawyer commercials on television who are “trolling for clients” who might have been hurt because of some substandard pharmaceutical products. If you take time to read some of the fine print at the end of the commercial, you will note that the lawyer you are supposed to call is in California or New Jersey or some other state far from your home in Texas where the case has been filed.

This is likely a commercial in the interest of some class action drug liability lawsuit. A class-action suit is just what it sounds like. It involves a “class” of people who have suffered an injury of either similar type, or at the hands of the same manufacturer, and are suing that manufacturer as a group. Class action suits have their advantages in some states because a large “class” of plaintiffs often gets to go to the front of the line when it comes to filing their case and being placed high on the court’s docket. Then, when the class wins (or their lawyers have settled) they get to take a fair piece of a very large monetary compensation package that could be as high as eight or nine figures. In some cases, a class action suit can be a remedy for you, if you can “band together” with enough people who have suffered the same injuries or have the same manufacturer-defendant in their sights. It’s not easy money. Nor is it one of those situations where you just get on the filing list, go about your business for a few months (or a few years, with little word from your lawyer) hoping to get a nice payday when it’s all over.

The law firm who is “running point” in this case will often recruit a firm or two in each state where the commercial appears because that lawyer is not licensed in that state. Many times, these “front” attorneys in each individual state do virtually no work when it comes to preparing the case, but still, get a nice fee to do little more than “client intake” work and shuffle papers. The way we see it, such firms are really getting nothing more than a sales commission, not actual legal fees. All that these “intake firms do is interview prospective plaintiffs to the class action suit, fill out forms, maybe take a deposition or two and get a “cut” of the legal fees for their minimal contribution to the class action lawsuit. They have no say in how the case is handled or argued. They’re just along for the ride.

We’ve been approached by many out-of-state class action firms quite a few times. We decline all overtures unless we do real legal work on behalf of OUR clients that we take on the case’s behalf. Short of that, we have no interest. There are synergistic elements to class action lawsuits that can make them very satisfying to the law firms that are actually involved. We also believe this kind of “faux legal representation” is not always ethical. Sometimes the out of state attorney-of-record might have the sort of reputation we are uncomfortable with. And we are all judged by the company we keep.

We have enough experience by ourselves to handle a class action product liability suit. And we have been the attorneys of record in class action suits in the past when it was appropriate. But we prefer to be the primary counsel of record. Who knows? With the help of a defective product attorney with our Law Firm, your product liability case might be the first wave of what could become a class-action suit. We want you to know you will never be someone else’s number to us. So if you see a commercial for an out-of-state lawyer, think of what you might be getting yourself into and call someone local. It’s always your best bet.

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Your Only Real Hope in a Defective Pharmaceutical or Malpractice Lawsuit lies with an Experienced Attorney with our Law Firm

With a fearless attitude in defending the rights of our clients against big drug companies or other medical misanthropes who injured you with their products and services, pharmacy and medical malpractice attorneys with our Law Firm are a powerful weapon in your fight for ultimate justice. Our investigative excellence, coupled with access to medical experts that can work to connect your injury to the negligence of a pharmaceutical manufacturer or medical professional, can be the perfect “prescription” to counter the many powerful forces aligned against you.

We have over 30 years of stellar service to our clients. Our success record is impressive. And our reputation for fighting for our injured clients is well-known in the medical, pharmaceutical, and legal community all over the U.S. The medical malpractice attorneys at our Texas Law Office are ready to assist you if you have suffered a further injury due to an unsafe drug or a pharmaceutical error.

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The Law is Now Even More on Your Side with the Addition of Liable Bars and Restaurants to Your Civil Action

The Texas Dram Shop Act, which was rewritten, now holds those who serve alcoholic beverages to be more liable for the accidents caused by their intoxicated patrons. It created a clear series of guidelines by which these Food & Beverage businesses can deny service of alcohol to people who are apparently intoxicated. Recent research has shown that well over 95 percent of all drunk driving accidents in Texas happen when a bar or restaurant continues to serve visibly intoxicated customers: who then become drunk drivers and cause an accident that often leads to injuries and even deaths.

Before they were rewritten, Texas’ Byzantine dram shop laws posed virtually no deterrent to these bars and restaurants, and the liquor flowed like water: “no worries” for them. Plus, in the “old days” society didn’t view drunks as harshly as it does now. But the aggressive actions of the general populace, led by Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD) and other groups, turned the spotlight of public awareness on those who are responsible for creating drunk drivers. The Dram Shop Act was amended to make businesses that serve liquor much more liable both criminally and in civil cases. There are two primary features of these strengthened Dram Shop Laws that now apply.

The first is to make bars and restaurants more responsible for their customers’ level of intoxication. These more stringent restrictions now hold bartenders and waitresses legally liable for the amount of alcohol their customers consume. Food and beverage employees, from managers all the way down to busboys (and even some of the kitchen staff) are now receiving formal instruction that educates them in recognizing customers who are drunk, and the diplomatic ways in which they are to cease serving them alcohol. Since this legal liability affects their livelihood, an awful lot of restaurant and bar employees have a new ability to recognize intoxicated customers. And this does help make Texas roads somewhat safer than they were before the new dram shop laws were passed by the legislature.

Enough bars and restaurants that serve alcohol still sometimes work at cross-purposes with Texas Dram Shop Laws. This is because they make a large share of their profits from the alcohol that they serve to their customers since it’s such a low-cost/high-return item. So even if DUI-related accidents have seen a detectible decline the past few years, too many of them still occur. And some F&B operations find it difficult to do follow the law when that proper action certainly appears to work against their financial interests. In addition to the heightened awareness in recognizing drunk patrons, the second primary objective of the new dram shop laws is to clearly make these establishments acutely liable for the drunk drivers they generate. This is so important in assuring that the victims of a drunk driving accident receive fair and adequate damage compensation for this conspiratorial recklessness of not only the drunk drivers but the people who are just as responsible for the driver’s intoxicated condition.

Before the new Texas Dram Shop Act, the victims of drunk driving accidents had much more limited sources of compensatory revenue from a DUI accident. Today, however, bars and other alcohol-serving establishments run the same risks as the drunk driver they create. And as we mentioned, even the passengers who are in the car of a drunk driver have been able to successfully sue the establishments responsible for injuries arising from a DUI-related accident. Such success is not always assured unless there is an experienced dram shop lawyer to represent them.

If you or someone in your family is suffering as a victim of a drunk driving accident, contact the drunk driving accident and dram shop attorneys with our Law Firm now for a free consultation. Our Law Firm can help you win the fullest and fairest compensation that you need to resume your life, give you justice and peace of mind.

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The Ways in Which a Bar or Restaurant is Now Liable for DUI-Related Accident Damages
Food and beverage companies must be granted a license to serve alcohol by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). They must take a legal oath that they will serve alcohol responsibly and accept higher liability standards for their customers’ safety and welfare when it comes to intoxication. If they are found to have broken these laws, penalties can include heavy fines, loss of their liquor license, and, if appropriate, criminal prosecution. The new dram shop laws also require them to train their employees on how to recognize a patron who is clearly intoxicated and how to diplomatically cut them off. These TABC administered alcohol education courses are something like the mandated defensive driving courses you must take to remove a traffic ticket from your driving record or to get a discount on your auto insurance. And to be honest; though very valuable, they’re about as interesting as a defensive driving course (which in this case could be akin to watching paint dry).

Sophisticated point-of-sale technology you’ll now find in many bars and restaurants is also a powerful tool that allows restaurant and bar employees to better track the level, and frequency, of their customers’ alcohol consumption. With a few “grandfathered” exceptions, these databases are now a legal requirement in most food and beverage outlets in order for them to hold a Texas liquor license. So the tools exist that can effectively help bars and restaurants keep our streets safer. But that doesn’t mean they always use them properly, or in some cases, willingly because some view serving less alcohol as not being good for business. And sometimes, as they pursue bigger tips, bar and restaurant employees can willfully turn a blind eye to their inebriated customers.

These employees know they are ultimately responsible for making sure their customers are not drunk. And yet, detecting the legal level of intoxication in a customer is not an exact science (without a breathalyzer) since every person reacts to alcohol differently. There is also the possibility that a number of factors not immediately known to the bar or restaurant employee can make it more difficult to understand just how drunk a customer might be. Your drunk driving accident and dram shop attorneys with our Law Firm can rattle that long list off to you; probably in their sleep. So be sure to ask.

Short of bars and restaurants having a breathalyzer at the front door there is no universal way for the food and beverage owners, managers, and workers to know for certain that a customer is legally drunk. That still doesn’t relieve them from liability. So they all must be very observant of customers’ alcohol consumption and use the good judgment we all assume they have been taught.

That doesn’t always happen. So if they break the law, dram shop laws now hold food and beverage businesses directly liable for paying legal damages in a DUI-related auto wreck. If necessary, bars must call the police to prevent intoxicated patrons from leaving. Some even offer to call cabs for their customers. Many have “designated driver” campaigns which we strongly support. Until the day when every bar owner calls a cab, or finds a designated driver for every drunk customer, or buys a breathalyzer, accidents involving drunk drivers will continue. When this happens, the bar and the customer are viewed in the eyes of the law as equally negligent. Each is responsible for contributing to the intoxicated patron’s condition. Each can be held legally liable for any damages, injuries, or deaths arising from their “conspiracy” that caused this intoxicated customer’s tragic, but foreseeable, actions.

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Experienced Legal Representation ups the Odds of Winning Drunk Driving Accident Claims and Lawsuits

You might think that the process of receiving, fair compensation when a drunk driver hits you is relatively straightforward. Some of you might even think you can handle this on your own. But without retaining a competent intoxication accident injury attorney, you’ll quickly learn that lawsuits against drunk drivers, the establishments who are responsible for their intoxication and their insurance representatives, are anything but simple. And you’ll sadly discover (too late) that you have very little chance of success against this stacked-deck.

Someone’s insurance company will certainly question your claim, even if you have the law on your side. Businesses that serve alcohol, since they must also be made to pay, will work Just as hard to deny your legal claim. So in addition to your injuries, or dealing with a loved one’s death at the hands of a drunk driver, shouldn’t you leave dealing with insurance companies, their adjusters, lawyers and investigators who all want to keep their money to someone who knows the ropes and how to use them to your advantage? Are you really certain you want to tiptoe around all of these people who could care less about your pain, suffering, medical bills, lost wages, possible disability, or the death of a close loved one?

On the other hand, a knowledgeable, skilled drunk driving accident and dram shop attorney, like those at our Law Office has helped many of your Texas neighbors overcome these challenges, and more. These are obstacles everyone must deal with as they wind their way through the complicated, yet necessary, legal process that delivers fair drunk driving accident damage compensation by turning back the defendants and all their henchmen whose job is to deny your rightful civil damage cases.

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Your Experienced Drunk Driving Accident Lawyer Can Negotiate a Fair Settlement

The best outcome in any civil lawsuit is a fair settlement and not going to court. This is because trials are expensive and you have more control over the outcome before the trial date. Sometimes you can just count on a jury to do the right thing. Juries are made up mostly of people who weren’t able to avoid jury duty and want to be released from that civic responsibility as soon as possible. And though favorable settlements are not always easy to reach, having an experienced drunk driving accident attorney significantly increases your chances of a positive outcome, often without having to walk into a courtroom.

This is why your “hole card” is to retain capable and aggressive legal counsel as soon as possible who can quickly begin the investigation that will back up your charges of driver and dram shop law liability. This is probably the most vital portion of the life of your case. Witnesses to the circumstances and events leading up to the drunk driver causing your accident must be found, and interviewed: quickly! The more time that passes before you hire a lawyer, the harder it is to track these people down.

Other investigations and assessments of liability must be conducted, chronicled, and documented. An investigation of the liable parties will take place to find out if they have the means to pay your claim once they have been found guilty. Insurance companies must be contacted by your attorney to let them know you have a lawyer and are seriously pursuing a damage claim. Law enforcement officials and others who are able to shed light on your case must also be found and interviewed. If we find evidence of any further criminal action on the part of any defendant, the County DA needs to know about it. Your opponents begin working against you almost from the moment the accident occurs. Shouldn’t someone be doing the same thing for you?

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The Value of a Skilled Attorney in Your Fight to Win Your DUI Accident Damages

For over the past 30 years our Law Firm has repeatedly demonstrated why it is successful in winning fair compensation against those who drink, then cause auto accidents, as well as the dram shop law violators who would also deny you that fair compensation. This success is the product of many diverse, but equally vital skills, such as:

Your skillful dram shop lawyer is able to counter aggressive and well-funded defense lawyers who cloud the issues of liability for your injuries and other legal damages.
Our Law Firm can clearly prove the bar or restaurant disregarded the law and continued to serve the intoxicated customer who caused your accident.
Your legal counsel can stop the heavy-handed behavior of insurance companies who fund this legal battle against you; because in the end, they’re the ones who must write the check for your settlement.
We are highly-skilled at educating a jury in all the nuances of drunk driving cases and creating empathy in the minds of jurors that you have been wronged, and how it happened.
Ultimately, your drunk driving accident attorney must craft your case so well that your opponents see the futility of fighting you in court and agree to the reasonable settlement you were seeking all along.
By successfully countering every argument of all your opponents and by building the strongest provable case that convinces a jury that your case is just, an experienced dram shop and drunk driving accident attorney with our Law Firm is well-positioned to win the highest reasonable amount to compensate you for your drunk driver damage claims or lawsuits.

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Dram Shop Law Violators Try to Wiggle Out of Paying Your Damage Compensation

The burden is always on you, the plaintiff, and your attorney to prove your damage claims in court against both the drunk driver and the bar or restaurant. And though we have aggressive dram shop laws in Texas, they don’t automatically make the defendant liable. Nor is it reasonable for any plaintiff to believe that just because they ask for damages, they are automatically entitled to them. Everything you charge, you must prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Part of the defense strategy might include assaulting your character, or maybe even questioning if you were also intoxicated, but eluded detection. So be prepared to not only clearly prove your case but plainly refute any charges leveled at you by the defense in order for the bar that served the intoxicated driver to avoid a guilty verdict. We call this the plaintiff’s additional burden to DIS-prove all the countercharges made by the defendants.

Though there is some truth that the drunk driver is mostly responsible for the accident, once it is proven that the bar over-served the driver, the owners, managers, and employees are just as financially liable as the driver. They are equally obliged to pay their share of the damages owed you for that negligence that caused the drunk driving accident which injured you. Our Texas intoxication accident injury attorneys make certain a jury of your neighbors clearly understands all of your evidence, why it proves your case, and reinforces your legal right to receive the full amount of compensation that is due you by law.

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An Experienced DUI Accident Injury Attorney Shields You from Underhanded Insurance Company Tactics that Threaten Your Case

The insurance companies pull the lawyers’ strings. They are either on-staff or on permanent retainer. They’re very good. Both the lawyers and their insurance companies know every trick in the book to avoid paying any accident victims’ legal damage claims. When they are forced to pay, they fight just as hard to make the amount of that check as small as possible.

A great advantage for insurance companies in a drunk driving lawsuit is the fact that juries cannot be directly told an insurance policy or the carrier that underwrites it is involved in this lawsuit, even if it’s pretty easy for the jury to figure out. This allows insurance companies, in concert with their attorneys, to use misleading and sometimes dubious tactics to deny a legal claim in civil court. So the jury must understand for themselves because no one can tell them that an insurance company is the one whose financial interests are as much at stake as the food and beverage operation and the drunk driver.

To further complicate your case, these recent more restrictive dram shop laws have emboldened insurance companies even further. They now encourage cases to be taken to trial that only a few years ago, might not have even seen the inside of a courthouse because more money is at stake.

Only the most stout-hearted drunk driving accident attorneys are willing to stand up to these bullies on behalf of injured plaintiffs. Don’t you need an experienced attorney with a proven track record to let them know you are serious about fighting for your legal rights? There’s one thing about bullies we all know is true. If you’re willing to fight them, you often discover that they really don’t want to fight you.

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Is Your Drunk Driver Accident Attorney Able to Counter Aggressive Defense Lawyers?

Our Law Firm only represents victims of drunk driving injury accident cases. Even before today’s dram shop laws, we’ve firmly believed that those who serve alcohol are just as responsible for drunk driving accidents as the intoxicated driver. Since these laws now hold bars and restaurants liable for these criminal offenses, some attorneys now exclusively defend establishments that serve liquor from their legal responsibilities in causing a drunk driving accident, because those businesses have the money to pay them. We also understand why the dram shop laws have led to fewer attorneys who are willing to accept DUI wrongful death accident cases on behalf of injured plaintiffs. It is very difficult for a lot of personal injury law firms to succeed against experienced lawyers who represent bar and restaurant dram shop law defendants. It’s just as difficult for inexperienced lawyers to “do the deal” with an insurance company to get what you deserve without having to live through the ordeal of a civil trial.

The drunk driving accident attorneys at our Law Office have faced down almost every insurance company and their defense firms in the state. We have successfully resolved untold hundreds, and likely thousands, of drunk driving accident cases against these highly competent firms on behalf of our plaintiff-clients. Our experience in scrupulously building the strongest dram shop liability case possible is well known. And we fight for our clients’ right to receive the compensation they deserve for their injuries and damages: even those surrounding wrongful death DUI cases. This means not allowing our clients to become victims of aggressive insurance companies and their defense lawyers after being victimized by a drunk driver, and the bar or restaurant that created these dangerous nuisances.

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If Your Case Ends up in Court, Knowing How to Influence Cannot be Undervalued

If you end up in court, it comes down to what the jury thinks of your evidence. Your DUI and dram shop lawsuits mean only as much as the settlement a jury can award you because of the quality of your evidence. It’s not very difficult for a lawyer to explain the numerous technicalities of liability in a drunk driving accident to a jury. It’s not all that hard to prove damages or to show, in the eyes of the law, that you and your attorney have satisfied the burden of proof that inspires a jury to award you that compensation.

What juries have a hard time with in drunk driving liability cases is a clear understanding of the shared liability for the accident, relative to the Dram Shop Act, and not think this double whammy of both criminal and civil liability upon the bar or restaurant seem heavy-handed, and sometimes draconian. If a bar or restaurant has already paid a very stiff fine, AND lost its liquor license AND some of its employees are even facing criminal charges for serving the drunk driver, juries can see this as “piling on.” So in the final analysis, your experienced dram shop lawyer must make the jury feel your pain more than they feel the defendant’s pain.

Juries must understand that bars can often act at cross-purposes to public safety and that they must take responsibility for their actions. They also must appreciate just how tragic a price, both monetarily and physically, drunk driving accident victims must live with because of the actions of those bar or restaurant employees who placed that drunk driver behind the wheel. When it comes to DUI accident liability, the one who “loads the gun” is just as responsible as “the one who fires it.” And all of this must be done to a group of 12 people who sit in judgment of you and the defendants, simply because they weren’t able to avoid serving their civic duty.

The only way to defend your rights as a DUI accident victim is with an experienced and gifted lawyer who speaks in a manner that appeals to a jury and makes them clearly understand that you must receive compensation for your damages so you can get back on your feet. Those who have been injured by a drunk driver suffer great financial, emotional, and physical injury. And surviving family members of a DUI fatal accident deserve compensation for their devastating loss just as well. Bringing a drunk driver to criminal justice is one thing. But until the havoc drunk drivers cause to their victims is repaired and their lives return to normal (or as close as possible) justice is still not done.

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Our Law Firm is a Proven and Effective Legal Partner in Winning Fair Damages for You

If you have a relative or friend who is a lawyer, even though he or she might be looking out for your best interests and is inspired to fight hard for your family’s legal rights, you might want to reconsider retaining anyone who might have a difficult time emotionally disassociating him or herself from your DUI accident injury case. Personal injury law is quite intense and at times, very contentious. An attorney, who is pragmatic, focuses solely on the facts of a case and is cool under fire best serve his clients. Too much empathy can cloud a lawyer’s thinking and create mistakes at the most crucial of times.

Did You Know?
Our attorneys have won hundreds of drunk driver accident cases. Call us today to discuss your case.

What happens if that friend or relative attorney doesn’t win the case, or accepts a less-than-fair settlement because he knows how badly you need the money now, and leaves even more on the table than an experienced attorney would? How will you feel about your friend or relative then? Here’s a word to the wise. Family members or friends don’t belong in your legal business.

The drunk driving accident lawyers of our Law Firm has helped drunk driving accident victims throughout Texas win damage compensation for over 30 years. Our professional lawyers and staff are supremely-qualified and experienced at deftly overcoming the many challenges and obstacles you face when filing a dram shop liability lawsuit, and have demonstrated an ability to investigate all the facts surrounding the accident.

We bring very strong lawsuits against drunk drivers. Most of the time in a drunk driving case, proving that the driver is clearly at fault is not difficult. We are also dedicated to bringing the bars that serve them to equal justice. Every liable party for your injuries must take responsibility for their negligence. We have a successful track record as litigants on our injured clients’ behalf. And because of this, once your opponents know we’re on the case, the insurance companies who represent the defendants often offer our clients sizable, and fair, damage settlements because they do not want us to take your case to court.

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If You Have Been Hit by a Drunk Driver? We Can Help You Win Rightful Damage Compensation

Even though generally drunk driving accidents are on the wane, the odds are still pretty good that one day you will be involved in an auto accident in which the other driver was legally drunk and caused the unfortunate wreck that injured you.

In addition to the damage to your vehicle, you have probably suffered serious injuries and need financial compensation for them, along with other legal damages arising from the wreck. It is your right to file a personal injury lawsuit to force this negligent driver to pay for damages to your vehicle and your medical expenses. If others were in your car and also injured when a drunk driver hits you, it is your obligation to legally force the drunk driver to compensate them for their injuries as well.

The drunk driving attorneys at our Law Office have many years of significant experience at bringing negligent bars, restaurants, and drunk drivers to justice through Texas drunk driving accident lawsuits. We can help you understand the intricacies of pursuing, and winning, a drunk driving injury claim or lawsuit. Very often, they can become much more technical than normal automobile accident cases because many drunk driving accidents are caused by gross, or willful, negligence on the part of the driver and maybe even the bar or restaurant that served him or her. So the people who are responsible for making the person intoxicated must also be held liable for this driver’s condition that led to him or her to get behind the wheel of their vehicle and hit yours.

Over the years, the laws surrounding responsibility and compensation for accidents arising from driving under the influence of alcohol, or DUI, have changed. The most prominent feature is that they spread out the legal blame for the drivers’ condition that, until a few years ago, only belonged to that driver. Because another liable party is now added to the mix, it makes them more complicated than in the past. These new dram shop laws now place more of the responsibility for compensating you upon the bar or restaurant that over-served liquor to the intoxicated person who then went out, drove drunk, and caused an accident involving you.

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New Texas Dram Shop Laws Bring Bars and Restaurants into the DIU Liability Pool

The recently passed Texas Dram Shop Act is a set of laws designed to hold sellers of alcoholic beverages responsible for the accidents caused by their patrons and to also stop the sale of alcohol to people who appear to be intoxicated. Recent research has shown that well over 95 percent of all DUI-related accidents in Texas happen when a bar or restaurant continued to serve already intoxicated customers, who then got in their cars and caused a wreck.

The original Dram Shop Laws were passed years ago but had little impact in preventing DUI accidents. But in the past few years, especially due to the aggressive actions of organizations like Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD) and a groundswell of public opinion, they have been amended and modified to make them much more powerful in both criminal and civil cases. There are two primary objectives of these strengthened dram shop laws.

The first goal is to make bars and restaurants more responsible for their customers and for their level of intoxication. This stricter set of rules makes bartenders and waitresses legally responsible for the amount of alcohol their customers consume. Bar and restaurant employees, from managers all the way down to busboys (and some kitchen staff) must receive instruction, and become legally certified that they know how to recognize intoxicated customers and when they need to be cut-off. Since this new legal liability affects their livelihood, many restaurant and bar employees have a much greater sensitivity, and ability to recognize intoxicated customers. This in-turn has generally helped to make Texas streets and highways moderately safer than they were before the new dram shop laws were enacted.

Sometimes, the very nature of bars and restaurants that serve alcohol can still on-occasion work at cross-purposes with our dram shop laws. This is because these establishments make a very large portion of their profits from alcohol they serve to their customers. Part of the reason is that alcoholic beverages are a low-cost/high-profit margin product. So even though over the past few years DUI-related accidents are on the decline, enough of them still occur. Sometimes when you’re a bar or alcohol-serving restaurant, it’s difficult to do the right, thing when that appropriate action appears to work against your best financial interests.

In addition to the heightened awareness in recognizing drunk patrons, the second primary objective of the dram shop laws makes these establishments directly liable for the drunk drivers they produce. It is so important in assuring that the victims of a drunk driving accident receive fair and adequate compensation for the recklessness of not only the drivers but the people who are equally responsible for their intoxicated condition. This is best-accomplished through the experience of a dram shop attorney.

Before the Dram Shop Act was more stringently modified and applied, the victims of drunk driving accidents had no legal recourse against anyone but the drunk driver. Now, the bars and alcohol-serving restaurants can be held just as liable for damages as the drunk driver who hit you. In some cases, even the passengers who are in the car of a drunk driver have been able to successfully bring suit against the drivers, and the establishments responsible for a DUI-related accident. And every now and then, the drunk drivers have been able to successfully sue a negligent bar or restaurant. But such success is not always assured.

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Determining When a Bar or Restaurant is Liable for a DUI-Related Accident Damages

Because a bar or restaurant must be granted a license to serve alcohol by the State of Texas, these establishments legally agree that they will serve alcohol responsibly and accept that certain liability standards for their customers’ safety and welfare when it comes to intoxication will be met. They also accept the obligation to train their employees on not only recognizing a patron who is clearly intoxicated but how to deftly cut them off in a diplomatic way. These “recognition” courses are relatively standard and similar in form to the mandated defensive driving courses you must take to remove a traffic ticket from your record or to get a discount on your auto insurance. And with the advent of sophisticated point-of-sale in many bars and restaurants, computer-monitored ticketing systems allow employees of these establishments to easily track the level, and frequency, of their customers’ alcohol consumption. With a few exceptions, such a tracking system is also now a legal requirement in most bars if they are to hold a license to serve liquor in Texas. So the tools used by the food and beverage industry are in place to help them keep out streets safer. But that doesn’t mean they use them, or if they do, that these sophisticated programs are used properly.

For even though better monitoring systems are in place, the employees know they are ultimately responsible for making sure their customers are not intoxicated. Often, detecting the legal level of intoxication in a customer is not that cut-and-dried because every person reacts to alcohol differently. And sometimes food and beverage employees turn a blind eye in pursuit of bigger tips.

There is also the possibility that a number of factors not immediately known to the bar or restaurant employee can make it more difficult in determining just how intoxicated a person is. Sadly, there is no universal way, short of bars and restaurants having a breathalyzer at the front door, for the food and beverage owners, managers, and workers to know for certain that a customer is legally drunk. This is why these employees and owners must be very observant of all their customers and use good judgment.

But obviously, that doesn’t always happen. And in spite of common understanding, it is against the law to be publicly intoxicated in Texas and it is illegal for bars to contribute to their patrons’ public intoxication. So if they break the law, they are liable for legal damages in a DUI-related auto wreck. If necessary, bars must call the police to prevent intoxicated patrons from leaving. Some even offer to call cabs for their customers. And many have “designated driver” campaigns. But until the day when every bar owner calls a cab, or finds a designated driver for every drunk customer, we will have accidents involving drunk drivers. And for every one of those, some bar or restaurant will probably share the liability.

If a drunk customer leaves a bar, even if he doesn’t intend to drive, that person is breaking the law; as is the bar that served him. And when this happens, the bar AND the customer can be legally viewed as equally negligent. Each is responsible for contributing to the intoxicated patron’s condition. And each can be held legally liable for any damages, injuries, or deaths arising from their “conspiracy” that caused this intoxicated customer’s tragic actions.

If you or someone in your family is suffering as a victim of a drunk driving accident, contact our drunk driving accident and dram shop attorneys with our Law Firm now for a free consultation. Our Law Firm can help you win the fullest and fairest compensation that you need to resume your life, give you justice and peace of mind.

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Bars and Restaurants (and Their Insurance Companies and lawyers) Try to Wiggle out of Dram Shop Law Liability

Defense attorneys who represent a bar or restaurant in many drunk driving accident lawsuits will argue every technicality they can think of to get their clients off-the-hook. There are a few they can hide behind. Or they can throw the bartender or server under the bus and claim they just ignored the law because they were going for a big tip. Even if their arguments are empty and without foundation, the burden of proof is always on you, the plaintiff, and your attorney to prove your damage claims in court. And just because we have aggressive Dram Shop Laws in Texas doesn’t automatically mean that you can collect. Nor is it reasonable for any plaintiff to believe that just because they ask for damages, that they are automatically able to get them. Everything you charge, you must prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt if you can. All excuses that defendants and their attorneys offer-up must be exposed for what they are: empty claims by your opponents to call attention away from the true fact that they are liable and owe you damages.

Though there is some truth that the drunk driver is the immediate cause of the accident, once it is proven that bar served the driver past the point of intoxication, the owners are then just as financially liable as the driver, and both are equally obliged to pay the damages owed you for that negligence that caused the drunk driving accident.

Our dram shop attorneys make certain a jury clearly understands all of your evidence and why it proves your case. We dedicate our energies on your behalf to holding all those who are responsible for your DUI accident injuries fully liable for their part in this injustice and make certain you receive the full amount of compensation that is due you.

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Underhanded Insurance Company Tactics Are a Big Reason Why You need an Experienced Drunk Driving Accident Lawyer

Liquor liability defense lawyers and multi-national insurance companies go together like love and marriage. Where one is, another is usually not far away. The insurance companies pull the lawyers’ strings. They are either on-staff at the insurance company itself or on permanent retainer, they’re that good. Both the lawyers and their insurance companies know every trick in the book to avoid paying accident victims. And when they must pay, they fight just as hard to pay as little as possible.

In Texas, the playing field is in their favor from the start by making you the one who has the burden of proving your charges in order to be awarded damages. They have another point in their favor. A huge advantage for insurance companies in a drunk driving lawsuit is the fact that juries cannot be directly told of their involvement in this lawsuit, even though the lawyers who argue their case are in being paid by the insurance company: though if it’s not hard for the jury to figure out. But what this can do is place subtle doubt in the minds of the jurors that the driver and the bar or restaurant are fighting are the ones who will be paying damages once they are found guilty, not the insurer.

This allows insurance companies, through their attorneys, to use misleading, and sometimes deceitful tactics in their attempts to deny a legal DUI accident injury claim in civil court. So the jury must figure it out for themselves because no one can tell them that an insurance company is the one whose interests are the ones that are really at stake even more than the food and beverage operation and the drunk driver. Can you believe it, a legal case where it’s all about the silent and unindicted, insurance company and not about the real defendants? Of course, you can. You just can’t say so, in court.

And to further complicate your case, these recent more restrictive, liquor liability law changes have emboldened insurance companies even further. Unless the case is a slam-dunk for the plaintiff, they now encourage cases to be to be taken to trial that only a few years ago, might not ever have seen the inside of a courthouse.

So here’s what it boils down to when it comes to the insurance company’s involvement in your drunk driving case. These companies get away with a lot; just because they think they can. And only the most courageous and experienced drunk driving accident attorneys are willing to stand up to these bullies. Don’t you need an experienced DUI and dram shop attorney with a proven track record of successfully representing their clients to let them know you have a strong case, are serious about fighting for your legal rights and will not be denied in getting this needed damage settlement that you are legally entitled to?

A Fair Settlement Without a Trial is the Best Outcome a Drunk Driving Accident Lawyer can Perform for You
Everyone knows that the best conclusion in any civil lawsuit is to reach a fair settlement and not have to go to court. There are several simple reasons for that.

You have more control over the outcome.
Trials can be very expensive and onerous.
You just can’t rely on civil juries that are made-up mostly of people who weren’t able to avoid jury duty and want to go home as soon as possible.
And though favorable settlements are not easy to reach, having an experienced drunk driving lawyer representing your case who does all the work necessary to assure success in the courtroom, diametrically increases the chances of a good outcome for your lawsuit without having to see the inside of a courtroom.

This is why you should retain capable and aggressive legal counsel at the earliest opportunity so they can begin the investigative process, which is one of the most vital phases of your case. Witnesses to the circumstances and events leading up to a drunk driver causing your accident need to be found, and quickly. The more you allow time to pass before hiring a lawyer, the harder it is to track them down. Not long ago, we were retained the very night of a DUI accident and began our investigation before the bar even closed. Because we were on the case so quickly, we were able to begin interviewing witnesses the very night of the fatal DUI wreck and collected a wealth of evidence that very night which pointed to the negligence of the bar that mixed and served all those apple martinis to the drunk driver who killed our client’s young daughter.

Other investigations and assessments of liability must be conducted, chronicled, and documented. Insurance companies must be contacted by your attorney, letting them know you have a lawyer and are serious about seeking damages. Law enforcement officials and others who are able to shed light on your case must be found and interviewed. For one thing is certain. Your opponents begin working against you almost from the moment the accident occurs. Shouldn’t someone be doing the same for you?

Sometimes, no matter what you and your legal advisors do, a trial is inevitable. In such cases, the experience and tenacity that your drunk driver attorney displays in preparing the best case possible, and negotiating on your behalf, often translate into success for you in the courtroom.

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Here are a Few of the Many Legal Skills Necessary for Your Attorney to Win Fair Damage Compensation

Our Law Firm has demonstrated for over the past 30 years why it is so successful in winning fair compensation against those who drink, then cause auto accidents and the bars or restaurants who make them that way, as well as those on their side who work to deny you that fair compensation even before you are in court. Success requires many skills in order to win your case, such as:

Your drunk driver accident lawyer must be able to counter aggressive and often well-funded defense lawyers who cloud the issues of liability for your injuries and other legal damages.
Your attorney must also prove the bar or restaurant’s disregard for the dram shop laws and continued to serve the intoxicated customer who caused your accident.
Your attorney must also stop the bold, heavy-handed behavior of insurance companies who are funding this legal battle against you; because when the judge’s gavel comes down in your favor, they’re the ones who typically end up writing your settlement check.
Your lawyer must be skilled at educating a jury in all the nuances of drunk driving cases and create sympathy in the minds of jurors that you have been wronged.
And ultimately, your lawyer must meticulously build your case so well that your opponents see the futility of fighting your claims in court and agree to the reasonable settlement you were seeking all along.
By successfully countering every argument of all your opponents and by building the strongest provable case that convinces a jury that your case is just, our Law Firm is able to win the highest reasonable amount to compensate you for drunk driver damage claims or lawsuits.

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If Your Case Comes Down to a Fight in Court, Reading a Jury is Elemental to its Success

In the final analysis though, what the jury thinks of your evidence will determine whether or not you win. And your drunk driving personal injury lawsuit means only as much as the damage amount a jury can award you because of the quality of your evidence. It’s not that difficult for a lawyer to explain to a jury the numerous technicalities of liability when it comes to a DUI injury accident. And it’s not all that hard to prove damages or, for those damages to show, in the eyes of the law, that you and your attorney have satisfied the burden of proof enough for the jury to see that you deserve compensation you seek.

What juries have a hard time with in a dram shop liability cases is a clear understanding of the shared liability for the accident and not think this double whammy of both criminal and civil liability for their acts combine to make punishment seem heavy-handed, almost to the point of being patently unfair to the bar or restaurant. Drunk drivers who hurt or kill someone usually go to jail. And it’s not unusual for some juries to see this as punishment enough. This can make them hesitant to further punish the drunk driver; especially when the law seems to complicate things by punishing a bar or restaurant in addition to the drunk driver. What happens if the damage amount is so great that the bar or restaurant must close, causing the employees to lose their jobs in these days of hard times (remember, they can’t be told that the insurance company is the one that pays)? So in the final analysis, your experienced drunk driving attorney must make the jury feel your pain more than it might feel the defendant’s pain.

Juries must be made to understand that bars who violate the dram shop law are acting counter to public safety and that they need to take responsibility for their actions that Texas law now demands of them. They also must appreciate just how tragic a price, both monetarily and physically, drunk driving accident victims must live with for the actions of those who placed that intoxicated person behind the wheel. When it comes to DUI accident liability, the one who “fires the gun” is just as responsible as “the one who loaded it.” And all of this must be done to a group of 12 different people who sit in judgment of you and the defendants, simply because they weren’t able to avoid jury duty and would rather be someplace else.

The only way to defend your rights as a victim is with a drunk driving accident lawyer who speaks in a manner that appeals to a jury and makes them understand, even empathize, that you must receive compensation for your damages in order for you to put this tragedy behind you and your family. Those who have been injured by a drunk driver suffer great financial, emotional, and physical injury. Bringing a drunk driver to criminal justice is one thing. But until the damage drunk drivers (and the bar or restaurant that created them) cause to their victims is repaired and their damaged lives are returned to normal, justice is never done.

Our professional staff and attorneys understand this. We pledge to our clients that if a jury must be told the true story about your case, it will clearly understand your pain and anguish if we end up representing you in court.

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Not Many Drunk Driver Accident Attorneys Are Willing to Fight for Plaintiff Rights

Our firm only represents victims of drunk driving accident cases. And we’ve learned since the Dram Shop Act was amended to include those who serve alcohol as responsible parties that some attorneys now focus solely on defending bars and restaurants from their legal responsibilities in causing a drunk driving accident. We understand why few attorneys are willing to take on these plaintiff cases because the money is found in the defendants’ pockets much more than the plaintiffs’. So those that do represent food and beverage drunk driving defendants have done so hundreds of times; which not only makes them wealthy but also very experienced, quite capable, and a true danger to your case. So it’s not hard to understand why it is very difficult for most personal injury firms, and almost impossible for those who do not specialize in DUI-related injury, to succeed against these experienced defense lawyers, or “do the deal” with an insurance company so you get what you deserve without having to experience a trial.

The drunk driving legal professionals at our Law Office have faced almost every insurance company and their defense firms in the US when it comes to DUI and dram shop cases. We have successfully resolved hundreds of drunk driving accident cases against these highly competent firms. Our experience in meticulously building the strongest liquor liability case possible on our clients’ behalf is well known to our opponents. We strongly believe in our clients’ right to fight for and win the compensation they deserve for their injuries and damages. And this means not allowing our clients to become victims of aggressive defense lawyers or the insurance companies that pay them.

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The Only Way to Receive Fair Damages in a Drunk Driving Accident is With an Experienced Lawyer at Your Side

You might be thinking right now that the process of seeking, and receiving, fair damage compensation when a drunk driver hits you is relatively straightforward. Some of you might even think you can handle this on your own. But those who fail to retain a competent local drunk driving accident attorney from the very beginning find that lawsuits against drunk drivers and especially the well-funded establishments who are responsible for their intoxication are anything but simple. These reckless plaintiffs usually discover too late that they have virtually no chance of a successful settlement or civil lawsuit at all if they have no experience on their side.

But on the other hand, a knowledgeable, skilled drunk driving accident attorney, like those at our Texas Law Office are helping countless of your neighbors to overcome the many challenges to ultimate success as you move through the complicated, yet very necessary, legal process that delivers you the fair drunk driving accident damage compensation you deserve as a victim.

The attorneys from our Law Firm have been helping accident victims effectively seek compensation for over 30 years. Our firm has successfully resolved hundreds of cases for its clients against negligent bars and drunk drivers and the insurance companies that invisibly pull the defendant’s strings behind the scenes. Our professional lawyers and staff are highly qualified and experienced at eliminating the obstacles you face when filing a dram shop lawsuit, as well as the ability to investigate all the facts surrounding the case.

We are highly adept at building very strong lawsuits against drunk drivers. Most of the time in a drunk driving case, the driver is clearly at fault. Our cases concede that. We are also dedicated to bringing the bars that serve them to equal justice. We have a successful track record as litigants on our clients’ behalf. Because of this, once all of your opponents know we’re on the case, the defense firms and insurance companies change their tune and often offer our clients sizable, and fair, damage settlements because they do not want to see us standing beside you in court.

So if you or someone in your family is suffering as a victim of a drunk driving accident, contact our drunk driving attorneys for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. Our Law Firm can help you win the compensation you need from not only the drunk driver who hit you but the establishment that created that intoxicated defendant. This is what ultimately gives you justice, and the peace of mind you and your family deserve in the wake of this avoidable tragedy.

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Our Lead Attorney Discusses Drowning Accidents in Which Injured Victims Deserve Compensation

Tens of thousands of Texans enjoy spending many of their recreational hours on one of area lakes and countless swimming pools in Texas. With so many places to “cool off” in the Texas heat, residents have many choices.

Accidents on the water in Texas, unfortunately, occur with an alarming frequency. Lake drownings, boating accidents, and other types of open-water mishaps can cause severe injuries to the victims or even accidental death. The same goes for our scores of swimming pools: many of them found in apartment complexes that have no supervision. When such unfortunate incidents occur, there can often be a number of liable parties that may hold a portion of the blame for such an accident. An injured victim of a lake mishap who was fortunate to escape with their life or the bereaved family survivors of a person killed in a lake drowning often want to know what caused such an accident and who may have been at fault. And if a small child is somehow able to get past the protective gate in an apartment complex and suffers a drowning injury, the parents want to know if someone’s negligence contributed to this tragedy.

The drowning attorneys with our Law Firm can help you find those answers and win compensation damages for your family’s loss in the event of a drowning accident on any Texas lake or swimming pool. Call our office to schedule a free consultation.

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Legal Issues Involved in Natural Water Drownings in Texas

When drowning in natural water (lake, river, stream, stock tank) occurs, there can often be a number of causes or contributing factors to these water accidents: most of them preventable. Someone may have been acting recklessly in some way, i.e. “playfully” holding a person underwater, which resulted in a drowning death or lifetime disability. Or a boat driver may have been speeding through the water, striking a swimmer and causing them to drown. A defective flotation or other safety devices may not have worked as-designed or manufactured, which suggests that the surviving family might have a defective product case against the company that sold or created the device. Or if a lifeguard was supposed to have been present in an area where a natural water or pool drowning occurred, that lifeguard’s possible negligence may hold him or her liable for the accident. The lifeguard’s employer may also be held liable in such a situation through the Texas legal notion of “respondent superior.” This basically means that an employer is, by definition, responsible for all the actions of his employees when they are working for that employer. Liability can lie with any of these entities depending on the specifics of the Texas drowning accident.

If a child drowns anywhere while in the care of an adult, a claim of negligent supervision may be pressed. Sadly, tragic child drowning accidents are a common event, many times because of negligent supervision by a person the child’s parents have trusted with safely watching over their child or the absence of required safety fences and gates that are supposed to surround all pools. Some adults may incorrectly assume a child is a strong swimmer and end up not paying full attention when that child gets in trouble. Other adults may mistakenly allow a child in their care to wade into deep or dangerous waters. Then, if the child becomes distressed and drowns, the person who is responsible for their care can be held liable for the fatal drowning accident through a wrongful death lawsuit.

When our drowning attorneys are quickly contacted in the wake of a lake drowning in Texas, our team immediately begins a professional investigation of the accident in order to determine who the liable party or parties may have been. All liable parties must be correctly identified so that the aggrieved family can receive full and fair compensation for their injury or loss. And since each individual defendant will be responsible for awarding a percentage of compensation to a plaintiff (or surviving family if wrongful death occurs) which is based on their own portion of liability for the drowning accident. An additional investigation of the financial resources of each liable defendant is also undertaken by our Law Firm investigators in order to assure that each liable party is able to pay their portion of the damages to the injured plaintiffs or surviving family. In such instances, an experienced investigative team can prove to be a crucial element in building a strong case for the plaintiff.

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Legal Issues That Govern Boating Accidents on Texas Lakes

Boating accidents in Texas are also a common source of natural water drownings, especially on weekends when they are crowded with these small craft. They are abuzz with recreational boaters and jet skiers, as well as fishermen who want to relax and enjoy a great day on the water.

Horseplay while behind the wheel of a boat can result in severe personal injury or death, both to the people on the boat and those in the close vicinity of the recklessly driven boat. Pity the poor skiers who are being pulled by a boat whose driver is engaging in horseplay, or not paying attention to where he’s going or is intoxicated; even a little bit. In the event that a boat is leased to a person who doesn’t know how to properly operate that vessel, and when that person inevitably causes a lake accident resulting in injury or death, both the boat’s operator and the small craft’s owner may be held liable for the resultant injury or death, regardless of the legal release that boat owner may have required the borrowing operator to sign. The same goes for jet skiers who are leasing that “water scooter.”

Driving a boat while drunk or high on drugs can lead to devastating situations. Many people enjoy resting and relaxing on our open water Texas lakes by enjoying an occasional alcoholic beverage. And when done in moderation, that’s not a problem for us. It only takes one drunk person to wreak havoc on a small boat. If that person ends up operating the boat, the results could become devastating: in a hurry! While the intoxicated boat operator can be held civilly liable for an accident they cause that harms or kills an innocent lake visitor, Texas dram shop laws that hold a marina bar or restaurant who got a driver drunk – including the operator of a boat – who then was involved in a DUI vehicle accident, may also apply in certain circumstances to a lake drowning in Texas. For example, if the drunken boat operator became intoxicated at a restaurant on a pier, and then caused a drunk boating accident on a Texas lake, the restaurant could be held liable for its contribution to the accident. However, proving such a connection can sometimes be challenging, especially without knowledgeable legal help. With over two decades of experience in dram shop law personal injury cases, our boating accident attorneys can assist you in determining if such a chain of events may have contributed to a drunk boater who caused a tragic accident on the open water. Call us for a free consultation.

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You and your Family Deserve Justice after an Accidental Swimming Pool Drowning

If you’re like most Texans, diving into a swimming pool during our sweltering summers is more than recreation, it’s almost a right. From May to September, the sweltering, humid hundred-degree temperatures seem to roll on endlessly. Swimming pools are the most attractive way for all of us Texans to cool off and enjoy time with friends and family during our relentless summer heat. Oftentimes the beer and BBQ are plentiful and the day is delightful. But there is danger in these cool, refreshing waters that can be hazardous, or even deadly. If there’s horseplay or even a momentary lack of supervision of your children at the pool, or if the pool itself has been improperly maintained or someone forgets to close a gate, a tragic accident can turn that wonderful and cool interlude into a nightmare for victims and their families. Most swimming pool accidents sadly involve small children who are not capable swimmers. They can happen to adults just as quickly.

When a swimming pool drowning accident happens, an injured adult victim, or a child’s family has the right to seek legal compensation for this injury from a swimming pool accident through a personal injury lawsuit. If the accident has resulted in death a bereaved family member can file a wrongful death lawsuit against the pool’s owner.

The United States Child Drowning Statistics Confirm Why Children are at Greater Risk of Drowning
The following statistics from the United States Centers for Disease Control speak to the severity and frequency of child drowning accidents in the United States:

More than 30 percent of fatal drownings happen to children under the age of 14.
For each child that dies as a result of drowning, another four children have received emergency medical care for nonfatal submersion injuries.
In one year alone, approximately one-third of all children who suffered a fatal accident died as a result of drowning.
Drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional death to children between the ages of one to 14 years.
Most drownings that happen to children from one to four years old occur in residential or apartment swimming pools where there is no lifeguard on duty and little if any safety fences or gates.
Most child drownings occurred when the child was last seen in the house, and was out of adult sight for less than five minutes, and was being cared for by one or both parents at the time of the accident.
These numbers and percentages are sobering indeed; especially when you consider the many ways in which children can suffer an accident, fatal or otherwise. This is one of the reasons why parents, or those who are entrusted with the care of a child while they’re playing in a pool, bear an unusually heavy legal duty to ensure that the children in their care are safe at all times when around or in a pool, whether that’s an apartment pool, a home pool, or a public pool. Negligent supervision is a common contributor to fatal pool accidents. And many times we have seen where this responsible person didn’t behave so responsibly: and a small child paid for their inattention (or willful act) that produced a drowning tragedy.

Contact our drowning accident lawyers for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. We welcome every one of your questions in connection to your drowning accident in Texas. You will receive answers you need and we’ll also apprise you of your possible legal options in a sensitive and respectful manner so that you can understand how together, we can seek the rightful compensation and see justice served for this needless drowning tragedy that you and your family must now deal with.

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Bars and Restaurants Deserve to be Held Liable for DUI-Related Accidents

All food and beverage companies must be granted a license by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) if they wish to serve alcohol. They must swear a legal oath that they will serve alcohol responsibly and accept higher liability standards for their customers’ and the public’s safety and welfare when it comes to curbing public intoxication. If they are found to have broken these laws, penalties can include heavy fines, loss of their liquor license, and if appropriate even criminal prosecution and possible jail sentences. And the new dram shop laws also require them to train their employees a specific curriculum on how to recognize a patron who is clearly intoxicated, and how to stop serving them with diplomatic aplomb. Think of these TABC administered alcohol education courses like you would the state-administered defensive driving program we must take to remove an occasional traffic ticket from our driving record or to get a discount on our auto insurance.

Sophisticated point-of-sale technology is now in many bars and restaurants. And it is indeed a powerful tool that allows employees of food and beverage establishments to better track the level, and frequency, of their customers’ alcoholic beverage consumption. With a few exceptions, these databases are now a legal requirement in most food and beverage outlets that apply for a liquor license in Texas and have been for the past few years. So the tools exist that ultimately help bars and restaurants keep our streets (and their customers) safer. But that doesn’t mean they always use them properly, or in some cases, willingly because some view serving less alcohol as being bad for business. And sometimes, as they pursue bigger tips, bar and restaurant employees can pull a Sgt. Schultz (“I see nothing…”) when it comes to customer intoxication levels.

They know they are ultimately responsible for making sure their customers are not intoxicated. They assert that often detecting the legal level of intoxication in a customer is not that easy since every person reacts to alcohol differently. They also suggest the possibility that a number of factors not immediately known to the bar or restaurant employee can make it more difficult to understand just how drunk a customer might be. But in a perfect world, every bar and restaurant could have a breathalyzer at the front door. So, food and beverage owners, managers and workers might argue that there is no universal way for them to know for certain that a customer is legally drunk: even if the TABC says they all must be awfully observant of customers’ alcohol consumption and use their best judgment that we all assume they have been taught. And that doesn’t always happen.

If they break the law, dram shop laws now hold food and beverage businesses directly liable for paying legal damages in a DUI-related auto wreck, possibly to more than one party if they have legal standing. If necessary, bars must call the police to prevent intoxicated patrons from leaving. Some even offer to call cabs for their customers. And many have “designated driver” campaigns. Until the day when every bar owner calls a cab or finds a designated driver for every intoxicated customer, accidents involving drunk drivers will continue. When this happens, both the bar and the customer are viewed in the eyes of the law as having behaved negligently. Each is responsible for creating the drunk driver. And each can be held legally liable for any damages, injuries, or deaths arising from their “conspiracy” that caused this intoxicated customer’s tragic, but very foreseeable, actions.

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Your Odds are Higher at Winning DUI Accident Damages With an Experienced Attorney

You might think that the receiving, fair compensation when a drunk driver hits you is relatively straightforward. Some of you might even think you’re intelligent enough to manage this on your own. But this is a false perception: created and maintained by the insurance industry. You’ll find this out soon enough. Without retaining a competent intoxication accident attorney, you’ll quickly learn that lawsuits against DUI dram shop defendants and these well-funded purveyors who are responsible for the drunk drivers they create are anything but simple. Don’t forget the drunk drivers’ insurance company either. They too can be a very dangerous opponent. And you’ll sadly discover (too late!) that you have very little chance of a successful settlement or civil trial.

Someone’s insurance company will certainly question your claim, even if you have the law on your side. Many might ultimately be pitted against you. All will work hard to deny your legal claim: often in-concert. So in addition to your injuries, or dealing with a loved one’s death at the hands of a drunk driver, are you really sure you want to deal with insurance companies, their adjusters, lawyers, and investigators who all want to keep their money and deny you yours? Who pays for your suffering, medical bills, lost wages disability, or loved one’s death?

So much is at stake that it’s foolish not to retain a knowledgeable, skilled drunk driving accident attorney. our Law Firm has helped many injury victims overcome these dangers and more. Because all these obstacles are encountered by everyone as they wind their way through the complicated, yet necessary, legal process in order to win fair drunk driving accident damage compensation. You must turn back the insurance companies, their adjusters, and attorneys whose job is to deny your rightful civil damage cases: or even your day in court if that’s what it comes down to.

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An Experienced Accident Lawyer Can Negotiate a Fair Settlement

The best plaintiff outcome in any civil lawsuit is a fair settlement and avoiding court. This is because you have more control over the outcome until a jury is impaneled. After that, it can get very expensive. And sometimes you just can’t count on a jury. Sometimes they’re strange because juries are made-up mostly of people who weren’t able to avoid their civic duty, and they want to be done with it as soon as possible. Favorable settlements are not always easy to reach before going to court. So having an experienced drunk driving accident attorney significantly raises your chances of a positive outcome: often without having to walk into a courtroom.

This is the value of retaining highly-capable and aggressive legal counsel as soon as possible: an attorney who can quickly begin the investigative process to back up your charges and refute theirs. Investigations are often the most vital stage in the life of your case. Witnesses to the circumstances and events leading up to your drunk driving accident must be found and interviewed, quickly. The more time you allow to pass before hiring an experienced lawyer, the harder it becomes to track them down.

Other investigations and assessments of liability must be conducted, chronicled, and documented. A successful search for all the liable parties, and the means they have to pay your claim once they have been found guilty, is also a critical requirement. Insurance companies must be contacted by your attorney to let them know you have a lawyer and are seriously pursuing a damage claim. Law enforcement officials and others who are able to give testimony to your case must also be found and interviewed. If criminal evidence is uncovered that favors your case, law enforcement must be made aware.

During this critical time, your opponents begin working against you almost from the moment the accident occurs. Shouldn’t someone be doing the same thing for you? Call our Law Firm today to schedule a free consultation.

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Some of the Vital Legal Skills Your Attorney Uses to Win Your DUI Accident Damages

For over the past 30 years our Law Firm has demonstrated clear success in winning fair compensation against those who drink then cause auto accidents: as well as those on the defendant’s side who would deny you that fair compensation. This experience-based success is the product of many unique skills, such as:

Your Dram Shop lawyer must deftly counter aggressive and well-kept defense attorneys’ attempts to cloud issues of liability for your injuries and other legal damages.
Your Texas intoxication accident attorney must clearly prove the bar or restaurant disregarded the law and continued to serve the intoxicated driver who caused your accident.
Your experienced legal counsel must also stop the heavy-handed behavior of insurance companies who fund this legal battle against you; because they’re the ones who write the check for your settlement.
Your Texas drunk driving accident lawyer is skilled at educating a jury in all the nuances of drunk driving cases and create sympathy in the minds of jurors that you have been wronged.
And ultimately, your drunk driving accident attorney must craft your case so well that your slippery opponents see the futility of fighting you in court and agree to the reasonable settlement you were seeking all along.
By successfully countering every argument of all your opponents and by building the strongest provable case that convinces a jury that your case is just, your attorney with our Law Firm is well-positioned to win the highest reasonable amount to compensate you for your drunk driver damage claims or lawsuits.

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A Good DUI Accident Attorney Covers Your Back Against Aggressive Insurance Companies and their Defense Lawyers

Our Law Firm only represents victims of drunk driving accident cases. Long before the law was changed, we believed that those who serve alcohol are just as responsible for drunk driving accidents as the intoxicated driver. With today’s dram shop laws that hold bars and restaurants liable for their now-criminal offenses, some attorneys “followed the money” and exclusively defend food and beverage establishments when they violate their legal responsibilities and cause a drunk driving accident. Many of these purveyor establishments typically have more than enough money to pay them.

We also understand why the dram shop laws have led to fewer attorneys who are willing to accept DUI accident-related injury and wrongful death cases on behalf of the victim-plaintiffs. It is very difficult for many personal injury firms, and almost impossible for those who do not specialize in wrongful death, to succeed in DUI civil cases against experienced lawyers who represent bar and restaurant dram shop law defendants. It’s just as hard for inexperienced lawyers to “do the deal” with an insurance company in order what you, the victim, need to get what you deserve without having to live through the ordeal of a civil trial. No, it’s not easy.

The drunk driving accident attorneys at our Law Office have faced almost every insurance company and their defense firms in the state. We have successfully resolved hundreds of drunk driving accident cases against these excellent firms on behalf of our plaintiff-clients for over 30 years. Our experience in scrupulously building the strongest dram shop liability and DUI accident cases possible is well-known. We fight for your (our client’s) right to receive the fairest compensation you deserve for injuries and all of the other damages suffered. We must not allow our clients to become victims of aggressive insurance companies and their defense lawyers. They’ve already been victimized by a drunk driver and a bar or restaurant who kicked-off this tragic series of events.

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In a DUI Civil Suit, All Defendants “Run-for-Cover”

The burden is always on you, the plaintiff, and your attorney to prove your damage claims in court against both the drunk driver and the bar or restaurant. But our aggressive dram shop laws don’t automatically make the defendant liable. Nor is it reasonable for you to believe that just because you ask for damages, that you’re necessarily entitled to them. Everything you charge, you must prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Part of the defense strategy might be to question (or assault) your character, or maybe even questioning if you were also intoxicated, but eluded detection. So be prepared to not only clearly prove your case but plainly refute any charges leveled at you by the defense on behalf of the bar or restaurant to avoid a guilty verdict.

We accept that the drunk driver “fired the gun,” and in the end was responsible for the accident itself. But in the end, the bar loaded that gun the drunk driver “fired.” We make certain a jury clearly understands all of your evidence, why it proves your case, and why you must receive the full amount of compensation that is due you by law.

Insurance Companies: Another Danger Turned Aside by an Experienced DUI Attorney
The insurance companies pull the lawyers’ strings: attorneys who are either on-staff or permanent retainers. They’re a good investment by their clients: and know many tricks in the legal-book to avoid paying accident victims’ legitimate damages. And when their corporate insurance clients are forced to pay, they fight just as hard to make that victim’s compensation check as small as possible.

A great advantage for insurance companies in a drunk driving lawsuit is the fact that juries cannot be directly told – for the record – that an insurance policy, or the carrier that underwrites it, is involved in this lawsuit. This allows insurance companies to manage the misleading, and sometimes deceitful tactics meant to deny a legal claim in civil court, even if it’s not hard for the jury to figure out that an insurance company is the one whose financial interests are at risk as well as the food and beverage policyholder who created the drunk driver.

So here is the real story of the “insurance company element” in your DUI/dram shop case. Only the most stout-hearted drunk driving plaintiff accident attorneys are willing to stand up to these bullies. Don’t you need an experienced Dram Shop Lawyer with a proven track record to show how serious your fight is for your legal rights? Let bullies get their comeuppance. Because if they know how hard you’re willing to fight them, they really don’t want to fight you.

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A Persuasive Case and “Reading” the Jury are the Keys of Winning Your Case in Court

Many think that knowing the law is all that’s necessary for them to win if they end up in court. What it really gets down to is what the jury thinks of your evidence. A DUI/dram shop lawsuit only means something if a jury can award you compensation. So it all comes down to the evidence, how good it is, and how well you connect the dots for “12 citizens tried and true.” We concede that it’s not very difficult for an inexperienced lawyer or some other intelligent person who might have read the law, to explain many of the technicalities of liability in a drunk driving accident to a jury. It’s not all that hard to prove damages, or to satisfy the reasonable burden of proof for the jury to understand that you (the plaintiff) deserve fair compensation and probably how large of an award is fair, under the proven circumstances.

What juries have a hard time with in drunk driving liability cases is clearly understanding the shared liability for the accident, relative to the roles played by both the driver and the food and beverage defendant. Relative to the Dram Shop Act and the possible criminal charges involved, some juries can see this double civil/criminal-whammy as or even draconian: or even some sort of informal double-jeopardy. If a bar or restaurant has already paid a very stiff fine or lost its liquor license: and if the owner or someone else is facing criminal charges for serving the drunk driver, some can see this is rather excessive. After all, it’s a business that creates jobs. And these are hard times. So in the final analysis, your experienced Texas drunk driving accident lawyer must make the jury feel your pain more, and on a visceral level, than they do the guilty defendant’s.

Juries must be made to understand that bars can often act at cross-purposes to public safety and they must take responsibility for their willful or careless actions. Juries also must feel in their gut just how tragic a price, both monetarily and physically, drunk driving accident victims must live with because of the actions of those bar or restaurant employees who placed that drunk driver behind the wheel. The one who “loads the gun” is just as responsible as the one who “fires it.” All of this must be felt, and agreed to by a group of 12 people who sit in judgment of you and the defendants: because they weren’t able to avoid jury duty.

The only way to defend your rights as a DUI accident victim against all who were negligent is with an experienced drunk driving accident and dram shop lawyer who speaks in a manner that appeals to a jury and makes them clearly understand that you must receive fair compensation for your damages and are anxious to get back on your feet. Bringing a drunk driver to criminal justice is one thing. Until the true damages caused by drunk drivers and the “dram shops” that initiated the series of events that led to your DUI ordeal, and the lives of the victims return to normal (or as reasonably as possible), justice is still denied.

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Our Law Firm is Your Experienced Partner and Advocate as You Fight for Your Rightful and Fair DUI/Dram Shop Law Damages

If you have a relative or friend who is a lawyer, even though he or she might be looking out for your best interests and pledges to fight hard for your family’s legal rights, you might want to put some serious thought into retaining anyone who might have a difficult time emotionally disassociating him or herself from your DUI accident injury case. Personal injury law can become very intense and extremely emotional for the uninitiated. Often things can get pretty heated. An attorney, who is pragmatic, focuses solely on the facts of a case and is cool under fire best serves his clients. Too much empathy or additional emotional attachment can cloud a lawyer’s thinking and cause mistakes to be made at the most crucial time. Not that your lawyer should be oblivious to your needs. But often we find that legal cases involving relative lawyers find such advocates on the wrong side of the line that divides emotion and attorney-pragmatism

What happens if that friend or relative attorney doesn’t win the case, or accepts a less-than-fair settlement because he fears how badly you need the money now? How much settlement money will that friend/relative-lawyer leave on the table that an experienced, cool-headed attorney will not? How will you feel about your friend or relative then? Aren’t your friends or relatives better served by providing you and your family with moral support and “hold your coat” as you and your experienced intoxication accident attorney fight your DUI/Dram Shop case together?

Our Law Firm has helped drunk driving accident victims win the fairest damage compensation for over 30 years. Our professional lawyers, investigators, and staff are highly qualified and experienced at deftly overcoming the many challenges and obstacles you face when filing a DUI or dram shop liability lawsuit. Every day we demonstrate our gift at the vigilant investigation of every fact surrounding the accident: even the most minute, and putting the pieces together to win your case.

We bring very strong lawsuits against drunk drivers. As we’ve already said, most of the time proving the driver is clearly at fault is not difficult. But we are also dedicated to bringing the bars that serve them to equal justice. Every liable party for your injuries must take responsibility for their negligence. We have a successful track record as litigants on our injured clients’ behalf. And because of this, once your opponents know we’re on the case, the insurance companies who represent all defendants often offer our clients sizable and fair damage settlements. They do not want us to take your case to court.

So if you or someone in your family is suffering as a victim of a drunk driving accident, contact our DUI and Dram Shop Lawyers now for a free consultation. Our Law Firm can help you win the fullest and fairest compensation you desperately require to resume your life, give you justice, and peace of mind you deserve after a drunk driver and the dram shop that over-served them injured you.

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May 19, 2020April 10, 2026 Frank PichenLeave a comment

legal 5/17/2020 – Work Injury / Premises Liability / Defective Products / Bicycle / Personal Injury FAQs / Personal Injury / Bus / Child Injury / Construction Accidents / Drunk / Medical Malpractice / Pedestrian / Slip & Fall / Swimming Pool Accidents / Workplace Accidents / Dog – gtg

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What is premises liability?

Our office receives a lot of calls from people who have been injured on premises owned by others. The most common questions relate to injuries sustained in places of business such as shopping malls, grocery stores and apartment complexes. Injuries can range anywhere from a simple slip and fall to severe injuries sustained as a result of criminal acts by third parties.

To best describe premises liability, you must first understand negligence. Put simply, negligence is conduct by someone who can foresee the consequence of his or her actions. If a person engages in conduct that is reasonably foreseeable to cause injury, then the law imposes a legal duty on that person to refrain from such conduct. If a business creates or knows of a condition that exists on its premises that is reasonably foreseeable to cause injury, the law imposes a duty on that business to eliminate the dangerous condition. Businesses are not automatically responsible for any injury that occurs on their premises. A good example is the banana peeling on the floor in the grocery store. Anyone could have put the banana peeling on the floor. If someone slips and falls, they cannot recover damages unless they prove an employee of the business had prior knowledge of the banana peeling on the floor or should have known about it and did nothing. There could be many ways to prove this knowledge. Many cases are lost because of the failure to provide sufficient evidence that the business knew or should have known of a defect.

If you are injured as a result of a slip and fall or trip and fall, it is important to remember as much information as possible about the activities that were taking place immediately prior to the incident. Use your cell phone camera and get pictures of the area. Ask questions of the business employees. Remember witness names. You may not be able to do this if you are seriously injured. This is why it is important to contact an attorney immediately following such an incident or have family members call if you are unable.

Many times, tenants or their visitors are injured by criminal acts of a third party at an apartment complex where they reside. A case like this can be simple or very complicated. The same rule applies. You must show the apartment complex was negligent. This basis could be knowledge of prior criminal activities that previously occurred at or near the premises that would warrant an increase in security measures. The existence of a defect on the premises such as a broken security fence, gate, or lights that need repair might constitute negligence if management ignores the defect. If such a defect is a cause in fact of a tenant’s injury, then a claim may be pursued. But again, the defect must be known or should have been known by management. If a person is injured falling into a hole that the apartment complex knew or should have known existed, there could be liability. The same applies to other defects that might be on the premises of which the tenant has no knowledge.

The concept of premises liability can be very complicated. If you are injured on someone’s premises, you must immediately begin gathering evidence. The longer you wait, the more likely evidence will be lost that will prevent you from proving your claim. An experienced personal injury attorney is aware of the issues involved with premises liability cases. In most instances, it costs nothing to speak with an attorney about your case. This way you will find out what you need to know and make informed decisions about whether to pursue a legal cause of action. These types of cases are generally handled on a contingency fee basis. This means you pay nothing for your representation until there is a recovery for your damages. It is extremely important to understand that time is of the essence in contacting an attorney relating to a premises liability case.

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Defective Product Lawyer | Defective Product Claims

You should be able to rely on the products you purchase to be safe for use. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. More than likely, you have seen numerous news stories about toys that hurt children, airbags that do not function, ladders that collapse, and drugs with dangerous side effects. When a defective product causes injury, those who are injured must be able to prove liability in order to win a legal case. Product liability cases are particularly complex because of the intricate nature of these laws and because of the large companies and organizations involved.

Consumer Protection Laws
Everything we purchase, use, or consume falls under consumer protection laws. Most everything we buy in stores or through other distribution channels must comply with safety standards. The list of merchandise categories is long but may include household goods, food, cleaning products, appliances, furniture, vehicles, prescription drugs, and medical devices. Consumers have a reasonable expectation that the product offered to them for purchase and subsequent use is safe.

When a product is deemed to be dangerous or defective, then product liability laws apply. People who have suffered injuries are allowed to pursue compensation but may find the process complicated and confusing. Consulting with a personal injury attorney may provide valuable information and insight into the process of recovering damages in your product liability case.

Theories of Liability in a Products Liability Case
Liability may be based on a defective design or manufacture of a product, or liability can be established because of a failure to warn of a risk inherent in a product. The first theory of liability is negligence. Here one examines whether there was a failure to use reasonable care in the design, manufacture or failure to warn concerning the product. The second product liability theory is based on a breach of warranty. This concept means that the manufacturer promised you that the product would be safe or perform a particular function and then failed to deliver.

Many times, there are express warranties where a manufacturer actually makes a promise in its marketing campaigns or its written manuals. In other cases, there is usually an implied warranty of safety. When the distributor of milk implies that the milk is safe to drink or a grocery store implies its meats are without microbes that could hurt you, they are implying a warrant of safety.

Finally, you can file a product liability lawsuit under the theory of strict liability. Under this doctrine, there is no requirement that the victim must prove negligence. For example, if you buy a vacuum cleaner that immediately catches fire and hurts you, all you have to prove is that the product was released to you in a defective condition and that it hurt you.

How an Injury Lawyer Can Help You
Our Law Office brings years of experience and skill to your benefit. We work closely with our clients to preserve and protect their rights while negotiating the most favorable outcome in defective product injury cases. Whether the defect is due to poor design, improper manufacturing or misrepresentation in product promotions and instructions for use, we thoroughly evaluate the details of your case. Establishing legal responsibility for defects causing injury is complicated because of the complex nature of involved entities throughout the product development and distribution process.

We take pride in delivering individual attention and personal service. Many cases require assistance from a knowledgeable and resourceful legal staff. We are committed to getting the results you and your loved ones need. Sustaining injuries from a defective or dangerous product impacts not only you and your family but consumer safety at large. Working with you on your case may lead to greater public service, but our primary focus is getting maximum compensation for your injuries.

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Bicycle Accidents | Personal Injury Lawyer

Every six hours a bicyclist is killed in America. Over 540,000 bicyclists visit emergency rooms every year. Many of these accidents occur because the bicyclist is less visible than a car, with many of their injuries being accentuated by their lack of protection. If you or a family member has been involved in a bicycle accident, you need to seek legal help. Proof of liability and assessment of damages is work for an experienced professional. You are urged to contact a personal injury attorney who is skilled in handling bicycle accidents. Our Law Office has been fighting on behalf of accident victims for nearly two decades, so you should not hesitate to find out how our firm can help.

Common Bike Accident Situations in Texas
Bicycle accidents occur at an astounding rate in this country. In fact, the U.S. Department of Transportation has reported that more than 8,000 people have died in vehicle-on-bicycle collisions over the last decade, with more than 700,000 others suffering serious injuries. Although these accidents can happen under a number of dangerous circumstances, it still remains that bicyclists depend on the care and attention of motorists for their safety. For this reason, accidents most often occur when:

Motorist fails to observe bicyclist in bike lane and turns into him
Motorist exiting a driveway pulls in front of bicyclist
Motorist swinging a car door open in a bicyclist’s path
Bicyclist is hit by a motorist driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs

What if I was injured by dangerous road conditions?
When most people picture a bicycle accident, they think of a cyclist colliding with a motor vehicle. Although these incidents are not uncommon on the streets of Texas, many people don’t realize that most bicycle accidents are actually caused by dangerous road conditions. If you have been involved in an accident under these circumstances, it is important to understand that you may still be entitled to compensation. Since it is the responsibility of the local government to safely design, construct, and maintain the roadways, they can, in some cases, be held accountable for failing to do so.

In order to prove that a government agency has negligently contributed to the cause of your injuries, however, you will need to show that you were subjected to unreasonably unsafe conditions. This could be the case if you were injured on a road that was defectively designed, poorly constructed, or inadequately maintained since each of these factors has the potential to cause a pedestrian serious harm—especially when they are forced to share the road with motorists. For this reason it is your right, as a victim, to pursue damages for the wrongful injuries that you have suffered.

Our Personal Injury Lawyers Will Fight for Your Right to Compensation
Injuries to a bicyclist can be traumatic. All matter of broken bones, head injuries and internal injuries may result. Our Law Office is dedicated to the full compensation of bicycle accident victims. As a small, personal firm, we pride ourselves on superior service and aggressive pursuit of our clients’ interests. We energetically seek reasonable cash settlements for your medical costs, loss of present and future income, pain and suffering, and rehabilitation costs.

We thoroughly investigate accidents and interview witnesses. We urge you to meet with an injury attorney at the firm to discuss your bicycle accident case. Call our firm today to get started!

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Bus Accident Lawyer

How common are bus accidents in the U.S.?
Although bus accidents are considered a rare occurrence, you may be surprised to hear that more than 9,000 bus-related collisions take place in the U.S. each year. On average, they leave around 12,000 seriously injured and 330 dead. For this reason, you should not underestimate the frequency of these accidents. What is also important to understand is that most of these accidents involve other motor vehicles and, in some cases, pedestrians. In fact, the Center of National Truck and Bus Safety Statistics has reported that 60% of all fatalities related to bus accidents involve another motor vehicle and that 25% involve a pedestrian. It is for this reason that a single bus accident can result in such a high rate of injury and/or death.

Establishing Negligence after a Serious Bus Accident
Serious bus accidents occur more often than they should. Since 1968, the National Transportation and Safety Board has been urging bus lines to install safety belts in buses, but to no avail. The sturdiness of bus roofs and windows is also a concern. Driver fatigue, inattentiveness, and poor training may lead to accidents. Establishing negligence in a bus accident case can be complex and an understanding of the mechanical workings of the bus and how they operate may be required. As a result, you are urged to contact a personal injury attorney experienced in commercial vehicle accident litigation. You are entitled to damages in a bus accident depending on proof of negligence of the bus company and the nature of the damages. This may include:

Medical costs
Ambulance bills
Hospital costs
Property losses
Pain and suffering
Loss of present and future income
Rehabilitation Costs
Costs of retraining

Injured in a bus accident? Our Law Office can help!
If your family member has died in a serious bus accident, you are entitled to pursue a case for wrongful death and survival claims. You may be compensated for medical expenses, burial and funeral costs, and loss of comfort and support. This is also true if you have been seriously injured under negligent circumstances—which may include driver inexperience, intoxication, or fatigue. You are urged to contact our injury attorneys at the firm for a free case evaluation today.

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Defective & Dangerous Products

Consumer Protection Laws
Everything we purchase, use, or consume falls under consumer protection laws. Most everything we buy in stores or through other distribution channels must comply with safety standards. The list of merchandise categories is long but may include household goods, food, cleaning products, appliances, furniture, vehicles, prescription drugs and medical devices. Consumers have a reasonable expectation that the product offered to them for purchase and subsequent use is safe.

Theories of Liability in a Products Liability Case
Liability may be based on defective design or manufacture of a product, or liability can be established because of a failure to warn of risk inherent in a product. The first theory of liability is negligence. Here one examines whether there was a failure to use reasonable care in the design, manufacture, or failure to warn concerning the product. The second product liability theory is based on a breach of warranty. This concept means that the manufacturer promised you that the product would be safe or perform a particular function and then failed to deliver.

How an Injury Lawyer Can Help You
Our Law Office brings years of experience and skill to your benefit. We work closely with our clients to preserve and protect their rights while negotiating the most favorable outcome in defective product injury cases. Whether the defect is due to poor design, improper manufacturing, or misrepresentation in product promotions and instructions for use, we thoroughly evaluate the details of your case. Establishing legal responsibility for defects causing injury is complicated because of the complex nature of involved entities throughout the product development and distribution process.

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Drunk Driving Accidents in TX

Injured by an intoxicated driver? Let our firm help!
A large percentage of serious car accidents are the result of drunk, intoxicated and impaired driving. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that nearly 31% of all traffic fatalities in the U.S. are caused by alcohol-related collisions. If you have been seriously hurt in such an accident, you are entitled to damages for your full medical costs, damage to your car, pain and suffering, loss of present and future income, as well as the cost of needed rehabilitation and retraining. Do not allow an insurance agent to settle with you for a fraction of what you are entitled to. Seek an evaluation of your case from a personal injury lawyer experienced in drunk driving accident cases.

How a Drunk Driving Case Proceeds in Texas
Once you have arranged for legal representation, your attorney investigates your accident. If the other driver was cited for drunk or intoxicated driving, records of the charges are obtained. If not, your attorney works to establish negligence from contacting witnesses and securing evidence. Your attorney will also contact your physician for estimates of the care you will need in the future and whether there are any permanent injuries. With this information, he is able to gauge the settlement you require for your future needs. Once damages are estimated, in coordination with you, he contacts the insurance company and demands fair compensation.

If the insurance company comes to terms, the case is settled. Otherwise, the attorney prepares for trial where he presents your case persuasively to the jury seeking your just compensation. Our Law Office is a small firm dedicated to helping the victims of drunk driving accidents. Getting proof ensures that accident victims receive full compensation for their injuries.

Get in Touch with a Personal Injury Lawyer Today
If you or someone you love has been injured in a serious drunk driving accident, you should not hesitate to discuss your case with a personal injury attorney from our Law Office. Our firm has been fighting for the rights of accident victims for nearly two decades, so you can rest assured that we will pursue your case aggressively. Obtaining damages can be a necessary part of the recovery process, but our firm wants to ensure that you are able to recover the level of compensation that you actually deserve. If that means that we must stand up to the insurance company, that is exactly what we will do. For more information about how our Law Office can help, contact the firm today for a free consultation.

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Medical Malpractice Attorney

When Substandard Medical Care Causes an Injury
When you are sick or injured, you often seek medical care from a physician in a clinic or hospital. You may see a particular doctor, specialist, or another medical professional with the expectation that you will receive the appropriate level of care for your condition. You might assume the medical staff is following current standards and reasonable measures for improvement in your health and well-being. Many overlook the reality that medical professionals are human and they make mistakes. The unfortunate factor is that their mistakes, errors, and overall negligence may impact other human beings. If you or a loved one has suffered injuries because of an incorrect diagnosis, misapplied treatment, improper care for an illness, or previous injury, you may want to speak with a personal injury lawyer that can assist you in identifying the basis for medical malpractice in your situation.

Determining Negligence in Malpractice Cases
While your case may be complicated and difficult to prove, it is not impossible and the law provides for addressing such instances. Establishing negligence may fall on the doctor, the hospital or the local, state or federal agencies that oversee hospital operations. Our Law Office provides our clients with compassionate and effective legal assistance. We strive to overcome the obstacles and limitations your case may present. Our legal team diligently pursues all viable strategies for getting you the maximum amount of compensation for your injuries. The medical establishment provides an essential public service. Reasonable standards of care exist to protect every individual from harm. You have the right to receive medical attention without unnecessary injury caused by careless or negligent treatment from medical professionals. We will help you exercise your right to stand up and fight for a full recovery of your losses.

How long do I have to file a lawsuit in Texas?
Across the U.S., every state maintains different negligence laws. As such, each state places a specific time limitation on personal injury claims, also known as a statute of limitations, which prohibits a wrongfully injured individual from recovering compensation after that limitation has expired. In the state of Texas, a victim has two years from the time that they were injured by the negligent actions of a medical professional to pursue an official lawsuit. The statute of limitations can be extended under certain circumstances, however, as the law does make a few exceptions. For example, a minor under the age of twelve has until his or her fourteenth birthday to take action. Similarly, a lawsuit can be filed up to ten years after the initial injury was caused if it was not discovered for an extended period of time, which is not uncommon in cases of medical malpractice. In order to ensure that you are able to recover the compensation that you deserve, we recommend that you consult with a medical malpractice lawyer as soon as possible.

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Nursing Home Abuse & Negligence

When Care Becomes Abuse
Sometimes older people have little choice but to move into a nursing home or assisted-living facility. The assumption is that they will receive proper care, attention, and protection in such an establishment more so than if they lived alone. The sad reality is that many nursing home facilities are staffed by people who are poorly qualified, insufficiently trained, overworked, or simply have not been properly screened for this type of employment.

Residents fall prey to sub-standard care, some impacted by criminal neglect, physical and emotional abuse. Threats of violence or other misguided authority sometimes push these elderly victims into a state of fear and hopelessness. The “care” they endure is the best they may be able to afford. Elderly people have rights. Consulting with a personal injury attorney may give you knowledgeable insight into legal options for holding abusers accountable.

Reporting Abuse in Texas
It may be that you have witnessed such abuse. Speak up on behalf of your elderly relative or friend. Their health and well-being may depend on immediate action. People who are dependent on others for their daily care are not always eager to report abuse or attempt to fight the system they live in. Repercussions from a previous attempt may have permanently convinced them to remain silent and suffer the consequences. You may be able to assist in their recovery.

Our Law Office is dedicated to protecting individual rights. Our elderly citizens deserve respect, compassion, and effective care. We are sensitive to the situation that our elderly grandparents, parents, or friends may be in. We will make every effort to accommodate their needs as their case proceeds. Our primary goal is to actively seek compensation for their injuries. Possible further legal action may be brought against the offending nursing home or abusive staff member.

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Pedestrian Accidents Texas

About 5,000 pedestrians are killed in the United States annually and another 64,000 are injured. It is a huge problem particularly in urban areas. It is due mainly to motorists not being observant for pedestrians in crosswalks and speeding in areas of high pedestrian flow such as at schools or other places of public gathering. If you or a family member has been injured in a pedestrian accident, you need to seek the legal assistance of a personal injury attorney skilled in recovering compensation for victims of pedestrian accidents. You should know that in a hit and run accident where you cannot identify your assailant, your uninsured motorist coverage, and PIP coverage may provide compensation for you, your injured child or another family member.

Damages for a Pedestrian Accident
Damages depend on a showing of negligence of the other party and proving losses you have suffered. Damages may include:

Medical bills
Ambulance bills
Hospital Costs
Pain and suffering
Loss of present and future income
Rehabilitation expenses
How Pedestrian Accident Claims Work

When your attorney learns of your claim, he will investigate the accident as a first action. It is vital that he speak with witnesses before memories fade and locate any other evidence of the accident. This is necessary so that he may reconstruct how the accident occurred and establish the liability of the other party. He also contacts your physician for an estimate of your medical condition and whether permanent injuries have occurred. He is then in a position to evaluate your damages.

In liaison with you, he communicates with the insurance company to negotiate a fair settlement. If that negotiation fails, he prepares for trial. It is his mission at trial to convince the jury to award you maximum compensation for your damages. Our Law Office provides help for victims of pedestrian accidents, so call our firm today to get started on pursuing your claim.

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Premises Liability Lawyer

Have you been hurt on someone else’s property?
Injuries of all types can happen in all sorts of places. Owners and property tenants have legal responsibilities to warn of potential dangers or hazards. They also have a duty to exercise reasonable care and maintenance of their property. Authorized activities such as shopping or riding roller coasters on the premises may indicate that people will be moving about and precautions must be in place to ensure their relative safety. Not all trips to the store or amusement park adventures end without incident. Injuries can and do occur. When injuries happen to you or a loved one, seeking legal counsel with a personal injury lawyer is in your best interest. The cost of medical attention and other potential losses can add up and result in suffering hardships. If the injury was due to property negligence, sloppy groundskeeping, or other careless activities of employees or other staff, then you may have a legal cause of action to seek compensation.

Proving Negligence in a Premises Liability Case
Slip & fall accidents are a common result of negligence in maintaining a property, and the injuries sustained can be very serious. For example, if a negligent restaurant owner notices a spill that has been left on the floor but fails to clean it up in a timely manner, they can be held liable for any injuries that were sustained as a result of this walking hazard. A victim may suffer a serious brain injury, spinal cord trauma or a broken bone, so it is within their legal right to seek compensation from the party that could have prevented the injury by exercising their duty of care. In order to win a premises liability case, however, a victim must be able to show that the property owner and/or manager had either noticed the dangerous conditions and failed to remedy them in a reasonable amount of time or that they should have been aware that hazardous conditions on their property were posing a threat to visitors. If you believe that you have a valid claim, do not hesitate to consult with an attorney immediately.

How a Personal Injury Attorney Can Help
Our Law Office will give your case a thorough review and evaluate the resulting damages from your injury. We have helped many clients sort out the contributing circumstances with situations resulting in premises defect injuries. Complexities may exist, but we are knowledgeable in personal injury law and premises defects. We will thoroughly examine the details of your case in an effort to establish the responsibility of any party at fault. You have rights and we are committed to helping you file a strong claim resulting in the compensation you deserve. If you or someone you love has been injured as a result of poorly maintained property or an unexpected accident on another’s premises, you may be able to receive compensation for your injuries. We are here to help you file a claim, review documentation, and advise you on settlement options.

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Slip & Fall Attorney – What You Need to Know

There are times when accidents do not need to occur. Slip and fall accidents fall into this category of being generally preventable. Those in charge of a property may be held accountable for your injuries if it can be proven that dangerous conditions existed and were not properly addressed. Each case is reviewed independently. Specific circumstances and contributing factors must be fully evaluated to determine what can be done in your specific case. Speaking with a personal injury attorney may provide you with the help you need to understand what options you may have.

Not all slip and fall accidents are caused by a property owner. The courts do not implement a blanket approach to solving slip and fall injury cases. Your case may be a valid situation where negligence and unreasonable care lead to your injuries and subsequent losses. Our Law Office will assess your case and advise you of your rights to seek compensation. We work on your behalf and negotiate the best settlement you may be entitled to receive. If not successful in negotiations, we will be prepared for trial to establish your right to compensation.

Why You Should Contact an Injury Attorney
In some circumstances, you may be presented with a premature settlement offer by the offending property owner or representing authority, but be wary of a quick and easy resolution. This may be an attempt to avoid long-term expenses involved in your recovery. We give full consideration to your case and will modify a claim to include any and all related medical expenses, loss of wages, among others, for as long as it may take to reach full recovery. The law provides for your right to recover damages caused by another’s negligence in a slip and fall incident.

Slip and fall accidents happen in all seasons, indoors, outdoors, and on public or private land. Your injury may be straightforward, but the number of involved entities may be complex, making your case an intricate process of establishing responsibility. That’s why we are here. We provide a genuine service to our clients, helping them exercise their right to seek maximum compensation.

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Swimming Pool Accidents

Was your child injured in a slip & fall or near-drowning accident?
In the state of Texas, all property owners are responsible for providing their guests with a reasonably safe environment. This means that residential homeowners and public pool managers are equally responsible for maintaining the areas in and around their swimming pools. Should they fail to do so, they are leaving their visitors susceptible to a serious injury, especially when children are involved. According to statistics, approximately nine people die in drowning accidents every day in the United States, in addition to the 5,000 others that are hospitalized for near-drowning injuries each year. What is even more shocking is that most of these accidents take place in residential swimming pools — in regard to incidents that involve children between the ages of one and four.

There are a number of different reasons why swimming pools can prove to be so dangerous, including:

Lack of parental supervision while children play in or around a swimming pool
Failure to use a protective covering and/or secure the area with a fence
Failure to clear away any debris surrounding the pool
Lack of safety gear/warning signs within the vicinity in the pool
Inadequate number of lifeguards present at any given time
Failure to properly clean & maintain walking areas around the pool

Why Compensation May be Necessary after an Accident
If you or your child has been involved in a negligently caused swimming-pool related accident, there are several reasons why you may need to pursue compensation. First, you may have suffered a number of debilitating injuries, depending on the nature of the accident, which required you to seek medical attention. As you may have already discovered, this can be quite costly, especially if you have been unable to return to work during the time of your recovery. In addition, you may have been forced to endure the emotional ramifications of sustaining a serious injury. Fortunately, there are ways in which you can recover compensation for the economic and non-economic losses that you have suffered. You need the help of a personal injury lawyer from our firm.

Consult with a Personal Injury Attorney Today
Are you interested in pursuing compensation from a negligent swimming pool owner and/or manager? It is important that you act quickly to enlist the help of a legal professional. Certain premises liability cases can be difficult to win without sufficient evidence, so it is crucial that you take the right steps after an accident. First, you should start by contacting Our Law Office and discussing your case with a knowledgeable personal injury lawyer. From there, we will be able to handle the rest, which includes conducting a thorough investigation, speaking to any witnesses, and developing a solid legal strategy. As such, you are encouraged to call our office today for a free initial consultation.

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Pedestrian Accident Attorneys
It should come as no surprise that pedestrians and bicycle riders are at greater risk of being injured by negligent or distracted drivers. Our city and its surrounding communities are lined with bike trails and walking paths. Visit downtown and you will see the hustle and bustle of people and bicyclists scurrying around. With so many people walking, running, jogging, or bicycling around, their chances of being injured by a driver’s negligence increases.

The lack of protection makes pedestrians particularly vulnerable to serious injuries that can result from a car accident. Our pedestrian attorneys are here to discuss your options and to protect your rights. Our accident attorneys have in-depth experience representing the victims of drunk drivers, car crashes, motorcycle collisions, dog bites, and pedestrian accidents. By contacting our Law Firm today, you are taking the first step toward getting the compensation for your injuries that you deserve.

An Injury Law Firm Committed to Recovering for You
Tens of thousands of pedestrians and bicyclists are struck by automobiles each year. These accident victims lack much of the protections that a motorcyclist or auto driver may have in the same situation. All too often your injuries can result in complications that involve expensive surgery, months of therapy, and other costly procedures to assist in your recovery. Injuries from pedestrian or bicycle accidents often result in injuries including:

Broken legs or arms
Fractured or serious spinal cord injury
Internal trauma or punctured organs
Traumatic brain injury
Partial or complete paralysis
“Road rash” or other skin burns
Accident victims are often frustrated or confused about what they need to do next. That is where our injury lawyers step in and help you navigate an often complex legal system.

Speak to an accident attorney today if you have been hit by a car
It is important that you act quickly when you are involved in an accident with a car. Making sure to immediately seek medical treatment, then speaking with an attorney is of paramount importance when trying to recover for your injuries. If you have been hit by a car, regardless of whether as a pedestrian or bicyclist, it is important to keep the following in mind:

Check yourself for injuries
Call 9-1-1 for police and emergency medical treatment
Use your cell phone to take pictures of the scene
Document the contact information of any witnesses
Seek medical treatment as soon as possible
Contact an attorney before speaking with any insurance workers
Speak with a pedestrian accident attorney today!
The personal injury attorneys at our Law Firm are here to help. We understand that the days following an accident can be stressful and frightening. We strive to provide compassionate, personal relationships with each of our clients. We are selective in each case we accept to make sure we are able to provide each victim with the personalized representation they deserve in their time of need.

A negligent driver or their insurance company may try to shift the blame on the accident victim. This is why it is so important to contact a lawyer immediately following the accident. The injury attorneys at our Law Firm pride themselves on aggressive representation to make sure you are appropriately compensated for your injuries. We never charge a fee unless we are able to collect for you.

If you are the victim of a pedestrian or bicycle accident, please contact us today to speak with your accident attorney. Initial consultations and online case evaluations are always free.

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Dog Bite Injury Attorneys
Dog bite attack injury

While most human-canine interactions are safe and unremarkable, that may not always be the case. As a matter of fact, millions of Americans are the victims of a dog bite injury each year. Although many dog bites do not require medical assistance, hundreds of thousands of dog bite injuries end up requiring emergency medical treatment.

If you are the victim of a dog bite injury, you have every right to pursue the responsible owners and receive compensation for your injuries. Your compensation may include money to help cover hospital and doctors’ bills, psychological counseling, lost wages, pain and suffering, and disfigurement. Contact our office today to speak with an experienced dog bite lawyer who can discuss your rights and options with you. We make every effort to respond to free case evaluations within 30 minutes of you submitting your request. However, to speak with someone immediately please call today to speak with one of our experienced Dog Bite Attorneys.

Dog Bite Laws
Our attorneys handle dog injury cases throughout the state. Fortunately for dog attack victims, Texas has laws that hold pet owners strictly liable for injuries caused by their animal.

The owner of any dog that bites any person while such person is on or in a public place, or lawfully on or in a private place, including the property of the owner of the dog, is liable for damages suffered by persons bitten, regardless of the former viciousness of the dog or the owners’ knowledge of such viciousness. Dog bite cases can be complicated, and because they often involve someone’s pet, they can also be very emotional. That’s why it pays to have an experienced dog bite lawyer on your side.

What do I do if I’m Bit by a Dog?
The immediate moments following a dog bite attack can be nerve-wracking but are often the most crucial in helping to make sure you are able to recover compensation. Your physical health and safety are always the main priority. Depending on the severity of your injuries, you may need to call 911 emergency medical treatment. Often times, although your dog bite injuries may not look too bad, underlying infections can set in after just a few hours. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, so when in doubt, seek medical treatment.

You should also keep the following tips in mind:
Try to identify the animal that bit you, and verify whether they have been tested for rabies.
Get the name and contact information for the dog owner, as well as any witnesses to the attack.
Report the incident to the police and local animal control authorities, if necessary.
Take pictures of the animal, any puncture wounds, lacerations, and bloody clothes.
Be cautious of speaking with pet owners or insurance companies following the dog attack.
Continue with medical treatment, if necessary.

Once you have ensured your immediate physical safety, it’s important to gather as much information about the animal and its owner as possible. This is often not an issue since dog bite victims often know the dog and its owner. Ask the owner if their dog is current on all of their vaccines and shots. If you are not sure who owns the dog, your medical provider may suggest receiving treatment for possible rabies exposure as a precaution.

A dog owner or their insurance company may try to shift the blame on the victim. This is often why it’s important that you contact an experienced dog bite lawyer as soon as possible. The injury attorneys at our Law Firm pride themselves on aggressive representation to make sure you are appropriately compensated for your injuries. We never charge a fee unless we are able to collect for you.

If you are the victim of a dog bite attack, please contact us today to speak with your accident attorney. Initial consultations and online case evaluations are always free.

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Experienced DUI Accident Attorneys
Drunk Driver Accident Attorneys

Nightlife and college life can also mean excessive alcohol consumption. Drug and alcohol use affects a person’s ability to make proper decisions and can lead to that person getting behind the wheel of a car or truck when they shouldn’t.

In Texas the legal limit for driving under the influence of alcohol is .08. That means that if a person’s blood alcohol content at the time they are behind the wheel of an automobile is above .08, they are considered to be legally drunk. Although BAC levels can vary greatly depending on a person’s height, weight, and body composition, it often only takes a couple of drinks for a person to be above the legal limit. However, this also does not take into consideration a driver that may be under the influence of illegal drugs or prescription medication.

Roughly 30% of Americans will be involved in some sort of alcohol or drug-related accident at some point in their lives. In fact, alcohol-related accidents kill a person just about every 51 minutes. Our DUI accident lawyers have years of courtroom experience and are ready to bring that experience to the table for you. If you were injured by a drunk driver, or know someone who was, call our office today and speak with an attorney who is ready to discuss your rights.

Speak with a Drunk Driving Injury Attorney Today
The dangers of driving while intoxicated are all too real. Unfortunately, the victims in alcohol or drug-related accidents are usually other unsuspecting drivers, passengers, or pedestrians. Tragically, in many cases of intoxicated driving, the victim suffers from a brain or spinal cord injury or is even killed due to another person’s illegal act of getting behind the wheel. These life-changing events have a ripple effect that goes far beyond the victim’s own life and carries over into the lives of their family and loved ones. If you are the family member or loved one of a person injured at the hands of a drunk driver, you have rights too. The loss of a loved one may entitle you to recover from the offending party, so it’s important that you speak with one of our DUI accident attorneys as soon as possible.

Intoxicated Drivers Need to be Held Accountable
The knowledgeable accident attorneys at our Law Firm have the experience you need when a drunk driver crashes into you. From locating the driver, monitoring the criminal case, and verifiable insurance coverage, we are here for you and your family. Often times, the responsibility for the traffic accident goes beyond just the driver. Was the driver allowed to leave a party while clearly intoxicated? Did a restaurant or bar over-serve an intoxicated patron? We will find out and hold those responsible parties accountable. Regardless of the cause, the injuries caused by a drunk or otherwise intoxicated driver can be devastating and life-changing. If you or a loved one have experienced any of the injuries below, call us today. Results of a drunk driving accident may include:

Broken or Fractured Bones
Facial Disfigurement
Broken or Cracked Ribs
Whiplash, Back, and Neck Injuries
Brain Hemorrhages or Traumatic Brain Injury
Partial or Complete Paralysis
Loss of Limb and Amputation
Wrongful Death

If you are a victim of a drunk driver accident, our attorneys are ready and willing to assist you. Speak with a lawyer today who will explain the laws governing drunk driving accidents in Texas. We will answer any questions you may have and explain the accident recovery process to you. We will explain the law governing DUI offenders and our attorneys will fight for your recovery. Remember, consultations are always free and you never pay a fee unless we are able to collect on your behalf. Our injury lawyers will fight for your rights!

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Pedestrian Accident and Bicycle Injury Attorneys
Pedestrian Accidents with a Car

It should come as no surprise that pedestrians and bicycle riders are at greater risk of being injured by negligent or distracted drivers. Our city and its surrounding communities are lined with bike trails and walking paths. Visit downtown and you will see the hustle and bustle of people and bicyclists scurrying around. With so many people walking, running, jogging, or bicycling around, their chances of being injured by a driver’s negligence increases.

Broken legs or arms
Fractured or serious spinal cord injury
Internal trauma or punctured organs
Traumatic brain injury
Partial or complete paralysis
“Road rash” or other skin burns

Accident victims are often frustrated or confused about what they need to do next. That is where our injury lawyers step in and help you navigate an often complex legal system.

Speak to an accident attorney today if you have been hit by a car
It is important that you act quickly when you are involved in an accident with a car. Making sure to immediately seek medical treatment, then speak with an attorney is of paramount importance when trying to recover for your injuries. If you have been hit by a car, regardless of whether as a pedestrian or bicyclist, it is important to keep the following in mind:

Speak with a pedestrian accident attorney today!
The personal injury attorneys at our Law Firm are here to help. We understand that the days following an accident can be stressful and frightening. We strive to provide compassionate, personal relationships with each of our clients. We are selective in each case we accept to make sure we are able to provide each victim with the personalized representation they deserve in their time of need.

If you are the victim of a pedestrian or bicycle accident in our city or its surrounding areas, please contact us today to speak with your accident attorney. Initial consultations and online case evaluations are always free.

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Slip and Fall Accident Attorneys
Slip and Fall Injury on Wet Floors

People slip and fall on a daily basis. While many people think of them as simple harmless mishaps, slip and fall accidents are one of the most common ways that people across the country injure themselves each year. In a best-case scenario, the injuries from a slip and fall necessitate only minor home care and some ice. However, in many other instances, the injuries resulting from this type of accident can be very serious and potentially life-changing. Broken bones, fractured hips, and the like are serious conditions that could result in life long pain and suffering. It is for this reason exactly that property owners who fail to maintain a safe environment for others, causing a slip and fall, may be liable for injuries resulting from their negligence.

One of the most important things you can do to support any potential claim for your injuries is to document the event. Most businesses have procedures in place to report and document the accident. However, it is important to keep in mind that a businesses’ report, completed by their employee, is not always intended to simply document the incident, it may be used to try to minimize their fault in the accident. It is important that you speak with whoever is completing the report and make sure that they take down your side of the story. The report should include the location, time, and cause of the slip and fall. Additionally, the report should contain important information about potential witnesses. If possible, take pictures of the area as quickly as possible to document the cause of your injuries. Lastly, make sure that you receive immediate medical treatment for your injuries.

The sooner you are able to receive medical treatment for your injuries, the better. Clients who wait to seek medical treatment often run the risk of having someone question whether the injuries they complain of were actually related to the slip and fall, or some subsequent accident. Seeing a doctor soon after the accident will help to document the incident, ensure your injuries are properly cared for, and hopefully give you the best chance possible for a full recovery.

Common Slip and Fall Injury Causes
Your injuries, and the cause of the slip and fall itself, can vary greatly. Regardless of whether the hazard is caused by nature, or the result of someone’s actions, people should maintain a safe environment, free of the risk of injury. The following are some of the most common causes of these types of accidents:

Uncleaned spills or other walkway debris
Failure to use a caution sign with slick floors
Folded or uneven carpeted surfaces
Cracked or lifted sidewalks
Unpainted curbs
Inadequate lighting

Speak with a slip and fall attorney today
If you or a family member has been injured in a slip and fall accident caused by someone’s negligence, you may be entitled to pursue losses as a result. Contact the slip and fall attorneys at our Law Firm to speak with an experienced personal injury lawyer today. We always offer free consultations and strive to provide you with the personal, compassionate representation you deserve in your time of need. Remember, you never pay a fee unless we are able to recover on your behalf.

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