Everyday, Gulf Freeway car wrecks happen. I-45 from Houston to Galveston is one of the most heavily traveled freeways in America. When they do, often times, people are injured, sometimes severely. Most people want to believe that they can trust the insurance adjustor defending the at-fault driver. If it is your first time in a Galveston car wreck, you don’t know what to expect, which is likely why you are here. We have designed this website to be a resource for you; a tool to educate you on what to expect going forward after your wreck. Take some time to review our library page. It is filled with over a hundred articles on all sorts of topics that will help you understand the legal process after a wreck.
One of the most important things you need to understand immediately after your wreck is that you are entitled to compensation. Texas law allows for the recovery of several elements of damage for victims of someone else’s negligence. These elements are:
– Medical care in the past and future;
– Lost earnings and loss of earning capacity;
– Physical pain and suffering;
– Physical disfigurement; and
– Impairment
In future articles, we will discuss each of these elements in detail, but today we want to focus on pain and suffering. Physical pain is REAL. It can result from a severe laceration, deep bone bruise, or fracture, or it can result from soft tissue damage in and around the spine, such as to the discs in the spine or the ligaments and other fibrous tissue surrounding and protecting the spine. Insurance adjustors and defense lawyers like to argue that the pain cannot be real if you cannot see it as in a cut, bruise, or fracture; however, anyone who has suffered a soft tissue injury after a Houston car wreck knows that it is REAL.
There are various forms of treatment for soft tissue injuries, ranging from the most conservative, which is the “wait and see approach.” to the most significant, which is surgery. Every case is different and every injury is distinct and unique. Insurance adjustors want to jam every soft tissue into a one-size-fits-all mold of pain damages. We do not let them. We view every case on its own merits and view every injury individually.
Tony Denena and Chad Points are Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. We are 2 of the less than 2% of licensed attorneys in Texas Board Ceritified in Personal Injury. We know what your pain is like and we know what it is worth. We do not accept the insurance adjustor’s FINAL OFFER just because it is the final offer. If we don’t think the offer is sufficient to compensate you for your REAL DAMAGES, we will fight for you and will take your case all of the way to trial. We are not members of the Texas settlement lawyers association. We try cases when they need to be tried and settle cases when we get fair value for our clients, a measure that is judged ONLY by our clients. That’s right, we don’t decide whether to settle your case, YOU DO!
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