Your Pearland, TX DWI Injuries and Negligent Entrustment Claims

When you’ve been injured by a Pearland DWI accident, or you’ve lost a family member to such a devastating wreck, you could suffer serious financial consequences from the event. Mounting medical expenses combined with lost income create a harrowing financial situation.
Sometimes the financial compensation you can obtain from the drunk driver or that driver’s insurance carrier won’t even begin to help you cover the high costs from the DWI crash. You need a knowledgeable Pearland, TX accident lawyer to help you discover other negligent parties that contributed to the DWI accident.
A negligent entrustment claim against the owner of a borrowed car the drunk driver used in your Pearland DWI accident could provide an alternative route to financial compensation when the drunk driver can’t pay for your injuries. You might have a valid claim for negligent entrustment when you can prove these elements.

• Its owner entrusted the vehicle involved in your accident to the drunk driver.
• The driver who caused your accident was unlicensed, incompetent, or reckless. Drinking and driving constitutes reckless behavior.
• When the car’s owner entrusted the vehicle to the other driver, the owner knew, or should have known, that the driver was unlicensed, incompetent, or reckless. This basically means that owner knew or should have known that the driver had a tendency to drink and drive. (This could be a difficult point to prove. Most people who value their vehicles won’t loan them to such drivers because of the danger they’ll be wrecked.) On this point, Texas courts have ruled that so long as the driver holds a valid, unrestricted driver’s license, a vehicle’s owner has no duty to make an investigation of the driver’s driving record before loaning him the vehicle.
• The driver was negligent at the time of the accident.
• The driver’s negligence caused your accident and injuries.

An experienced Pearland, TX accident lawyer could discuss your case with you, examine the evidence from the accident, and help you determine whether negligent entrustment forms a valid basis for a claim in your case. At Denena & Points, we’re practiced Pearland, TX accident lawyers with more than 12 years of experience helping DWI accident victims make fair financial recoveries from their claims.
We have extensive experience investigating accidents, examining the case evidence, identifying all parties at fault in a wreck, and developing winning legal strategies to maximize our clients’ recoveries from catastrophic crashes. We could help you too. Call today for your free initial consultation case evaluation.