Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

Using Black Box Evidence if You’re Injured in a TX Train Accident Case

When you’ve been injured or lost a family member to a train collision, in order to obtain just financial compensation for your losses, you’ll need to prove that the negligence of the train operator or railroad caused the accident. You’ll need an experienced Texas train accident attorney to track down and secure the evidence you need […]

Texas Traffic Law Almost Always Prohibits Passing on the Right

Friday morning in Bexar County, a mother was seriously injured when a speeding vehicle that tried to pass a school bus on the right struck her. The mother was fortunately able to push her child out of the way of the speeding vehicle, though her heroic action to save her child resulted in a broken arm and […]

Building a Strong Deck for Your PA Home requires BOLTS not Nails

Weak connections between decks, porches, and balconies and the house to which they’re attached is probably the primary cause of collapses of these structures in the United States. Just a couple days ago, a deck that was being put onto some apartments in Lawrenceville, PA suddenly collapsed sending two workers plummeting three stories to the ground. They […]

NAILS are WEAK Deck Connectors; Use BOLTS to avoid a PA Deck Collapse

Shoddy Construction might lead Your Deck to Collapse even before It’s Completed Continued from PART 1. Building codes don’t tell you about lateral loads or how to make secure connections between a deck and the residential structure to which it’s attached. And many decks never even receive inspections after they’re built. Inspectors might not even know […]

The Difficulty of Accurately Calculating Damages in a TX Injury Claim

If you overvalue your damages when you present your personal injury claim after an accident, that undermines your credibility and the credibility of your case. You need a Board Certified Houston personal injury lawyer with years of experience calculating accurate values for your accident damagesto help you ensure that you don’t sink your case with overvalued […]

Claiming Survival Damages after a Fatal Texas Motorcycle Accident

A claim made by a close family member for survival damages after a fatal Texas motorcycle accident basically serves to claim the personal injury damages that the accident victim would have sued for had he or she lived. The Basics of a Survival Claim Our Texas motorcycle accident attorneys clarify that the representative of the decedent’s estate essentially serves […]

Claiming Wrongful Death Damages after a Tragic Accident in Texas

Almost all traffic accidents are preventable. When an accident happens and results in injury and death, usually someone’s negligence is to blame. When your loved one is the victim of that negligence, you could hold the negligent party financially accountable for the irreparable harm they have caused you through a successful wrongful death claim. But Texas law […]

Proving and Accurately Valuing Texas Personal Injury Accident Damages

Our Houston personal injury lawyers point out that there are different types of damages you could claim after an accident depending on the nature of your injuries, losses, and costs from an accident. Your own personal losses, whether personal injuries or damage to your personal property, fall under the category of personal injury damages. Your personal injury […]

Pedestrian and Bicyclist Accident Fatality Rates in the United States

Generally speaking, the U.S. NHTSA reports that pedestrian and bicyclist accident fatality rates have declines slightly in recent years, even though their numbers have about doubled since 1995. Still, the numbers remain alarmingly high. NHTSA data indicates that in 2010 4,280 pedestrians died and around another 70,000 received injuries in accidents with motor vehicles. In that same […]