Texas Personal Injury Practice Areas (30 Guides)
Texas operates as an at-fault ('tort') motor vehicle jurisdiction governed by the modified comparative negligence…
Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) and 18-wheeler litigation in Texas is governed since September 1, 2021 by Texas…
Texas motorcycle accident claims involve unique statutory rules governing adult helmet exemptions under Texas…
Texas pedestrian injury claims turn on the statutory interplay between crosswalk right-of-way rules in Texas…
Under Texas Transportation Code § 551.101, a person operating a bicycle on a Texas roadway has all the rights and…
Rideshare collisions involving Uber and Lyft in Texas are governed by Texas Insurance Code Chapter 1954 and Texas…
Last-mile delivery van crashes (Amazon Delivery Service Partners, FedEx Ground contractors, UPS package cars, and…
When an intoxicated driver causes injury or death in Texas, the victim may pursue both a gross-negligence tort…
Because Texas's minimum 30/60/25 liability limits are frequently exhausted by a single emergency room trauma…
When an at-fault driver flees the scene of a Texas crash, recovering Uninsured Motorist (UM) benefits requires…
Texas premises liability law is notoriously rigorous for injured claimants, requiring strict proof of the…
When a tenant, hotel guest, or shopper is shot, assaulted, or robbed on commercial property in Texas, the…
Unlike states with a broad civil dog-bite statute, Texas governs dog bite civil liability through Supreme Court…
Texas leads the nation in childhood pool drownings, and civil liability for apartment, HOA, hotel, and…
Texas is the ONLY state in the United States where private employers may legally opt out of the state workers'…
Texas oilfield and petrochemical litigation across the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Shale, Haynesville Shale, and…
Texas construction accident law sharply differentiates between the statutory immunity enjoyed by commercial…
With deepwater ports in Houston, Galveston, Texas City, Beaumont/Port Arthur, Freeport, Corpus Christi, and…
Enacted through 2003's House Bill 4 and Proposition 12, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 74 (the…
Catastrophic Texas birth injury claims—such as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), cerebral palsy from delayed…
Under the Texas Supreme Court's expansive interpretation in Diversicare v. Rubio, virtually all claims against a…
Texas product liability actions—spanning automotive crashworthiness (airbag/seatbelt/roof-crush failures), tire…
Catastrophic Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), diffuse axonal injury (DAI), and paraplegia/tetraplegia spinal cord…
Third- and fourth-degree thermal, flash-fire, chemical, and high-voltage electrical arc burn litigation in…
When negligence causes a death in Texas, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 71 creates two distinct…
Suing a Texas city, county, school district, public transit authority (METRO, DART, VIA, CapMetro), or state…
Texas has more miles of freight railroad track (over 10,500 miles operated by Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and…
Texas's Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor (Houston Ship Channel, Pasadena, Deer Park, Baytown, Texas City…
Boating, wake-surfing, pontoon rental, and personal watercraft (Jet Ski / Sea-Doo) accidents on Texas lakes (Lake…
Texas ranks among the highest states in the nation for general aviation, corporate turboprop/jet, agricultural…
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