Personal Injury Law
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Injured and Injusticed
PERSONAL INJURY
When you’ve been injured by someone else’s carelessness, it’
s important to take some initial steps toward making sure your
injury claim can be settled fairly and as quickly as possible:
  • Write down everything you can remember about how the
    injury occurred, including the names, addresses and
    phone numbers of potential witnesses, police officers,
    insurance company representatives ( or company or
    workers’ compensation representatives if it was a work
    injury)
  • Talk to a Texas personal injury lawyer before making
    any statements, written or verbal, to insurance company
    adjusters or representatives
  • Let anyone you think may be responsible for the injury
    know right away that you’re intending to file a claim
    against them
  • Take steps to protect any evidence you may need to
    prove your injury, such as your totaled car, photographs
    of an accident or injury scene, clothing you were
    wearing, damaged personal belongings, and so forth

How Do I Figure Out Who Is At Fault?
In most cases, in order to collect on an injury claim in Texas,
you must prove the person who caused the injury was
“negligent” – careless and neglectful. In Texas, you must
prove:
  • The person who caused your injury owed you a duty not
    to injure you, but didn’t live up to that duty
  • There was a connection between the other person’s duty
    to you and your injury
  • You suffered damages
  • If you were careless, and your carelessness contributed
    to your injury, the amount you can recover will be
    reduced in proportion to your carelessness, under Texas
    comparative negligence law. If you were more than 50
    percent at fault for your injury, you won’t be able to
    collect from the other person.

Texas’s joint and several liability rules also make any person
who was more than 50 percent responsible for your injury
liable for the entire amount of your damages regardless of
each other person’s proportion of fault for your injury.

CONSUMER PRODUCT INJURY
If you’ve been injured using a consumer product, the
manufacturer of the product may be responsible under a
“strict liability” legal theory if the product was unreasonably
dangerous. Under Texas law, you’d need to prove that:
  • The seller was in the business of selling the product that
    caused your injury
  • The product was in a defective condition when sold, and
    unreasonably dangerous
  • The product was intended to reach you without
    substantial change in the condition in which it was sold
  • The product wasn’t fit for its intended use or a
    reasonably foreseeable use at the time it left the
    manufacturer
  • The defect caused your injury
  • You suffered damages

What Is My Claim Worth?
Under Texas law, the person who injured you will be
responsible for:
  • Past, current and future estimated medical expenses
  • Time lost from work, including time spent going to
    medical appointments or therapy
  • Any property that was damaged, such as your vehicle
  • The cost of hiring someone to do household chores when
    you couldn’t
  • Any permanent disfigurement or disability
  • Your emotional distress, including anxiety, depression,
    and any interference with your family relationships
  • Any other costs that were a direct result of your injury

A lawyer will know what type of expert witness to hire to
best prove your damages.

How Long Do I Have To File A Legal Claim?
In Texas, you only have two years to file a lawsuit against the
person who injured you. If your lawyer hasn’t been able to
come to an agreement with any involved insurance
companies, you’ll definitely want to file a lawsuit before the
two-year statute of limitations runs out.


Alex R. Hernandez Jr. is licensed by the Texas Supreme
Court in State and Federal Courts and a member of the
prestigious College of the State Bar. He is licensed in
Southern and Western Districts of Texas.

Not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

He speaks Spanish fluently.

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