Serious Injury.

Some injuries do not heal. They redraw the rest of a life, and the cases that follow take years, resources, and a lawyer who means to try them.

A catastrophic injury case is not measured only by what has happened. It is measured by what the injury will cost across a lifetime: the surgeries still to come, the care that will be needed, the career that ended, the future that changed shape. Proving that future is its own discipline, built on medicine, life-care planning, and economics, and it is what separates a settlement that runs out from one that lasts.

The two-year clock

Texas generally gives you two years from the date of the injury to file suit. It sounds like plenty of time, and it is not. Evidence fades, records are lost, and the sooner the case is being built by someone who knows what to preserve, the stronger it stays.

Comparative fault

Texas reduces a recovery by the injured person's share of fault and bars it entirely if that share exceeds fifty percent. This is why the defense works so hard to move blame onto the injured, and why a serious case is built from the start to meet and defeat that effort.

When an injury becomes a death

When a person does not survive, Texas law provides two paths. A wrongful death claim belongs to the surviving spouse, children, and parents for their own losses. A survival claim belongs to the estate for what the person themselves endured before death. Together they hold a wrongdoer to account for the whole of what was taken.