Austin Personal Injury Blog

Burn injuries can range from relatively mild problems all the way up to a life-threatening emergency. The American Burn Association estimates that about 450,000 people head to the emergency room each year for burn treatment, and that about 3,400 people pass away each year due to a burn injury. The vast majority of burn deaths are due to residential fires.

Treatment for a burn injury depends on the severity.
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Who is liable if I develop spinal stenosis after a car accident?

You may have never heard of the term “spinal stenosis,” but if you are injured in a car accident at some point in your life, you could be at risk of developing this painful condition. Spinal stenosis is a back condition caused by narrowing in your spine.  As the spaces in and around the spine narrow, it can put pressure on your nerves and spinal cord, leading to pain, numbness, or even paralysis.  

Spinal stenosis can have several causes.  At times, the condition is congenital or it may develop with age, but often it occurs due to trauma.
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Car crashes involving drunk drivers are usually associated with more damage than those that involve sober drivers. This is because alcohol impacts the central nervous system, slowing down a person’s reflexes. A drunk driver will not be able to brake quick enough or take action fast enough to avoid a car accident.

Many people involved in road accidents that involve a drunk driver suffer severe physical injuries, property damage and in the worst cases, death. For these persons and their families, the law allows them to claim against the drunk driver for damages caused by drunk driving and also from the bar or club that over served the drunk driver through Texas’ dram shop law.
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Losing a loved one is a painful and heart wrenching ordeal. If you lost a loved one because of the negligence, carelessness or recklessness of an individual or organization, you have a cause of action against the party at fault. While compensatory damages can never truly make up for the loss, they do help make the burden lighter. If you have lost a loved one and feel that someone else is responsible, talk to a

What damages could I receive if a drunk driver injures me?

An innocent person was recently killed in a drunk driving accident in downtown Houston.  The accident occurred in the early morning hours.  A suspected drunk driver in an SUV ran a red light at an intersection and collided with a car attempting to cross traffic.
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Car crashes are devastating. The sheer force of two or more vehicles colliding with each other or with a stationary object can cause the body to absorb tremendous bone-shattering shock. The force will be even greater and the negative impact on the body more severe if the vehicles were moving at a high speed.

In some instances, the force of impact is enough to throw a person out of the vehicle if he is not wearing a seatbelt or send the vehicle rolling.

Spinal cord injuries are not something you want to take lightly. Herniated discs are one of the most common spinal injuries. They affect the discs between the vertebrae of the spinal cord.

The spinal cord is made up of 24 vertebral bones that stack up from the neck all the way to the lower back. These bones protect spinal nerves and support the body’s frame.
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How much could I receive for my pain and suffering caused by the car accident?

If you have been injured in a car accident in Texas, you may have sustained a variety of financial losses.  The car accident could have cost you tremendously in medical expenses, time off work, and pain and suffering.  Determining the precise value of your personal injury case is complex.  Our Read more . . .

If you’ve been hit by a drunk driver, the police and district attorney will take care of prosecuting him or her criminally.  And while that’s a necessary step, the fines the driver pays generally go to the State of Texas, so it’s not very helpful to accident victims who have had injuries and setbacks as a result of the collision.  To address those issues, the injured driver needs to seek justice in the civil courts. This is where having a Read more . . .

Tips on Avoiding Injury Following a Highway Breakdown

A Fort Worth woman was killed when she was hit by a vehicle while she was checking on her disabled car on 22 September, 2017. The accident occurred at about 9p.
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Texas is a land of wide-open spaces, and those of us who ride motorcycles here know about the wide-open spaces between lanes of cars on Texas highways.  When those lanes of cars aren’t moving, it can seem like a good idea to slide your bike into that gap and move through the traffic like a fish through water.  But even though lane splitting is not explicitly illegal in Texas, it’s not strictly legal, either.  As a result, if you’re injured while lane splitting you could end up in a legal pickle. If you’ve been injured in a motorcycle accident due to lane splitting, an attorney specializing in Read more . . .