Why Is My Texas Car Accident Settlement Taking So Long?
Waiting for a settlement is frustrating but understanding that various factors impact your claim might help put the timeline into perspective. Generally, if a case takes a while, it’s not because your attorney takes too long. Some other aspects of your case may be the reason for the delay, such as difficulties gathering evidence or...
How Much of a Wrongful Death Settlement in Texas Goes to the Lawyer?
Family members often worry about hiring a lawyer for their wrongful death claim due to the cost. You may be dealing with grief as well as the strain of funeral costs, medical bills, or a significant loss of income for your family. Understandably, you want to ensure that a lawyer will not add to your...
Who Is Responsible for the Payment in a Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Texas?
Unfortunately, you sometimes have to bring a claim for wrongful death in Texas. This type of claim provides a way for a spouse, child, or parent of the deceased to secure a sense of justice when someone close to them dies by another person’s mistake. Who pays for a wrongful death lawsuit in Texas depends...
What is a Fair Settlement for a Rear-End Collision in Texas?
Experiencing a rear-end wreck can be agonizing as you face piling medical expenses and other costs. At Grossman Law Offices, we are here to help you file your claim and obtain the compensation you deserve. Our caring attorneys can help you ensure that you receive a fair settlement award. But what is a fair settlement...
How to Maximize Your Personal Injury Settlement in Texas?
Whether you sustained injuries in a car accident or another incident, recovering compensation while healing can be overwhelming. You likely have mounting medical expenses, property damage, and may be unable to work. Understanding how to increase the personal injury settlement you recover after an accident is essential. Here are some ways to maximize your settlement...
What is the Usual Compensation for a Back Injury at Work in Texas?
How much will my settlement be for a back injury at work in Texas? There’s no easy answer. Calculating and providing an average monetary figure is complicated because every case is unique. Moreover, arriving at an average compensation amount for a work injury can be challenging because settlements are not usually made public. But there...
When are Truck Drivers Tested for Drug and Alcohol Use?
Among the many federal and state regulations governing truck drivers' behavior are several that govern how often they must be tested for alcohol or drug use. Considering the damage an intoxicated driver can cause in a 40-ton truck, those tests are important for identifying them and keeping them off the road. So how often are...
How Often Do Auto Accident Settlements in Texas Exceed Policy Limits?
When insurance policy limits don’t cover all the expenses after a serious accident, it can leave a survivor and their family left behind, struggling to make ends meet. You may be wondering, How often do auto accident settlements in Texas exceed policy limits? There is good news. Auto accident settlements rarely exceed policy limits. However,...
How Many Times Can a Truck Driver Fail a DOT Physical?
To make sure they're in adequate physical condition to operate 18-wheelers, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires commercial truck drivers to pass physical examinations at least once every two years. If a doctor finds the driver isn't in good enough shape to safely do their job, the driver must be removed from service....
Who Investigates 18-Wheeler Accidents in Texas?
According to NHTSA statistics, Texas tends to see more fatal commercial truck accidents annually than any other state. It's obviously important to investigate each of those incidents carefully and thoroughly, both to help the victims and hopefully to reduce the number of future crashes. Those investigations can be quite complicated, however, and many different parties...
Can I Trust a Trucking Company’s Insurer?
Trucking insurance companies are most often responsible for paying injured victims after an 18-wheeler accident, but they'll do everything they can to avoid it. Their actions in pursuit of that goal may vary, but they'll try hard to protect the company's assets and avoid honoring their client's commercial policy. That may lead people to wonder:...
How Do I Prove the Truck Driver Who Hit Me Was Intoxicated?
By their sheer size and bulk alone, tractor-trailers are already inherently more capable of inflicting harm when something goes wrong than most other vehicles on the road. The matter is made considerably worse when a truck driver is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This raises the question: When someone is hurt or killed...
What Is a Tort?
You may have heard the term "tort" before, maybe when it was being used by a lawyer on TV or in some other legal context. But what does tort mean? What exactly is a tort? Answer: A tort is an act that harms someone, for which the offender can be sued. The term also refers...
How Big of a Problem Are Unsafe 18-Wheelers?
Most people are aware that commercial truck drivers occasionally make serious or even fatal mistakes at the wheel, but concerns about those misbehaviors sometimes overshadow another major issue: malfunctioning trucks, particularly those in states of terrible disrepair. A significant number of trucks and trailers in bad shape hit the road every day, but how big...
Why is Texas the Only State Where Injured Workers Can Sue Their Employer?
For the most part, every state in America other than Texas has eliminated work injury lawsuits. The way they did this was by forcing employers within their borders to participate in a workers' compensation program. Said programs all follow the same formula: the employer gets immunity from a lawsuit, the injured worker loses the right...
What Are My Rights if My Employer Is a Non-Subscriber?
If you've been hurt on the job in Texas, one of two things usually happens: you have the right to receive automatic benefits if your employer participates in the workers' compensation program, or your employer is a non-subscriber to workers' comp and you don't have that right. If you find yourself in the latter position,...
What is an 18-Wheeler Accident Investigation Kit?
When a commercial vehicle accident occurs, information must be gathered. Most trucking companies provide their truckers with something called an accident investigation kit, aka a "compliance kit," which is ostensibly used as a tool to tell truck drivers what information they need to collect at the accident scene. In our view, however, the whole thing...
What is the TABC “Know Your Limit” Blood Alcohol Chart?
Many drunk driving accidents are caused by people who were over-served simply because the server didn't know when to cut them off. In order to keep such accidents from happening, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission created an easy-to-use chart to help alcohol providers know when to cut a patron off. But what exactly is the...
What Kind of Inspection Does the State of Texas Require for 18-Wheelers?
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and state governments require 18-wheelers to meet certain minimum standards before they're deemed roadworthy. To be sure the trucks are in compliance, state and federal inspectors regularly evaluate them and their operators. That may lead some to wonder: What kind of inspection does Texas require for tractor-trailers? Answer:...
How Do Trucking Companies Cheat Electronic Logging Devices?
The regulations requiring truck drivers to rest after an interval of work are called hours of service (HOS) rules. Most modern truck drivers' hours of service are now monitored by federally-required Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), which use data from an active 18-wheeler to create a picture of its movement and its driver's activity over a...