TEXAS CATASTROPHIC INJURY LAWYERS

If you or a loved one has sustained a catastrophic injury, such as a brain or head injury, spinal cord injury, burn injury, an amputation, or any other seriously disabling injury, as a result of the negligence of another person or organization, our firm, a top-rated Texas law firm, may be able to help you recover damages for your losses. Severe injuries such as these often occur accidentally, suddenly, and without warning and almost always have an enormous impact on the lives of the individuals who experience them. Severe spinal cord and brain injuries often lead to catastrophic complications, including quadriplegia, paraplegia, or another paralysis, mental impairment, and other permanent disabilities. Extensive burn injuries and amputations also have grave, long-term effects.

Contact our experienced catastrophic injury lawyers today to discuss your matter. Our attorneys meet with potential clients free of charge and work on contingency. We do not charge any attorneys’ fees until a settlement is reached or a favorable trial verdict is won.

Whether you have been seriously injured or are a family member of the injured person, our legal team can help you cope with the ordeal by helping you to recover damages from the party responsible for the injuries. You or your family member may be able to recover monetary damages to compensate for all necessary medical care, past, and future, that is related to the injury. In addition, the injured person, and in some cases, the injured person’s loved ones, may be able to recover compensation for other losses resulting from the injuries, including damages for lost wages or other income, pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, and physical impairment. However, early and thorough case evaluation is very important to the development of your case. So, please don’t hesitate. Contact us to discuss your matter as soon as possible.

Rest assured that, if you partner with our firm, you will have a highly skilled team of professionals on your side.

Our firm is recognized among the best law firms in the country in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings as a Tier 1 – Best Law Firm. The firm is also AV-rated by the esteemed Martindale-Hubbell® lawyer rating system, which represents the highest rating given in both legal ability and professional ethics. Our firm is led by three experienced trial lawyers, a senior partner who is a Texas Super Lawyer,* a partner who has been identified as one of Texas’ Preeminent Women Lawyers, and a partner who has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star.**

Our talented team of professionals provides injured persons and their families with the highest quality legal representation in high-stakes cases involving truck, bus, train, and other heavy vehicle accidents, construction and oil, gas and chemical industry accidents, other accidents resulting in catastrophic injuries or death, such as those involving electrical contact, explosions, and fires, and cases involving serious medical, daycare, and nursing home care negligence. In these cases, our clients pay nothing for our services unless the case is settled or a judgment is rendered in their favor.

Our law firm also offers individuals seriously injured in accidents something that most other firms cannot – our legal team’s unparalleled experience on the defense side of death and serious injury accident cases. Our attorneys have successfully represented clients on the defense side of catastrophic injury cases for many years. Our experience goes back to 1977. Our partners have investigated and developed the facts and technical issues in all kinds of serious accidents, involving every imaginable type of injury that can occur in such accidents. Our partners have proven experience in developing the evidence necessary to prevail in complex accident cases, including having deposed and cross-examined eye-witnesses, medical experts, police officers, and other accident experts. We are able to quickly assemble a team of first-rate experts in the fields of medicine, accident reconstruction, biomechanics, equipment use and maintenance, and operator compliance with federal regulations, and we use their experience combined with our own to develop successful strategies and evidence necessary to best present our client’s position at trial.

Personal Injury Attorneys : Truck Accident Law

While all motorists are required to know the rules of the road before getting behind the wheel of a vehicle, truck drivers are in a very special situation. For one thing, the vehicle being driven is heavier and more cumbersome than an automobile, and if it is involved in accident it can cause more damage.

It is a more complex piece of machinery than an automobile and it takes greater expertise to understand how it operates and to drive it. On most occasions when being operated, it is engaged in a business purpose, and consequently the truck driver must abide by rules and regulations required by state and federal regulatory agencies and by state laws governing the operation of trucks and trailers. More information on this website

Truck drivers spend more time on the highway than most any other type of drivers. Many of them engaged in long-distance hauling sleep in and live out of their trucks. These types of drivers, in particular, are under enormous pressure to deliver their cargo in a timely fashion.

They encounter every type of road hazard conceivable and weather conditions of the most extreme variety, requiring them to drive in a sharp, clear-headed fashion, or otherwise risk disaster.

A lapse of judgement or momentary carelessness translates too often into an accident.

Under the law, the truck driver’s act or failure to act may raise an interference of negligence or create a presumption of negligence.

On occasion, a truck driver’s negligence is so egregious that it reaches a different plateau in the realm of negligence classification and, depending upon the facts, the driver and his employer may be exposed to punitive damages. This conscious wrongdoing, traveling under the name of gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct, constitutes negligence of a greater magnitude.

Its viability as a cause of action is becoming greater as attorneys begin paying increasing attention to such industry-wide problems as driver fatigue as a cause of accidents and the conscious decision by truck owners and shippers to insist on performance from the driver that cannot be accomplished without violating federal maximum driving hour regulations.

Carriers have been held liable in the following situations for other acts of improper loading which include overloading, traveling on the highway with a protruding load, and hauling a load that was too high:

A dump truck loaded with asphalt mix beyond its rated capacity rear-ended a car stopped in traffic. The court held that the company that overloaded the truck was liable for the plaintiff’s injuries.
There was a failure to display a red flag.
There was a failure to have lights burning at the rear of a load of pipe.
Triangular steel girders were transported in such a manner that there was eight feet of overload extending over the center line of the highway.
Carrying a load that was stacked too high in violation of state statute resulted in its striking an overpass, dropping into the highway, and causing a collision between the other motorists.
A shipment of steel beams protruding from the rear of a tractor-trailer was not secured with the proper number of chains required by federal safety regulations and lacked either a flag or lights, as required by state law.

We have recovered millions of dollars for wrongful death and severely injured victims from truck accidents. If you have lost a family member to a truck accident or you or your family have been injured by a truck accident, please call our office for a free consultation.

The discomfort you are likely to encounter during your treatment will generally be derived from the actual tooth movement and from the appliances irritating lips and cheeks. The actually procedure where braces are placed is not painful and no injections (no needles) for local anesthesia are necessary. The only discomfort experienced during this procedure will be derived from the struggle to keep your mouth open for an extended period of time.

Once the braces are placed, you will be immediately aware of the increased bulk against your lips and cheeks and the tension from the wire as it applies a gentle force to the teeth. As several days pass you may notice that certain areas of your lips and cheeks become irritated (sore) as they are constantly rubbing against the braces. The degree of soreness experienced is different for everyone. Many report only very mild irritation. If you experience a great deal of irritation to the lips and cheeks as they rub against the braces, place wax on the braces at the source of the irritation. The wax simply creates a smoother surface against which your cheek or lip can rest without being irritated. More information here

Often you will unknowingly injure your lips and cheeks at night while sleeping and then experience more soreness during the day time. If you experience a lot of soreness, prior to going to bed at night, take a long piece of wax and flatten it with your fingers. Then press this length of wax against your braces and embed it into the braces. This will produce a smooth surface over an extended length for your lips and cheeks. Do this every night until the sore spots resolve. Over time, your lips and cheeks will toughen and you will no longer experience many instances of this type of soreness. It is always a good idea to place wax on sore spots at night to prevent irritation while you sleep.In the days following placement of your braces.

Following adjustments, your teeth will likely become sensitive to pressure and may become sensitive to thermal stimuli (hot and cold). This is normal and indicates that the teeth are being moved.

Which teeth become most sore will depend upon the degree of initial mal-alignment of the teeth. Some may get very sore while others do not get sore at all. The degree of discomfort should be nothing more than annoying and is easily managed by over the counter medications such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen. It is best to take these medications as prescribed on the bottle and be sure and take them at the intervals indicated. They will be more effective when taken at regular intervals as this will maintain a constant level of the drug in the blood stream. Narcotic medications should not be needed to manage this level of discomfort and the doctor does not prescribe these medications for this type of discomfort. If you experience a great deal of discomfort, schedule an appointment for evaluation.

Most patients will experience changes in the way their bite feels. This is normal and will resolve as the teeth move toward their improved positions. Because the bite may feel uncomfortable and because your teeth will be pressure sensitive, chewing may become difficult. Do the best you can and try to eat only soft foods. It also helps to cut your food into small pieces. Always avoid hard foods when wearing braces because of the likelihood of breaking something.

The sensitivity to pressure and thermal stimuli will be greatest during the first few weeks after the braces are applied or after an adjustment and will begin to diminish thereafter. After several months, as the teeth align, the degree of soreness you feel after an adjustment will be less and less. The further along you get, generally, more comfortable you will become. Please visit this website