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Nothing stands between a person on foot and a moving vehicle. Even at low speed these are catastrophic injury cases.
Personal Injury · Accidents
The driver says the pedestrian stepped out. The adjuster repeats it. And because Texas reduces recovery by the injured person's share of fault — and bars it entirely past 50% — that story is worth a great deal of money to them if nobody tests it.
It is testable. Crosswalk markings and signal timing, the vehicle's speed at impact and where the body came to rest, the driver's phone records, and the surveillance cameras that cover most Houston commercial frontage all speak to what actually happened. Most of that footage is overwritten in days, which is the reason these cases should not sit.
If the driver was working — delivering, driving a company vehicle, running an errand for an employer — the employer's commercial policy is in play. Where a property owner created the hazard with a blind exit, broken lighting or a parking layout that pushes people into traffic, premises liability may apply. And where the roadway design or a missing signal is the reason, a claim against a government entity may exist, with far shorter notice deadlines than the ordinary two years.
Pedestrian injuries skew toward the severe end: traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage, complex fractures and internal injuries. Settling before the treating physicians can say what recovery looks like is how families end up paying for care the claim should have covered. We build the future medical and life-care picture into the case rather than around it.
Injury cases are handled on a contingency fee: nothing to talk to us, nothing upfront, and the firm is paid out of the recovery. If there is no recovery there is no fee. The percentage and how case expenses are handled are in writing before you sign anything.
That is the standard account and it is testable — with signal timing, camera footage, the point of impact and the driver's phone records.
Frequently yes. It affects how fault is apportioned; it does not remove a driver's duty to keep a proper lookout.
A citation is helpful evidence, not a requirement. Civil liability is judged on a different standard from a traffic charge.
An employer if the driver was working, a property owner whose layout or lighting created the hazard, or a government entity where the roadway itself was the problem.
Your own uninsured motorist coverage often carries the claim while the driver is identified, and camera evidence frequently finds them.
Yes, and it should be. Evidence preservation, notice to insurers and arranging treatment can all be handled by the family straight away.
Most Houston commercial frontage is covered by cameras, and that footage is overwritten within days unless somebody formally asks for it to be kept.
On the whole life ahead: future medical care, attendant care, lost earning capacity, and the impairment itself — not on the bills that have arrived so far.
That is usually a sign the claim is worth more than they have offered. Settling before treating physicians can give a prognosis is how families end up paying for care themselves.
Nothing upfront, and no fee unless there is a recovery.
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