Truck Accident Attorney in Harlingen, TX and 18-Wheeler and Commercial Truck Injury Lawyers

Nothing upfront. The Lopez Law Group works on a contingency fee which means you pay no money out of pocket and you owe an attorney fee only if we recover compensation for you. The firm advances the case costs. If we do not win your case you do not pay a fee.

That fee percentage is written into the agreement before you sign anything. Attorney Lopez goes through it with you line by line so there are no surprises at the end.

Two years from the date of the accident under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 16.003. That deadline applies to nearly every personal injury lawsuit in this state. If a city or county or state entity owned the truck you may face a notice deadline measured in months and not years.

Waiting also costs you evidence. Driver logs and camera footage disappear long before the two year mark arrives.

More parties than you would expect. The driver and the motor carrier are the obvious two. Beyond them the freight broker and the shipper and the company that loaded the trailer and the maintenance vendor can all carry responsibility depending on what went wrong.

Each one of those parties usually carries its own policy. Finding all of them is how a claim moves from a small recovery to a full one.

The black box is the electronic control module inside the tractor. It records speed and braking and throttle position and engine hours in the seconds before impact. That data settles arguments about how fast the truck was moving and whether the driver ever hit the brakes.

It also gets overwritten. Some units cycle in about 30 days which is why the preservation letter goes out immediately.

Federal rules set limits on driving hours and require inspections and set standards for driver qualification and cargo securement. When a carrier breaks one of those rules and a wreck follows the violation becomes strong evidence of negligence and it often supports a claim against the company itself.

We audit the compliance record alongside the crash facts. Patterns of violation carry more weight than a single lapse.

No. Give them your name and the basic facts of the collision and nothing else. Decline the recorded statement politely. That adjuster works for the company that hit you and every answer you give becomes part of the file used to reduce or deny your claim.

Send them to your attorney instead. That single move protects your claim more than anything else you can do in week one.

You can still recover as long as your share of fault stays at 50 percent or below. Texas uses modified comparative fault under section 33.001 which reduces your recovery by your percentage of blame and bars it entirely once you cross 51 percent. Insurers push fault onto you for this reason.

Fault percentages get argued and not assumed. Evidence moves that number.

Most claims resolve in six to twelve months and more than 90 percent settle without a trial. The timeline follows your medical treatment because no case should settle before doctors know what your recovery looks like. Complex liability or a fatality can push a file past a year.

Litigation adds time and it also adds pressure. Sometimes that pressure is what moves the number.

There is no honest answer to that question on day one. Value depends on the severity of your injuries and how clear the fault picture is and how much insurance coverage exists and what a Cameron County jury would likely do with the facts. Any firm quoting a figure before reading your records is selling you something.

We give you a range once treatment is documented and liability is developed.

Yes. Chapter 71 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code allows a surviving spouse or the children or the parents of the person who died to bring a wrongful death lawsuit. The estate may also bring a survival claim for what your loved one suffered before death.

Damages can include lost financial support and funeral costs and the loss of love and companionship.

An underride wreck happens when a passenger vehicle slides beneath a trailer because the rear or side guard failed or was never there. The trailer bed enters the passenger compartment at windshield height. Survivors face head and neck and spinal damage and many of these wrecks are fatal.

Guard failure points straight at equipment and maintenance responsibility.

An early offer usually means the carrier sees clear liability and wants the file closed cheap. Once you sign the release the claim is over even if you need surgery two months later. Have an attorney review the number and your medical picture before you accept anything.

The review costs you nothing and the difference is often substantial.

Yes. We handle every kind of vehicle accident in this city. A harlingen car accident file and a truck file follow the same basic law even though the evidence differs. Our harlingen car accident attorney team takes rear end wrecks and intersection collisions and hit and run claims.

If you were injured in a car accident here a car accident attorney can help you deal with the adjuster and the medical bills. Our car accident attorneys and our car accident lawyer team handle a car crash in harlingen the same way we handle a truck file. Anyone injured in an accident of any kind should call before speaking to an insurer. A car accident in harlingen still gives you two years to act.

Yes. Hablamos español and we handle the entire file in Spanish when that is what your family speaks. That covers the first phone call and the medical intake and the deposition and the settlement paperwork. Nothing important gets explained through a relative acting as an interpreter.

Our Spanish page for abogado de accidentes de camion en harlingen has the same information in Spanish.

We handle truck and car wrecks and motorcycle collisions and slip and fall claims and workplace injuries and dog bites and wrongful death. Personal injury cases in harlingen come to this firm from across Cameron County and the surrounding towns. Claims in harlingen and cases in harlingen get the same attention as our files in bigger cities.

Our personal injury lawyer in harlingen page lists every practice area we cover here. Our experienced harlingen personal injury team also handles slip and fall lawyer harlingen claims and motorcycle collision files.