Collinsville Personal Injury Attorneys

Recovering from an accident can put a major strain on your finances, between lost wages, medical bills, and other monetary damages. If somebody else was at fault for your injuries, you can file an insurance claim to get payment for your damages, including compensation for pain and suffering. To learn more, reach out to a Collinsville, Texas personal injury attorney.

At Burress Injury Law, we have earned more than 900 5-star reviews for our willingness to fight for our clients' rights. Our aggressive approach has helped us earn over half a billion dollars in compensation for injury victims across Texas, obtained through carefully negotiated settlements and hard-fought verdicts.

About Our Firm

Burress Injury Law has represented injured Texans since 2008, and our multiple locations allow our attorneys to serve clients in Collinsville, Sherman, Denison, and the rest of North Texas. Our practice covers car and truck wrecks, premises liability, defective products, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death, and every case is prepared with the expectation that a jury may one day hear it.

A serious injury can turn a normal week into a stack of medical appointments, unpaid bills, and phone calls from people who work for an insurance company. We take over those calls, investigate the cause of the injury, and put together a claim that reflects the full cost of what happened. When an insurer undervalues a case, we are ready to file suit and let a jury decide.

When Can You File a Personal Injury Claim in Texas?

A person can file a personal injury claim in Texas when another person or business causes them harm through carelessness, recklessness, or an intentional act. The law generally looks for four things: the other party owed a duty of care, that duty was breached, the breach caused the injury, and real losses followed.

Duty is easier to see than many people expect. Drivers owe a duty to follow traffic laws and watch the road. Store owners owe a duty to keep floors and walkways reasonably safe. Manufacturers owe a duty to sell products that will not hurt people who use them properly. When someone falls short of that duty and another person is hurt, a claim may exist, even if the injured person did not need to go to the hospital by ambulance.

Losses can include medical bills, lost income, pain, and the loss of activities a person used to enjoy. A claim does not require a criminal charge, and a driver who is never ticketed can still be held responsible in a civil case.

The person who was hurt is usually the one who files a personal injury claim, but others can step in when circumstances call for it. A parent or legal guardian can bring a claim for an injured child, and a court-appointed representative can act for an adult who is unable to handle the case because of a serious injury or incapacity.

Rules About Fault Can Affect Your Recovery in a Texas Injury Claim

Texas uses a modified comparative fault system, which means an injured person can recover compensation as long as they are 50 percent or less responsible for what happened. A person found 51 percent or more at fault recovers nothing. Everyone else sees their compensation reduced by their own percentage, so a person who is 20 percent at fault and awarded $100,000 would receive $80,000.

Insurance companies understand how much those percentages are worth. Adjusters often look for ways to assign a share of blame to the injured person, whether by pointing to a lane change, a speed estimate, or a delay in seeking treatment. Even a modest shift can cost thousands of dollars.

Fault is decided from evidence, not from first impressions or from what an adjuster says in an early phone call. Police reports, photographs, witness accounts, vehicle data, and video can all change how responsibility is divided. Gathering that proof before it is lost gives an injured person the strongest position when fault is disputed.

Types of Injury Claims We Can Help With

Collinsville sits along US 377, where local drivers, farm equipment, and commercial trucks share the road, and wrecks on rural highways and county roads often cause severe injuries. Our attorneys represent people hurt in car and motorcycle collisions, pedestrian and bicycle accidents, rideshare wrecks, and crashes involving tractor-trailers and delivery vehicles.

Our work reaches beyond roadway accidents. We handle premises liability claims against owners who ignore dangerous conditions, product liability claims involving defective tools, vehicle parts, and household items, and claims for catastrophic injuries such as brain trauma, spinal cord damage, and amputations. When a negligent act takes a life, we help surviving family members pursue a wrongful death claim and, in many cases, a survival action on behalf of the estate.

Each type of claim has its own evidence, its own deadlines, and its own set of potential defendants. Determining which rules apply is one of the first things we do when a new case comes in.

Frequently Asked Questions About Personal Injury Claims in Collinsville, TX