McAllen, Texas has been recognized as one of North America’s top locations for bird watching. Visitors worldwide travel to McAllen to catch a glimpse of over 540 bird species and 330 butterfly species in the region.
When the worst occurs, you need an experienced advocate dedicated to protecting your legal right to compensation.
An experienced McAllen Car Accident Lawyer from our law firm will help you discover the legal process of seeking compensation for your car accident injuries.
We will clearly explain the services our legal team offers to assist you with successfully pursuing your car accident claim.
Our legal team is available 24/7 for a free consultation with one of our dedicated Personal Injury Attorneys. Contact Kenny Perez Law today for expert advice on your auto accident.
We specialize in assisting car accident victims with navigating the legal system, managing insurance company communications, and negotiating a fair settlement.
Our McAllen Car Accident Lawyers can help to maximize the compensation you deserve for your car accident injury to cover medical bills, lost wages, and ongoing needs.
Make sure you receive fair compensation from the at-fault party’s insurance company for your car crash by speaking to an experienced Auto Accident Attorney today.
The statistics for individuals injured in motor vehicle accidents are even worse. An individual is injured in a car accident somewhere throughout the State every two minutes and three seconds.
A reportable crash takes place on Texas roads every minute of the day. In Hidalgo County, there are more than 12,000 car accidents a year, resulting in more than 40 deaths, nearly 300 suspected serious injuries, and more than 1,300 non-capacitating injuries.
A reportable crash takes place on Texas roads every minute of the day. In Hidalgo County, there are more than 12,000 car accidents a year, resulting in more than 40 deaths, nearly 300 suspected serious injuries, and more than 1,300 non-capacitating injuries.
In Texas, around one-quarter of all car accidents involve an alcohol-impaired driver. Drunk driving is responsible for more than 900 fatal accidents in the State.
Like many border cities, McAllen has a vibrant nightlife—centered around its 17th Street Entertainment District. Many revelers park their cars in the Downtown parking garage on 17th and Chicago, then walk to their destinations. While this is convenient for patrons in most circumstances, it does increase the risk of car accidents between motor vehicles and pedestrians in the surrounding areas.
More than 375 people die in distracted driving car accidents in Texas each year. Driving distractions include anything that causes the driver to look away from the roadway, take their hands from the wheel, or remove their thoughts from the task of driving safely.
Texting is of particular concern to law enforcement authorities, as it features all three elements of distracted driving.
Fatigue is mental or physical exhaustion that impairs performance. While any driver can experience occasional fatigue due to life circumstances, the condition is especially risky for long-haul truck drivers and night shift workers, as it involves them operating a motor vehicle during the late-night hours when the body instinctively wants to sleep.
As noted by the National Safety Council, speeding is a factor in more than a quarter of all traffic accidents that occur on U.S. roadways each year. Speeding does not just mean driving faster than the posted speed limit sign but driving too fast for traffic and weather conditions. Speeding creates several hazards, including less time for the driver to see and respond to obstacles, increased stopping distance, difficulty for other drivers in judging a safe gap in traffic in which to pull into a lane of travel, and an increase in the severity of a crash.
A driver following another vehicle too closely is the most common cause of rear-end accidents, as the driver does not have time to stop if the lead vehicle suddenly brakes.
More than 700 people are killed in Texas intersections each year. One of the most common collisions in an intersection is a broadside collision that occurs when the front of one vehicle collides with the side of another. The most common cause of a broadside collision is the failure of a driver to yield the right-of-way to another driver at red lights or stop signs.
In car accidents, some of the most severe injuries that can occur to an individual include life-threatening injuries to the organs that make up the body’s central nervous system: the brain and the spinal cord.
The central nervous system controls all the body’s functions and involuntary responses. Despite the importance of these organs, they don’t always heal after severe injuries.
A brain injury can result in permanent deficits such as memory loss, the inability to communicate, the ability to move in a balanced and coordinated manner, and even a consciousness disorder that impacts the sufferer’s awareness of their surroundings.
A spinal cord injury can permanently paralyze the body below the injury. If the damage occurs high up on the cervical (neck) area of the cord, paralysis will usually extend from the neck down, a condition known as quadriplegia or tetraplegia. If the injury occurs lower on the spine, it can paralyze the lower extremities, referred to as paraplegia.
Whiplash is a soft tissue injury occurring in the neck as the result of a collision that causes the head to snap back and forth like the lashing of a whip.
Severe spinal injuries can result in loss of mobility, spine instability, chronic pain, and the need for surgical repair.
Broken bones caused by a car wreck can result in chronic pain or even loss of use or mobility.
Burns incurred as a result of contact with chemicals used to make the vehicle run or any heat source. Fires often occur in motor vehicle accidents due to gasoline. Burns can result in dangerous infections or scarring that can impair the sufferer’s range of motion or cause significant scarring that can require skin graft surgery.
Cuts and lacerations, which place the sufferer at increased risk of infections and scarring.
If a serious car accident injured you in McAllen caused by another driver’s negligence, you can seek compensation for your injuries through the personal injury claims process. Get the compensation you deserve today for medical expenses, lost wages, and ongoing care.
The compensation process generally involves your attorney submitting a demand package to the at-fault party’s insurance company. The demand package provides details about your claim, documentation of your expenses, and a request for payment of the claim’s value.
An individual known as an insurance adjuster or claims adjuster (working for the insurance company)will evaluate the demand on behalf of the insurance company and respond to the claim in one of three ways:
They can deny the claim and notify the claimant of the reason for the denial. If so, you and your attorney can file a personal injury lawsuit and let the court decide if you deserve compensation.
They can approve the claim and process it for payment. At this point, your case resolves.
They can also make a settlement offer, which is an offer of payment in exchange for a resolution to the claim. The payment offered is almost always less than the value of the claim, and your attorney can negotiate to get the adjuster to increase the insurance company’s offer.
Even though an insurance adjuster often participates in negotiations with the claimant’s attorney, you might still decide to file a car accident lawsuit. However, filing car accident lawsuits does not end settlement negotiations, as you may settle after the trial begins.
To have a successful outcome in your McAllen car accident claim, you must be able to prove that someone else was liable for causing the accident.
To prove liability, you must show:
The at-fault driver owed you a duty of care. The duty of care refers to the actions a reasonable person would take in a given set of circumstances to protect the health and property of others. In traffic, the duty of care that a driver owes to other roadway users is to drive their vehicle safely and legally.
A breach in the duty of care occurred when the at-fault driver took actions that endangered others.
This breach caused the accident that injured you, and you sustained economic and psychological costs as a result.
Texas allows personal injury claimants to use the court system during the personal injury claims process to seek compensation for the expenses and impacts of their injury.
Medical bills related to the treatment of your injury and associated complications. If your injury produces a high likelihood of permanent deficits that will require medical intervention in the future, you can seek coverage of the estimated future medical expenses.
Lost wages if you are too injured to work, and loss of future earning capacity if you acquire disabilities that will prevent you from obtaining meaningful employment due to the accident.
The cost of repairing or replacing your vehicle and other personal property that was damaged due to the accident.
The physical pain and suffering you incur as a result of the injury, the treatment of it, and any physical complications arising from the injury that you endure.
Emotional distress as a result of the severity of your injury, the acquisition of permanent disabilities, or the financial or emotional strain of being seriously injured.
Many people are afraid to enlist the assistance of an attorney because they do not think they can afford one. However, Car Accident Lawyers use a different fee structure than other lawyers.
Unlike lawyers in other areas of law, personal injury attorneys do not require a retainer or charge by the hour. Instead, we work on a contingent fee, which means we only get paid for the work we do on your claim if we recover damages for you.
When you receive your settlement or award, we deduct a pre-determined percentage for our services as outlined in the contingent fee agreement that we enter into with you.
We can begin working on your claim without waiting for a retainer or bills to be current for your hourly services.
Peace of mind for you and the legal team as we settle payment terms upfront.
You obtain top-quality legal counsel regardless of your financial status. This fee structure is one less expense you have to deal with while recovering from your injury.
In addition to the contingent fee, our free case evaluations allow you to obtain more information about your legal options for seeking compensation without any obligation to obtain further services from us.
If a car accident injures you, let an experienced car accident lawyer from Kenny Perez Law help you seek compensation for your injuries. For a free case evaluation in McAllen, contact us online or call (956) 420-6888.
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