San Antonio
Personal Injury
Lawyer

Your case value depends on multiple factors, including the severity of your injuries, the impact on your life, the effect on your ability to work, available insurance coverage, and the strength of the evidence. While we can't provide exact numbers without reviewing your specific situation, we fight to recover the full damages you're entitled to under Texas law:

• Medical Expenses: These include everything from ambulance rides and emergency room visits to surgeries, medications, and ongoing physical therapy. Future medical costs are also recoverable when your injuries require long-term or lifetime care.
• Lost Wages: You can recover income lost during your recovery period, including regular wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions. Even if you used sick leave or vacation time, you're entitled to compensation for those lost benefits.
• Diminished Earning Capacity: If your injuries prevent you from returning to your previous job or limit your ability to advance in your career, you deserve compensation for that lost potential. These damages account for the difference between what you could have earned and what you're now able to earn.
• Property Damage: You're entitled to the cost of repairing or replacing any property damaged in the accident, including vehicles, electronics, clothing, and other personal belongings. Fair market value determines compensation when items cannot be repaired.
• Pain and Suffering: Physical pain from your injuries has compensable value under Texas law. These damages account for the discomfort you've endured and continue to experience, from acute trauma to chronic pain.
• Mental Anguish: Emotional and psychological trauma following an accident is a recognized form of damage. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, sleep disturbances, and other mental health impacts all qualify for compensation.
• Loss of Enjoyment of Life: When injuries prevent you from participating in activities you once enjoyed—whether that's playing sports, gardening, or dancing—you deserve compensation. These damages recognize that your quality of life has been diminished.
• Physical Impairment or Disability: Permanent limitations to your body's function or mobility warrant significant compensation. These damages cover everything from partial impairments to complete disability that affects your independence.
• Disfigurement: Scarring, burns, amputations, and other visible injuries that permanently alter your appearance are compensable damages. Courts recognize both the physical reality and the emotional impact of living with disfigurement.
• Loss of Consortium: Your spouse can recover damages when your injuries negatively impact your marital relationship, including loss of companionship, affection, and intimacy. These damages acknowledge that your injuries affect your loved ones, too.

You need a personal injury attorney with experience handling similar cases to yours, and who can  give you a realistic assessment of your claim's potential value.

Personal injury attorneys typically work on a contingency fee basis. That means our fees are contingent on winning compensation for your claim. We only get paid if we win your case—taking a predetermined percentage of your settlement or court award. Most firms, including ours, also advance the costs needed to build your case and deduct these expenses from your final settlement, along with our attorney fees:

• Filing fees and court costs
• Expert witness fees
• Medical record retrieval
• Police report retrieval
• Accident reconstruction
• Depositions and transcripts
• Investigation costs
• Travel expenses

The right personal injury lawyers firmly believe in complete transparency about fees and expenses from day one. During your initial consultation, you should learn exactly how the contingency fee structure works and have everything clearly outlined in your written contingency agreement so there are never any surprises. Be cautious of law firms that fail to fully disclose their fees or provide a written agreement outlining what you’ve agreed upon.

In the state of Texas, you generally have two years from the date of your injury to file a personal injury claim or lawsuit. However, certain exceptions can shorten or extend this deadline. For example, claims against government entities may require notice within six months, while cases involving minors are generally paused, or tolled, until they reach the age of 18, at which point the usual statutory period of two years begins.