Texas Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers
A Texas spinal cord injury lawyer fights for the one thing these cases turn on: the money to pay for a lifetime of care that a single insurance policy will never cover. We bring in life care planners, economists, and treating physicians to prove what the years ahead actually cost, then find every defendant and policy behind your injury. You pay nothing unless we win.
A spinal cord injury case is a fight over the cost of the rest of your life.
A Texas spinal cord injury case is different from an ordinary injury claim because the harm is permanent, the care never stops, and the real number is not today’s hospital bill. It is the decades of treatment, equipment, and help with daily life still ahead.
That changes what we have to prove, and how:
Complete and incomplete injuries, where how much function is lost decides what the future looks like.
Tetraplegia and paraplegia, from injuries high on the cord that affect all four limbs to those lower down.
Lifetime cost, the attendant care, equipment, and home changes an insurer wants to leave out.
Most spinal cord injuries come from a sudden, preventable impact.
Across the country, vehicle crashes are the leading cause of spinal cord injury, followed by falls, being struck or assaulted, and sports. In the cases we handle, the cause usually points to someone else’s negligence: a driver, a trucking company, a property owner, or an employer who let a known danger stand.
Vehicle & truck collisions
Car, truck, and motorcycle crashes are the number-one cause of spinal cord injury. The violent force of a collision is exactly what fractures vertebrae and damages the cord.
Falls from height
Falls are the second leading cause, and the leading cause for older adults. A fall from a roof, ladder, scaffold, or an unmarked hazard on someone else’s property can bruise or sever the cord.
Construction & workplace
Falls, collapses, and being struck on a job site cause many of the worst spinal injuries. A third-party claim can reach beyond workers’ compensation to whoever created the danger.
Struck object or assault
Being hit by a falling object, or an act of violence, accounts for a meaningful share of spinal cord injuries and often points to a property owner or third party who should have prevented it.
Diving & sports impacts
A dive into shallow water or a hard sports collision can break the neck. When a pool, camp, or facility ignored a known risk, that negligence becomes part of the case.
Surgical & medical errors
Some spinal cord injuries follow a missed diagnosis, surgical error, or delayed treatment. These are handled as medical negligence, which carries its own rules and deadlines.
The insurer counts today’s bills. We prove the next forty years.
A spinal cord injury case is won or lost on future cost. The insurer will pay the emergency care and call it a day. We build the proof that shows what a lifetime of this injury actually takes, and who has to pay for it.
A life care plan that prices every year ahead: attendant care, therapy, equipment, and the replacement of it over time.
Home and vehicle modifications, from ramps and roll-in showers to an adapted van, costed by specialists.
Future surgeries and medical care, including the complications that come with paralysis over a lifetime.
An economist’s report that brings decades of future cost into today’s dollars a jury can see.
Lost earning capacity, the career and income the injury takes, now and across your working life.
The human record, what daily life now requires, told through your own family and care team.
Life care planners who translate your medical future into a line-by-line lifetime cost.
Treating physicians and spinal specialists to set out the diagnosis, prognosis, and care you will need.
Economists to value future care and lost earnings across your life expectancy.
Accident reconstruction engineers to prove how the crash or fall happened and who caused it.
Vocational experts on what work, if any, is still possible after the injury.
The rules these cases turn on
In Texas, you generally have two years from the injury to file (Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003), and fault is shared under a modified comparative negligence rule that bars recovery only if you are more than half at fault. Unlike medical malpractice, an ordinary negligence case, a crash, a fall, a workplace injury, carries no cap on the compensatory damages a jury can award for future medical care, lost earnings, or pain. That is why the life care plan matters so much: in these cases, what you can prove, you can recover.
The insurer wants to settle on today’s bills before anyone counts the decades ahead. We refuse to talk numbers until the full lifetime cost is on paper.
General process; every case is handled on its own facts.“I spent over a decade directing insurance defense. I know exactly what a carrier looks for to deny or shrink your claim, because I found it for them.”Managing Litigation Attorney · former insurance defense director
The spinal cord injury cases we handle across Texas.
We represent people with every level and severity of spinal cord injury, and the families of those who did not survive. How and where you were hurt decides who is responsible, and how much insurance stands behind your future care.
Complete spinal cord injury
A complete injury means no function below the level of the injury. The care needs are lifelong, and proving the full future cost is everything.
Incomplete spinal cord injury
An incomplete injury leaves some function, and the picture varies widely. We make sure the long-term needs are valued in full, not written off because you can still move.
Paraplegia
Injury to the lower cord affects the legs and trunk. Many people regain real independence, and the case has to fund the equipment and home changes that make that possible.
Tetraplegia & quadriplegia
Injury high on the neck can affect all four limbs, and the highest injuries can affect breathing. These carry the largest lifetime cost of any injury we handle.
Crash & fall injuries
Most of our cases start with a vehicle crash, a truck wreck, or a fall on someone else’s property. We trace the injury back to who caused it, and to every policy behind them.
Wrongful death
When a spinal cord injury takes a life, Texas law lets the surviving family recover for their loss in a wrongful death claim, with a separate survival claim for what your loved one endured.
What a spinal cord injury case is worth, and how we think about it.
There is no average for a spinal cord injury case, but the value is driven by one thing above all: the cost of your future care. The more clearly we prove that future, and the more insurance we can reach, the more there is to recover.
Lifetime medical & care
The biggest driver. Decades of attendant care, therapy, equipment, and surgery, priced year by year, not guessed at.
Loss of independence
What the injury takes from daily life, mobility, and the things you did before is a real and compensable loss in Texas.
How clear the fault is
The cleaner the proof that someone else caused the injury, the stronger your leverage to recover the full future cost.
How much coverage exists
Auto, commercial, employer, premises, and umbrella policies can each add a layer. Finding all of them is part of the job.
Where the money actually comes from
A spinal cord injury almost never fits inside a single insurance policy. A standard auto policy can be a fraction of one year of care. So we look everywhere: the at-fault driver, a commercial or trucking policy, the vehicle’s owner, a property owner, an employer, a product manufacturer, and any umbrella coverage stacked on top. Your own underinsured motorist coverage can add another layer. The size of a recovery depends on how many of these we can reach, which is why finding every policy is part of the work, not an afterthought.
How we handle the risk. You pay nothing up front, and our fee comes out of the recovery only if we win, so we can be honest about whether an offer covers the life ahead of you or falls short. Under Texas law, being more than 50% at fault can bar recovery, so we build the fault case as carefully as the cost case. We will tell you plainly when an offer is fair, and when it is worth pushing further. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Texas bilingual lawyers, in the language you think in.
Yes. Our team works in English and Spanish, so if English is not your first language, you can tell us what happened in your own words and follow every step of your case.
Hablamos español. La consulta es gratis y no paga nada a menos que ganemos.
A native Spanish speaker, Laura handles serious injury and wrongful death cases for Spanish speaking clients across Texas, start to finish, in their own language.
Senior Associate Attorney · bilingual, English & SpanishWhat our clients actually say.
Real reviews and video testimonials from people the firm has represented. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
“They took the time to answer all my questions and made me feel confident in them. The whole staff was very friendly and professional.”
“After speaking with them I could finally relax. Rodrigo made sure my physical therapy was covered and has been invaluable to us.”
“A very good experience with Rodrigo. He was knowledgeable and responsive to every question I had about my situation.”
“The team was professional, and knowledgeable. They made the whole legal process smooth and stress free.”
“Their communication went above and beyond. They handled all my medical visits and my settlement was way more than I expected.”
“Muchas gracias Rodrigo y a todo el equipo. si están envueltos en un accidente te ayudan en todo el proceso.”
“Excelente servicio al cliente, muy atentos con sus clientes. La comunicación es muy buena.”
“She walked me through the whole process and kept checking in, not just on the next step but on how I was doing.”
“They took the time to answer all my questions and made me feel confident in them. The whole staff was very friendly and professional.”
“After speaking with them I could finally relax. Rodrigo made sure my physical therapy was covered and has been invaluable to us.”
“A very good experience with Rodrigo. He was knowledgeable and responsive to every question I had about my situation.”
“The team was professional, and knowledgeable. They made the whole legal process smooth and stress free.”
“Their communication went above and beyond. They handled all my medical visits and my settlement was way more than I expected.”
“Muchas gracias Rodrigo y a todo el equipo. si están envueltos en un accidente te ayudan en todo el proceso.”
“Excelente servicio al cliente, muy atentos con sus clientes. La comunicación es muy buena.”
“She walked me through the whole process and kept checking in, not just on the next step but on how I was doing.”
Texas spinal cord injury FAQ.
Straight answers, specific to Texas, to what families ask most after a spinal cord injury. Not sure how it applies to you? A free review sorts it out.
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Does Texas cap spinal cord injury damages?
Who can be held responsible besides the driver?
Can I file a claim if the injury happened at work?
What if my family member died from a spinal cord injury?
Should I talk to the insurance company myself?
How much does a spinal cord injury lawyer cost?
Living with a spinal
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Tell us what happened and we will tell you, honestly, where you stand under Texas law and what it will take to fund the care ahead. We represent spinal cord injury survivors and their families across Texas. The review is free, and you owe nothing unless we win.