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City Withdraws Rule 91a Motion After Judge Questions Its Legal Strategy When someone is injured in a crash involving a City of Houston vehicle, the fight over responsibility can extend far beyond what happened on the road. Governmental immunity, emergency-response defenses, procedural motions, and access to evidence can all become part of the case. That…

How Right-of-Way Violations, Crash Evidence, and Texas Fault Rules Can Shape a Houston Injury Claim Failure-to-yield crashes often happen in a moment when one driver moves into a space another vehicle is already entitled to use. A driver may roll through a stop sign, turn left across oncoming traffic, enter a roadway from a driveway,…

How Federal Trucking Rules, Electronic Evidence, and Texas Fault Law Can Shape the Claim A motorcycle may weigh only a few hundred pounds, while a fully loaded tractor-trailer can weigh up to 80,000 pounds under ordinary federal interstate limits. That size difference can make a truck-motorcycle collision especially dangerous for the rider, but the legal…

Why Orthopedic Injuries to the Lower Extremities Can Produce Long Recoveries in Personal Injury Cases The first hours after a serious car accident are about triage. Emergency teams may be focused on possible head, chest, abdominal, or spinal injuries before a painful foot or ankle becomes the main concern. Swelling can also increase after the…

The Bills That Arrive Today May Be Only a Fraction of the Cost A spinal cord injury can change someone's medical needs, ability to work, independence, and living environment for decades. The emergency room bill and first round of rehabilitation may be substantial, but they're often only the beginning of the financial impact. September is…

Yes, But The 2026 Supreme Court Ruling Only Removed One Major Barrier A freight broker can potentially be held liable after a serious Texas truck accident, but simply arranging the shipment isn't enough. The legal landscape changed significantly in May 2026 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal transportation law does not automatically…

What the Record-Breaking Fatality Numbers Mean for Pedestrians, Cyclists, and the Families of Those Who Didn't Make It Home The numbers that came out of 2024 should have stopped Houston in its tracks. According to Texas Department of Transportation crash data reported by KPRC, 345 people were killed in traffic crashes on Houston roadways in…

What the 2026 Road Check Numbers Reveal About Dangerous Trucks Already Sharing Houston's Highways The trucks that failed last month's inspection were already out there. They were already moving freight on Texas highways, merging into traffic on Houston's interstates, and sharing roads with passenger vehicles whose drivers had no way of knowing what was wrong.…

May Is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, and the Numbers Demand Attention May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has launched its annual Share the Road: Look Twice for Motorcycles campaign with the kind of statistics that should stop every driver in their tracks. In 2025, 557 riders lost their…

One Moment Of Distraction Can Leave A Texas Family With A Lifetime Of Loss A text message can feel small in the moment. A glance down. A few seconds with one hand off the wheel and your mind somewhere else. But on a Texas road, that tiny decision can have huge consequences. Families don’t measure…