Pearland Car Accident Lawyers

The aftermath of a car accident is nothing anyone wants to deal with. If you or someone you love has been injured in an auto accident, please accept our sympathies, as we know this is a very stressful event for all of you.

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If you are dealing with sudden expensive medical treatments due to injuries sustained in a car wreck, keep reading to learn how our highly rated Pearland car accident lawyers can help you and your family. Our team of experienced trial lawyers handles the cases that no one wants to think about having to deal with – where the fault of another injures you or a loved one.

Located at 9307 W Broadway St Suite 303, Pearland, TX 77584, we manage car accident cases across the Lone Star State. You can expect full service and representation in Pearland, TX when work with J.D. Silva and Associates.

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Table of Contents

• Why Hire a Car Accident Lawyer?
• Car Accident Compensation
• Types of Car Accident Cases We Handle
• What to do about Insurance Settlement Offer

Why Should I Hire a Lawyer for a Car Accident?

An experienced car accident attorney can make a significant difference in the amount of financial compensation you receive for your injuries. One of the main benefits of having an experienced car accident lawyer work for you is that you receive the full benefit of their experience in understanding how to value a case. Our car accident attorneys have worked on hundreds of car accident cases, and we can help make this process easier for you and your family.

Founding Partner, Johnathan D. Silva

Mr. Silva founded J.D. Silva & Associates in 2018 to spearhead his ongoing work advocating for injury victims. His background as a military medic coupled with his education and experience as a lawyer provides him with a unique, multi-faceted understanding of the medical issues involved in personal injury cases. As a lawyer with medical experience, he confidently understands complex medical records used in litigation.

Compensation After a Car Accident

Life after an automobile accident can be overwhelming emotionally, physically and financially. Filing a car accident claim with the at-fault driver’s insurance company is critical to getting compensation after a car accident.

But it’s important to remember that the goal of insurance companies is to make a profit. In their ads, insurance companies portray themselves as kind, helpful neighbors. In reality, they are big corporations that are safeguarding their profits. Regardless of their desires, Texas law entitles you to damages. It may take a strong legal team standing beside you for you to collect them. This is why it is crucial to seek legal counsel when filing an automobile accident claim. Your attorney can assist you in determining the damages you might be eligible to claim.

Often, those who have been injured in a car accident overlook some of the medical expenses they have paid or do not take full account of all they have endured.

Types of Car Accident Injuries

• Back Injury in a Car Accident: Every back injury is not the same, and there is tremendous variation in how they may manifest based on the severity of the injury and where in the spine the injury is located. An injury to the spine or surrounding area may be as minor as a sprain or strain, or it may be more severe, causing issues with the nervous system. The location is often labeled based on which vertebra the injury appears, but it may be more broadly classified as lumbar, thoracic, or cervical back injuries.
• Concussions: Concussions from car accidents are the most common injury you can suffer from after a car wreck. One way a concussion can occur is from having your head hit the steering wheel in a car accident. Many people feel extremely tired after a car accident and thus may not notice they have a concussion. This is why it is very important to get medical treatment as soon as possible.
• Bruising and Contusions: Even the smallest fender bender can cause serious bruising. Collisions can slam your body into the seat belt, steering wheel, or side window. While your seat belt can help prevent serious harm, it can leave you with bruising that can last for days to weeks after the crash. Bruises should heal within a few weeks; however, if you have bruising that does not heal or is extremely painful, it may require medical attention as it may mean something more serious is going on.
• Whiplash injuries: Whiplash most often occurs when you’ve been hit from behind in a rear end accident. The force of the car hitting you causes your neck and upper back to suddenly move back and forth, stretching your muscles and ligaments beyond their normal range at speeds at which they should not move which can easily cause serious damage. Soft tissue injuries such as whiplash, can cause severe damage to the neck and spine. The pain and discomfort felt in your neck and upper back after can take several weeks to recover, can be very painful and while rarely permanent, may require physical therapy or other means of pain management.  Compensation for a whiplash injury would be to recover these damages.
• Broken Bones: The forceful impact of a collision can put your body under a great amount of stress that’s so significant it can leave your skeleton unable to handle the pressure. When this happens, your bones may break. Your arm may be pinned between your body and the steering column causing a fractured wrist or your body may slam against the seat belt so hard that ribs break. Broken bones are very common in car accidents. While rarely life-threatening, broken bones take significant time to heal. Many broken bones require surgery to fix. If treatment goes well, you may only need a couple of months to recover. Depending upon your location in the vehicle and the location of the impact, many different bones can be fractured in a car accident. Pelvic bones are one of the most common broken bones after a car accident, followed by fibula and femur breaks (broken legs). Other commonly broken bones include arms, wrists, clavicles, hips, ribs, facial bones, and the skull.
• Internal Bleeding: The force from a car accident can cause serious damage to your internal organs and cause them to bleed. Organs are delicate and if injured, they need to be quickly treated by a medical professional to prevent permanent damage or death. Internal bleeding injuries are common in high-speed car accidents. If you feel weakness on one side, pain in your abdomen, dizziness, or exhibit deep purple bruising after a car accident, seek medical attention immediately as you may have internal bleeding.
• Traumatic Brain Injuries: A traumatic brain injury occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to your brain.  A brain injury from a car wreck could result from your head hiting an object or an object pierced the skull and entered the brain tissue.  A car wreck can cause many types of serious head and brain injuries, including diffuse axonal brain injury (brain structures tear because of severe head rotation), penetration injuries, coup-countercoup brain injury (injuries on both sides of the brain caused by sudden movement within the skull), acquired brain injuries (not sustained due to impact but from blood loss and other issues), and more.
• Neck Injuries: A car accident can cause a broken neck or cervical fracture. The cervical spine contains seven vertebrae from C-1 to C-7 and a broken neck can involve one or more of these vertebrae. If serious enough, a broken neck can become one of the most common fatal injuries caused by car accidents. When close to the base of the skull, a broken neck is often called a hangman’s fracture, which is a type of hyperextension injury. The least serious type may not even disable you right away and you might think it’s just whiplash, but one wrong move can cause a tenuous hairline fracture to break further and paralyze you, which is why it’s so important to seek medical treatment as soon as possible after a car accident even if you think you are not severely injured.
• Back Injuries: Back injuries are common in auto accidents, and many require surgery. Some of the most common types of back surgery after a car accident include spinal fusion, kyphoplasty (the insertion of a balloon into the fractured vertebra to allow for bone cement injection), discectomy, laminectomy, and vertebroplasty (injecting bone cement into a vertebra to repair a spinal fracture).
• Face Injuries: Facial injuries involve the eyes, mouth, face, and jaw. If you have a change in feeling or lose feeling in your face, you have difficulty breathing through your nose, you experience double vision, or if your face is deformed or uneven after a car crash, you should seek immediate medical attention.
• Internal Injuries: Internal injuries can be especially dangerous because they often show no external signs. Common internal injuries caused by motor vehicle collisions include brain bleed, pneumothorax, organ injury, internal bleeding, ruptured spleen, punctured lungs, and more. It’s important to remember that while you may recover from less serious car accident injuries within a few days however, many car accident injuries require professional medical evaluation and treatment. Remember – not all injuries appear the day of the accident. If you start to feel pain or find yourself having trouble concentrating after a car accident, seek medical treatment immediately.

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Types of Car Accident Cases We Handle

Our Pearland car accident attorneys regularly handle various types of car accidents that happen across Pearland, Houston and Texas.

• Rideshare Accidents
• Distracted Driving Accidents
• Drunk Driving Accidents
• Rear-end collisions
• Multi-car accidents
• U-turn accidents
• Parking lot accidents
• Highway accidents
• Freeway accidents
• Roll-over accidents
• Road Rage accidents

Intersection Accidents

Accidents at intersections can be complicated. Often, more than one driver is involved, and fault may be shared. It is important to carefully look at all the details to figure out who is responsible. Texas law checks the accident circumstances, including who had the right of way, to decide what caused the crash. Factors like the accident location, traffic signals, and other evidence can affect your settlement. These details can influence how a judge or jury sees the accident, how strong your case is, and whether part of the fault goes to another driver. That’s why it’s important to speak to a skilled Pearland Intersection accident lawyer as soon as possible after a wreck.

Left Turn Accidents

Getting hit in a left-turn accident can leave you facing severe injuries, with questions about how to hold the other driver accountable. It’s not always clear who is at fault in a left-turn car accident, so you may need experienced legal guidance to ensure the best outcome for your case. At J.D. Silva & Associates, our left turn accident attorneys can discuss your concerns during a free consultation.

T-Bone Accidents

While recovering from any car crash can be challenging, victims of t-bone accidents often have extremely severe injuries that can leave them permanently disabled. Every driver on the road owes every other person a duty to drive safely and take care to avoid collisions. When someone fails in that duty and slams into your vehicle, you have the right to hold them accountable for the harm they caused.

Fatal Car Crashes

Many deadly car accidents are caused by distracted driving, driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, and speeding.

Losing a loved one in a car accident is devastating and life-changing. If your loved one was killed due to another’s negligence or fault, you likely need the help of a personal injury attorney to recover wrongful death compensation. Under Texas law, only certain relatives can bring a fatal car crash case, including the surviving spouse, children, and parents of the deceased. You can recover financial compensation, including the victim’s medical bills and funeral and burial expenses, your pain and suffering, the loss of companionship and affection, loss of future inheritance, and loss of earning capacity, among other damages.

You only have two years to file a lawsuit for wrongful death in Texas. This is known as a statute of limitations and begins to run on the date of death. The sooner you contact a lawyer after death, the better your case will go.

Uninsured No Fault Accidents

If you drive without car insurance and get into a car accident that is not your fault, you can still file a claim for car accident damages with the at-fault driver’s insurance company and/or file a personal injury lawsuit in court. While the police may issue you a ticket for driving without insurance, as Texas law requires you to carry it, and can tow and impound your vehicle, you can still work with our personal injury lawyers to obtain compensation.

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What Should I Do If My Insurer Offers a Settlement?

First, contact an attorney experienced in successfully handling car accidents. Having a car accident lawyer review the settlement offer before you accept it is an important way to ensure the insurance company is not offering a sum too low to aid you in recovery. This is especially important for catastrophic injuries because they can require long-term medical care and may prevent you from earning a similar salary to what you made before the accident.

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Speaking with one of our car accident lawyers is always free and will be the fastest way to get your questions answered about the crash and the entire legal process. Contact us, give us a brief description of what happened, and a member of our legal team will reach out to you shortly. Only once you speak to our team, we can we begin investigating your accident and building your case, so contact us today!

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