PERSONAL INJURY
An Accident Happens in Seconds. The Consequences Can Last Much Longer.
After a serious accident, the immediate problems tend to arrive all at once: medical treatment, missed work, a damaged vehicle, insurance calls, bills, and questions about what happens next.
Meanwhile, the insurance companies have already started evaluating the claim.
The Law Offices of John Green represents people injured in accidents throughout Central Texas. The work begins by understanding what happened, preserving the evidence, documenting the loss, and determining who may be legally responsible.
Before accepting what an insurance company says your case is worth, understand what your case is actually worth.
BUILDING THE CASE
The Claim Is Built on Evidence.
A personal-injury case is not simply a demand for money after something bad happens.
It is a case that has to be proved.
Who caused the accident? What evidence establishes fault? What injuries resulted from it? What medical treatment was necessary? How has the injury affected work, daily life, and the future? Is there insurance coverage, and what does that coverage actually provide?
Those questions become the foundation of the claim.
Photographs disappear. Vehicles are repaired or destroyed. Video can be overwritten. Witnesses become harder to locate. Memories change. Medical records accumulate.
The earlier the case is understood, the better the opportunity to preserve what matters.
The goal is to build a clear record of what happened and what the accident actually cost the person who was injured.
PERSONAL INJURY
Cases We Handle
The wreck page with a full write-up is San Marcos car accidents.
Car Accidents
A collision can raise questions about fault, insurance coverage, medical treatment, lost income, vehicle damage, and the full extent of an injury that may not be apparent immediately after the wreck.
CAR ACCIDENTS →Commercial Truck Accidents
Crashes involving commercial trucks can involve more than the conduct of a single driver. The investigation may include the trucking company, maintenance records, driver qualifications, electronic data, safety requirements, cargo, insurance coverage, and other evidence that should be identified early.
COMMERCIAL TRUCK ACCIDENTS →Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcyclists can suffer significant injuries even in collisions that cause relatively little damage to the other vehicle. These cases require careful attention to how the collision occurred, the injuries involved, and the evidence establishing responsibility.
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS →Pedestrian & Bicycle Accidents
When a person on foot or on a bicycle is struck by a vehicle, the physical consequences can be severe. The location of the collision, visibility, right-of-way, witness accounts, video, and physical evidence may all become important.
PEDESTRIAN & BICYCLE ACCIDENTS →Drunk Driving Accidents
When an impaired driver causes a collision, the civil case and the criminal investigation may develop at the same time. Police reports, body-camera footage, blood or breath evidence, witness statements, and the circumstances surrounding the driver's alcohol consumption may become relevant to the injury claim.
DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENTS →Serious Injury Cases
Some injuries do not end when the initial medical treatment does. A serious injury may affect a person's ability to work, live independently, care for family, or return to the life they had before the accident. Those future consequences have to be understood as part of the case.
SERIOUS INJURY CASES →Wrongful Death
When negligence results in the loss of a life, the legal case exists alongside circumstances no lawsuit can undo. These cases require careful investigation, an understanding of the losses recognized by Texas law, and representation that treats the family and the case with appropriate seriousness.
WRONGFUL DEATH →Other Injury Claims
Not every injury fits neatly into a category. If another person's or company's conduct caused a serious injury, the first question is whether Texas law provides a claim and what evidence will be needed to establish it.
DISCUSS YOUR CASE →INSURANCE CLAIMS
The Insurance Company Is Already Evaluating the Claim.
After an accident is reported, an insurance company begins gathering information.
It may obtain statements, review photographs, examine vehicle damage, collect medical information, evaluate fault, identify available coverage, and assign a value to the claim.
That is its job.
Your job is not to make the insurance company's job easier.
Before important decisions are made, the case should be evaluated from the injured person's side as well.
That means understanding the available evidence, the medical history, the insurance coverage, the economic losses, and the ways the injury has affected the person's life.
A claim should not be evaluated solely by what has happened so far if the consequences of the injury are still unfolding.
VALUING THE CASE
The Number Has to Come From Somewhere.
Insurance claims eventually become numbers.
Medical expenses. Lost income. Property damage. Future treatment. Impairment. Pain. The ways an injury changes ordinary life.
But a serious injury case cannot be reduced responsibly to a number pulled from a formula or generated before the facts are understood.
The value of a case begins with the evidence of what was actually lost.
That is why the work comes before the demand.
The records have to be collected. The injuries have to be understood. The available coverage has to be identified. The effect on the client's life has to be documented.
Only then can a meaningful evaluation begin.
LITIGATION
Settlement Is an Outcome. Not a Strategy.
Many personal-injury cases resolve without a trial.
That does not mean a case should be prepared on the assumption that the insurance company's first reasonable-sounding offer is where the process ends.
A claim should be built around the evidence and the law. If a fair resolution can be reached, the client should understand why it is fair. If it cannot, the next question is what it will take to move the case forward.
A case is easier to negotiate when the other side knows you are prepared to litigate it.
THE PROCESS
What Happens Next?
01
We Understand What Happened
The case begins with the facts: how the accident happened, what evidence exists, what injuries resulted, what treatment has occurred, and what needs attention now.
02
We Build the Record
Relevant evidence, records, insurance information, medical documentation, and information about the losses caused by the accident are gathered and evaluated.
03
We Evaluate the Claim
Once the facts and the extent of the loss can be understood, the case can be evaluated and a strategy developed for pursuing the claim.
04
We Move the Case Forward
That may mean negotiation. It may mean litigation. Whatever the next step is, you should understand what is happening and why.
CENTRAL TEXAS PERSONAL INJURY
Injuries Along a Corridor That Never Stops Moving.
Interstate 35 runs through the center of the communities The Law Offices of John Green serves.
From San Marcos to New Braunfels, Seguin, and the surrounding Central Texas area, passenger vehicles, commercial trucks, motorcycles, students, commuters, and visitors share roads that carry enormous amounts of traffic every day.
The Law Offices of John Green represents people injured in accidents throughout Hays, Guadalupe, and Comal Counties and across Central Texas.
The office is in San Marcos. The work extends across Central Texas.
THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN GREEN, PLLC
Understand the Case Before You Decide What Comes Next.
If you were injured because of someone else's conduct, start by finding out where you stand.
We can discuss what happened, what information is available, and what the next step should be.
Start with a conversation.
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