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I have recovered millions of dollars for injured people and their families in car accident, truck accident and other personal injury settlements. Every one of these is a real case. What yours is worth depends on what happened to you.
Millions of dollars recovered for injured Texans. Those recoveries came from car accident settlements, commercial truck and 18-wheeler claims, and other personal injury matters across Harris County and the surrounding counties.
Every one of them started the same way: somebody was hurt by someone else’s carelessness, and an insurance company was hoping they would take the first number offered.
A selection of recoveries obtained for injured Texans in car accident, commercial truck and other personal injury claims. Client names and identifying details are not published.
Car, truck and motor vehicle recoveries
One contributing factor on the crash report. The truck driver.
A dump truck changed lanes when it was not safe and sideswiped the driver’s side of our client’s car on SH 288. Conservative care and epidural injections did not help, and he underwent a lumbar discectomy. The defense argued the herniations were degenerative, but he had never injured his back or been told he needed surgery before the crash. Filed in Brazoria County and taken through mediation.
The van’s own dash camera sank the defense.
The video showed a clear view of the signal, undercutting the claim that trees blocked it. Injections did not help and our client underwent nerve surgery. We sued the employer directly for keeping a driver with prior violations on the road.
Our client’s car. The van’s own dash camera is what undid the defense.
Two clients in one vehicle, both with surgery recommended.
The van pulled into the roadway and the police investigation cited its driver. The airbag deployed into the driver, who was treated with therapy, an epidural injection and a bilateral rhizotomy. Her passenger had strain injuries to the neck, shoulder and lower back, and an orthopedic surgeon recommended ligament reconstruction.
A lumbar fusion, two years after the crash.
Our client was driving his employer’s van on Sam Houston Parkway when a pickup, pushed by a second truck that rear-ended it, struck him from behind. Disc herniations in his neck and back were treated with epidural and facet injections before surgery. Pursued through suit and mediation.
He drove on. She got the plate.
An 18-wheeler struck her vehicle on the IH-10 East Freeway and forced it into a full spin. Video later showed the driver on his phone in heavy rain. She had permanent disc herniations treated with epidural injections to the neck, low back, knee and hip.
The defense blamed road debris. The evidence did not.
The trailer struck the passenger side of his pickup on IH-10 and a state trooper cited its driver. Neck and back injuries were treated with therapy, chiropractic care and cervical and lumbar epidural injections, and his surgeon recommended surgery on his lower back.
Our client’s pickup at the scene, and the damage once it was loaded.
He admitted causing it. The injuries were permanent anyway.
Both clients had permanent disc herniations in the neck and low back, and the driver also injured her shoulder. Therapy, chiropractic care and spinal injections failed to give lasting relief, and each underwent a lumbar radiofrequency ablation.
Our client’s vehicle after the lane change. Photographs from our own client’s file.
The vehicle rolled several times.
A tractor-trailer rear-ended him on Fairbanks North Houston Road. He had permanent disc herniations in his neck and back, treated with emergency care, physical therapy and chiropractic care, and his doctors recommended injections and a lumbar fusion.
A wheel left another vehicle and came through her glass.
We alleged the vehicle’s owner failed to keep the lug nuts tight. She was treated at the emergency room on Telge Road, then with physical therapy and chiropractic care. Lumbar injections gave about half relief and her doctors recommended more.
Our client’s windshield, from outside and from the front of the car.
Fractures in one hand, meniscus tears in both knees.
A speeding pickup clipped the rear of his vehicle and spun it into the wall. He also had permanent disc herniations in his neck and back, was treated with epidural injections, and his doctors recommended hand reconstruction.
A Harris County deputy found the other driver failed to yield.
The car struck the passenger side of hers on Wilson Road. She had neck, back and chest injuries with permanent disc herniations, treated with a lumbar epidural injection and then laser treatments. The claim was pursued in federal court.
Rear-ended once, then that driver was rear-ended too.
Houston police cited the last driver in the line. Our client had permanent disc injuries treated with cervical medial branch blocks, shoulder injections and lumbar epidural injections, and a neuropsychological evaluation diagnosed a concussion with post-concussion syndrome.
The freeway where our client was stopped when he was hit from behind.
A right turn from the middle lane, and four vehicles involved.
Our client was stopped at a red light. The driver who turned struck a car that crossed the median into a second vehicle, which then hit him, and that driver was cited. He had disc herniations in his low back treated with therapy, chiropractic care and multiple facet joint injections.
Other injury claims
The crew objected to the lift. The supervisor ordered it anyway.
An oilfield worker was hurt while his crew installed a blowout preventer. We contended the operator’s supervisor ordered the equipment lifted with the rig’s block line instead of a forklift. A hoist line snagged and a bolt struck his hand, costing him part of a finger and leaving permanent disfigurement.
Further recoveries
Additional motor vehicle and personal injury recoveries obtained for injured Texans, each of $100,000 or more.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome, and every case turns on its own facts. Client names and identifying details are not published.
Settlement amounts are not assigned from a chart. Three things move them more than anything else, and two of them are outside your control once the crash has happened.
The medical record. A documented injury with consistent treatment argues for itself. Gaps in treatment are the single most common reason a claim is worth less than it should be.
How fault is divided. Texas reduces a recovery by the injured person’s share of the blame, and once that share passes half there is no recovery at all. That is why an adjuster’s early questions are rarely idle.
How much insurance exists. A claim can be worth more than the coverage available, and then the coverage decides it. The Texas minimum is $30,000 per injured person, and a great many drivers carry exactly that.
If you want the long version of that arithmetic, I have written it out: what a Texas car accident case is actually worth, and how long a settlement takes.
A list of recoveries is a set of outcomes with the reasons removed, and the reasons are what decide your case. Two claims with almost identical facts can end very differently because of the medical evidence, the fault argument and the policy limits behind them.
And not every case settles, nor should it. When an insurer will not pay what a claim is worth, the answer is a jury. Being willing to go there matters long before anyone walks into a courtroom — an adjuster who knows a file will actually be tried values it differently from one who assumes it will not.
So I will not point at a number and tell you what yours is worth. I will look at your bills, your policy and the other driver’s, and tell you plainly what is actually available — including when I think you do not need a lawyer at all.
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Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts, its own evidence and the insurance available to pay it. The results described on this page include matters resolved while Drew Shirley practiced at a previous firm. Nothing on this page is a promise, a guarantee or a prediction about any particular case, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.