McAllen Personal Injury Lawyer

A personal injury case covers any injury someone else caused through carelessness, not just car wrecks. Slip and falls, dog bites, motorcycle wrecks, and 18-wheeler wrecks can all qualify, along with plenty of other situations. McAllen Accident Lawyer isn’t a law firm. We connect you with an independent Texas attorney who looks at what happened and tells you where you stand, for free.

What counts as a personal injury case

Texas law lets you seek compensation any time someone else’s carelessness leaves you hurt. That covers a wide range of situations, including:

• A car accident caused by another driver
• An 18-wheeler or commercial truck wreck
• A motorcycle wreck, where bias against riders often complicates the claim
• A pedestrian wreck, where a driver failed to yield or watch the road
• A bicycle wreck, where a driver turned across or doored a rider
• An Uber or Lyft crash, where an app screen decides whose insurance pays
• A fall on unsafe property, where a hazard sat unfixed too long
• A dog bite, which the owner’s home or renter’s insurance often covers
• The loss of a family member in a crash someone else caused
• Slip and falls, dog bites, and other everyday accidents someone else’s negligence caused

If your situation doesn’t fit neatly into one category, that’s fine. What matters is whether someone else’s carelessness caused your injury.

How contingency actually works

Most personal injury attorneys take cases on contingency, which just means you don’t pay by the hour or upfront. Instead of billing you, they take an agreed-upon slice of whatever they win on your behalf, spelled out in writing before any work begins. If they don’t win your case, you typically don’t owe an attorney fee at all. That arrangement is why a free case review costs you nothing to find out about, and why most people can afford a good attorney right after a wreck, even with no savings to spare.

What happens after you reach out

You’ll answer a few short questions about what happened to you. If your case looks like a fit, an independent Texas attorney reviews the details and lets you know what they think it may be worth. From there, it’s your call. Hire the attorney or don’t. Either way, you’ll know more than you did before you asked.

Your deadline and Texas’s fault rule

Texas gives you two years from the injury to file a lawsuit, so don’t wait to start building your case. Partial fault doesn’t wipe out your claim either. Texas only cuts you off once your share of responsibility hits 51% or higher; below that line, your award simply gets reduced to match your percentage. Both rules matter more than most people realize until it’s too late to use them.

Serving McAllen and all of Hidalgo County

McAllen is the largest city in the Rio Grande Valley, but it isn’t the county seat. Edinburg is, so most personal injury lawsuits filed over a McAllen wreck actually get filed at the Hidalgo County Courthouse in Edinburg, about 8 miles north. That’s true whether the wreck happened in McAllen, Mission, Pharr, or anywhere else in the county. Wherever you live in the Valley, the same Texas rules and the same court system apply to your claim.

Whatever kind of wreck brought you here, the guides section walks through what happens next, from getting your police report to understanding your deadline.