Category: Car Accidents
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NTTA Toll Road Accident Claims: Dallas North Tollway, Bush Turnpike, and Who’s Actually Liable
The Dallas North Tollway, the President George Bush Turnpike, the Sam Rayburn Tollway, and the Chisholm Trail Parkway carry a large share of Dallas-Fort Worth’s daily commuting traffic — and all of them are operated by the North Texas Tollway Authority, a governmental entity. That single fact changes an NTTA toll road accident claim in…
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The Insurance Adjuster Called. Who Are They Actually Working For?
When an insurance adjuster called you after the accident, they were working for exactly one party: the company that employs them. That is true even when the adjuster is warm, sympathetic, and says they want to “get you taken care of.” An adjuster is a claims employee. The job description is to investigate, value, and…
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What Photos to Take After a Car Accident
The photos to take after a car accident fall into five groups: the vehicles, the scene, the road, the people, and the paperwork. Most people get the first group and stop. The claim usually turns on the other four. A photograph of your crumpled bumper proves your bumper was crumpled. A photograph of the other…
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Why Injuries Show Up Days After a Crash — and What It Means for a Claim
Injuries show up days after a crash for a reason that has nothing to do with imagination and everything to do with physiology: adrenaline and cortisol suppress pain for hours, inflammation takes a day or two to build, and the soft tissues most commonly damaged in a collision don’t have the nerve density to report…
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Do You Have to Give a Recorded Statement to an Insurance Adjuster?
No law requires you to give a recorded statement to the other driver’s insurance company, and nothing in that adjuster’s polite request changes that. The call usually comes within a day or two of a crash. The adjuster sounds friendly, says it’s routine, and asks to record “a few quick questions.” The questions are not…
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What Happens If the Other Driver Has No Insurance
When the other driver has no insurance, the claim doesn’t go to their insurer because there isn’t one; it goes to yours, under a coverage called uninsured motorist, if you bought it. Every state requires drivers to carry liability insurance or prove financial responsibility. A meaningful share of drivers ignore that requirement anyway. The result…
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What to Do After a Car Accident: The First Ten Minutes
The first ten minutes after a car accident decide more about a later claim than the next ten weeks. That’s not because the law rewards speed. It’s because evidence disappears fast. Cars get moved, witnesses drive away, skid marks get rained on, and the other driver’s story starts to change the moment they call their…
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Crashes on I-635, I-35E, and the High Five: Dallas Highway Claims
A highway accident lawyer in Dallas starts with the road itself: I-635, I-35E, I-30, I-20 and US-75 converge through the Metroplex, and the High Five interchange where I-635 meets US-75 carries roughly 500,000 vehicles a day across five levels. Toll-lane transponder and camera records can help prove fault, construction-zone hazards can add a claim against…
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What to Do After a Car Accident in Dallas
A car accident lawyer Dallas drivers turn to sees a market that runs on different law than Arizona entirely. Texas is the second new state in this expansion, after the original Phoenix and Tucson coverage. Every statute cited here traces back to the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, not the Arizona Revised Statutes. That…
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Mount Lemmon and Catalina Highway Accidents: Sky Island Driving Hazards
A Mount Lemmon accident claim starts with a road unlike almost anything else in the region. The Catalina Highway climbs more than 6,000 feet from the desert floor near Tanque Verde Road to close to the summit. It does that in about 27 miles of hairpin curves, narrow shoulders, and steep drop-offs. Officially the General…