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Standing Up for the Seriously Injured in San Antonio
San Antonio Personal Injury Lawyers
After a serious injury in San Antonio, two questions decide everything: who caused it, and what the harm is worth.
When someone else's negligence is the answer to the first, Texas law puts the cost on that party and its insurer: the medical bills, the lost income, and the lasting toll on your life.
A San Antonio personal injury lawyer proves who is responsible, documents what the injury actually cost, and holds the insurer to the real value of the claim instead of its first offer.
Lawsuit Legal is a Texas trial firm based in Houston, and we represent injured people across Bexar County and the South-Central Texas region.
Our Texas cases are led by personal injury attorney Don Worley, licensed by the State Bar of Texas, with more than 40,000 cases handled and over $100 million recovered for injury victims.
Bexar County records more crashes than any other county in Texas, driven by cross-border freight on I-35 and a fast-growing metro of more than two million people.
When an insurer refuses to pay what a claim is worth, our trial-ready attorneys are prepared to take it to a Bexar County jury.
Call (888) 713-6653 for a free, confidential review of your San Antonio injury claim. You Win or It's Free.
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The Texas Rules That Govern a San Antonio Injury Claim
Every San Antonio injury claim comes down to two questions: who is responsible, and what the losses are worth. Texas then layers its own rules on top, and several of them settle the outcome in Bexar County before a single number is discussed.
Texas is a fault state, and the minimum coverage runs out fast. The party that caused the harm pays for it, and you pursue that party's liability insurer directly, with no no-fault step in the way. Texas requires drivers to carry only 30,000 dollars per person, 60,000 dollars per accident, and 25,000 dollars in property damage, and a single trauma admission to University Hospital can exhaust those limits before discharge. That is the point where your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage often becomes the real source of recovery, and in a military city where many families carry higher UM and UIM limits, that coverage is sometimes larger than people realize.
The 51 percent bar can erase your recovery entirely. Texas follows modified comparative fault under Section 33.001 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code.[1] Your recovery drops by your share of fault, and it disappears once your share passes 50 percent. On a 300,000 dollar claim, 20 percent fault leaves 240,000 dollars, but cross to 51 percent and you recover nothing, which is exactly why the insurer works to push your share over that line.
You have two years to file, and far less to notify a government entity. Most San Antonio injury and wrongful death claims must be filed within two years of the injury under Section 16.003.[2] When VIA Metropolitan Transit, the City of San Antonio, or Bexar County is involved, a separate written notice is due far sooner under the Texas Tort Claims Act, six months by statute and as little as 90 days under some local charters.[3] Miss that notice window and the claim against the government entity is barred no matter how strong the facts are.
Texas caps medical malpractice, not an ordinary injury claim. A common misconception is that Texas caps injury awards across the board. It does not. Ordinary injury claims carry no statutory cap on economic or non-economic damages. The main exception is medical malpractice, where non-economic damages are limited to 250,000 dollars against physicians, with a separate limit against health care institutions under Section 74.301.[4] Knowing which rule applies sets a realistic value from the start.
If your employer opted out of workers' comp, your claim is a lawsuit, not a benefit. Texas is the only state that lets private employers decline workers' compensation, and many San Antonio employers do exactly that. An employer that opts out is a non-subscriber, and under Section 406.033 of the Labor Code it loses the common-law defenses most employers rely on, including blaming the injured worker.[5] That turns a serious work injury into a negligence case with no damage cap.
You can sue the bar that overserved. Texas has a Dram Shop Act under Section 2.02 of the Alcoholic Beverage Code, so a bar or restaurant that serves an obviously intoxicated person can share liability for the crash that person later causes.[6] After a drunk-driving wreck out of the St. Mary's Strip or the River Walk bar scene, that can add a second, better-insured defendant alongside the driver.
The Injury Cases We Take in San Antonio
Bexar County records more crashes than any county in Texas, more than Dallas with fewer people. On top of that, San Antonio is a military town, and a lot of the people we represent here wear the uniform or married into it. The cases that come out of San Antonio can involve legal layers that aren't as common elsewhere: a crash with a government vehicle, a service member who can't go back to duty, a USAA policy with limits higher than the family realized. Add in the fact that two Texas freight economies meet in San Antonio. We've got the border traffic coming up I-35 from Laredo and the energy traffic running I-10. It's a crash picture far more complicated than the average Texas city, and injury cases that often involve issues most firms rarely encounter.
We take the serious cases, the kind that need investigation, experts, and a firm willing to try them.
- Car and Auto Accidents. Rear-end, T-bone, and high-speed crashes on I-35, I-10, Loop 410, and Loop 1604. See our San Antonio car accident lawyers and the broader Texas auto accident team.
- Truck and 18-Wheeler Crashes. I-35 is the freight gateway from the Laredo border, and I-10 carries Eagle Ford energy traffic, putting commercial trucks next to commuters with policies far above the auto minimum. These cases are the focus of our San Antonio truck accident lawyers.
- Wrongful Death. Bexar County records hundreds of traffic deaths a year. When a San Antonio family loses someone to negligence, our San Antonio wrongful death lawyers pursue the full measure of the loss.
- Motorcycle Accidents. Year-round riding weather keeps more bikes on South Texas roads than most states see, and riders face a built-in bias from insurers. Our San Antonio motorcycle accident lawyers keep the case on the driver who failed to yield.
- Pedestrian Accidents. Wide arterials and heavy River Walk and Alamo tourist traffic put San Antonio among the most dangerous Texas metros for people on foot. We pursue pedestrian injury claims against the drivers responsible.
- Drunk Driving Crashes. The entertainment corridors and event nights drive frequent DUI wrecks. We pursue the drunk driver and, under the Dram Shop Act, the bar that overserved.
- Workplace and Non-Subscriber Injuries. Construction, energy, and service injuries across the metro, including negligence claims against San Antonio employers who carry no comp. See our Texas non-subscriber work injury lawyers.
- Brain and Catastrophic Injuries. Lifetime-cost injuries built to the full future-care number. Our brain injury and catastrophic injury attorneys document the decades of care ahead.
- Rideshare Accidents. Airport runs, Spurs nights, and Fiesta crowds put heavy Uber and Lyft volume on the roads, with coverage that turns on the driver's app status. Our rideshare accident lawyers sort out which policy applies.
If your injury is not on this list, call anyway. The only way to know whether you have a valid San Antonio claim is to have a lawyer review the facts.
What a Bexar County Injury Claim Can Recover
Texas does not cap damages in an ordinary injury case, so the recovery is set by the evidence rather than a statutory ceiling, with narrow exceptions for medical malpractice and for exemplary damages. Two people with the same diagnosis can recover very different amounts, because value is built from the specific injury, the documented losses, and the insurance available to pay them.
Recoverable damages in a San Antonio injury case may include:
- Past and future medical expenses for emergency care, surgery, hospitalization, rehabilitation, and medication.
- Long-term and life-care costs for a catastrophic injury such as a brain injury, spinal cord injury, or amputation.
- Lost wages and lost future earning capacity, including the career consequences a service member can face when an injury ends their ability to serve.
- Physical pain and suffering tied to the severity and duration of the injury.
- Mental anguish and emotional distress, including documented trauma after a serious crash.
- Disfigurement and permanent scarring, which carry their own value in severe injury cases.
- Physical impairment and loss of enjoyment of life.
- Loss of consortium for a spouse or family.
- Property damage and diminished value where a vehicle is involved.
- Out-of-pocket costs such as transportation, home modifications, and assistive devices.
- Exemplary damages where the conduct was grossly negligent, capped under Section 41.008.
Future medical care and lost earning capacity often dwarf the bills already paid, and because ordinary Texas injury claims are not capped, those numbers are recoverable in full. Get a free review of your claim and we will walk you through what your case realistically involves.
I-35, the Military Bases, and Where San Antonio Crashes Happen
Where you were hurt in Bexar County shapes who responds, which hospital treats you, which court hears the case, and what the injury ends up costing. Our attorneys handle claims across every freeway, beltway, and corridor in the metro.
I-35: The Laredo Freight Corridor
I-35 runs north to Austin and south to Laredo and the Mexican border, the busiest inland trade gateway in the country, so the segment through San Antonio carries some of the heaviest mixed freight and commuter traffic in the state. The downtown stretch has been under expansion for years, and its construction zones, compressed lanes, and the I-35 and I-10 merge feed steady rear-end and chain-reaction crashes. The most serious cases route to University Hospital, the region's only civilian Level I trauma center.
I-10, the Downtown Y, and Eagle Ford Traffic
I-10 carries east-west freight between Houston and El Paso, including the tanker and rig traffic serving the Eagle Ford Shale energy fields. The I-10 and I-35 interchange downtown, known as the Downtown Y, compresses two interstates into a tight merge, and the I-10 junctions with Loop 410 and Loop 1604 are among the highest-crash interchanges in the county.
Loop 410 and Loop 1604
The inner and outer beltways ring the metro, and rapid suburban growth along Loop 1604 through Stone Oak, Alamo Ranch, and Helotes has loaded a highway built for far less traffic. Loop 1604 at I-10, at US-281, and at Culebra Road, and Loop 410 on the east and west sides, are recurring crash zones where suburban commuter volume meets interchange merges at speed.
Joint Base San Antonio and the Military Roads
Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, and Randolph Air Force Base generate concentrated traffic surges at shift changes on Military Drive, Harry Wurzbach Highway, and Pat Booker Road. A crash involving an active-duty service member on a public road outside the gate is handled in the civilian court system, but when a government-owned vehicle caused it, the Federal Tort Claims Act can control the claim, with its own notice rules. Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston is a Level I trauma center serving military personnel and their families.
The River Walk, the Strip, and Downtown Entertainment
The River Walk, the Alamo, the Convention Center, and the AT&T Center draw heavy pedestrian and rideshare traffic, while the St. Mary's Strip and Southtown produce drunk-driving crashes that spike on weekend nights and during Fiesta, rodeo season, and Spurs runs. Pedestrian crashes downtown often involve visitors unfamiliar with the streets, and the dram shop claim against the bar that overserved is frequently part of these cases.
Bexar County District Courts
A San Antonio injury case generally files in the Bexar County civil district courts downtown, where the 73rd, 131st, 150th, and 288th courts hear personal injury cases, each with its own docket pace. Venue and the local jury pool affect how a case is handled. Bexar County recorded 215 traffic deaths and more than 48,000 crashes in 2024, the highest crash total of any county in Texas.[7]
Protecting Your Claim After a San Antonio Crash
If you were hurt in the San Antonio area and were not taken straight to a hospital, a few early steps protect both your health and your claim.
- Get safe and call 911. Move out of traffic if you can, and let the responding agency document the scene. Inside the city that is San Antonio PD, in unincorporated areas it is the Bexar County Sheriff, and on the state highways it is DPS.
- Accept medical care. Let EMS evaluate you and follow up at University Hospital, Methodist, or an urgent care. Brain injuries, internal injuries, and soft-tissue damage often surface days later, so a record that starts early matters.
- Document the scene. Photograph vehicle positions, the hazard or vehicle involved, visible injuries, and license plates, and get the names and numbers of any witnesses before they leave.
- Find the cameras. TxDOT highway cameras and the business surveillance along the commercial corridors overwrite within days, so the footage has to be identified and preserved fast.
- Be careful with the insurer. Report the incident, but you are not required to give a recorded statement or accept an early offer before you understand what the claim is worth.
- Talk to a San Antonio injury lawyer. A free consultation tells you whether you have a claim, what it may be worth, and which deadlines apply, and we will tell you honestly if you do not need a lawyer.
A Texas Firm Serving San Antonio From Houston
Lawsuit Legal does not keep a storefront in San Antonio. Our Texas office is in Houston, at 1770 St. James Place, and from there we represent injured people throughout Bexar County and South-Central Texas. For clients who are too injured to travel, we come to the home or hospital.
Texas injury law is the same in San Antonio as it is anywhere else in the state: the same two-year deadline, the same 51 percent bar, the same rules on damages and caps. A San Antonio case files in the Bexar County civil district courts downtown, and that is where we handle it.
Our Texas cases are led by Don Worley, a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and a member of the State Bar of Texas, which makes our San Antonio representation first-party Texas trial work rather than an out-of-state firm reaching in. From Texas we have handled more than 40,000 injury cases and recovered over $100 million for injury victims. Local to Texas. Serving all of Bexar County.