Record-Setting Houston Personal Injury Lawyers

Every client, and every case, is personal to us.

Recognized Among the Best Personal Injury Lawyers in America

When you face the world's largest companies, it's part of their playbook to outnumber and outspend you with lawyers. But corporate legal teams, no matter how large, do not intimidate us. Our Houston personal injury lawyers have built a record of taking on the toughest opponents and winning historic results for the people who need us most.

When clients are like family, you help them by winning.

Do You Have a Personal Injury Case in Houston?

When someone else's carelessness changes your life, Texas law gives you the right to hold them accountable. To bring a personal injury claim, you generally need to show four things: the person or company owed you a duty of care, they breached that duty, the breach caused your injury, and you suffered real damages as a result. In practice, it usually comes down to one question. Did a preventable decision hurt you?

Our Houston personal injury lawyers see the same pattern in almost every case we handle. A company knew about a risk and chose not to fix it. A trucking company kept a fatigued driver on the road. A plant skipped maintenance to avoid downtime. A manufacturer shipped a product it knew was dangerous. If that sounds like what happened to you or someone you love, you may have a case.

The cases we handle most often in Houston include truck and 18-wheeler accidents, work injuries, plant and refinery accidents, offshore and maritime injuries, motor vehicle accidents, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death claims.

Timing matters. Vehicles get repaired, equipment gets replaced, records get overwritten, and witnesses move or forget. The sooner a personal injury attorney starts investigating, the stronger your case will be. The consultation is free, and you pay nothing unless we win.

What Compensation Can You Recover in Texas?

Texas law allows injured people to pursue several kinds of compensation. The gap between a quick insurance offer and a full recovery is usually enormous, because a serious injury creates costs for years, not weeks.

• Economic damages cover the measurable losses: emergency care and hospital stays, surgeries, rehabilitation, future medical treatment and long-term care, lost wages and lost earning capacity, and property damage. In catastrophic injury cases, future care is often the largest number in the case. It is also the one insurance companies fight hardest to minimize.
• Non-economic damages compensate for the losses that never show up on a bill: pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, physical impairment, and loss of consortium. In cases involving gross negligence, Texas juries can also award exemplary damages to punish the wrongdoer.

Two Texas rules shape almost every injury claim. 

First, the statute of limitations. Under Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003, you generally have two years from the date of injury to file, and some claims carry shorter deadlines. Second, modified comparative fault. Texas reduces your recovery by your percentage of responsibility, and if you're found 51% or more at fault, you recover nothing. Insurance companies lean on that rule hard. Shifting blame onto the injured person is often their entire strategy, and proving what actually happened is a large part of what our personal injury attorneys in Houston do.

Texas Case Results That Set Records

Arnold & Itkin's trial lawyers have recovered more than $25 billion for clients, including verdicts and settlements that set records in Texas. Those results have earned recognition among the best personal injury lawyers in Houston and across the state.

• $860 Million: History-making verdict for a family after a fatal crane collapse in East Dallas.
• $357.7 Million: The largest workplace accident settlement in Texas history.
• $164.5 Million: Believed to be the largest settlement ever obtained on behalf of a single victim, for the family of a Texas worker fatally burned at an oil & gas facility.
• $92.7 Million: Texas record for a burn injury settlement.
• $77.5 Million: Settlement for a Houston man paralyzed in a forklift incident.
• $44 Million: Record verdict for a Houston construction superintendent catastrophically injured in a crane accident.

Past results never guarantee future outcomes, but they show what this firm has done when everything was on the line. See our full list of record-setting Texas verdicts and settlements and all our victories.

Texas Personal Injury Lawyers with Statewide Reach

Serious injury cases happen everywhere in Texas: on West Texas oilfields, at Gulf Coast refineries, on highways between Dallas and San Antonio. Arnold & Itkin's Houston headquarters anchors a statewide practice, and our Texas personal injury lawyers handle cases across the state through our offices in Dallas, San Antonio, and Midland.

Where a case is tried matters. Deadlines, judges, juries, and local defense counsel differ from venue to venue, and the right strategy in Harris County isn't always the right strategy in Dallas County or a West Texas courtroom. Our trial lawyers have won record results in venues across the state, including the $860 million East Dallas crane collapse verdict and a $39.7 million record verdict for a worker burned in a dust explosion at a Corrigan plywood plant. When a company's negligence changes a Texas family's life, we go where the case takes us.

If you're looking for personal injury attorneys in Texas who prepare every case for trial and have the results to prove it, the consultation is free, wherever you are in the state.