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If someone else's carelessness sent you to a Fort Worth emergency room, a Fort Worth personal injury lawyer at The Texas Chongo Personal Injury Lawyers can take the insurance company off your hands. We represent injured people and their families throughout Fort Worth and Tarrant County, in English and in Spanish. Texas gives you two years to file suit, and every week that passes makes physical evidence and witness memory harder to recover.
The other side already has an adjuster assembling its version of events. Call (972) 529-3476 for a free case evaluation, and we will start protecting your side of the record. We work on a contingency fee basis, so there is nothing to pay while your case is pending.
Serious injury cases turn on what a lawyer can prove, not on how often a firm advertises. Our practice is built around trial work, and carriers respond differently to a file that is ready for a jury.
Our office is at 220 O'Connor Ridge Blvd in Irving, roughly half an hour east of downtown Fort Worth. Tarrant County cases stay in Tarrant County, and we handle the travel.
Clients also reach a lawyer rather than a message queue. Injury claims produce decisions on short notice, and those decisions are easier when the person answering already knows your file.
Our work covers the incidents that send Fort Worth families into a hospital and then into a fight with an insurance carrier.
Rear-end collisions on I-35W, intersection crashes on surface streets, and highway pileups all produce the same argument from carriers, which is that your injuries are smaller than your records show. We build the medical and liability proofs together.
Commercial motor carriers send investigators to the scene within hours. We move quickly to preserve driver logs, maintenance records, and electronic control module data before a company's retention policy quietly disposes of them. Those records often explain a collision better than any statement taken afterward.
A store or property owner is responsible for hazards it knew about or should have found. These cases live and die on timing evidence, meaning how long the danger sat there before it injured someone, which is why early investigation matters.
Texas is the only state where private employers can opt out of state workers' compensation coverage (becoming "nonsubscribers"). That distinction completely changes your legal options. We determine what coverage exists before paperwork is signed that could limit your rights, and we identify third parties whose equipment or conduct contributed to the incident.
A job site injury often involves a general contractor, a subcontractor, an equipment supplier, and a property owner at once. Each of those relationships can support a claim that lies entirely outside the employer relationship, and each carries separate insurance coverage.
When a family loses a spouse, parent, or child, the legal questions arrive at the worst possible moment. We take that weight on so relatives can focus on each other while the claim moves forward.
Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 requires a personal injury suit to be brought no later than two years after the day the cause of action accrues. A claim for injury resulting in death runs two years from the date of death. The strongest evidence in Tarrant County does not help once that date passes.
Under Section 33.001, a person may not recover damages if his percentage of responsibility is greater than 50 percent. Anything at or below that line still recovers, reduced by your assigned share. An adjuster who says partial fault ends the discussion is describing a rule Texas does not have.
Insurance carriers are on a clock of their own under Chapter 542 of the Texas Insurance Code:
An insurer that delays payment beyond those requirements owes interest on the claim at 18 percent a year as damages, together with reasonable and necessary attorney's fees. Documented delay stops being an inconvenience and becomes leverage.
Prejudgment interest rewards cases that are presented early and properly. Texas Finance Code Section 304.104 provides that interest runs from the earlier of the 180th day after the defendant receives written notice of a claim or the day suit is filed. In a case that takes two years to resolve, the date of a properly worded notice letter carries real financial weight.
Section 18.001 allows an affidavit from the provider or the person in charge of the billing records to serve as sufficient evidence that a charge was reasonable and that a service was necessary. Serve it by the 90th day after the defendant files an answer, and the defense must respond by the 120th day with a counteraffidavit from someone qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education. Neither document addresses causation, which is where the contested part of an injury case usually sits.
Most claims resolve before a jury is seated. Preparing as though yours will not is what gives a settlement discussion its weight.
Clients stay informed at each stage. Nothing gets accepted, rejected, or filed without your decision behind it.
TxDOT recorded 12,865 crashes inside the Fort Worth city limits in 2024, including 106 fatal crashes, 116 deaths, and 460 suspected serious injuries. Across Tarrant County, the totals reached 28,074 crashes and 201 deaths.
Those figures describe thousands of households that spent last year dealing with hospitals, employers, and adjusters simultaneously. The claims process does not pause while a family absorbs what happened.
Serious injury crashes cluster on the corridors people use every day, which is why so many Fort Worth claims involve a routine commute rather than anything reckless on the injured person's part.
Generally, you need three things: someone owed you a duty of care, that duty was breached, and the breach caused injuries you can document. Police reports, medical records, and photographs usually answer the question faster than a description of the incident does. A case evaluation is the quickest way to find out whether the available evidence supports those elements.
Value depends on medical expenses, lost income, future care needs, the severity and permanence of the injury, available insurance coverage, and any fault assigned to you. Two crashes that look identical on a police report can be worth very different amounts once the treatment records arrive. Anyone quoting a number before reading those records is guessing.
We handle injury cases on a contingency fee basis. Attorney's fees are deducted from the recovery at the end, and there is no charge for the initial case evaluation.
Not before you have spoken with a lawyer. Recorded statements get requested early for a reason. An offhand answer about how you feel three days after a crash can be quoted back months later, once the full extent of an injury is finally clear.
Chapter 542 imposes consequences for unreasonable delay, including interest at 18 percent per year plus attorney's fees. Documenting each missed deadline preserves that argument rather than letting it disappear.
Most do not. Cases still get prepared for trial, because a carrier evaluates a file differently once it knows the firm across the table is comfortable in a Tarrant County courtroom. If a fair resolution never arrives, the courthouse remains the alternative.
An adjuster was assigned to your file within hours of the incident. You deserve that same urgency working for you.
A Fort Worth personal injury lawyer at The Texas Chongo Personal Injury Lawyers will review what happened, explain how Texas law applies to your situation, and take over communication with the insurance company. Board-certified trial attorney David Sanchez leads the firm, and our team serves families in Fort Worth and Tarrant County in English and Spanish.
Call (972) 529-3476 to schedule a free case evaluation. We work on a contingency fee basis, and the first conversation costs you nothing.
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