What to Do After a Car Accident Which Was Not Your Fault
How To Deal With a Car Accident That Was Not Your Fault When someone else causes a car accident and leaves you injured, you may not know what to do next—particularly if you’re injured and find yourself facing a mountain of bills for medical expenses. In that case, you...
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Seeking Medical Help After a Texas Car Accident
Injuries resulting from car accidents in Texas can cause serious injuries. Often times, these injuries require prompt medical care. It is important to seek immediate medical treatment in a critical care facility whenever you are involved in any accident, even more, if you are involved in a car accident....
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Personal Injury and Drunk Driving in Texas
Everyone in Texas knows that operating a vehicle impaired or drunk driving is dangerous and against the law. Yet, unspeakably, thousands of people are still arrested every year for drunk driving. What victims of Drunk Driving Accidents Should Know about Their Rights The huge consequence of drunk driving accidents...
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Calculating Diminished Value After a Texas Car Accident
Once your car has been involved in an accident, prospective buyers may shy away from purchasing it. In fact, there are services like CarFax that report on prior accidents because it is something that people want to know when buying a used car. The car will drop in value,...
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The Dangers of Road Rage
The next time you get behind the wheel, watch out. There are many angry drivers on the road. Recently, one Corpus Christi road rage incident allegedly started at a local elementary school around 7:30 a.m. and ended with a truck crashing into a home. More recently, Corpus Christi police...
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Seeking Compensation for a Rear-End Collision
When you get behind the wheel, you have a full amount of control over your own actions and driving habits. However, you have no control over the actions and driving habits of others on the road. No matter how careful you are, you can still end up in a...
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When a Reckless Driver Injures You
Texas law defines reckless driving as driving a vehicle “in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.” The law leaves a lot of room for interpretation…which is the point. Reckless driving takes many different forms, but all of them have one thing in common: putting...
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TABC Probing for Alcohol Source From Fatal Rollover Crash
Earlier this month, a fatal rollover accident claimed the life of a Tuloso-Midway High School student, and the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission now wants to know how this event unfolded. Justin Franco was 18 at the time of the accident. Franco was operating the vehicle when he and his...
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Causes of Car Accidents
In one recent year, motorists suffered 249,241 injuries throughout Texas due to traffic crashes, with 3,639 fatalities in the state, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Closer to home, Corpus Christi witnessed 8,601 total crashes last year, causing 29 fatalities, 137 serious injuries, and 755 non-incapacitating injuries. What...
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Corpus Christi Personal Injury Law Firm Recognized With America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigator Award
Corpus Christi Personal Injury Law Firm Recognized With America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigator Award The Patel Firm PLLC Corpus Christi Personal Injury Law Firm is pleased to announce that Mr. Minesh J. Patel, the firm’s principal attorney, has been awarded the America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigator award for...
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