Recent Recoveries
- $2,000,000Car crash — litigation settlement
- $1,750,000Slip & fall — litigation settlement
- $1,000,00018-wheeler — litigation settlement
- $850,000Tractor-trailer — litigation settlement
- $650,000Commercial collision — litigation settlement
- $650,000Trucking accident — litigation settlement
- $550,000On-the-job injury — litigation settlement
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case. Every case is decided on its own facts.
Arlington is a city you have to drive across. There is no bus and no rail line through it, the arterials are six lanes wide, and twice a week most of North Texas drives into the middle of it for a game.
So the crashes here are the ones a road built for volume produces: left turns across four lanes of Cooper Street, rear-end impacts in queued traffic on I‑30, and multi-car collisions where SH‑360 merges into it. None of that is your fault and all of it is now your problem.
The first week decides most of what follows. The adjuster rings while you are still sore and asks for a recorded statement; the body shop wants an answer; the ER bill arrives before anybody has said who is paying it. None of that has to be handled by you.
Free case review
You speak to the attorney who would try it, not to a screener.
No fee unless we win
Nothing up front. The fee comes out of a recovery, or there is none.
Filed in Tarrant County
Where an Arlington crash belongs, and where these cases are tried.
Where It Happens
Where Arlington produces crashes
Collisions are not spread evenly over a city. Four situations account for most of what reaches this office from Arlington, and each one is proved a different way.
- 01The Entertainment District on an event dayTwo stadiums and a theme park emptying into the same four roads. Unfamiliar drivers, dense left turns off Collins and Division, and I‑30 backing up to a standstill behind it.
- 02The I‑30 and SH‑360 interchangeMerging traffic at freeway speed where the two busiest roads in the city cross. This is where Arlington produces multi-vehicle crashes rather than two-car ones.
- 03Cooper, Collins, Division and PioneerWide, fast arterials with commercial driveways every few hundred feet. Left turns across traffic and rear-end impacts at signals are the commonest claims we see from Arlington.
- 04I‑20 and the freight routes southCommercial traffic between Fort Worth and Dallas, and the distribution yards off Great Southwest Parkway. A truck brings a different set of records and a much larger policy.
Texas Law
Four rules that decide what you recover
None of these is an Arlington rule — they are Texas rules and they apply the same in Fort Worth, Dallas and Amarillo.
Texas is a “modified comparative fault” state, and 51% is the number
Your share of the blame comes off your recovery: awarded $100,000 and found 20% responsible, you are paid $80,000. That much is widely known and it is not the part that costs people their claims.
At 51% or more you recover nothing whatsoever. Not a reduced amount — nothing. Which is why an insurer’s cheapest move is never to dispute your injuries and always to argue about the percentage.
Two years to file, and shorter clocks inside it
Most Texas injury claims must be filed within two years of the crash. Claims against a city, a county, the State or a transit authority need written notice inside six months, and a claim brought after a death or on behalf of a child runs differently again.
The filing deadline is almost never what actually ends a case. Signal-timing data, business camera footage and the vehicles themselves are gone long before it — the two years is the last deadline to expire, not the first.
Punitive damages are a separate claim with a separate standard
You will find pages claiming that a particular city sets the criteria for these. None does.
They are also the one part of a Texas injury award that is capped: the greater of $200,000, or twice the economic damages plus non-economic damages up to $750,000. Compensatory damages in an ordinary crash claim are not capped at all, whatever an adjuster implies.
What this actually costs you
Nothing up front, and nothing at all unless there is a recovery. The percentage and the way case expenses are handled are set out in the written fee agreement before you sign anything, and we will go through it line by line rather than quoting you a range.
Be wary of any page that tells you what lawyers “typically” charge. A fee is a term of a contract you have not signed yet, not a market rate, and the only figure that matters to you is the one in your own agreement.
The Process
What happens when you call us
If you have never worked with a lawyer before you may feel overwhelmed, or a little suspicious. That is reasonable.
- 01
Free case review
You call or message us. We ask what happened, where in Arlington, and what you are dealing with now.
- 02
We take over the paperwork
We notify the insurers and take every call from then on, and we order the crash report from whichever agency actually worked it.
- 03
We preserve what is perishable
Camera footage on the businesses you passed, signal data, the vehicles themselves. In Arlington this is the work that has to happen in week one.
- 04
We build and negotiate
We value the whole claim — future treatment, impairment, the lost work — then push the adjuster. If they will not deal fairly, we file in Tarrant County.
- 05
You get paid
We go through the settlement line by line, including what comes out of it for liens and reimbursements, before anything is signed.
Questions
Arlington car accident FAQs
The questions people in Arlington ask on the first call, answered the way we answer them on the phone.
Where would my Arlington car accident case actually be filed?
Arlington is in Tarrant County, so a suit ordinarily goes to the Tarrant County courts in Fort Worth rather than to Dallas. That is true however the case is settled — and most are settled — because it is the court the other side knows you can take them to.
Do Arlington’s traffic laws work differently from the rest of Texas?
No, and this is worth saying plainly because it is a common claim on pages like this one. Speed limits, right of way, following distance and impaired driving are the Texas Transportation Code, statewide.
How do I get the crash report for a wreck in Arlington?
Texas CR‑3 reports go to TxDOT’s public portal and are usually available around ten days after the crash for a few dollars. Arlington police work city streets; DPS often works the interstates and state highways, so check both if the first search comes up empty.
The officer put me down as contributing to the crash. Is my claim over?
No. What an officer records on the report is an opinion formed at the roadside, usually without the footage, the vehicle data or a witness who had left before they arrived. It is not binding on an insurer, a judge or a jury.
What if the other driver has no insurance, or not enough of it?
Your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is built for exactly that, and it follows you rather than the car — it reaches you as a passenger, and it ordinarily reaches household relatives on their own policies.
Nearby
Other claims we take across the Metroplex
Arlington is one of the cities we are asked for by name. These are the neighbouring claim types and the other cities with a page of their own.
- 01Dallas Car AccidentsThe full practice page — damages, coverage and process
- 02Truck Accidents18-wheelers on I‑20 and I‑30
- 03Motorcycle AccidentsRiders hurt by inattentive drivers
- 04Uber & RideshareEvent-day rideshare crashes and their insurance layers
- 05Pedestrian AccidentsCrosswalk and parking-lot strikes
- 06Wrongful DeathClaims brought by a surviving family
- 07RichardsonUS‑75 and the Collin County line
- 08Double OakDenton County and the FM roads
