Fight for Your Full Motorcycle Injury Payout
A Dallas motorcycle accident lawyer should test the driver’s account against movement, sight lines, equipment and independent evidence. A rider may be receiving care while the first report is written. Genthe investigates that gap alongside the lasting effects on treatment, work and daily life.
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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.
Client Reviews
What our clients say about us
Selected reviews reproduced as written and attributed to their authors. Individual experiences and prior results do not guarantee an outcome.
Rated five out of five stars
“Genthe Law Firm is the absolute best!!! The attorney that handled my case was Aaron, he is great! They handled the case quickly, had my best interest at heart, cared about my injuries and issues I encountered due to my accident, and kept me updated with each step!”
Skylar Latimore
Rated five out of five stars
“I was injured in a car accident and was not sure what to do… They investigated the accident, gathered evidence, and negotiated with the insurance company… They were able to get me a settlement that exceeded my expectations.”
Rick Rye
Rated five out of five stars
“I want to thank Aaron and his team for the great professional service. They got me and my daughter a really great settlement for our injuries. Always kept in touch updating us on our case.”
Ally M
Your Attorney
The lawyer who works your case
Meet Aaron Genthe, founder of Genthe Law Firm, who represents injured people in Dallas and throughout Texas.
Founder · Trial Attorney
Aaron Genthe
A Texas A&M graduate who went into personal injury straight out of law school, Aaron spent years as a litigator at one of the larger firms in Dallas — long enough to build a reputation as an aggressive and effective attorney, and long enough to watch how easily a client becomes a file number at a firm that size.
He started Genthe Law Firm so that the person you speak to about your crash is the person who tries it. He has litigated collision cases in courts across Dallas County and North Texas since, including the ones where a rider was blamed for being on a bike.
- Practicing since
- 2015
- Education
- Texas A&M graduate
- Fee
- Contingency — nothing unless you recover
Representation built around your case
Get Lawyers Who Fight for Motorcycle Riders
Dallas motorcycle accident representation should test the driver’s explanation and preserve the rider’s equipment, account and supported injury losses.
01 · Individual case strategy
Your Ride Gets More Than Unfair Assumptions
“I did not see the motorcycle” is an explanation to examine, not a settlement plan.
Genthe considers the approach, visibility, equipment and independent evidence alongside treatment and restrictions. The case gets an individual assessment before an offer is evaluated. We do not let a broad assumption about riders replace the work needed to understand your collision.
02 · Attorney-led representation
Your Attorney Gives You Personal Attention
The rider should understand what supports the advice.
Your lawyer evaluates the disputed accounts, coverage questions and settlement terms. Paralegals support the collection and organization of records while the attorney stays involved in important decisions. You can discuss how repairs, protective equipment or ongoing limitations affect the motorcycle injury claim.
Meet the Genthe team
03 · Trial-ready advocacy
We Prepare for Trial to Fight Underpayment
The evidence should explain why an insurer’s account is incomplete.
We connect the motorcycle and movement evidence with documented losses, preparing the case for court when necessary. That trial readiness strengthens negotiations by showing the work behind the claim rather than relying on an unsupported argument about who should have noticed whom.
We test competing accounts against equipment, positions and witnesses, then build the injury and loss presentation for negotiations or court. Discuss the file or an offer for free, with written terms before representation.
Why It Matters
Why riders are treated differently
A motorcycle claim is not a car claim with a smaller vehicle in it. The injuries are worse, the insurer knows it, and so the fight moves to the one thing still arguable — whose fault it was.
Take a trip down U.S. 75 and you will see how much of the traffic is looking at a phone rather than the road. Motorcycles get cut off, tailed too closely and pushed out of a lane by drivers who never registered them. It is dangerous, and it is not the rider’s doing.
Insurance companies are in the business of paying out as little as they can, and on a motorcycle claim the cheapest lever is the oldest stereotype: that riders are speed demons who bring it on themselves. It gets pushed in the adjuster’s notes, in the recorded statement they ask you for, and in front of a jury if it gets that far.
Answering it takes evidence gathered early — the crash report, the scene, the damage to both machines — and a firm the other side knows will put it in front of a jury. That is the difference you are hiring.
The injuries in these cases are rarely the argument. What the insurer argues is that the rider caused it — and that argument is beaten with evidence, not with indignation.
Aaron Genthe · Founder
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The stereotype arrives before you do
The file is opened on the assumption you were speeding, weaving or showing off. Nothing has to be proved for that to shape the first offer.
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Severe injuries make them fight liability
There is no crumple zone, so the medical bills are rarely arguable. What an insurer argues instead is that you caused it.
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Every point of blame is money
Under Texas comparative fault, blame shifted onto the rider comes straight off the recovery — which is what makes the stereotype pay.
How They Happen
The four ways riders are hit
Motorcycle collisions are not random. Four patterns account for most of what comes through this office, and each one is proved a different way.
- 01Left turns across your laneThe single most common way a rider is hurt: a driver turning left misjudges the speed of an oncoming bike, or never registers it at all.
- 02Lane changes and blind spotsA motorcycle occupies a fraction of a lane and disappears in a mirror. Merges on 635 and the Tollway put riders on the shoulder or under a wheel.
- 03Rear-ended in stopped trafficStruck from behind at a light or in stopped traffic — the crash where the rider has the least warning and the least to absorb it.
- 04Impaired and distracted driversAlcohol, drugs and a phone in the lap. The most preventable crashes on the road, and the ones juries treat least kindly.
Save Evidence That Supports Your Rider Account
Map the approach and turn
Mark your lane, direction and intended movement and where the other vehicle entered your path. Separate your recollection from later explanations. A witness who saw only the motorcycle on the ground may not resolve the right-of-way question. Identify speed and distance estimates as estimates.
Keep original photographs and recordings
Save wide scene views, contact-damage locations, sight lines and the complete camera file with its lead-in. Visibility, speed and road position need evidence rather than rider stereotypes. Note whether independent accounts describe the approach, impact or aftermath.
Preserve the motorcycle and gear
Identify who towed or stored the motorcycle and where equipment is held. Bring existing inspection, repair, gear and condition photographs, plus any planned repair, sale or disposal. Ask what needs review before the condition changes. Helmet use alone does not settle every injury or responsibility issue.
Separate coverage and recovery
Keep other-driver and possible UM/UIM, PIP or other-benefit correspondence apart from treatment, scarring, restrictions, lost income and equipment value. Confirm insured status, exclusions and policy requirements. Future limitations need support; repair cost does not measure the injury.
Questions for your consultation
Ask which independent evidence could test the driver’s account and what should be reviewed before equipment changes. You can begin without a reconstruction report or complete equipment file. Identify the decisions approaching and bring what exists.
Injuries
What these crashes do to a rider
A motorcycle offers no cage, no airbag and no seatbelt. The injuries below are the ones that decide what a claim is worth, and every one of them is treated over months rather than days.
Road rash and burns
Sliding contact with pavement strips skin to the fat or the bone, and contact with an exhaust or a fuel fire burns deeper still.
Orthopedic injury and limb loss
Legs, feet, hands and pelvis take the impact and then take the weight of the bike.
Spinal damage and paralysis
Fractures and disc injury through the neck and lower back, up to complete or partial paralysis.
Head injury and traumatic brain injury
A helmet reduces the risk of a skull fracture. It does not stop the brain moving inside it.
Internal and organ damage
Bleeding, ruptured organs and nerve damage that are not visible at the scene and are sometimes not symptomatic on the day. It is the reason to be examined even when you walk away.
Texas Law
The four rules that decide a rider’s claim
Even when the crash was plainly the driver’s fault, Texas law shapes what you recover. These four decide most of it, and the first is the one riders most often get wrong.
Riding without a helmet does not bar your claim
Helmet nonuse does not by itself decide fault for the collision or automatically defeat every injury claim. Transportation Code §661.003 addresses helmet-use offenses and exceptions; it does not create a blanket civil-evidence exclusion. The legal duty, medical causation and any responsibility argument require individual review.
Blame is divided, and the split is the case
CPRC §33.001 bars recovery when a claimant’s responsibility exceeds 50%. At 50% or less, §33.012 reduces damages by the assigned percentage. Evidence about who caused the crash and who caused the claimed harm must be assessed under the applicable law.
You have two years, and rather less in practice
CPRC §16.003 generally sets two years for personal injury. Government notice, minority, wrongful death and other exceptions need separate review. Preserve the motorcycle, gear, photographs and available recordings promptly rather than treating the filing deadline as a retention period.
What raises the number, and what lowers it
The same crash is worth different amounts depending on what can be proved about it. These are the factors that move it:
Case Value
What your claim can actually include
“What is my case worth?” is the first question on almost every call, and no honest answer comes before the treatment is understood.
Economic losses
The half of the claim that is proved with paper. Keep the bills, the receipts and the pay stubs, including the gear.
Medical treatment
Ambulance, ER, imaging, surgery, hardware and the rehabilitation still ahead of you — motorcycle injuries are treated for longer than almost any other kind.
Lost income
The weeks you could not work, and the shifts you will lose to appointments and surgeries months from now.
Lost earning capacity
Where a hand, a leg or a back injury means you cannot return to the trade you had, or cannot do it for as many years.
The motorcycle and your gear
Repair or replacement of the bike, and of the helmet, leathers, boots and gloves it destroyed. Gear is routinely left out of a first offer and is routinely worth four figures.
Out-of-pocket costs
Prescriptions, braces and mobility equipment, mileage to treatment, and the help at home you had to pay someone for.
Non-economic losses
The half an adjuster leaves out of a first offer because no invoice arrives for it. It is argued rather than added up, and on a motorcycle claim it is usually the larger half.
Pain and suffering
The physical toll of the injury and of the treatment it took to put right, over the months it actually took.
Disfigurement
Scarring, grafts and visible injury, valued separately from the surgery that caused or repaired them.
Physical impairment
What you can no longer do — lift, kneel, grip, or get back on a bike at all.
Mental anguish
Sleeplessness, flashbacks at intersections, and the anxiety that keeps a rider off the road long after the injury has healed.
Loss of consortium
A claim belonging to a spouse or a parent, for what a catastrophic injury took out of the relationship.
The Process
What happens when you call us
- 01
Reconstruct the approach
Identify the rider’s lane, the other vehicle’s movement and the source of each account. Separate an eyewitness description from a driver’s inference after the crash.
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Keep the motorcycle traceable
Record the storage or repair location and photograph the bike and equipment. Preserve original recordings where available before authorizing changes that could affect examination.
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Review the driver’s explanation
Compare statements about visibility, turning or lane changes with physical evidence. A dispute should identify the fact in question rather than rely on a general claim that motorcycles are hard to see.
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Document ongoing effects
Organize medical records, work restrictions, expenses and damaged gear. Consider what remains uncertain before a proposal is treated as a final valuation.
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Read the release carefully
Identify whether a payment resolves property damage, injury claims or both. The decision should reflect the release’s actual scope and the evidence available at that time.
Also Handled Here
If your crash was something else
These are the neighboring claims the firm litigates most often, and the North Texas city with a motorcycle page of its own.
- 01Garland Motorcycle AccidentsRiders hurt in northeast Dallas County
- 02Car AccidentsThe driver who pulled out on you
- 03Truck Accidents18-wheelers, tankers and trailers
- 04Wrongful DeathClaims brought by a surviving family
- 05Traumatic Brain InjuryHead injury under a helmet
- 06Bicycle AccidentsCyclists struck on Texas roads
- 07Pedestrian AccidentsCrosswalk and parking-lot strikes
- 08Uber & RideshareRideshare insurance layers untangled
Read more on riding in Texas
- Motorcycle Laws in TexasLicensing, helmets and equipment
- Top 4 Causes of Motorcycle AccidentsWhat the crash reports show
- What To Do After a Motorcycle AccidentThe order to do it in
- Rear-Ended While Lane Splitting in Texas?Where the fault lands
- Motorcycle vs. Car Accidents: Legal DifferencesWhy the claims are not the same
- Watch What You Say — And What You PostSocial media in an injury claim
- Can I Sue If My Loved One Died in a Crash?Who may bring the claim
- Safest Motorcycle HelmetsRatings and what they measure
- Reducing the Risk of a Devastating CrashGear, visibility and positioning
- Tips for Avoiding Motorcycle AccidentsDefensive riding in traffic
Across North Texas
Motorcycle accident cases across Dallas–Fort Worth
Riders here split their miles between the interstates and the lake roads, and both produce serious crashes.
We represent riders hurt on I-35E, I-30, LBJ and the tollways, and on the two-lane roads out toward Lewisville Lake, Lake Ray Hubbard and Grapevine Lake, across Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties.
A motorcycle accident case can usually be filed in the county where the crash happened. Our office is on Coit Road in North Dallas, and we meet clients wherever is easiest for them.
Motorcycle accident FAQs
Can I still recover if I was not wearing a helmet?
Possibly. Transportation Code §661.003 sets helmet-use rules and exceptions for some riders age 21 or older. It does not say helmet nonuse is inadmissible or can never affect recovery. Fault for the collision, legal compliance and evidence about the cause of a particular injury are distinct questions for an attorney to assess.
Separate the applicable helmet rule from medical causation and other collision evidence. Nonuse should not stand in for a complete responsibility analysis.
What can I be compensated for after a motorcycle accident in Dallas?
Medical costs already incurred and still ahead of you, wages lost and future earning capacity, the motorcycle and the riding gear, and non-economic losses — pain, mental anguish, disfigurement and physical impairment.
Do I have to report a motorcycle accident to the Dallas police?
Under Transportation Code §550.026, an operator must immediately notify the proper authority after a collision causing injury, death or vehicle damage that prevents normal and safe driving. The $1,000 threshold in §550.062 concerns an investigating officer’s written report. Do not confuse the two duties. In an emergency, call 911.
Who is liable for a motorcycle accident?
It depends on what the evidence shows. Witnesses, the crash report and the physical damage to both vehicles establish who was negligent, and more than one party can share it — a driver, an employer, or the authority responsible for a hazard in the roadway.
How much does a Dallas motorcycle accident lawyer cost?
Nothing up front. We work on contingency: the fee comes out of the settlement or verdict, and if there is no recovery there is no fee.
How long do I have to file a motorcycle accident claim in Texas?
Two years from the date of the crash in most cases. Claims involving a government vehicle, a death, or an injured minor can run to a different deadline, and it is worth calling early either way — the evidence goes long before the deadline does.
What if the driver who hit me had no insurance?
Check whether an applicable policy provides UM/UIM coverage, its limits and any written rejection or motorcycle-related exclusion. A policy for another vehicle does not automatically cover every motorcycle collision. Other responsible parties or coverage may also require investigation.
Will my case have to go to trial?
Most do not. But insurers settle differently with a firm that tries cases than with one that does not, and they keep a record of which is which.
Do you handle motorcycle accident cases outside Dallas?
Yes. We are based in North Dallas and handle motorcycle accident cases across Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, including Plano, Frisco, Richardson, Garland, Irving, Arlington and Fort Worth, and elsewhere in Texas when we can help.
The insurer says its driver never saw me. What should be reviewed?
That statement should be tested against the driver’s movement, the rider’s position, sight lines and any available recording or witness account. It is an explanation to investigate, not a substitute for the evidence. Preserve the original scene and vehicle photographs rather than trying to recreate an unsafe position on the road.
Should a bike repair payment settle the injury claim too?
Check the actual release and payment terms. Property damage and bodily injury can raise different valuation questions, especially while treatment and work restrictions are still developing. Keep the repair estimate and proposed paperwork so an attorney can explain what the insurer is asking you to resolve.
Which Dallas motorcycle-crash photographs should I retain?
Keep wide roadway views, vehicle damage, riding equipment and identifying details already available. Label timing and positions; a motorcycle photographed at a tow yard does not show where it lay at the scene.
What if another vehicle turned across the rider’s path?
Describe both approaches, intended turn, contact point and sight obstructions. The investigation should evaluate the movement and available evidence rather than treating the phrase left-turn crash as a complete responsibility finding.
Can an exhaust sound establish how fast the motorcycle was traveling?
Sound alone is not a reliable speed measurement. Preserve the witness’s actual observations and any recording; do not transform a description such as loud or fast into an unsupported numerical speed.
Should I retain a camera file from several minutes before impact?
Yes, if available. The lead-in can help explain movement and context that a short edited clip omits. Keep the original file and note any clock error rather than silently changing timestamps.
How do I document damage to specialized riding gear?
Keep photographs, purchase or replacement information and the items’ location. Separate equipment value from treatment and income effects so a gear-payment discussion does not obscure the injury claim.
Can a Dallas motorcycle passenger need a separate review?
Potentially. The passenger’s account, injuries and interests may differ from the rider’s. Explain the people involved and any conflicting evidence before assuming one person’s claim decisions bind everyone.
What if the insurer alleges lane splitting without supporting footage?
Ask what evidence supports the allegation and retain the full account. The exact positions and movements should be investigated rather than accepting or rejecting a factual claim solely because it is asserted confidently.
How can work restrictions affect a rider who uses their hands professionally?
Document the actual tools, grip, reach and tasks affected, with medical restrictions and earnings information. A return to the workplace may still involve modified duties; record the practical difference.
What can Genthe review when the motorcycle is declared a total loss?
The firm can assess preservation needs, the property paperwork and separate injury issues. A total-loss valuation describes the vehicle’s economics; it does not establish fault or the value of the rider’s recovery needs.