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.
Richardson is a commuting city built around one road. Central Expressway carries the whole of it north and south, with service roads either side and a signal at every cross street, and the offices along it empty into the same lanes at the same hour twice a day.
So the crashes here are the ones that geometry produces: rear-end impacts in queued traffic, ramp merges into stopped cars, U-turns under the highway where nobody agrees who yielded, and left turns across six lanes of Belt Line. None of it 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 anyone 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.
Dallas or Collin County
Richardson sits in both, and we file in whichever one your crash was in.
Where It Happens
Where Richardson produces crashes
Collisions are not spread evenly over a city, and a list of road names says nothing without the reason each one is on it.
- 01US‑75 and its frontage roadsCentral Expressway runs through Richardson with continuous one-way service roads and signals on every cross street. Exit-ramp merges into stopped queues, and Texas turnarounds where nobody agrees who yielded.
- 02The Bush Turnpike interchangeSH‑190 crossing US‑75 at the top of the city: high-speed merging, long ramps and the multi-vehicle collisions that come with them rather than simple two-car ones.
- 03Belt Line, Coit, Campbell and ArapahoSix-lane arterials with a commercial driveway every few hundred feet. Left turns across traffic and red-light running at the big intersections are the commonest Richardson claims we see.
- 04The DART line and the crossingsFour rail stations and the at-grade crossings between them. A collision involving DART is not an ordinary car claim — see the six-month clock below.
Texas Law
Four rules that decide what you recover
These apply the same in Richardson as in Plano, Dallas or Amarillo. They are on the page because they are what an adjuster is working to on the day they ring you, and almost nobody is told about the second one in time.
Texas is a “modified comparative fault” state
Your share of the blame comes off your recovery, and at 51% or more you recover nothing at all.
Which is why an insurer’s cheapest move is rarely to dispute that you were hurt. It is to argue about the percentage, and on a frontage-road or U-turn collision they have something to argue with.
Two years to file — unless a public body is involved
Most Texas injury claims must be filed within two years of the crash. A claim touching DART, the City of Richardson, Collin or Dallas County or the State runs on six months’ written notice instead, and a home-rule city may set a shorter one by charter.
Neither deadline is what usually ends a case. Business camera footage is overwritten in days or weeks, signal data is not kept indefinitely and vehicles get repaired — the filing deadline is the last clock to run out, not the first.
More policies than the one on the other driver’s card
Texas requires only $30,000 in bodily injury cover per person, which one night in hospital will pass.
A driver on the clock brings their employer’s policy with them, and a commercial policy is measured in hundreds of thousands. Whether they were working at the moment of impact is proved from records nobody hands over on request.
The first offer is not the value of the claim
An opening offer is built from the bills already printed, because those are the only part of a claim an adjuster can total on the day they ring. It leaves out the treatment still ahead of you and the whole of the non-economic side.
Accepting it ends the claim permanently. If more treatment turns out to be needed afterwards, there is nothing left to bring it under — which is precisely why the offer arrives when it does.
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 Richardson, and what you are dealing with now.
- 02
We settle which county it is
From the coordinates on the report rather than the address, because it decides where the case is filed — and whether a six-month notice clock is already running.
- 03
We take over the paperwork
We notify the insurers and take every call from then on, and we order the report from whichever of the three agencies actually worked it.
- 04
We build and negotiate
We value the whole claim — future treatment, impairment, lost work — then push the adjuster. If they will not deal fairly, we file.
- 05
You get paid
We go through the settlement line by line, including what comes out for liens and reimbursements, before anything is signed.
Questions
Richardson car accident FAQs
The questions people in Richardson ask on the first call, answered the way we answer them on the phone.
How long do I have to file a car accident lawsuit in Texas?
Two years from the date of the crash in most cases. Miss it and the claim is gone however strong it was and however badly you were hurt.
Which county is my Richardson crash in — Dallas or Collin?
Both are possible. Richardson straddles the county line: broadly, the northern end of the city around Renner, CityLine and the Bush Turnpike is in Collin County, and the rest is in Dallas County.
What should I do after a car accident in Richardson?
Call 911 and report it. Get checked over even if you feel fine — whiplash, concussion and internal injuries commonly show up a day or two later.
What if the at-fault driver doesn’t have insurance?
Your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is built for exactly this, and it also answers when the other driver simply did not carry enough. It follows you rather than the car, so it reaches you as a passenger and ordinarily reaches household relatives too.
Should I accept the insurance company’s first settlement offer?
Almost never, and not because insurers are villains — because of when the offer arrives. It is built from the bills already printed, which is the only part of a claim anybody can total in week three.
I was hit on a US‑75 frontage road and we disagree about who yielded. Is that hopeless?
No, but it is the kind of claim that has to be proved rather than assumed. Ramp merges and Texas turnarounds are the two collisions insurers argue hardest over, and the crash report frequently records one driver’s account of it.
Nearby
Other claims we take across North Dallas
Richardson 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 Central and the Bush Turnpike
- 03Motorcycle AccidentsRiders hurt by inattentive drivers
- 04Uber & RideshareRideshare insurance layers untangled
- 05Pedestrian AccidentsCrosswalk and parking-lot strikes
- 06Wrongful DeathClaims brought by a surviving family
- 07GarlandRiders hurt in northeast Dallas County
- 08ArlingtonTarrant County collisions
