El Paso Border Truck & Injury Lawyer

In most cases, Texas law gives you two years from the date of the injury to file a personal injury lawsuit (Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003). There are limited exceptions — for example, if the injured person is a minor, or if a claim involves a government entity and requires an earlier notice of claim — so the safest approach is to have the specific dates in your case reviewed rather than assume the general rule applies.

No. We handle personal injury cases on a contingency-fee basis, which means there's no attorney's fee and no case expense owed unless we recover money for you. Free consultation, no fee unless we win — that's the whole structure.

Get medical attention if you need it, call the police so a report exists, and — if you're able — photograph the vehicles, the scene, and any visible injuries. Get the other driver's insurance and contact information, and avoid giving a recorded statement to any insurance company (including your own) until you've had a chance to think it through. None of that requires a lawyer to start; it just protects the record.

Texas uses a modified comparative-fault rule (Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 33): if you're found 50% or less responsible, your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault, but you can still recover something. If you're found 51% or more at fault, Texas law bars recovery entirely. Where your case falls on that scale depends entirely on the facts, so this is a question to walk through with an attorney rather than assume from the general rule.

There's no fixed timeline — it depends on how long you're treating for your injuries, how quickly (or slowly) the insurance company responds, and whether the case settles or has to go into litigation. We won't promise a number of months because it isn't ours to promise; what we can do is keep you informed of where your specific case stands.

Commercial trucks using the dedicated freight lanes at the Bridge of the Americas and the Ysleta-Zaragoza Bridge are frequently owned or leased by carriers operating on both sides of the border. That can affect who the responsible parties are, what insurance is available, and how the vehicle's maintenance and hours-of-service records are obtained — added layers not present in a typical two-car collision.

University Medical Center of El Paso's Scherr-Legate Level I Trauma Center is the only Level I trauma center within roughly 280 miles, so it treats a large share of the region's serious trauma cases. If your treatment records come from UMC, they're often central to documenting how serious your injuries were — that's a practical, not sentimental, reason the treating facility matters.

Civil claims involving amounts over $10,000 are generally heard in the El Paso County District Courts, at the courthouse on East San Antonio Avenue downtown. We prepare El Paso filings with that court's specific procedures in mind.

It can be relevant. The Bridge of the Americas' commercial truck lanes run into the evening on weekdays (6 a.m.–6 p.m.) and have shorter Saturday hours, and a driver's hours-of-service records around that schedule can become part of investigating a commercial-truck crash, particularly if fatigue is a factor.

The claim process itself doesn't change based on which road the crash happened on, but the roads carry different traffic mixes — Loop 375 runs directly along the river and border, while I-10 carries broader through-traffic — and that context can matter to how a crash is reconstructed.