Board-Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyers for Missouri City, Texas
Most injury claims are decided long before anyone sees a courtroom — by what got documented, and when. Fort Bend County cases are heard at the courthouse in Richmond, seven minutes from our office. Free consultation, in English or Spanish. No fee or expenses unless we win.
Call (281) 238-5400 Tell Us What HappenedIf you were hurt in Missouri City, start with these four steps.
- Get examined, and then keep going back. Adrenaline hides injuries, sometimes for days. Just as important: a gap in treatment is the first thing an adjuster points at. If a doctor tells you to come back, go back.
- Say no to the recorded statement — politely. The other side’s insurance company will ask for one early. Texas law does not require you to give it. “Send me that in writing” is a complete sentence.
- Get the report, whatever kind it is. A collision produces a CR-3 crash report from Missouri City police, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office or DPS. A fall in a store produces an incident report the business writes for itself. An injury at work produces its own paperwork. Ask for the number and ask in writing.
- Write down what you remember, and keep the receipts. The mileage to appointments, the shifts you missed, the things you now need help doing. Those are the parts of a claim people forget to count, and they are worth exactly as much as they are documented.
Then, whenever you’re ready — today or next week — talk to a lawyer before you sign anything from an insurance company. The consultation is free either way.
What a Texas injury claim actually turns on.
Texas generally gives you two years from the date of the injury to file suit. Generally is doing real work in that sentence. The clock can start later when an injury could not reasonably have been discovered when it happened. It can be paused for a child, or for someone legally incapacitated. And it can effectively run much shorter: if a city, a county, a school district or another governmental body is involved, formal written notice has to go out well inside that period, and missing the notice can end a claim before it starts.
Texas also uses a modified comparative fault rule. If you are found partly responsible, your recovery is reduced by your share — and if your share crosses the line above half, you recover nothing at all. The workable version is this: you can be partly at fault and still have a claim, so long as you are 50% or less at fault. That rule is the reason the other side’s first move is so often to assemble a story in which you contributed to what happened. It isn’t personal. It’s arithmetic.
An emergency room bill is usually the smallest part of a claim and the easiest thing to prove, which is exactly why an early offer tends to be priced against it. The rest has to be documented: the follow-up visits, the physical therapy, the imaging somebody ordered a month later, the referral to a surgeon you had not planned on, the work you missed and the work you can no longer do the same way, the mileage to every appointment, the help you now pay someone else to do. None of that is speculative. It just has to be written down by somebody.
That is also why the offer usually arrives early — before the medical picture is finished, while the file still looks small. You are not required to give a recorded statement, and you should not sign a release while you still don’t know what your own recovery is going to cost you. Once it is signed, it is finished.
Where it happened decides where the case is heard.
Most of the injury work in this city comes off a handful of places. Highway 6 runs the length of Missouri City — wide, signalized, with left turns across several lanes of oncoming traffic. The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road carries the commute north toward the Houston line and hands drivers onto signalized surface streets while they are still moving at highway speed. Texas Parkway and Cartwright Road are the older commercial corridors, and they fail the way older commercial corridors do: driveway after driveway, cars turning out of shopping centers across two directions of traffic, and parking lots and storefronts where a fall is as likely as a collision.
The city also sits on a county line. Most of Missouri City is in Fort Bend County, but part of it extends into Harris County — so where the incident happened, not your mailing address, decides which courthouse hears the case. Fort Bend County cases are tried at the county courthouse in Richmond, seven minutes from our office. A case from the Harris County side is a Harris County case. It is one of the first things we pin down, because venue shapes how a claim gets built from the beginning.
If your case came out of a collision, our Missouri City car accident page covers that ground and our Fort Bend County page covers the county’s main corridors. For the situations we see most often here, see truck accidents, motorcycle crashes, pedestrian injuries, falls on someone else’s property, and wrongful death.
Two of our attorneys are Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. It is the credential the State of Texas itself administers for injury trial lawyers — examination, peer evaluation, documented trial experience — and you can read what it involves rather than take our word for it.
No recovery, no fee. No case expenses either.
The sentence below is the whole arrangement, and we don’t fine-print our way around it: No fee or expenses unless we win. The consultation is free — and if we think you don’t need a lawyer at all, we’ll tell you that for free too.
Here’s what happens when you call.
- You tell us what happened, in English or Spanish. It doesn’t take long. No phone tree, no out-of-state intake center — you’re talking to the office in Richmond.
- We tell you honestly whether there’s a claim worth bringing. Plenty of injuries don’t need a lawyer — a minor one with no lasting treatment and a cooperative insurer usually doesn’t — and if that’s your situation, we’ll say so and tell you how to handle it yourself.
- If you do have a case, we explain the next steps and send the agreement to your phone. From then on, the insurance company deals with us, not you.
Tell us what happened. We’ll call you back fast.
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Common questions
How long do I have to bring an injury claim in Texas?
Generally two years from the date of the injury, with exceptions that can move the date in either direction. If a city, county, school district or other governmental body is involved, formal written notice is required well inside that period, and those notice rules are enforced strictly. Talk to a lawyer about your specific dates.
How much does a personal injury lawyer cost?
No fee or expenses unless we win. The consultation is free.
The other side says I was partly at fault. Is my claim over?
Not necessarily. Texas reduces a recovery by the injured person's share of the fault and cuts it off entirely once that share passes half — so someone found 50% or less at fault still recovers, reduced by their share. Expect the other side to argue for a bigger number than the facts support.
It was a minor injury. Do I even need a lawyer?
Often, no. If you were treated once, you're fine now, and it's really a property-damage claim, you probably don't need a lawyer — and we'll tell you that on the phone rather than sign you up. Ask us; that answer costs nothing.
Where would my case be heard?
Fort Bend County injury cases are tried at the county courthouse in Richmond, seven minutes from our office. Because part of Missouri City extends into Harris County, where the incident happened decides which of the two it is. See also our Richmond page and our Fort Bend County page.