Fort Worth Personal Injury Lawyer

Parker Law Firm at a Glance

• Since 1985. Parker Law Firm Injury Lawyers has represented injured people in Fort Worth and Tarrant County since 1985.
• Board certification. Founder Brad Parker has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1997.
• Bar leadership. Brad Parker is a former President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and of the Tarrant County Bar Association.
• Trial lawyer organizations. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
• Who we represent. Injured people and their families. We never represent insurance companies.
• Fort Worth office. 209 N Hampton St, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
• Bedford office. 2317 Plaza Pkwy #100, Bedford, TX 76021.
• Free case review. Call (817) 503-9200.

How Parker Law Firm Injury Lawyers Helps With a Fort Worth Personal Injury Claim

A Fort Worth personal injury lawyer at our firm handles your claim from start to finish so you can focus on recovery. All we do is represent injured people and families. We never represent insurance companies.

Insurers are in the business of paying as little as possible. They may offer a quick, low settlement with a short deadline, hoping you’ll accept before you know what your injuries will cost. Hiring a lawyer helps stop those tactics.

When you hire us, we:

• Investigate how you were hurt and who is responsible
• Gather police reports, medical records, photos, video, and witness statements
• Work with medical, economic, and reconstruction professionals when a case needs them
• Calculate your full damages, including future care and lost earning capacity
• Negotiate with insurance companies for a fair settlement
• File a lawsuit and take your case to trial if the insurer won’t pay what it should

Founding attorney Brad Parker is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a former president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Tarrant County Bar Association, a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Cases Our Fort Worth Personal Injury Attorneys Handle

From our Fort Worth and Bedford offices, we handle injury and wrongful death cases caused by someone else’s negligence across Fort Worth and Tarrant County. You likely have a personal injury case if another person or company’s careless or reckless conduct hurt you.

Vehicle crashes:

• Car accidents, including distracted driving crashes
• Truck and 18-wheeler accidents
• Motorcycle accidents
• Pedestrian and bicycle accidents
• Bus and Uber or Lyft accidents
• Commercial vehicle, taxi, electric scooter, and boating accidents

Property, products, and work:

• Premises liability and slip and fall injuries
• Dog bites
• Defective products
• Construction and workplace accidents
• Dram shop claims against bars that overserve drunk drivers

Serious injuries and loss:

• Traumatic brain injury
• Burn injuries
• Catastrophic injury
• Child injuries and assault injuries
• Wrongful death

What Should I Do After an Accident in Fort Worth?

Get medical care first, then protect your claim. The steps you take in the first days can have a large effect on your case:

1. Report the accident to police or to the property owner or business.
2. Document the scene with photos and video.
3. Write down what happened while your memory is fresh.
4. Don’t apologize or accept blame.
5. Get medical care right away, even if you feel fine. Some injuries show up later.
6. Preserve evidence, including the clothing you wore and any damaged property.
7. Don’t give a recorded statement to the other side’s insurance company.
8. Talk to a lawyer before you sign anything or accept an offer.

Who Is Liable for My Injuries?

The person or business whose negligence caused your injury is liable for your losses. To win, we must show they owed you a duty of care, breached that duty, and caused your injuries and damages.

Liable parties may include drivers, trucking companies, employers, property owners, bars, product manufacturers, and in some cases government agencies. Many cases involve more than one party and more than one insurance policy, so we look at all of them.

What if I was partly at fault? Texas follows modified comparative fault with a 51% bar. If you are 50% or less at fault, your compensation is reduced by your share. If you are 10% at fault, for example, your award is reduced by 10%. At 51% or more, you recover nothing. Insurers often try to shift blame for this reason. We answer with evidence.

What Compensation Can I Recover in a Fort Worth Personal Injury Claim?

You can seek compensation for both financial losses and personal harm. The more serious and lasting your injury, the more a claim tends to be worth.

Economic damages include:

• Medical bills, rehabilitation, and physical therapy
• Nursing and in-home care
• Lost wages and lost earning capacity
• Property damage and out-of-pocket expenses
• Funeral expenses in a wrongful death case

Non-economic damages include pain and suffering, emotional distress, disfigurement, physical impairment, reduced quality of life, and loss of consortium.

A jury may also award punitive damages when there is clear and convincing evidence that a defendant acted with gross negligence or intended harm.

Common injuries in our clients’ cases include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, nerve damage, back injury, neck injury and whiplash, broken bones, amputation, burns, and crush injuries.

How Does a Personal Injury Claim Work in Texas?

Most personal injury cases start as an insurance claim and settle through negotiation. Some move into a lawsuit when the insurer won’t pay a fair amount.

1. Investigation and treatment. We gather evidence while you get medical care.
2. Demand. Once your injuries are documented, we send the insurer a demand that explains liability and your damages.
3. Negotiation. The insurer may accept, make a lower offer, or deny the claim. Texas law requires insurers to handle claims in good faith. Most cases go through several rounds of negotiation, and you should be careful about accepting the first offer.
4. Lawsuit. If the case doesn’t settle, we file suit in court and serve the defendants.
5. Discovery. Each side exchanges documents and takes depositions of witnesses.
6. Trial. A judge or jury decides the case. A case can still settle at any point before a verdict.

Where Fort Worth Injury Cases Are Filed

Most claims settle with the insurance company and are never filed in court. When a lawsuit is needed, Texas law generally sets it in the county where the injury happened, or in some cases where the defendant lives or has its main Texas office (Civil Practice and Remedies Code §15.002). For most Fort Worth injuries, that is Tarrant County. Its civil district courts sit in the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building at 100 N. Calhoun St. in downtown Fort Worth, less than a mile from our office.

How Long Do I Have to File a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Texas?

You generally have two years from the date of the injury to file a lawsuit in Texas. If you miss the deadline, you lose the right to recover. Some exceptions apply, and claims against a city, county, or state agency can require written notice within six months or less. Learn more about the Texas statute of limitations, and call early so evidence isn’t lost.

How to Compare Fort Worth Personal Injury Law Firms

Compare firms on facts you can verify:

• Board certification. Is the lawyer Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization? You can check at tbls.org.
• Trial experience. Has the lawyer tried injury cases to a jury, and how recently?
• Who handles your case. Will you work with the lawyer you met, and who returns your calls?
• Caseload. Ask how many cases the firm takes on. We take a limited number on purpose, so each client gets our full attention.
• Fee terms in writing. The fee agreement should be in writing before any work starts.
• Reviews and peer ratings. Read client reviews, and check peer ratings such as Martindale-Hubbell.

Here is where we stand. Brad Parker has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law since 1997 and is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Our post on how to choose a personal injury lawyer in Fort Worth covers these questions in more detail, and you can bring these six questions to a free consultation.

Cases From Brad Parker’s Files

• What the Trucking Companies Knew Before the I-35W Pileup. After the February 2021 pileup on I-35W in Fort Worth, the trucking companies pointed to black ice. Brad Parker’s investigation asked what the companies and their drivers knew about the conditions before they reached that stretch of highway.
• The Question That Changed a Wrongful Death Case. A motorcyclist was killed in Tarrant County when a car turned into his path, and the insurance first identified was limited. Discovery showed the driver was working as a food delivery driver at the time, and the investigation established that significant additional coverage was available.
• The Insurance Coverage That Almost Went Undiscovered. An insurer reported a $30,000 policy, then said there was no coverage at all. The agent who placed the coverage later disclosed a second policy of about $250,000 and an umbrella policy.

See all case studies and the Parker Principles they illustrate.

Every case depends on its own facts and circumstances. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome in future cases.

Why Brad Parker’s Experience Matters in Your Case

Brad Parker has represented injured people in Fort Worth since 1985. He has seen cases that looked simple become serious because of what happened to the person afterward. An injury that seems manageable can become a long-term medical problem, and a party who seemed clearly at fault may later deny it.

So Brad looks at the evidence, the insurance, the medical picture, and the injury’s effect on your work and life before deciding what a case needs.

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