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How Long You Have to File a Car Accident Claim in Texas Two years. For most car accident injury claims in Texas, that is how long you have to file a lawsuit, counted from the date of the crash. The rule comes from Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and courts take it seriously. Miss the deadline and you may lose the right to recover anything at all, no matter how clear the other driver's fault was or how badly you were hurt. People often ask whether

How Texas Proportionate Responsibility Affects Your Midland Crash Claim Yes, you can usually still recover money in Texas even if you were partly to blame for a crash. The rule that decides this is called proportionate responsibility, and it lives in Chapter 33 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. It works like a sliding scale with one hard stop. Your damages are reduced by your share of fault, and if you are found more than 50 percent responsible, you cannot recove

How Contingency Fees Work With a Midland Car Accident Lawyer You pay nothing up front. That's the short answer, and for most people recovering from a wreck on Interstate 20 or Loop 250, it's the one that matters most. The Doan Law Firm handles car accident cases on a contingency fee, which means the firm's fee comes out of the recovery if it wins your case. If there's no recovery, you owe no attorney fee. The firm puts it simply: $0 unless we win. How is the fee figured? A co

Teen Driver Accidents in Midland and Family Liability Questions A new driver's first year in Midland tends to follow a pattern. Short trips to class at Midland College, a shift at a job near Midland Park Mall, a Friday night loop down Wadley Avenue with friends. Most of those drives end without a scratch. When one doesn't, parents suddenly face questions nobody covered in driver's ed: whose insurance pays, whether the family policy gets pulled into the claim, and what happens

Commuter Crashes During Midland Rush Hour At 6:30 in the morning the sun sits low in the east, right in the eyes of anyone driving that way on Wadley Avenue, Illinois Avenue or Interstate 20. By late afternoon the problem flips, and westbound drivers squint into the glare heading home. In a city laid out on long east-west roads, that low sun is one of the most ordinary hazards of a Midland commute. It isn't the only one. Midland rush hour runs on more than one clock. Office w

The West Illinois Avenue Office of The Doan Law Firm Midland Suite 203 at 4500 W Illinois Ave is the firm's Midland office, a short drive from Midkiff Road and the Midland Park Mall area in west Midland. It's where injured people from across the Permian Basin come to talk through what happened to them, ask their questions and decide what to do next. The firm calls it the Midland/Odessa office because it serves both cities, and clients regularly make the trip in on State Highw