Truck Accident Lawyer Baytown, TX
If you’ve been hit by a commercial truck in the greater Houston area, having experienced legal representation is crucial. Commercial trucking is a heavily regulated, heavily insured industry, and the companies in it know how to move fast to protect themselves.
At Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers, we have represented people injured or killed by commercial trucks across Texas for more than a decade. We work for injured drivers, passengers, and grieving families, not for motor carriers or their insurers. Every case is on a contingency fee basis. No retainers, no hourly billing, no fee unless we recover.
If you need a Baytown, TX truck accident lawyer, we are ready to look at what happened and explain your options. Please contact us today to schedule a complimentary case review.
Why Choose Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers for Truck Accidents in Baytown, TX?
Trial Experience in Commercial Vehicle Cases
Co-founder Matt Greenberg has practiced personal injury law in Baytown, TX for 12 years and has served as lead trial counsel in catastrophic commercial vehicle cases across Texas. Those include a $35 million settlement against Ben E. Keith for an 18-wheeler crash that killed a young woman, the largest Tarrant County settlement at the time. He graduated from Baylor Law School and has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Lawdragon, and the National Trial Lawyers.
Mike Streich has handled serious trucking injury matters for 13 years. He graduated cum laude from the Houston Law Center and is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Before moving to the plaintiff side, Mike spent close to a decade defending corporations and insurance syndicates, including members of Lloyd’s of London, in commercial vehicle, pipeline, and catastrophic injury matters. That defense background informs how he builds trucking cases today, because he already knows how carriers and their insurers investigate, value, and defend these claims from the moment a crash occurs.
Results That Matter in Truck Cases
Our attorneys have recovered over $375 million for clients across Texas. Among the trucking outcomes are the $35 million Ben E. Keith settlement referenced above, a $9.75 million settlement for a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash with a West Texas sand hauler, a $4 million settlement for a college student injured when a commercial 18-wheeler driver fell asleep on the road, and a $1.15 million settlement for a client struck by a waste disposal company truck driver.
Contingency Fee Representation
We believe that drivers losing income after a truck crash should not have to worry about retainer checks. Our firm advances the costs of investigation, accident reconstruction, electronic data retrieval, medical record retrieval, and court filings. Our attorney fees come out of the recovery only if we win.
Client Feedback
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I’ve known Matt Greenberg for many years, and he’s exactly the person you want as your attorney. He’s smart, he cares, and he’ll put in the work for you every single time. I’ve watched him handle tough cases and come out with great results because he genuinely cares about the people he’s helping. You’re in excellent hands with him at the helm, and I’d recommend him to anyone.”
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Types of Truck Accident Cases We Handle in Baytown
Baytown sits in the middle of one of the busiest commercial truck corridors in Texas, with constant movement along I-10, Spur 330, and SH-146, plus a steady stream of heavy vehicles serving the refineries, chemical plants, and the Port of Houston. Commercial trucks are everywhere, and they come in many forms. Our firm handles serious matters across the full range.
- 18-wheeler accidents. These are the heaviest vehicles on the road, and a crash with one is almost always catastrophic. We handle these alongside our dedicated 18-wheeler practice, with careful attention to truck maintenance records.
- Delivery trucks and box trucks. Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and regional delivery fleets run through Baytown every day at high speeds and under tight delivery windows.
- Dump trucks and cement trucks. Overloaded dump trucks, unsecured loads, and poorly maintained brakes cause serious crashes, particularly during construction seasons.
- Tanker trucks. Fuel, chemicals, and hazardous materials in transit heighten the risk of fire, explosion, and chemical exposure, often resulting in burn injury claims in addition to the underlying crash.
- Sand haulers and oilfield trucks. The oilfield supply chain relies on heavy trucks that frequently run long hours on rural roads, leading to fatigue-driven crashes we see again and again in oilfield accident files.
- Refinery and chemical plant trucks. Vehicles supporting refinery turnarounds and chemical plant operations travel heavily in and around Baytown, with higher-than-usual stakes when something goes wrong. These often overlap with refinery accident matters.
- Garbage and waste disposal trucks. Residential and commercial waste haulers operate in tight spaces at odd hours and have been involved in several of our notable truck recoveries.
- Utility and service trucks. Electric, gas, and telecommunications service trucks operating on employer business can expose the employer to liability when a driver causes a crash.
- Work trucks and company vehicles. Pickup trucks and company-issued vehicles used for construction, landscaping, and field service work frequently factor into serious crashes and often overlap with a construction accident claim.
- Rideshare and delivery app vehicles. Drivers for rideshare and delivery apps running on tight schedules can trigger a separate Uber accident claim against the app’s commercial coverage.
- Fatal truck crashes. When a crash causes a death, surviving spouses, children, and parents may pursue wrongful death claims against the driver, the motor carrier, and any other responsible parties.
Texas Legal Requirements for Truck Accident Claims
Trucking cases are governed by state statutes and detailed federal regulations that do not apply to ordinary car crashes. The specifics can determine what evidence survives and how the case gets valued. Our attorneys help preserve the integrity of your claim and guide you away from common mistakes that could jeopardize it.
Statute of limitations. Under Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, most personal injury and wrongful death claims from a truck accident must be filed within two years of the crash or death. Critical electronic evidence, including engine control module data, GPS logs, and onboard camera footage, can disappear within weeks if the motor carrier is not given formal notice to preserve it. Our firm sends preservation letters early.
Modified comparative negligence. Texas uses a 51 percent bar rule under CPRC Chapter 33. If a jury finds you more than 50 percent at fault, you recover nothing. At 50 percent or less, your recovery is reduced by your assigned share of fault. In truck cases, the motor carrier will almost always argue that the passenger vehicle driver shared responsibility. Independent witnesses, physical evidence, and reconstruction carry most of the water in rebutting that argument.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Interstate commercial carriers operate under the FMCSA hours-of-service rules, which generally cap property-carrying drivers at 11 hours of driving within a 14-hour on-duty window. Violations are powerful evidence of negligence. According to FMCSA crash data, large trucks are involved in thousands of fatal crashes each year in the United States.
Reporting unsafe trucks. Drivers who report unsafe equipment to their employers are protected under federal whistleblower law.
Employer and carrier liability. When a commercial driver causes a crash in the course of their employment, the employer motor carrier is typically liable for the driver’s negligence under the doctrine of respondeat superior. In many cases, a separate theory of direct negligence against the carrier exists for negligent hiring, training, retention, or supervision. This is why truck cases often have multiple defendants and multiple layers of insurance coverage.
What Damages Are Recoverable in a Baytown Truck Accident Case?
Texas law allows injured people and grieving families to pursue three broad categories of damages in a truck accident case. The appropriate mix depends on the severity of the injuries and the conduct of the driver and the carrier.
Economic damages. These cover the measurable financial losses. They include past and future medical bills, emergency transport, surgery, physical therapy, rehabilitation, prescription costs, assistive devices, home and vehicle modifications, lost wages, lost earning capacity, property damage, and, in fatal cases, funeral and burial costs. A serious truck crash often produces spinal cord injuries, orthopedic trauma, or a traumatic brain injury that requires a life care planner and a forensic economist to project future expenses accurately. Drivers injured on the job in a truck crash may also have a parallel workplace injury claim against a non-subscriber employer or a third-party contractor.
Non-economic damages. Texas law permits recovery for physical pain, mental anguish, disfigurement, physical impairment, and loss of enjoyment of life. In fatal cases, surviving spouses, children, and parents may recover for loss of companionship, consortium, and household services under Texas’s wrongful death and survival statutes. These damages are often the largest component of a serious truck case, because big rig crashes are disfiguring, career-ending, or fatal more often than ordinary car accident cases.
Exemplary (punitive) damages. Under CPRC Chapter 41, a jury may award exemplary damages when the evidence shows gross negligence, fraud, or malice by clear and convincing evidence. In truck cases, gross negligence often takes the form of a driver falsifying logbooks, a carrier putting an unqualified driver on the road, ignoring maintenance warnings, drug or alcohol use behind the wheel, or a company pressuring drivers to run beyond federal hours-of-service limits. General road safety patterns are also reflected in NHTSA fatality data on large commercial vehicles.
If the crash involved a motorcycle rider, a pedestrian, or a premises factor such as an unsafe truck yard or parking lot, additional sources of coverage may exist beyond the primary trucking policy.
Contact Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers
A serious truck crash can upend a family’s finances and a driver’s career in a matter of seconds. You deserve a firm that takes the case as seriously as you do. Our attorneys will review what happened, identify the evidence and coverage that matter, and give you an honest assessment of whether a claim or lawsuit makes sense.
Consultations at Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers are free. No fee unless we recover money for you. We respond to calls and form submissions promptly, and we can meet in person, by phone, or by video, whichever works best for you.
Contact us today to speak with our Baytown truck accident lawyer about what happened and what comes next.
