Trusted Texas City brain injury attorneys with over a decade of trial experience representing TBI survivors and their families across the Texas Gulf Coast.
Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers represents TBI survivors and their families across Galveston County and the upper Texas Gulf Coast. To consult with our Texas City, TX brain injury lawyer, please reach out for a free, confidential review.
Brain Injury Lawyer Texas City, TX
A brain injury case is a civil claim arising from injury, illness, or death involving acquired or traumatic brain damage caused by another party’s negligence. The proof requirements differ from a typical injury case in important respects. Mild and moderate TBIs frequently produce neurocognitive deficits that do not appear on standard imaging, which means medical proof often turns on neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging, vocational analysis, and life care planning rather than a single CT or MRI report.
Damages in a brain injury matter can be considerable but are also vigorously contested by defense neurologists, neuropsychologists, and biomechanical engineers. Our brain injury attorneys in Texas City build the medical case methodically and engage qualified retained specialists early, so that when the defense raises the predictable challenges, the record already addresses them.
Types of Brain Injury Cases We Handle in Texas City
Brain injuries follow patterns tied to the underlying mechanism of harm. Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers represents TBI survivors and family members across the full range of incident types.
- Car accidents. Closed-head injuries from car crashes remain the leading cause of TBI hospitalizations in working-age adults and are the most common pathway to a brain injury claim, with insurance coverage analysis driving early case strategy.
- Truck accidents. High-mass collisions produce coup-contrecoup injuries, diffuse axonal injury, and skull fractures requiring acute neurosurgical care, and federal motor carrier regulation provides additional avenues of liability and discovery.
- Workplace injuries. Where the employer is a non-subscriber, a brain injury claim can proceed as a direct negligence action.
- Slip and fall. Premises liability theory often supports recovery for fall-related TBI.
- Wrongful death. Severe TBIs that result in death support claims under Texas wrongful death and survival statutes.
Why Choose Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers for Brain Injury in Texas City, TX?
Catastrophic Injury Trial Background
Brain injury cases reward attorneys who can explain the medical terms to a jury and stand up to defense neuropsychologists in cross-examination. Mike Streich spent the early phase of his career defending insurers and their corporate clients against catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims, including matters involving severe head trauma. He knows the playbook the defense will run, the witnesses they retain, and the standard challenges to neurocognitive proof. As a personal injury lawyer in Texas City, Mike now applies that perspective to TBI litigation on the plaintiff side.
Matt Greenberg is a Texas trial attorney with significant verdicts and settlements across catastrophic injury practice areas. Matt is licensed in Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona, holds a J.D. from Baylor Law School, and has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Lawdragon, and the National Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
Verdicts and Settlements
Our attorneys have recovered over $375 million for injured clients, including a $37.5 million wrongful death verdict involving catastrophic head trauma, plus several seven-figure outcomes featuring traumatic brain injury as a central element. TBI cases require thorough development of medical proof, careful retained witness selection, and willingness to take the case to verdict.
How Our Firm Operates
Our Texas City brain injury attorneys handle these cases on contingency. There is no fee unless we recover. Free consultations are available 24/7.
Understanding Brain Injury Cases
Damages, Liability, and Compensation for Brain Injury Cases
Recoverable damages in a brain injury case track the severity of the harm and the duration of expected impairment. Categories often combine.
- Past and future medical care. Acute neurosurgical care, inpatient rehabilitation, post-acute residential rehabilitation, outpatient cognitive therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and ongoing neurology and neuropsychology follow-up.
- Lost earning capacity. Many TBI survivors cannot return to their pre-injury occupation, and vocational rehabilitation specialists calculate the lifetime difference.
- Non-economic damages. Physical pain, mental anguish, disfigurement, physical impairment, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of consortium.
- Life care plan damages. A board-certified life care planner projects future medical, rehabilitative, and supportive needs over a survivor’s expected lifetime.
- Exemplary damages. Available where conduct rises to gross negligence, fraud, or malice. Documented prior warnings or willful indifference often support a punitive claim.
Liability in a brain injury case stretches across the negligent driver, the vehicle owner, the property owner, the employer of any contributing party, and any equipment manufacturer whose product contributed to the harm. For Texas tort claims, fault is allocated under Section 33.001 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, with a 51% bar on plaintiff recovery.
Important Aspects in Your Brain Injury Case
Several issues drive the trajectory of every TBI claim.
- Early neurological documentation. Glasgow Coma Scale scoring, post-traumatic amnesia duration, and loss of consciousness duration are baseline measures that anchor severity classification.
- Advanced imaging and neuropsychological testing. Diffusion tensor imaging, susceptibility-weighted imaging, and serial neuropsychological evaluation can detect deficits that conventional CT and MRI miss.
- Evidence preservation. EMS run reports, ER records, maintenance records, event data recorder downloads, and surveillance video must be preserved for the first 30 days through formal demand letters.
- Pre-injury baseline. Academic records, work performance reviews, and prior medical records establish pre-injury function against which post-injury deficits are measured.
- Forum strategy. Where the case is filed often drives settlement value; some counties typically favor the plaintiff more than others.
Brain Injury Case Timeline
TBI cases progress through identifiable stages, though the rate of progression varies with severity and the trajectory of medical recovery.
- Acute and subacute medical treatment. Initial hospitalization, neurosurgical intervention if needed, and transition to inpatient rehabilitation.
- Cognitive and functional rehabilitation. Post-acute cognitive therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, and vocational rehabilitation often extend a year or more.
- Retained witness workup. Neurology, neuropsychology, life care planning, vocational, and economic specialists are retained as the medical picture stabilizes.
- Pre-suit demand. A formal demand to insurers and at-fault parties once damages are documented.
- Lawsuit filing. State district court or federal court depending on parties and strategy.
- Discovery, depositions, mediation, and trial. Most TBI cases settle, but only when defendants believe the case is genuinely headed to verdict.
What to Bring to Your Brain Injury Consultation
A productive first meeting is built on documents. Bring whatever records you have.
- The police crash report, incident report, or any other report describing the event.
- Hospital records, ER notes, neurosurgery summaries, imaging discs, and rehabilitation records.
- Names of treating neurologists, neuropsychologists, neurosurgeons, and rehabilitation providers.
- Photographs of the scene, the vehicle or premises, and any property damage.
- Pre-injury work and academic records that document baseline function, if available.
The consultation will cover what occurred, the applicable legal framework, and your next steps.
Texas Legal Resources for Brain Injury
Brain injury law combines federal injury surveillance, state rehabilitation programs, and Texas tort principles.
- Federal TBI surveillance and statistics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes TBI facts and data, including annual hospitalization and mortality figures for traumatic brain injury.
- National TBI research. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke maintains a TBI information page covering current research, diagnostics, and treatment.
- Texas state rehabilitation services. Texas Health and Human Services maintains a brain injury services page for eligible Texans recovering from TBI or traumatic spinal cord injury.
- Texas Brain Injury Support Network. The Brain Injury Association of America Texas chapter provides support groups, family resources, and advocacy across the state.
- Statute of limitations. Texas personal injury claims must generally be filed within two years under Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
- Local courts. Brain injury cases involving Texas City are typically filed in the Galveston County district court or in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
These resources are starting points only. Applying them to a specific incident is part of what we do during the consultation.
Reach Out to Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers to Schedule a Consultation
Our Texas City brain injury lawyer is ready to help you get full and fair compensation for your losses. Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers provides free, confidential consultations to TBI survivors and their families. Contact our firm today to learn your options.
