Brain Injury Lawyer Baytown, TX
If you or a family member has suffered a traumatic brain injury in or around Baytown, the next few months of medical care will be critical to your recovery. Employers and insurance carriers often treat a concussion as a short-term matter and close the file before the long-term picture comes into focus. But, the impact of a brain injury on your physical, cognitive, and emotional health can last for months, years, or a lifetime. If someone else’s negligence caused your injury, we’re here to help you. You deserve full and fair compensation for your medical care and other losses. We know what you are going through, and we know how to help.
At Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers, we’ve handled catastrophic brain injury cases against large, powerful defendants across Texas for more than a decade, including a $9.75 million TBI settlement for a sand hauler and a $5.5 million truck accident settlement for a woman who suffered leg and head injuries. We represent injured people and their families, not defendants or their insurance carriers. Every case is on contingency. No retainer, no hourly billing, no fee unless we recover.
If you need a Baytown, TX brain injury lawyer you can trust with a high-stakes case, we are ready to listen. Call us today to get started.
Why Choose Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers for Brain Injury Cases in Baytown, TX?
Trial Experience in Catastrophic Brain Injury Cases
Co-founder Matt Greenberg has practiced personal injury law in Baytown, TX for 12 years and has served as lead trial counsel in cases that produced record-setting verdicts and settlements for TBI survivors and their families. He earned his J.D. at Baylor Law School and has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Lawdragon, and the National Trial Lawyers.
Mike Streich has handled serious brain injury cases for 13 years, including the $16 million Jones Act TBI settlement noted above. 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 catastrophic injury and death claims. That background informs how he prepares a TBI file against corporate defendants who have already seen every playbook on the defense side.
Results That Matter to TBI Families
Our attorneys have recovered over $375 million for clients across Texas. Alongside the verdicts and settlements noted above, brain-injury-adjacent outcomes include an $11 million wrongful death settlement for a mother who died in a vehicle fire after a construction 18-wheeler rear-ended her, a $6 million motorcycle wrongful death, and a $9.75 million sand hauler TBI settlement that addressed the full arc of cognitive, behavioral, and vocational consequences.
Contingency Fee Representation
TBI survivors and their families should not be paying retainer checks while managing rehabilitation. Our firm advances investigation costs, medical record retrieval, neuropsychological evaluations, life care planning, and vocational analysis, and our attorney fees come out of the recovery only if we win.
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Types of Brain Injury Cases We Handle in Baytown
Traumatic brain injuries in and around Baytown come from many sources. Our firm handles the most serious categories of TBI matters, often in parallel with the underlying cause of the injury.
- Car accidents. These events remain a leading cause of brain injury.
- Truck accidents. 18-wheeler impacts routinely produce severe TBIs.
- Motorcycle accidents. Motorcycle accidents produce a disproportionate share of severe and fatal TBIs, often requiring years of rehabilitation.
- Bus accidents. Unbelted passengers thrown inside a bus cabin often sustain severe injuries in a bus accident.
- Rideshare accidents. Uber and Lyft crashes involving unbelted passengers in the rear seat produce TBIs at low and moderate speeds.
- Pedestrian and bicyclist accidents. Direct head strikes in pedestrian and bicyclist crashes routinely produce severe TBI and fatalities.
- Industrial and workplace accidents. Workplace injury, construction accident, and oilfield events involving falls from heights, dropped objects, and blast overpressure produce a substantial share of severe TBIs.
- Refinery and chemical plant accidents. Blast overpressure and process-unit falls produce TBI alongside broader refinery accident and explosion accident claims.
- Offshore and maritime accidents. Low clearances, line strikes, and falls into holds produce significant TBI in offshore injury and maritime injury matters, including Jones Act cases.
- Premises liability. Falls on dangerous property, defective stairs, and inadequate security produce serious TBI in premises liability matters.
- Defective product cases. Defective helmets, automotive occupant protection failures, and defective machinery can cause or worsen a TBI.
- Wrongful death. When a TBI leads to death, surviving spouses, children, and parents may pursue a wrongful death claim under Texas law.
Texas Legal Requirements for Brain Injury Claims
TBI cases apply standard Texas personal injury rules in ways that are especially consequential because of how this injury actually presents. A handful of rules frame most files.
Statute of limitations. Under Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, most personal injury and wrongful death claims must be filed within two years of the incident or death. Evidence and memory also move quickly in TBI cases. Scene photographs, vehicle telemetry, and early medical impressions are the foundation of a brain injury case, and the steps taken after a serious accident shape what can later be proven.
Modified comparative negligence. Texas uses a 51 percent bar rule under CPRC Chapter 33. If a jury finds the injured person more than 50 percent at fault, the injured person recovers nothing. At 50 percent or less, the recovery is reduced by the assigned share.
Medical diagnosis and documentation. Mild TBI is often under-diagnosed because imaging may appear normal in the emergency department and the injured person may be discharged with instructions to rest. Neuropsychological testing, serial cognitive assessments, and treating providers familiar with post-concussive syndrome are often decisive in both diagnosis and in litigation.
Safety data and regulatory frameworks. Federal crash and injury data from NHTSA road safety and CDC injury data confirm that motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of TBI, and BLS occupational injury data tracks industries with the highest rates of workplace head injuries.
What Damages Are Recoverable in a Baytown Brain Injury Case?
Texas law allows injured people and their families to pursue three broad categories of damages in a TBI case. The mix turns on the severity of the injury, the at-fault party’s conduct, and the long-term care picture.
Economic damages. These include past and future medical bills, emergency and hospital care, neurosurgery, rehabilitation (inpatient and outpatient), speech therapy, occupational therapy, cognitive rehabilitation, prescription costs, assistive devices, home and vehicle modifications, lost wages, lost earning capacity, and, in fatal cases, funeral and burial costs. Serious TBI cases routinely require a life care planner, a neuropsychologist, a vocational analyst, and a forensic economist to accurately project future costs. In many cases, the injured person’s former career is no longer accessible, and the economic damages reflect that reality.
Non-economic damages. Texas law permits recovery for physical pain, mental anguish, physical impairment, disfigurement, and loss of enjoyment of life. TBI cases frequently involve significant mental anguish and impairment components because the injury affects the very capacities the person relied on to live independently. 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.
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 TBI cases, gross negligence often looks like drunk driving, a knowing decision to send an unsafe vehicle on the road, or a documented pattern of ignoring safety rules that foreseeably produces catastrophic head injury.
Contact Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers
A traumatic brain injury can end a career, change a marriage, and reshape an entire family’s future. You deserve a firm that takes the case as seriously as you do. Our attorneys will listen carefully, review the evidence, and give you an honest assessment of your options, including whether a lawsuit is the right next step.
Consultations at Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers are free. You pay nothing 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 brain injury lawyer about what happened and what comes next.
