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Comprehensive Personal Injury Representation

After someone has been the victim of a vehicle accident, victims often find themselves battling physical pain, emotional trauma, and financial strain. As a car accident attorney, Ramey Law Firm, PLLC, in Dallas, TX is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal representation to individuals who have been injured in all types of vehicle collisions, including car accidents, motorcycle crashes, trucking accidents, and more. Hardin Ramey’s mission is to alleviate the burden on accident victims and their families by navigating the complex legal landscape on their behalf, fighting for their rights, and securing the compensation they deserve.

Hardin Ramey understands the unique challenges presented by each type of vehicle accident. Whether it’s dealing with insurance companies, understanding the nuances of traffic laws, or investigating the specifics of your accident, he is equipped with the knowledge and resources to advocate effectively for your interests.

Were You Injured In a Vehicle Accident?

If You’ve Been In a Car Accident, We’re Here to Help

Drunk Driving Accidents

Unfortunately, drunk driving accidents are tragically common and often result in devastating consequences. Victims of drunk driving incidents deserve a lawyer that will aggressively pursue justice against the responsible party. Hardin Ramey is committed to holding impaired drivers accountable for their reckless behavior and securing the compensation needed to cover medical expenses, rehabilitation, and any other damages incurred.

Hit and Run Accidents

Hit and run accidents are particularly distressing because the at-fault driver has fled the scene, adding an additional layer of complexity to the situation. Hardin Ramey understands the challenges these cases present and utilizes all available resources. He works tirelessly to protect your rights and ensure that you are not left bearing the financial burden of someone else’s unlawful actions.

Motor Vehicle Accidents

Motor vehicle accidents encompass a broad range of incidents, including car, motorcycle, truck, and pedestrian accidents. Regardless of the type of vehicle involved, these collisions can result in serious injury and require expert legal representation. Hardin Ramey has extensive experience with motor vehicle accident cases and is dedicated to providing personalized and efficient legal support, guiding you every step of the way.

Motorcycle Accidents

Motorcycle accidents expose riders to the risk of severe injury due to the lack of protection compared to other vehicles. Hardin Ramey understands the unique aspects of motorcycle accident claims, including the bias against riders and the severity of typical injuries. He fights to ensure that you receive maximum compensation to cover the high costs of medical treatment, lost income, and the long-lasting impact of the accident.

Truck Accidents

Truck accidents can result in catastrophic injuries due to the size and weight of these vehicles. Hardin Ramey understands truck accident litigation, including the complex regulations that govern the trucking industry. He leverages this knowledge to build a compelling case on your behalf.

Commercial Motor Vehicle Accidents

Commercial motor vehicle accidents, including those involving delivery trucks, buses, and other commercial fleets, require a distinct approach given the additional layers of corporate and regulatory involvement. Mr. Ramey has the expertise to navigate these complex cases, ensuring that all negligent parties are held accountable. He is committed to achieving a resolution that covers all of your damages, helping you to recover and rebuild after the accident.

Pedestrian Accidents

Pedestrian accidents occur when individuals on foot are injured or killed due to collisions with vehicles or other road-related incidents. These accidents often result from driver negligence, such as distraction or failure to yield, as well as from inadequate road designs. Mr. Ramey focuses on securing justice and compensation for affected individuals and families, while also advocating for enhanced pedestrian safety and awareness in our communities.

Bicycle Accidents

Bicycle accidents involve cyclists being injured or killed in collisions with vehicles or other road-related incidents. These incidents frequently stem from drivers’ failure to observe cyclists’ rights, poor road maintenance, or inadequate cycling infrastructure. Mr. Ramey strives to deliver comprehensive legal representation to injured cyclists and their families, aiming for rightful compensation.

Notable Vehicle Accident Cases

18 Wheelers (FMCSA) and Truck Accidents

Jury verdict in case involving injury caused by truck backing up.

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County

  • The client was a paint salesman who was referred to us by one of the largest law firms in Dallas. A lumber truck stopped in the right turn only lane at the red light on northbound Douglas at Northwest Highway. The client stopped behind the lumber truck. Another car stopped behind the client. The inexperienced driver of the lumber truck wanted to continue north on Douglas, so he backed up to be able to change lanes. A long piece of lumber extended back beyond the bed of the truck. The client’s car was trapped by the car behind. The piece of lumber penetrated the client’s front windshield at eye level. The lumber did not strike the client, but it caused him to strain his back trying to lean over to get out of the way. The client’s pain persisted despite physical therapy, medication and other conservative treatment. Two years later MRI testing showed the existence of a lumbar disk herniation. The client underwent back surgery. Before trial our client offered to settle for a moderate amount. The lumber company declined. At trial the defendant aggressively disputed that the herniated disc first diagnosed two years after the accident was caused by leaning over in the seat. The jury returned a verdict, to which the court added pre-judgment interest. The Defendant elected to forego appeal and paid the full amount of the judgment.

 

Four vehicle collision on rain slick bridge on Interstate 75 involving eighteen wheeler

Suit filed in District Court of Navarro County

  • The case was referred to us by a Dallas commercial attorney. Three members of an Oklahoma family were traveling in a rental truck near Corsicana. A van in front slid into the right guard rail and started a chain reaction. An SUV following the van stopped suddenly. The rental truck occupied by our clients spun out of control, bounced off the left guard rail, hit the SUV and came to a stop facing sideways, blocking both lanes of the bridge. The defendant’s 18 wheeler hit the driver’s door area of the rental truck. We represented the surviving spouse, two sons and parents of the fatally injured rental truck driver, and his injured sister and nephew. The sister had multiple fractures. Her ten year old son was not significantly injured but he did suffer significant bystander mental anguish damages. The recovery in this case was achieved despite the initial findings of the TDPS Highway Patrol officer who investigated the accident that the driver of the primary defendant’s 18 wheeler was less at fault than the front vehicle and no more at fault than our own deceased driver. The front vehicle carried inadequate insurance coverage. We immediately filed suit and requested production of the driver’s logs, the driver’s application for employment and other evidence from the files of the trucking company. We engaged a competent accident reconstruction expert witness. (The trucking company’s accident construction expert was in Corsicana taking pictures and interviewing witnesses less than 24 hours after the collision.) We proved by testimony of the driver, the driver’s brother, managerial level employees of the Missouri based trucking company and other out of state witnesses that the trucking company hired the driver despite having actual knowledge that his CDL (commercial driver’s license) had been suspended by the State of Arizona for driving while intoxicated. (Arizona authorities failed to report the DUI conviction to Missouri, so an official check of the defendant driver’s driving record came back clean.) We proved by driver’s logs and electronically recorded dispatch records that the 18 wheeler was speeding over the legal limit during a ten hour period on the day preceding the collision and again over the last 52 miles from Pleasant Grove to Corsicana leading up to the collision. For more than a year after the collision the defendant trucking company offered zero in settlement. The case settled shortly after the trial court granted our motion for sanctions against the trucking company for spoliation of evidence.

 

Slow speed collision between two 18 wheelers

Suit filed in District Court of Denton County

  • The case was referred to our office by a Texas attorney. The rear end collision occurred in the parking lot of a truck stop. We represented a passenger who was resting in the sleeping compartment of front truck. The client’s low back was injured, and she later required surgery.

 

18 wheeler jackknife collision

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • A tractor trailer rig coming south from I 35E entered the downtown Dallas mixmaster at a speed too great for the stop and go traffic conditions. The trailer jackknifed around to the right and hit the rear of the car occupied by our client, knocking it off the road onto the grassy right of way. Our client experienced a lumbar disk herniation that led to low back fusion surgery.

 

Rear end collision on Highway 67 near Cleburne

Suit filed in District Court of Johnson County.

  • This case was referred to us by a prominent Dallas attorney. The recovery was obtained despite the finding of TDPS accident investigator officer that our client was at fault in following too closely behind a stopping vehicle, swerving onto the right shoulder then back onto the highway into the path of the defendants’ plumbing truck. The client’s automobile went out of control across the center stripe and collided head on with another motorist. Before the collision the elderly client was able to live independently, drive a car and care for himself. It appears that the debilitating effect of the accident trauma will necessitate permanent residency in a nursing home.

 

Eighteen wheeler / pedestrian collision on LBJ Freeway

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • Our client was a young athlete who had started 42 consecutive games as offensive lineman during his college football career. Through no fault on his part his car was involved in a collision with another automobile and became disabled on the freeway late at night during heavy rain. The client got out and walked to the other car to see if the driver needed help. An SUV stopped some distance behind and turned on emergency flashers. The defendants’ tractor trailer rig approached from behind at a speed too great for the rain slick conditions. One of its dual tandem trailers jackknifed to the right, hit the SUV and propelled it into the two disabled cars and the client. The client experienced injuries to his teeth and a broken leg that required surgical insertion of a metal rod through the length of his tibia.

Intersection/Right of Way/Red Light

Soft tissue injuries caused by intoxicated driver

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • Case referred to our office by a Denton attorney. We established that the young defendant driving his father’s company car consumed 38 beers and a quantity of barbiturates. Soft tissue injuries without fractures and not requiring surgery.

 

Intersection collision

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • Husband driver suffered aggravation of previously operated back requiring more surgery. Wife passenger developed blood clot necessitating minor surgery and anticoagulation therapy.

 

Collision causing death of fetus

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • Our client was a passenger involved in a collision in downtown Dallas. As a result she suffered a miscarriage in the ninth month of her pregnancy. We collected four full policy limits, liability and UIM limits for injuries to the mother, plus liability and UIM limits for wrongful death of the unborn child.

 

Head-on collision

Suit filed in District Court of Fannin County.

  • We represented a mechanical engineer who suffered a perforated intestine as a result of a head on collision while driving to work on a highway near Bonham. The client was born and raised in a Middle Eastern Islamic country, and he speaks English with an Arabic accent. On the day of the accident the client was treated rudely at a local emergency room and sent home with a diagnosis of mild neck and low back sprains. That night the client almost died. His wife was a nurse for a physician at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The next morning she drove her husband to be examined by her employer. The physician immediately diagnosed the perforated intestine and admitted the client to the hospital for the emergency abdominal surgery that saved his life. Had the diagnosis been delayed for a few more hours the client would likely have developed fatal peritonitis. As it was the client made a full recovery to his former state of health and returned to work within weeks.

 

Internal injuries in intersection collision

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • Our client was a technician at Veterans Hospital who suffered internal injuries in an intersection collision on Ledbetter Drive while riding with a coworker on lunch break. This case was complicated by the inadvertent verbal misrepresentation of the defendant’s claims representative as to the amount of the defendant’s liability coverage limits. The much higher true limits were learned by filing suit and requiring the defendant to disclose his policy limits under oath subject to penalty of perjury.

 

Jury verdict in intersection collision case

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • We represented a college student who suffered two broken legs in a three vehicle collision. Policy limits were paid by the insurer for one driver. After jury trial against the other driver the court entered judgment NOV for our client. The defendant elected to forego appeal and paid the full amount of the judgment.

 

Hit by speeding police car on emergency call

Suit filed in District Court of Collin County.

  • A Plano police officer on an emergency call was using flashing lights but no siren. He tried to pass four cars at an intersection on 15th Street. Three cars saw him coming in their rear view mirrors and pulled over. Our client did not. She made a left turn into his path. The fellow officer who prepared the accident report found that the client was at fault but not the officer on emergency call. The client suffered a broken femur requiring surgery. She was a single parent working full time while successfully raising three sons. (All were making high marks in school and the oldest was starting defensive back on the Plano East High School football team.) The attorney first employed withdrew after being unable to obtain any offer from the City of Plano. The client called the Dallas Bar Association, who referred her to us. We filed suit, interviewed all witnesses who could still be found and took oral depositions of a number of employees of the Plano Police Department. We developed evidence that applicable regulations of the Plano Police Department require use of both lights and siren by officers on emergency call who exceed the speed limit or otherwise violate normal traffic laws. According to the City Attorney the recovery was the highest settlement ever paid by the City of Plano in a personal injury case.

 

Stop sign collision on Custer Road in Richardson

Suit filed in District Court of Dallas County.

  • The client was referred to us by a Dallas personal injury attorney. A salesman was demonstrating the acceleration capability of a car offered for sale. The client, a prospective customer, was a passenger. The salesman intentionally ran two stop signs, commenting that he was a former race car driver. At the second stop sign he was T-Boned by another car. The client sustained a knee injury that led to arthroscopic surgery. Through written discovery and oral depositions we developed evidence that the salesman was negligently hired and inadequately trained by the automobile dealership. While suit was pending the dealership’s liability insurance company was declared insolvent. The damages were paid by the Texas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Fund of Texas (TPCIGF).

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