A TRIAL LAWYER = RESULTS FOR YOU.
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Selecting a law firm to represent you in a personal injury case is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. If you have been injured in a vehicle accident, a slip and fall accident, or any other way, you will need an experienced lawyer like me with a proven track record to argue your case. On the front end negotiating with the insurance company, on the back end presenting your case at trial, and everywhere in-between, I will give your case and your injuries the respect they deserve.
Since 2003, I have handled and won personal injury claims including auto and motorcycle accidents, medical malpractice, premises liability, and wrongful death cases. I have handled virtually every type of case, including complex multi-party litigation. If you have been injured, contact me to help you get the justice and compensation you deserve. There is no charge for your initial consultation and no fee unless we recover money for you.
WHY DO YOU NEED A TRIAL ATTORNEY?
For years, injured Texans like you have endured dwindling access to justice.* The legislative process and the laws it produces favors insurance companies at the expense of injured Texans.** Some of the technicalities and traps are so harsh, even defense lawyers have begun to object to them.*** Jim Walker & Associates is working to bring fairness back to our state’s legal system for injured Texans like you, and to eliminate the unfair traps and technicalities that can rob the inexperienced of their rightful day in court. Meanwhile, we provide the skilled and experienced representation you need to overcome those traps and technicalities - and we will fight to get you the justice you deserve.
* See, e.g., (1) 1995 “tort reform” legislation, (2) 2003 “tort reform” legislation, (3) 2011 S.B. 13 (introduced by Joan Huffman, R-Houston) and (4) 2011 H.B. 274 (introduced by Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe).
**In Texas politics, the amount of dollars, lobbyists, and special interest groups (including the corporations and liability insurance companies that benefit from tort reform) ranks number two in the nation, second only to California. Public Citizen, a nonprofit organization that does not participate in partisan political activities or endorse any candidates for elected office, performed a study comparing (a) 2003 medical malpractice tort reform advocates’s promised improvements to the state’s health care system to (b) 2003 tort reform’s actual results. The study concluded that tort reform’s only “improvement” to the state’s health care system “shown by the data is a decline in doctors’ liability insurance premiums. But the reported 27 percent decrease in those premiums is dwarfed by the 67 percent reduction in malpractice payments, suggesting that liability insurance companies have pocketed most of the gains. The Texas data provide no evidence that patients or taxpayers have shared in the windfall at all.“ See web link below.
***Texas Association of Defense Counsel President Keith O’Connell has voiced his opposition to S.B. 13 and H.B. 274 by stating, “We’ve got to get back to being moderate and fair and balanced… There comes a time when tort reform becomes so Draconian that it’s not fair or good for anybody… you’ve got to do something, because it’s the flat right thing to do.” See Texas Lawyer March 21, 2011 Vol. 26 No. 51. For information on tort reform’s failure to produce the results its advocates promised, see
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=3018
http://threewisemenblog.com/2009/12/19/texas-tort-reform-failure/