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What to Do After a Car Accident in Austin
Step-by-step actions in the minutes, hours, and days after an Austin crash — APD reporting, TxDOT CR-3, medical care, insurance contact.
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Texas law, in plain English.
Pillar articles on Texas substantive law and Austin context. Each is authored and reviewed by Anselmo Aguirre — practical guides for people navigating a personal-injury matter, not generic legal content.
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Texas Comparative Fault: The 51% Bar
How modified comparative fault under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §33.001 et seq. shapes recovery in Texas personal injury cases.
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Austin's Vision Zero & the High-Injury Network
Where Austin crashes happen most, what the High-Injury Network map shows, and how local crash data shapes liability arguments.
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How to Read Your Texas Crash Report (CR-3)
Decoding the TxDOT CR-3 form — what each section means, which fields hurt your case, and how to request a copy in Travis or Williamson County.
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Texas Auto Insurance: Minimums, PIP, UM/UIM Explained
What Texas's 30/60/25 minimums actually cover, why mandatory PIP and UM/UIM exist, and the rejection-in-writing trap.
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What Texas Insurance Adjusters Actually Do After Your Crash
How Tex. Ins. Code §541 defines unfair claim practices, what claimants typically experience in the first 30 days, and the statutory remedies.
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Settle or Go to Trial? A Texas Personal Injury Decision Framework
How Texas civil-procedure rules, Travis County time-to-trial data, and trial economics shape the settle-vs-trial decision.
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Paid-or-Incurred in Texas: How Haygood and §41.0105 Cap Medical Damages
How Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §41.0105 and Haygood v. De Escabedo cap recoverable medical expenses at the amount actually paid or incurred.
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In re K & L Auto Crushers: How Texas Defense Counsel Discovers Negotiated Medical Rates
How the 2021 Texas Supreme Court decision authorized narrowly-tailored discovery of provider-insurer negotiated rates and chargemaster data for reasonableness fights.
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The Stowers Doctrine: Texas Insurer Bad Faith and the Excess-Judgment Tail
The common-law duty Texas insurers owe their insured to settle within policy limits, the three modern Stowers elements, and how §541 statutory bad faith overlays.
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Texas Wrongful Death Beneficiaries Under §71.004 and §71.011 Survival
Who has standing under the wrongful-death statute, the parallel survival cause of action, damages categories, apportionment, and the two-year statute of limitations.
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Catastrophic-Injury Damages in Texas: Life-Care Planning and Daubert-Style Admissibility
Life-care plans, future medical expenses, lost earning capacity, household services, and the §41.008 damages caps that apply in catastrophic personal-injury cases.
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