Houston Bus Accident Attorneys

Have you been injured in an accident involving a Houston METRO bus? Houston attorney Michael Grossman knows how to get you what you deserve.

Houston’s METRO bus system consists of 1,211 city buses which transport thousands of riders all across Houston and the surrounding areas every single day.

With so many miles covered by so many buses, a bus accident in the City of Houston, Texas is a fairly common occurrence.

If you or a loved on have been injured in an accident with Houston METRO bus, our Houston bus accident attorneys can help you get all that you are entitled to.

Accidents While on the Bus

It is very common for passengers to become injured while using the METRO bus service. Sometimes, these injuries occur when the bus is involved with a collision with another vehicle.

In the event that you are riding the bus that bus is involved in an accident with another vehicle, your claims process may become quite difficult. The first difficulty you may encounter has to do with the number of people who will be making a claim. If the accident is caused by the other vehicle, there may be dozens of passengers aboard the bus who need to file a personal injury claim against the other driver’s insurance policy. As you can imagine, very few people have an insurance policy of significant enough value to compensate all of the passengers fairly. In such an event, you will need the help of an experienced bus accident attorney to ensure that you are fairly compensated for your injuries. Our attorneys can help you by identifying potential other sources of money from which you can be compensated, and by helping you claim priority for your portion of the responsible driver’s insurance policy.

Injuries Caused by the Bus Itself

Sometimes, the bus itself can pose a safety hazard such as when the bus runs over a passenger or other pedestrian, the bus driver starts driving before a passenger is seated, or when the door or automated stairs make contact with a passenger.

If you have been struck by a bus while standing outside of the bus, your claim would be similar to that of a conventional pedestrian accident victim. The difference however, is that you would be filing a claim against METRO which is effectively an institution owned by the city. As you can imagine, you stand little chance for victory without the help of an experienced attorney when you try to get money from the city, in a Houston city courtroom.

If you have been injured while on the bus, because the bus driver starts moving before you are seated, you will certainly need the help of a lawyer. Such claims are virtually impossible for non-lawyers to win on their own, because the city of Houston has such a long history of denying these types of claims as valid. Hundreds of court cases involving Houston METRO buses have resulted in numerous denials because lawmakers generally operate under the belief that you knowingly assume such a risk by getting on the bus in the first place. Our attorneys can help you with this type of case by employing contrary case law and statutes that counteract this rather nonsensical outlook that seems so prevalent in these types of cases in Houston.

If you have been injured by some component on the METRO bus such as a door in the process of opening or closing, much of the above mentioned applies to your scenario as well. The bottom line is that these cases have little chance of making it past the scrutiny of a Houston court room without the help of an experienced attorney.

Car Accident With METRO Bus

If you have been involved in an accident with a METRO bus while driving an automobile, you will certainly require the help of an experienced Houston bus accident lawyer. Many laws have been put into effect to give buses a considerable amount of right of way. This has led to a general (and unfair) stigma that bus accidents are universally the fault of the other vehicle. That is simply not the case. As unfair as it may be, such biases within the justice system are common, and your only chance for a fair case is to partner with an experienced bus accident attorney.

In addition to the tremendous bias that you may face, you will ultimately be attempting to collect money from a commercial insurance policy. These types of policies are extremely high in value (usually about 50 times more valuable than the typical car insurance policy). This means that you will have to deal with an extremely aggressive insurance adjuster. The adjusters that defend these high value policies have been promoted into such a position because they exhibit a high level of efficiency at denying claims or reducing their value through the use of hardball negotiation techniques. Furthermore, these adjusters are backed by a team of investigators and defense attorneys who are tasked with the sole duty of building a case against you. State law does not clearly spell out the basis by which an insurance company may deny a claim. These subjects you to the insurance company’s own internal protocols which have all been designed by them, to save them the most money. They can, and routinely do, deny claims based on technicalities that exist only within their “rules”.

To put it quite simply, you are playing a game which they wrote the rules for. When facing a team of professionals working against you, you need a team of your own. The aggressive and knowledgeable Houston bus accident attorneys of Grossman Law Offices want to be your team.