Right after the accident I felt like I was at the bottom of the world. I lost my uncle, I almost died, and he went above and beyond to be there for me. I was in the hospital for 29 days, 8 of which I was unconscious. When I finally came to and I could barely move, I called him in the morning and before the sun went down he was there answering my questions and telling me that everything was going to be ok.

-C. Arguetta
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Houston Personal Injury Attorney Michael Grossman on Motorcycle Accidents & Motorbike Wrecks

If you’ve been injured as a result of a Houston motorcycle wreck, the Houston motorcycle accident attorneys at Grossman Law Offices can help you seek compensation for your injury that can assist you with medical bills, loss of wages due to time off from work, pain and suffering, or other incurred damages.

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When motorcycle accidents occur, victims often suffer severe injuries due to a number of factors often involved in motorcycle accidents. In addition to this, insurance adjusters can be quite aggressive against such victims seeking compensation for their injury. As a result, having the experienced attorneys of Grossman Law Offices on your side to defend your rights against a likely stout defense can prove vital toward the outcome of your personal injury case as a result of a motorcycle accident. With 20 years of experience in personal injury law, Houston motorcycle accident lawyer Michael Grossman is prepared to help you seek compensation so that you can begin the recovery process and get back to living your life without having to endure further financial strain.


What Constitutes a Viable Personal Injury Lawsuit?

When a motorcyclist is injured in a wreck caused by another person’s or entity’s negligence, the rider can seek compensation for their financial losses, a.k.a. damages, from the negligent party through a personal injury lawsuit. Such lawsuits must contain three aspects in order for them to have an opportunity to result in a successful outcome: duty, breach, and damages.

  • Duty relates to one person’s legal duty to another. In motorcycle accidents, the legal duty in question relates to every driver’s legal duty on Texas roads to provide for the safety of every other driver on the road. While legal duties can change dependent on the details of an accident and the relationship of the people in the accident, a vast majority of motorcycle accidents revolve around the simple legal duty we all owe to each other in regards to public safety on Texas roads. Such a legal duty must be proven to have existed in all personal injury cases.
  • Breach refers to the violation of that legal duty. In Texas motorcycle accidents, such a breach most often occurs when another driver collides with a motorcyclist, or when a motorcyclist may bear fault and crashes into a person or another vehicle. In other words, a liable party has breached their legal duty to the victim, resulting in the victim’s injury. A violation, caused by the negligent of a defendant, must also be proven in a personal injury case.
  • Damages refers to the financial losses that a victim has incurred as a result of their injury. Such losses can include medical bills, pain and suffering, legal fees, property damage costs, lost wages due to time off from work, and other types of damages. If a minor injury occurs in which no financial loss happened as a result of the injury, then no personal injury claim can be made since no compensation is necessary. The aim of a personal injury lawsuit is for an injured victim to be compensated for the financial losses they’ve suffered as a result of an injury. Damages must be calculated and justified as part of a personal injury lawsuit.

What Are Some Challenges in Seeking Compensation for a Houston Motorcycle Accident?

When a motorcyclist is injured in a wreck, there can often be a certain bias against the motorcyclist, stemming from a stereotype that some may hold that considers motorcyclists to be aggressive, reckless, speed demons. Such bias can be held by an insurance adjuster sent to work an injury claim as a result of a motorcycle accident, or may be used to sway a jury toward placing at least some blame onto a biker for a motorcycle accident. However, such a stereotype is often not true, and a majority of bikers exercise proper caution in their use of their motorcycles and take safety into great consideration while riding their bikes. Even in such instances, motorcycle accidents can still happen, resulting in severe personal injury due to the relative size of a motorcycle and the relative lack of safety equipment on a bike as opposed to a passenger-vehicle.

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As a result, damages incurred in Houston motorcycle accidents can often be quite immense, which means that an insurance adjuster sent to work such a claim may be prone to working aggressively toward denying or diminishing the claim since they’d rather their company not lose a substantial amount of money. In other words, damages incurred in a motorcycle accident are often far more severe than damages incurred in a passenger-vehicle only accident, resulting in the need for an injured victim to be compensated at a much higher rate. An experienced insurance adjuster, whose job is to save their company as much money as possible, will work to have such a claim denied, regardless of the victim’s need for such compensation. In some instances, certain tactics may be employed in order to get a motorcyclist to admit to some or all of the blame, or a low-ball settlement may be offered in exchange for the aggrieved party to forgo any further legal action. Both instances seldom result in fair compensation for the injured victim.


Contact the Houston Motorcycle Wreck Law Firm of Grossman Law Offices

Having the help of an experienced Houston personal injury lawyer like Michael Grossman on your side can prove to be vital toward the outcome of your personal injury case. With 20 years of experience in defending the rights of those injured because of another person’s or entity’s negligence, Houston motorcycle accident attorney Michael Grossman is ready to help you seek full and fair compensation from all liable parties responsible for your injury. When necessary, we will conduct a thorough investigation into your motorcycle accident site in order to ensure that all liable parties are identified and held accountable for their actions. If you have further questions regarding an injury you’ve sustained as a result of a motorcycle accident in Houston, TX, contact Grossman Law Offices at 1-855-392-0000 (toll free) for a free, private legal consultation where you can get answers to any lingering questions you may have. Motorcycle accidents can cause severe personal injury resulting in great financial loss. Seeking compensation for those losses through a personal injury lawsuit can help you get back onto your feet and help relieve the financial strain you may currently be experiencing.


Some of Our Most Recent Successful Cases
$100,000.00 Recovery - Motorcycle Accident (Neck, Back, and Knee Injury)
Recovery for a client who suffered neck, back, and knee injuries in a motor cycle accident.
Total Recovery:
$100,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$33,333.00
Litigation Expenses:
$627.00
$125,055.00 Recovery - Automobile Accident (Back Injury Requiring Surgery)
Recovery for client who suffered a back injury resulting in surgery in a car accident.
Total Recovery:
$125,055.00
Attorney Fees:
$41,684.00
Litigation Expenses:
$435.00
$475,000.00 Recovery - Commercial Vehicle Accident / Motorcycle Accident (Shoulder Injury Requiring Surgery)
An airline pilot suffered a shoulder injury resulting in surgery when he was sideswiped by an 18-wheeler. The case was resolved through litigation, as establishing liability was a contentious matter. The defendants claimed that the plaintiff made an illegal passing maneuver, but the evidence showed that the defendant made a sweeping turn and intruded upon our client's right of way.
Total Recovery:
$475,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$158,333.00
Litigation Expenses:
$5,000.00
$350,000.00 Recovery - Wrongful Death / First Party Dram Shop
Our firm was hired by the minor child and parents of a young man who was killed in a motorcycle accident after being over served alcohol at a South Padre Island bar. The plaintiffs hired our firm to investigate the claim on the basis that the decedent was over the legal limit at the time of his death. In initial attempts to settle the case out of court, the defendants denied liability. Suit was filed soon thereafter.

The defendants initially argued that the decedent never consumed alcohol on their premises. Through physical evidence and deposition testimony to the contrary, we were able to conclusively prove that the decedent had indeed been drinking at the establishment.

The defendants then asserted allegations that the decedent's minor child was not actually his biological child, which would bar his claim entirely. A DNA test was performed and this argument was defeated.

The defendants then asserted the safe harbor defense. Our attorneys argued that the defendants did not qualify for safe harbor protection due to the fact that their servers were not all licensed providers. However, while this element was being addressed, our attorneys focused their attention on addressing the second element of the safe harbor defense regarding the bar's encouragement of the over service of alcohol. The defendants claimed that they would never serve the double-shot Bacardi cocktails that witnesses claimed the decedent drank several of. We sent private investigators into the bar to order the same drinks that the decedent consumed on the night of his death and the very same bar tenders who over served the decedent, without hesitation, served copious amounts of alcohol to the investigators, all of which was captured on hidden camera.

Once the safe harbor defense was defeated, the defendants argued that the decedent's BAC was low enough at the time of his death (as recorded by the hospital) that he would not have necessarily appeared obviously intoxicated to the servers and therefore the bar should not be held liable even if he had been over served. Eyewitness testimony refuted this.

Additionally, our firm's testifying medical expert reviewed the medical records related to the emergency helicopter flight that transported the decedent to the hospital after his accident. She determined that the EMS technicians administered numerous blood transfusions while in flight. Armed with this newfound data, our medical expert reverse extrapolated and determined conclusively that the decedent's BAC was actually in the range of .19-.21 at the time of the accident, though it was drastically diluted by the time he arrived at the hospital, which accounted for the relatively low BAC found in the hospital's medical records. This testimony proved to be pivotal in the case, resulting in a successful recovery for our clients.
Total Recovery:
$350,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$140,000.00
Litigation Expenses:
$40,000.00
$200,000.00 Recovery - Commercial Vehicle Accident (Back Injury Requiring Surgery)
Recovery for motorcyclist who suffered a back injury in an 18-wheeler accident.
Total Recovery:
$200,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$80,000.00
Litigation Expenses:
$5,709.00
$100,000.00 Recovery - Motorcycle Accident (Broken Femur)
(policy limits) Recovery for victim who sustained a broken femur in a motorcycle accident.
Total Recovery:
$100,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$33,000.00
Litigation Expenses:
$0.00
$350,000.00 Recovery - Product Liability (Back Injury Resulting in Surgery)
A young woman suffered a back injury that required corrective surgery following a boating accident. The boat in question sped out of control and crashed into a landmass, throwing our client from the boat, as the result of a stuck throttle. Upon inspection of the boat, it was determined that a poor design led to the malfunction and a product liability lawsuit was brought against the manufacturer. The defendants argued that the boat was inappropriately piloted, however, the physical evidence depicted the cause of the accident quite clearly and the case was successfully resolved.
Total Recovery:
$350,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$100,000.00
Litigation Expenses:
$100.00
$97,500.00 Recovery - Wrongful Death / First-Party Dram Shop Accident
(policy limits were $100k) Recovery for wife of a motorcyclist who was killed in a drunk driving accident.
Total Recovery:
$97,500.00
Attorney Fees:
$48,750.00
Litigation Expenses:
$0.00
$93,000.00 Recovery - Motorcycle Accident (Soft-Tissue Injuries and Abrasions)
Recovered for victim of motorcycle accident who suffered soft tissue injuries and abrasions.
Total Recovery:
$93,000.00
Attorney Fees:
$31,000.00
Litigation Expenses:
$181.00

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