A car accident can be an extremely traumatic event, turning your world upside down. Lorenz & Lorenz handles motor vehicle claims across Central Texas. Our car accident lawyer in New Braunfels, TX team knows how much is riding on your case, and we build every file as though it will be tried.
You tell us what happened once, then go back to getting better while we chase the records, the report, and the adjuster. Call (512) 477-7333, and we will start today.
How Our Car Crash Lawyer New Braunfels Team Works
Our practice runs on collision cases. Car and truck wrecks are the work, not a sideline, which means the questions your file raises are questions we have answered many times.
From the first call, we take over the parts that wear people down. Handling all communication with other parties, but keeping you in the loop every step of the way, is not a slogan here; it is how the file actually runs.
Our primary goal will be to negotiate a fair settlement on your behalf. Settlement is where most cases land, though we prepare each one as though a Comal County jury will decide it, because that preparation is what makes an offer move.
We practice from our Austin office at 1515 S Capital of Texas Hwy, Ste 500, and handle collision claims across Central Texas.
The consultation costs nothing and comes with no obligation attached. If your situation does not need us, we will say so plainly rather than sign you up. Ask us for a free read on your crash before you sign anything.
The First Hour After a New Braunfels Crash
The things you do after an accident matter. Your actions and decisions can affect your health, well-being, and ability to recover compensation. Texas also puts a duty on every driver involved.
Under Texas Transportation Code § 550.023, a driver in a wreck must give their name, address, registration, and license information, and must render reasonable aid to anyone injured. Failing to do that is its own problem, separate from fault.
Keep these moves in order at the scene:
- Remain at the scene
- Report the crash
- Don't admit fault
- Move to a safe spot out of traffic
- Seek medical treatment
- Refuse early settlement offers
Six small decisions, made in the first hour, shape everything that follows.
Texas also sets an outside limit. Under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003, most injured people have two years from the date of the wreck to file suit, and that date does not move because treatment is still running.
Police reports are generally available within one or two weeks and may include the officer's account, a crash diagram, and citations issued at the scene.
Send the report and your photographs to our car crash lawyer New Braunfels intake team, and we can compare the two as soon as we receive them. That is the short version of what to do after a car accident in New Braunfels, Texas. We will tell you what is missing.
What Puts Most New Braunfels Drivers in a Claim
Most car accidents trace back to a handful of driver errors. Phones lead the list, and Texas treats that behavior as an offense in itself.
Reading, writing, or sending a text while driving violates Texas Transportation Code § 545.4251 unless the vehicle is stopped. A citation under that section is useful evidence in a civil claim for damages, though a claim does not depend on one.
The patterns we see most often break down like this:
- Distracted Driving: Drivers who text, apply makeup, eat, or engage in conversations with passengers are more likely than others to get into collisions.
- Impaired Driving: Driving under the influence of alcohol, medications, or drugs.
- Speeding: Drivers who spend a lot of time in traffic often tend to speed to make up for lost time.
- Fatigued Driving: Tired drivers are just as dangerous as drunk drivers.
- Road Defects: Potholes, uneven road surfaces, debris, and sharp curves can all set the stage for a crash.
- Unsafe Lane Changes: Merging into a lane that is already occupied, a common pattern on Interstate 35 through town.
Those are the common causes of personal injury claims in New Braunfels, Texas that put people in our office. The primary reason we ask about the moments before impact is that those seconds usually hold the answer. Tell us what you remember and let us work backward from there.
Which Crashes Does Our New Braunfels Car Accident Attorney Team Handle?
All of them, from a parking lot tap with lasting consequences to a fatal collision on Interstate 35. Car accidents are one of the most common personal injury claims we handle in New Braunfels. The shape of the crash changes the proof more than you may expect.
Our collision work covers these situations:
- Rollovers
- T-Bones
- Side-swipes
- Rear-end crashes
- Head-on collisions
- Intersection accidents
- Multiple vehicle collisions
- Single-vehicle accidents
Summer weekends add a wrinkle you will not find in most towns. Visitors headed to Gruene or the river bring out-of-state policies and drivers who leave the county within days, which changes how quickly a claim has to be opened.
Speed of contact matters more in those cases, because tracking down a defendant who has already driven back to another state takes time we would rather spend on the claim itself. Bring our New Braunfels car accident attorney the details, and we will tell you which direction your file needs to move.
What if the Other Driver Had No Insurance?
You may already be covered without realizing it. Every Texas auto policy includes uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) protection unless you turned it down in writing, under Texas Insurance Code § 1952.101.
Specifically, an insurer cannot issue a policy in this state without offering that coverage first. Plenty of drivers carry it and never knew, because nobody reads a declarations page, the one-page summary of what a policy actually covers, until they need it.
Coverage can come from more places than the other bumper:
- Your uninsured motorist coverage: Steps in when the at-fault driver has no policy at all, or fled the scene.
- Your underinsured motorist coverage: Fills the gap when their limits run out before your bills do.
- Personal injury protection: Pays early medical costs and some lost wages regardless of who caused the wreck.
- A household policy: A relative's coverage may reach you if you live in the same home.
- An employer's policy: Applies when the other driver was working at the time.
Finding the second and third layer is often what turns a small claim into a real one. One caution worth stating plainly. A claim against your own carrier follows different notice rules than a claim against the other driver, and missing those can cost you the coverage entirely.
Send us your declarations page, and we will read it for you at no charge.
How Do We Prove What a Crash Actually Cost You?
With records and sworn statements, not adjectives. Texas gives us a specific tool for the medical side of that job.
Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 18.001 allows us to prove that your charges were reasonable and your care was necessary through an affidavit from the provider, instead of bringing every doctor to court. If the other side wants to dispute it, they must serve a qualified counteraffidavit, which is a sworn response from a qualified person challenging those charges. That counteraffidavit cannot be used to attack causation, meaning the link between the crash and the injury.
That turns your bills into evidence a jury can rely on. A New Braunfels crash claim can reach these losses:
- Emergency and hospital care: Costs for ambulance transportation, diagnostic testing, emergency treatment, and any resulting hospital stay.
- Ongoing and future care: Expenses tied to rehabilitation and follow-up care expected later.
- Wages and time off: Income lost because your injuries kept you away from work or prevented you from taking scheduled shifts.
- Long-term earning power: Reduced ability to earn income in the future when lasting limitations affect the work you can perform.
- Pain and mental anguish: The physical and emotional toll the injury takes on daily life.
- Vehicle and personal property: The cost to repair or replace the vehicle and other belongings damaged in the collision.
We assemble each of those from paper before a single number goes to the insurer. Gaps in treatment do more damage to a valuation than almost anything else. So, consistency with your appointments protects the claim as much as it protects your health.
Ask us what your own records support.
Who Else Might Be Responsible for Your Wreck?
Often more than the driver who hit you. Fault spreads to anyone whose choices helped cause the collision, which is why we look past the obvious defendant early.
Our New Braunfels car accident attorney team runs that search before filing anything. Claims in Texas can name parties like these:
- Drivers of other passenger cars
- Employers of negligent parties
- Trucking companies
- Transit companies
- Government agencies
- Property owners whose land or signage contributed to the crash
A second responsible party can sometimes double the coverage available to pay your losses.
Fault gets divided among everyone named. Under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 33.001, an injured person whose own share of responsibility is greater than 50 percent recovers nothing, and any award below that line drops by the share assigned.
Comal County's district courts sit right in New Braunfels near Main Plaza, so a suit over a local crash generally stays in town. Wrecks on the Guadalupe County side of the city route to Seguin instead, which is worth knowing before anything gets filed. Let us sort out who belongs in your claim.
FAQs: Car Accident Lawyer in New Braunfels, TX
We frequently field these questions for clients filing car accident claims or civil lawsuits in New Braunfels, Texas.
Can I Get a Rental Car While My Claim Is Open?
In most cases, rental expenses can be covered, but which insurer pays depends on the circumstances. Your collision or rental reimbursement coverage may provide a vehicle right away, while the at-fault driver's carrier may pay after accepting responsibility for the crash. Save all rental receipts so those expenses can be documented and included in the claim.
What if a Crash Happened on Interstate 35 Outside City Limits?
The claim works the same. What changes is which county the suit belongs in and which agency wrote the report, since a highway wreck outside the city is often handled by the Department of Public Safety rather than New Braunfels police. We request the report from whichever agency responded.
Do You Handle Claims For Visitors Hurt While Passing Through?
Yes. You do not have to live in Texas to bring a claim for a wreck that happened here, and we handle those files remotely for clients who have gone home. Most of what we need arrives by phone, email, and mail.
What if My Passenger Also Wants to Bring a Claim?
You and your passenger may each pursue a separate injury claim. Passengers are rarely assigned responsibility for causing a collision, and compensation for both claims may come from the same available insurance coverage. If the policy limits are not enough to cover every loss, our team explains the effect on each claim before either person accepts a settlement.
Will I Have to Sit For a Deposition?
Only if the case gets filed, and even then it is one afternoon. A deposition is a question-and-answer session under oath with a court reporter present, and we prepare you thoroughly beforehand so nothing about the day is unfamiliar. Most claims resolve without one.
Can I Choose My Own Doctor For Treatment?
Yes, and you should. Nobody from an insurance company gets to pick your physician after a car wreck. If you need help finding someone who treats crash injuries and will wait for payment, we can point you toward options. Tell whoever sees you that a crash brought you in, so the connection is in the record.
Get Us on This Before the First Offer Lands
Insurers move quickly on New Braunfels car accidents, and the first number usually arrives while you are still sore and still guessing. Once you sign a release, that number is final, no matter what a doctor finds next month.
You have one chance to value this correctly, and it happens before you accept anything.
Our car accident lawyer in New Braunfels, TX team can be reviewing your file this afternoon. Call Lorenz & Lorenz at (512) 477-7333 now. Bring the report, the photos, or nothing at all, and we'll take it from there.