San Antonio Train Accident Attorney

Texas Accident Injury Lawyer Michael Grossman Discusses Train & Railroad Accidents

Train accidents, as you might imagine, can be absolutely devastating for those involved. Trains are massive, and the damages that they can cause passenger vehicles and their occupants are immense. If you or someone you love has been hurt in a train accident, you likely wish to seek financial compensation to help you pay for your injuries and property damage.

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Do not attempt to do this alone. People often mistakenly believe that train accidents are just like car accidents from a legal standpoint. This is completely false, and you can severely damage your case if you approach it in this manner. Thankfully, experienced San Antonio train accident attorney Michael Grossman is here to help you understand what you are up against, and to illustrate how an experienced attorney can help you.


Differences Between Train Accidents and Typical Car Accidents

Most obviously, the damages in train accidents often far exceed the damages typically found in car accident cases. This alone should be cause for you to hire an attorney. When large sums of money are on the line, it pays to have professional representation.

But there is more money at stake than you probably realize. Just like passenger cars, trains have insurance policies that provide coverage in the case of an accident. But the commercial insurance policies that cover trains and their operators are hundreds of times more valuable than the policies that cover passenger cars. In other words, there may be millions of dollars at stake for an insurance company, and they will be ruthless in defending it. These insurance companies employ the most aggressive insurance adjusters and defense lawyers in the insurance world, and they have years of experience denying claims like yours.

Trains are also regulated by numerous federal and state regulations. In many cases, these regulations overlap and can provide a legal gray area. Train company defense attorneys work only on train accidents, and so they know exactly how to exploit these legal gray areas to get their client off the hook based on some obscure technicality which you have likely never heard of.

Furthermore, public perception is working against you in a train accident case. People see trains as safe forms of transportation, and they feel that if a car is in an accident with a train, it must be the car driver’s fault. Obviously, this is not true across the board, but in any train accident lawsuit, you must convince a jury that you were not injured due to your own recklessness.


Let Our Experienced Attorneys Help You

Our firm has been helping people injured in train accidents for twenty years, and we know how to handle the many complexities associated with these lawsuits. We are intimately familiar with the laws surrounding train accidents, so we can ensure that your case is not destroyed due to some technicality. We have also successfully litigated hundreds of high-profile cases against all the major insurance carriers in the country, so their adjusters and attorneys know who we are. They will often cooperate with our settlement demands simply because they do not want to fight our attorneys in court. We also know how to speak to juries and convince them that you were injured due to another party’s negligence rather than your own. In other words, we can quickly and effectively secure a settlement for you – and if we do not, you do not pay us a thing. Let our attorneys help you get the compensation you need. Contact experienced San Antonio train accident lawyer Michael Grossman today, and make sure that those responsible for your injuries are brought to justice.


Some of Our Most Recent Successful Cases
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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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