Our Practice Areas

The Areas of Practice for Grossman Law Offices, P.C.

At Grossman Law Offices, our wrongful death attorneys have been dealing with both wrongful death and personal injury cases for over 20 years. During that span, we’ve enabled thousands of people who have lost their loved ones or suffered injuries to recover compensation for the harm done to them. While we focus on handling personal injury and wrongful death cases in Texas and Arkansas, these cases can occur in a wide variety of ways, leading to several different types of cases. We’d like to inform you about some of the more common types of situations with which we deal. However, this is just a basic list of some of the more common types of fatal and injury-causing accidents. This list is by no means complete, nor does it provide all of the information you need. To discuss your case with a skilled and informed professional, then call us anytime for a free consultation at 1-855-589-5645. No matter what type of accident that robbed you of your loved one, dealing with a wrongful death lawsuit is usually very complex and demands the expertise of a skilled and seasoned wrongful death attorney in order to find the restitution you deserve. With over two decades of experience with wrongful death law and personal injury law, Grossman Law Offices gives you the experience and legal insight you will need to succeed with your Texas wrongful death claim.

Wrongful Death

Everyone has a legal duty to act with a reasonable amount of care to safeguard the well-being of others. However, many people ignore this duty and cause harm to others, sadly even killing people with their negligent action or inaction. If this has happened to a member of your family, then you have the right to seek both compensation and justice from the party to blame with a wrongful death lawsuit. However, these lawsuits are highly complex both from the perspective of dealing with the legal process and meeting the standards of proof for evidence. Not to mention, you need someone on your side who knows how to deal with insurance adjusters and defense attorneys. In most cases, you simply will not find maximum success with your claim without the assistance of a competent wrongful death law firm. At Grossman Law Offices, we’re dedicated to doing whatever we can within the confines of the law to protect the rights of sorrow-stricken families and help them recover the compensation they deserve for the losses they’ve sustained. When you’ve lost a loved one, you deserve justice. We deal with a wide variety of case that involve wrongful death, including: drunken driving accidents, on-the-job mishaps, 18-wheeler collisions, car wrecks, construction accidents, medical malpractice, plane crashes, and any other incident in which one person perishes as a result of the negligence of another. The fatally negligent act can be the result of an intentional act or merely an accidental act of carelessness or recklessness. In many cases, more than one part will have contributed to the wrongful death, making it possible to pursue compensation from multiple parties.

Personal Injuries

When someone is injured and not killed in an accident, then he or she has the right to pursue compensation with a Texas or Arkansas personal injury lawsuit. In order to have a legitimate cause of action, the victim must be able to prove the injury was caused as a result of the defendant neglecting to perform a required duty of care and this neglect caused the injury and some financial loss, such as medical bills, lost income, and future disability. The injured party has a right to seek compensation for these losses in an Arkansas or Texas personal injury lawsuit that can stem from a wide array of different accidents, for example: medical malpractice, construction accidents, car wrecks, on-the-job injuries, 18-wheeler collisions, child abuse, negligent child supervision, product defects, motorcycle accidents, and many, many more.

Fatal 18-Wheeler Accidents

Everywhere you go in this great country, when you head out on the highway, you encounter vast number of enormous 18-wheelers. When those massive vehicles collide with other cars, they cause serious property damage and often fatalities to the drivers and passengers of much smaller automobiles and pickup trucks. Since trucking accidents tend to cause so much damage, commercial trucking companies must invest in huge insurance policies to defend their vehicles. However, that’s not the case. With more money to lose, the insurance company will be significantly more likely to challenge a wrongful death claim. This is why you need the assistance of a skilled and experienced Texas wrongful death lawyer to help you make sure you get the maximum amount of compensation you are due. Moreover, a number of different parties could have done something negligent to cause a semi-truck accident, like the driver, the trucking company, the company that loaded the cargo, the manufacturer of the truck or its parts, and the company that planned the truck’s route. Investigating to identify which parties should be held liable requires an attorney who has experience with fatal 18-wheeler accidents. Grossman Law Offices knows how to help you and your family, if you’ve lost a loved one in a commercial truck accident in Arkansas or Texas. We have a long track record of success, helping a long line of grieving families recover the compensation they have coming to them in fatal big-rig wrecks.

Fatal Drunken Driving Accidents

In the 20 years the lawyers at Grossman Law Offices have been practicing personal injury and wrongful death law, we’ve unfortunately dealt with our share of fatal drunken driving lawsuits. Not only have we helped bereaved families pursue compensation from the drunken drivers, but we’ve also been able to help them seek compensation from bars, clubs, and restaurants who have served the drunken driver past the point of noticeable intoxication through dram shop laws. In order to encourage drinking establishments to serve alcohol more responsibly, the states of Texas and Arkansas hold them accountable for the actions of drunken drivers whom they served past the point of obvious drunkenness. If your loved one has been killed by a drunken driver, then certainly the state will pursue criminal action. However, drunken drivers are often able to weasel out of criminal liability due the necessity of proving the case against them “beyond a reasonable doubt.” With a civil lawsuit, the standard of proof is much less stringent, allowing the victim’s loved ones to assure the pursuit of justice. Moreover, the loss of your loved one has likely caused financial harm to your family, and you should not be expected to pay for the harm that someone else has caused. Thus, contact Grossman Law Offices to help with your fatal drunken driving accident situation. Not only do we want to help your family attain the compensation it deserves, but we also take our responsibility of making the roads of Texas and Arkansas safer very seriously. Our families live here, and we want to do what we can to punish drunken drivers, so they change their behavior, preventing the wrongful deaths or injuries of others.

Work-Related Fatalities

When you have lost a loved one in an on-the-job accident, recovering the death benefits you deserve can be complicated and challenging. While the state of Arkansas requires all employers (except those that employ less than three employees or engage in agriculture) to buy workers’ compensation insurance. However, this is not the case in the state of Texas where employers are given the option of whether or not they want to buy workers’ comp coverage. Many choose to save money by neglecting to buy this coverage, but then they are susceptible to wrongful death lawsuits when their employees die on the job. Thus, it likely comes as no surprise that employers will often pretend that they have workers’ compensation coverage in order to avoid a lawsuit from the family of the deceased employee. In some instances, clever employers who’ve neglected to buy workers’ comp will even go so far as presenting a benefit package that they falsely represent as workers’ compensation to the employee’s family and tricking them into surrendering the right to sue. In most cases, this settlement will be far less than the family really deserves. At Grossman Law Offices, we know the ins and outs of Texas workers’ comp insurance, and we’ll be able to protect you from unfair settlement offers and get to the bottom of whether or not your loved one’s employer really has workers’ compensation insurance. Even when the employer does have workers’ compensation insurance, however, the amount of the coverage often does not adequately provide for the emotional and mental suffering of the loved ones. In many cases, our wrongful death attorneys may be able to identify a liable third party from whom compensation may also be sought. Moreover, if the employer’s gross negligence caused the death of your loved one, then we can help you pursue a wrongful death lawsuit even when the employer has subscribed to workers’ compensation insurance in Texas or Arkansas.

Fatal Construction Accidents

When a loved one dies in a fatal construction accident in Texas or Arkansas, then this is a very precarious legal situation to deal with as well. Construction is one of the most dangerous professions, and fatalities are much more common than on other jobsites. Many construction companies have developed a clever method for avoiding purchasing workers compensation insurance or paying compensation to their employees who suffer injuries – they hire all of their workers as contractors, who are responsible for providing their own safe work conditions and are not due injury or death benefits when hurt. Our Texas and Arkansas wrongful death lawyers at Grossman Law Offices have been dealing with wrongful death claims involving construction workers for over 20 years, and we know how to beat this trick. While the employer might have called your loved one a contractor, the state of Texas or Arkansas may classified the deceased as an employee. Give the right circumstances, we know how to challenge the claim of a killed worker being a contractor, and prove that he or she was actually an employee, making his or her loved ones eligible for wrongful death benefits. Moreover, if your loved one was a contractor, then we can still pursue compensation from a third party who may have been negligent for his or her death, or the employer, if he or she committed gross negligence that helped cause the worker’s death. We will do whatever we can to help your family pay for the funeral and medical bills associated with your loved one’s death, as well as, the financial detriment caused by the loss of his or her income and the emotional fallout stemming from the loss of his or her love and companionship.

Fatal Car Accidents

Medical Malpractice Fatalities

As a society, we ask a lot of our medical professionals. They have very complex jobs, but whenever we’re in someone else’s care, we expect and demand they make no mistakes. When someone dies as a result of the negligent medical treatment received from any kind of medical professional, then his or her family can pursue compensation through a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit. Doctors and nurses aren’t the only medical professionals who can be guilty of medical malpractice, as psychologists, anesthesiologists, dentists, oral surgeons, pharmacists, and many other medical professionals can make fatal errors. What’s more, the employer of a negligent medical professional is liable for any harm done. Common causes of medical malpractice include: surgical errors, pharmaceutical injuries, dental malpractice, birth injuries, nursing home abuse, and anesthetic mistakes. Unfortunately, Texas’ legislature has passed tort reforms recently that have complicated recovery of compensation in medical malpractice cases. Insurance coverage is far less than the amount of harm actually caused by fatal medical malpractice, and the bar for the standard or proof has been raised very high. As a result, many Texas law firms have chosen to avoid medical malpractice cases altogether. At Grossman Law Offices, we’re devoted to the prospect of helping injured and grieving families, so we don’t shy away from medical malpractice cases or any other type of personal injury or wrongful death situations.

Deadly Motorcycle Accidents

Many people in Texas depend upon different types of vehicles to get around, and sometimes fatal accidents occur to all different kinds of vehicles, such as motorcycles. When a different type of vehicle is involved in a fatal accident case, then there will be challenges in the case that are specific to that vehicle. You need to find adequate and experienced legal representation that knows how to meet the challenges presented by the specific vehicles involved in your case, or you risk being tripped up by the insurance company or its defense lawyers. Our attorneys at Grossman Law Offices are prepared to deal with a fatal motorcycle accident, and we won’t back down from going head to head with a publicly owned entity, a large insurance agency, or a powerful transportation company.

Fatal Defective Product Accidents

When someone sells a product of any kind to the general public, then the manufacturer carries the duty of making sure that product is safe for use or consumption by the general public. Should the product then cause the death of someone who uses it because it was unsafe or improperly tested, then the manufacturer bears liability for that death, allowing the surviving loved ones to pursue compensation through a products liability lawsuit. In most instances of product liability, the manufacturer makes a considerable amount of money and will devote significant assets to fighting claims of defective products. In addition, it’s seldom easy to prove that a product was defective and the defect in question caused the death of the victim. For more than 20 years, our attorneys at Grossman Law Offices have been litigating product liability cases, so we know how to investigate to find evidence to establish the causal link between the product and the fatality. We’ve dealt with all sorts of different products liability lawsuits involving: defective child safety seats and seat belts, faulty tires, fireworks, crib injuries, food contamination, and mesothelioma. Whether your loved one was killed by one of these or some other defective product, we can help you find the restitution you deserve.

Drowning Accidents

In this neck of the woods, it gets about as hot as is humanly bearable in the summer time. Sometimes, the only means people have to escape the heat is to sneak off to a swimming pool, lake, or river for a cool refreshing dip. Sadly, that needed recreation often goes wrong in the form of an uncommonly high rate of swimming pool drownings, pond and lake drownings, river drownings, hotel pool accidents, and water park mishaps. Texas and Arkansas drownings can occur due to several different negligent acts, like, poor supervision or absence of supervision of children, lack of posted dangers and rules of behavior, intoxication, carelessness, or defective equipment. At Grossman Law Offices, we understand that a thorough investigation is necessary to determine who caused a fatal drowning accident, so all liable parties can be brought to justice.

Why You Should Pick Up the Phone and Call Grossman Law Offices, If You’ve Lost Someone you Love

If you’ve lost a loved one due to someone else’s negligence, nobody can bring your family member back to you – it’s simply impossible. Your only legal option in Texas or Arkansas is to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit. To give yourself the best opportunity to recover the total amount of the compensation you are due, then you should contact a skilled and experienced wrongful death attorney like those at Grossman Law Offices. We’ve gone toe-to-toe with every major insurance provider in the country. We’re not afraid of take them on; they’re afraid of us and often offer our clients equitable settlements to avoid going to trial against our firm. They know we will do what it takes to bring fatally negligent people to justice.

For a free consultation to find out how we can help you, call Grossman Law Offices any time of day or night at 1-855-589-5645, or fill out the form at the top of this page if that’s more convenient. One of our lawyers will contact at you at the earliest convenience. We will listen to your story, clarify your misconceptions, and explain your legal option. You owe it to your loved one’s memory to make sure your wrongful death lawsuit is handled by an able professional, so call us now.