Midland Crime Trends and Your Legal Rights When Criminal Activity Causes Injury
You are reading this at a kitchen table in Midland, or maybe from a hospital room at Midland Memorial, or maybe from the passenger seat of someone else’s car because yours is in a tow yard or a police impound lot. Something happened to you or someone you love that wasn’t just an accident — it involved crime. Maybe a street racer ran a red light on Loop 250 and T-boned your car. Maybe someone broke into your vehicle in a parking lot that should have been lit and watched, and the encounter turned violent. Maybe a business knew its lot was a target for burglaries and did nothing, and now you are hurt. You are sitting in the aftermath, and the questions are already piling up: who pays for this, how long do I have, and is anyone besides the criminal responsible?
We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years trying cases in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims from people exactly like you — and now sits on your side of the table. We are writing this page because the crime trends reported in Midland this year are not abstract. They create real legal duties for property owners, and when those duties are ignored and someone is hurt, the civil justice system is where the answer lives.
This is not a page about one specific crash or one specific victim. It is a page about what happens when criminal activity in Midland — street racing, vehicle burglaries, organized theft, the kind of thing the police chief warned the public about — crosses the line from a police report into a personal injury case. It is about the law that governs your rights, the evidence that proves your case, the insurance playbook designed to minimize what you recover, and the steps that matter in the first 72 hours. If you are hurt, the most important thing you can do right now is understand the landscape before the insurance company calls you back.
What Midland’s Crime Landscape Means for Your Case
Midland sits in the heart of the Permian Basin, the engine of America’s oil and gas industry. Interstate 20 cuts through the city. Loop 250 wraps around it. US Highway 385 and State Highway 349 run southward toward oilfield operations that never sleep. The population hovers around 140,000, but during energy booms it swells with transient labor — workers who come for the paychecks and leave behind a town that has to absorb the traffic, the crowding, and the crime that follow the money.
Midland’s police chief publicly identified the crime patterns shaping this city: vehicle burglaries where criminals walk through parking lots checking door handles, street racing that spikes in summer months, occasional drive-by shootings, and organized theft rings targeting gas and oil from the region’s energy infrastructure. The chief’s warning to residents was simple and direct:
“When they find one that is open, they steal anything of value.”
That sentence is not just a public-safety tip. In a civil injury case, it is evidence of foreseeability. When a property owner in Midland knows — or should know — that criminals are walking through their parking lot pulling door handles, and they do nothing to stop it, the law may hold that owner responsible for what happens next. The same is true for a business that knows street racing happens on the road bordering its property and fails to warn customers or install barriers. Foreseeability is the bridge between a crime trend and a civil duty, and Midland’s crime trends are now on the public record.
The oilfield economy compounds the danger. When the basin is booming, the roads fill with commercial trucks — water haulers, frac-sand transporters, crude-oil tankers, and pump trucks running on deadlines and fatigue. Add street racing to that mix — young drivers testing speed on the same corridors where 18-wheelers are trying to stop a loaded rig — and the physics alone tell you what happens when they meet. A fully loaded tractor-trailer needs roughly the length of two football fields to stop from highway speed. A street racer does not give anyone that room.
When Crime Becomes a Civil Case: Texas Negligent Security Law
Here is the legal question that matters most: when a criminal hurts you on someone else’s property, is the property owner responsible, or is it just the criminal’s fault?
Texas law says the answer depends on foreseeability. A business or property owner owes its visitors — customers, tenants, guests — a duty to take reasonable steps to protect them from criminal acts that the owner knew about or should have anticipated. This is not a guarantee of safety. It is a duty of reasonable care, and what counts as “reasonable” depends on what the owner knew and what they did about it.
The framework works like this:
Duty. A business that invites you onto its property — a store, a restaurant, an apartment complex, a hotel, a parking garage — owes you a duty to protect you from foreseeable criminal harm. That duty is not unlimited, but it is real.
Breach. The owner breaches that duty when it fails to take reasonable security measures in light of what it knew. Reasonable measures can include adequate lighting, functioning surveillance cameras, security guards, controlled access, warnings to customers, and prompt response to known hazards. When a business knows its parking lot is a target for vehicle burglaries and leaves it dark, unmonitored, and unpatrolled, that is a breach.
Foreseeability. This is the battleground. The defense will argue the criminal act was a random, unpredictable event. Your case proves it was not. Foreseeability is established through prior similar incidents at the same property, crime data for the surrounding area, police calls for service to the address, and the broader crime trends the community already knows about. When Midland’s own police chief is publicly warning about vehicle burglaries and street racing, a business in Midland cannot credibly claim it had no idea those dangers existed.
Causation. The breach must be a proximate cause of your injury. If adequate lighting would have deterred the criminal, if a security guard would have intervened, if a working camera would have captured the license plate and led to an arrest before the criminal hurt someone else — those are causation arguments.
Damages. You must have suffered real harm — physical injury, medical costs, lost income, pain and suffering. A near-miss is not enough. But if you were hurt, every category of loss is compensable.
This is the same legal framework that governs hotel injury and premises liability cases — a hotel that ignores trafficking indicators, a store that ignores a pattern of assaults in its lot, an apartment complex that ignores complaints about a broken gate. The principle is the same whether the property is a hotel, a retail store, or a Midland oil-field services company whose lot is a known target for vehicle burglaries.
Texas Law: Your Rights and the Deadline That Ends Your Case
Three pieces of Texas law decide whether your case lives or dies. You need to know all three before you talk to anyone — especially an insurance adjuster.
The statute of limitations. Texas gives you two years from the date of your injury to file a personal-injury lawsuit. For wrongful death, the deadline is two years from the date of death. This is not a suggestion. It is a hard wall. Miss it and the case is over — no matter how strong the evidence, no matter how clear the liability, no matter how serious the injury. The court will not hear it.
There are narrow exceptions — the discovery rule for injuries that manifest later, tolling for minors, and certain government-claim notice deadlines — but the general rule is two years, and the safest assumption is that the clock started the day you were hurt.
Comparative negligence. Texas follows a modified comparative negligence standard with a 51 percent bar. In plain English: if you were partly at fault for your own injury, your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault. If you are found to be more than 50 percent at fault, you recover nothing. This is exactly why the insurance adjuster works so hard to pin fault on you — every percentage point they assign to your conduct is money off their payout. If a jury finds you 20 percent at fault for a $100,000 judgment, you recover $80,000. If they find you 52 percent at fault, you recover zero.
Damages. Texas does not impose a general cap on non-economic damages — pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life — in ordinary personal-injury cases. (Medical-malpractice cases carry statutory caps, but those do not apply to negligent-security or vehicle-crash claims.) This means a jury can award what the harm is actually worth, without an artificial ceiling cutting the number in half. Punitive damages may be available when the defendant’s conduct was grossly negligent — a property owner who ignored years of crime warnings and did nothing, for example.
If someone was killed, Texas’s wrongful-death statute allows surviving family members — spouse, children, and parents — to seek compensation for the losses they personally suffered: lost financial support, lost companionship, lost care, and the emotional devastation of a life cut short. A separate survival action allows the estate to recover for the decedent’s own pain and suffering between injury and death.
Street Racing, Vehicle Burglary, and Organized Crime: How Criminal Activity Causes Injuries on Midland Roads
The crime trends Midland’s police chief described do not stay in the police blotter. They spill onto the roads and into parking lots, and people get hurt. Here is how each pattern translates into a civil injury case.
Street racing. When two vehicles race down a Midland arterial — Loop 250, I-20 frontage roads, or a straight stretch of a rural highway — the speed doubles the destructive energy and cuts the stopping distance to a fraction of what a normal driver needs. A racer who loses control, crosses a center line, or T-bones a family at an intersection has committed negligence per se — a violation of traffic law that is itself the proof of fault. But the case does not stop with the racer. If the racing occurred on a road with a known history of the same activity, and a property owner, event organizer, or municipality failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it, the foreseeability chain extends. A car accident claim against the racer is the primary case. A premises liability or negligent-security claim against a property owner who enabled or ignored the racing is the secondary case.
Vehicle burglary that escalates. The chief described the pattern plainly: criminals walk through parking lots, try door handles, and steal from unlocked vehicles. Most of the time, the loss is property — a gun, a wallet, a laptop. But sometimes the encounter escalates. A vehicle owner confronts the burglar. A burglar panics and uses force. A stolen vehicle is driven recklessly through the lot and strikes a pedestrian. In each of these scenarios, the question is whether the property owner knew about the burglary pattern and took reasonable steps to stop it — lighting, cameras, patrols, warnings. If the owner did nothing despite prior incidents, the civil case against the owner may be as strong as the criminal case against the burglar.
Organized theft and road hazards. The chief identified an organized theft ring targeting gas and oil from Midland and the surrounding region. When stolen equipment — a tanker, a fuel truck, a service vehicle — is driven recklessly or left on a roadway, it becomes a road hazard that can cause a serious crash. If a business failed to secure its equipment against a known theft threat, and that stolen equipment injured someone on the road, the business’s negligent security may have contributed to the harm.
Drive-by shootings and vehicle-related injury. A drive-by shooting is primarily a criminal matter, but when it happens at a location with a history of similar violence — an apartment complex, a club, a parking lot — and the property owner failed to provide the security the history demanded, the civil case runs parallel to the criminal prosecution. Families who lose someone to gun violence on a property with a known pattern of prior shootings have pursued and recovered damages under Texas negligent-security law.
The Evidence Clock: What Proves Your Case and How Fast It Can Disappear
Every crime-related injury case lives or dies on evidence that is already dying. The faster you act, the more proof survives. Here is what exists, who holds it, and how fast it can legally vanish.
Surveillance footage from the property. If your injury happened at a business, an apartment complex, or a parking lot with cameras, the footage that shows what happened is the single most important piece of evidence. But surveillance systems overwrite on a rolling cycle — commonly 30 to 60 days, sometimes less. Once the footage is gone, it is gone. A preservation letter — a formal demand that the property owner save the footage — is what stops the clock. That letter has to go out within days, not months. If the property owner receives the letter and destroys the footage anyway, a judge can instruct the jury to assume the missing video would have helped you. That is called an adverse-inference instruction, and it is one of the most powerful tools in a spoliation case.
Police reports and body-camera footage. The Midland Police Department’s incident report, dispatch records, and any body-camera or dash-camera footage from responding officers are public records — but they are subject to retention schedules, and some materials are harder to obtain after time passes. Request them early through the proper channels.
Flock camera data. Midland uses automated license-plate-reader cameras — the Flock system referenced in local reporting — that capture vehicle data at fixed points around the city. If the criminal’s vehicle passed a Flock camera before or after the incident, that data may place the vehicle at the scene. This data is held by law enforcement and may have retention limits. A demand for its preservation should be part of the early evidence plan.
Prior incident reports at the property. The foreseeability spine of your negligent-security case is the history of prior crimes at the same location. Police calls for service to the address, prior incident reports filed by the business, and prior complaints from customers or tenants all establish that the owner knew or should have known. These records can be obtained through public-records requests, but some agencies purge or archive them within a few years.
Medical records. Your emergency-department records, imaging studies, treatment notes, and billing statements are the proof of your injury. These are created contemporaneously and are generally durable — but the sooner they are requested and organized, the more complete the picture. Gaps in treatment are the defense’s favorite argument: “If she was really hurt, why did she wait three weeks to see a doctor?”
Witness statements. The memory of a witness degrades within days. A bystander who saw the street racer run the red light will remember the color of the car today and may not remember it next month. Identifying and documenting witnesses early — names, contact information, written or recorded statements — is work that cannot be done later.
Your own physical evidence. Photographs of the scene, the lighting conditions, the lack of security cameras, the broken gate, the damaged vehicle — taken on the day of the incident — are irreplaceable. Your vehicle itself is evidence. Do not let it be repaired or scrapped before it has been photographed and inspected by an expert.
The Insurance Adjuster’s Playbook: What They Do Before You Call a Lawyer
Lupe Peña sat in the rooms where these decisions were made. He knows the playbook from the inside, and he knows what each play is designed to do. Here are the moves you should expect — and the counter to each.
Play 1: “The criminal act breaks the chain of causation.” The property owner’s insurer will argue that the criminal’s intervening act absolves the owner of responsibility. The criminal chose to commit the crime, the argument goes, and the owner cannot be liable for another person’s independent criminal decision. The counter: Texas negligent-security law specifically addresses this. When the criminal act was foreseeable — and prior incidents, crime data, and public warnings prove it was — the property owner’s failure to act is a proximate cause, not merely a condition. The criminal’s act does not break the chain when the owner was already on notice that this kind of act was likely.
Play 2: “The crime was unforeseeable.” The insurer will frame the incident as a random, one-off event no one could have predicted. The counter: The foreseeability evidence — police calls for service to the property, prior incidents, the broader crime trends the police chief publicly identified — tells a different story. The defense will fight to keep this evidence out. The preservation letter and the public-records requests that pull the prior-incident history are what make the foreseeability argument bulletproof.
Play 3: “You were partly at fault.” The adjuster will look for anything that shifts fault to you. You left your car unlocked. You were walking alone at night. You did not park in a better-lit area. The counter: Texas’s 51 percent bar means comparative fault reduces recovery but does not eliminate it unless you are more than half at fault. And the defense’s attempt to blame the victim is exactly why the foreseeability evidence matters — a property owner cannot shift fault to a customer for failing to self-protect against a danger the owner was legally required to address. An insurance-claim lawyer who knows how these arguments are built from the inside can keep the fault percentage where it belongs — on the defendant.
Play 4: The fast settlement check. Within days or weeks, a check may arrive with a release printed on the back or enclosed with it. The amount will look reasonable for someone who has not yet seen the full medical picture. The counter: Do not sign it. Do not cash it. A release is a legal document that ends your claim forever. Once you sign, you cannot reopen the case even if your injuries turn out to be far worse than you thought. The adjuster is counting on you to take the money before the MRI results come back, before the surgeon says you need a fusion, before the neuropsychological testing shows the brain injury the CT scan missed.
Play 5: The recorded statement. A friendly voice will call to “check on you” and ask you to “just tell us what happened” on a recording. The counter: Do not give a recorded statement without a lawyer. The statement is designed to lock you into a narrative before you know the full extent of your injuries, before you have seen the police report, and before you understand the legal framework. Every word you say will be transcribed and used to limit your claim. “I’m feeling a little better” becomes “she was not seriously injured.” “I think I might have been going a little fast” becomes “she admitted fault.”
What Your Case Is Worth
No lawyer can tell you what your case is worth without knowing the facts. But the framework for valuing a crime-related injury case in Texas follows a structure you should understand before you talk to anyone about settlement.
Economic damages. These are the losses you can put on a spreadsheet: past and future medical bills, past and future lost wages, lost earning capacity, property damage, and the cost of future care. For a serious injury — a traumatic brain injury from a street-racing crash, a spinal injury from a parking-lot assault, a broken bone from a hit-and-run — the medical bills alone can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Future care, projected by a life-care planner and reduced to present value by a forensic economist, can push the economic damages into the millions for a catastrophic injury.
Non-economic damages. These are the human losses: pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, and the loss of the life you had before. Texas does not cap these in ordinary personal-injury cases. A jury decides what they are worth based on the evidence — and the evidence includes not just the medical records but the testimony of the people who knew you before and can describe what you lost.
Punitive damages. When a property owner’s conduct was worse than ordinary negligence — when they ignored years of warnings, concealed prior incidents, or made a deliberate choice to save money on security at the known expense of customer safety — Texas law allows punitive damages. These are designed to punish and deter, not just compensate. The standard is gross negligence, and the evidence that supports it is the same foreseeability record that proves the underlying claim.
How the number is built. A real demand is not a round figure pulled from the air. It is the sum of every medical bill, every lost paycheck, every future-care cost projected across a life expectancy, plus the human losses a jury would recognize, plus the leverage of a defendant who chose to ignore a known danger. The adjuster’s first offer is typically a fraction of that number. The gap between the first offer and the full value is where the case is won — through evidence, preparation, and the willingness to try the case if the insurer will not pay what it is worth.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. The firm has recovered more than $50 million in aggregate for injured clients, including a $5 million-plus brain-injury settlement, a $3.8 million-plus amputation settlement, and a $2.5 million-plus truck-crash recovery. Those numbers are not a promise — they are proof that these cases, when built right, are worth fighting.
The First 72 Hours: What to Do and What Not to Do
The hours after a crime-related injury are when the case is won or lost — not in court, but in the decisions you make before you ever talk to a lawyer. Here is the roadmap.
Hour 1 to 24: Medical care first. If you were hurt, go to the hospital. Not next week — now. The emergency department at Midland Memorial or the nearest trauma center will document your injuries in a medical record that is contemporaneous, objective, and admissible. If you walk away from the scene because you “feel okay” and the symptoms show up three days later, the defense will argue the injury was not caused by the incident. Some of the most serious injuries — traumatic brain injuries from crash forces, internal bleeding from blunt trauma — do not announce themselves immediately. The medical record is your foundation. Build it now.
Hour 1 to 48: Report to police. File a police report. If the incident was a criminal act — an assault, a burglary that escalated, a hit-and-run, a street-racing crash — the police report is the official record that the crime occurred. It may include witness statements, vehicle descriptions, and officer observations. It is also the document that triggers any criminal investigation, and a criminal conviction or guilty plea can be powerful evidence in your civil case.
Hour 1 to 48: Document everything. Photograph the scene, the lighting, the lack of security cameras, the broken gate, the damaged vehicle, your injuries. Take photos from multiple angles and distances. Save everything — the clothes you were wearing, the personal items damaged, the vehicle itself. Do not wash the clothes. Do not repair the vehicle. Do not dispose of anything until it has been documented.
Hour 1 to 72: Identify witnesses. Get names and phone numbers from anyone who saw what happened. Witnesses leave the scene and become unreachable. Memory fades. A witness who is identified on day one can provide a statement that is accurate and detailed. A witness identified three months later may not remember the color of the traffic light.
What not to do. Do not give a recorded statement to the insurance adjuster. Do not sign a release or cash a settlement check. Do not post about the incident on social media — the insurance company will be watching. Do not talk to the property owner’s lawyer. Do not assume the police investigation will protect your civil rights — criminal and civil cases are separate systems with separate burdens of proof and separate deadlines.
When to call. The preservation letter — the document that orders the property owner to save the surveillance footage, the prior-incident reports, and the security records before they are destroyed — is the first thing a lawyer sends. The day you call is the day the evidence starts working for you instead of against you.
How We Build a Crime-Related Injury Case
Here is what happens when you call us. The first conversation is free. You tell us what happened. We tell you whether we think you have a case — honestly, including the things that make it hard. If we take the case, the work begins immediately.
The preservation letter goes out the day you hire us. This is a formal demand to the property owner, the business, and any other party that may hold evidence. It names the specific records: surveillance footage, incident reports, security-guard logs, maintenance records, lighting inspection reports, prior-complaint files, key-card access data, and any other document or recording that may prove the case. Once the letter is received, the recipient has a legal duty to preserve everything it names. Destruction after notice is spoliation — and spoliation has consequences.
Records demands go to law enforcement. The police report, dispatch records, body-camera footage, Flock camera data, and prior calls for service to the property are all obtainable through public-records requests. We file them early, because some records are purged on schedules that are shorter than you would expect.
The foreseeability record is built. Prior incidents at the same property, crime data for the surrounding area, and the broader crime trends documented by law enforcement are assembled into a timeline that proves the owner knew or should have known. This is the spine of the negligent-security claim, and it is built from public records, the property owner’s own files, and the testimony of neighbors, employees, and former security staff.
Experts are retained. A security expert can testify about what reasonable security measures would have prevented the incident. A reconstruction expert can analyze a street-racing crash and establish speed, braking, and causation. A life-care planner can project the cost of future medical care. A forensic economist can reduce that cost to present value. A neuropsychologist can document a brain injury the CT scan missed. Each expert is chosen for the specific facts of the case.
Discovery and depositions. Once the case is filed, the defendant must produce documents, answer questions under oath, and sit for depositions. The property owner’s safety director, the security company’s operations manager, the employees who worked the night of the incident — each one is asked, under oath, what they knew, when they knew it, and what they did about it. The depositions are where the defense’s narrative falls apart and the truth comes into the record.
The demand and the trial. When the evidence is assembled and the damages are quantified, we present a demand to the insurer. If the insurer pays what the case is worth, the case settles. If it does not, we try the case. A wrongful-death or catastrophic-injury case filed in the Midland County courthouse puts the case in front of twelve people from the community — people who drive the same roads, shop at the same stores, and understand what it means when a business ignores a danger that everyone else can see.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I sue if I was injured by a criminal act on someone else’s property in Midland?
Yes — if the property owner knew or should have known about the risk of that kind of criminal activity and failed to take reasonable steps to protect you. Texas negligent-security law allows you to hold a property owner responsible when their failure to address a foreseeable danger contributed to your injury. The criminal does not have to be caught or convicted for you to have a civil case. The civil case is about the property owner’s negligence, not the criminal’s guilt.
What if I was partly at fault for my own injury?
Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule with a 51 percent bar. Your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault, but you can still recover as long as you are not more than 50 percent at fault. If a jury awards $100,000 and finds you 30 percent at fault, you recover $70,000. The insurance adjuster will try to push your fault percentage as high as possible — every point is money off their payout. This is one of the main reasons to have a lawyer: keeping the fault allocation where the evidence puts it, not where the insurer wants it.
How long do I have to file a claim in Texas?
Two years from the date of injury for a personal-injury claim, and two years from the date of death for a wrongful-death claim. This is the Texas statute of limitations, and it is a hard deadline. There are narrow exceptions, but the safe assumption is that the clock started the day you were hurt. Waiting to “see how you feel” can cost you the case entirely — the two-year window does not pause while you recover.
What if the criminal was never caught?
Your civil case against the property owner does not depend on the criminal being identified, caught, or convicted. The civil case asks a different question: did the property owner’s negligence contribute to your injury? That question is answered with the foreseeability evidence — prior incidents, crime data, the owner’s knowledge of the danger — not with a criminal conviction. The criminal and civil systems are separate. One can succeed without the other.
Can I still recover if my vehicle was burglarized and I was injured during the theft?
Yes. If the burglary occurred on a property where the owner knew vehicle break-ins were a recurring problem — and Midland’s police chief has publicly described this exact pattern — the owner may be liable for failing to protect against it. If the burglary escalated to an assault, a hit-and-run, or a confrontation that injured you, the property owner’s negligence in allowing the criminal environment to persist may be a proximate cause of your harm.
What if I was hit by a street racer in Midland?
The street racer is the primary at-fault party, and a claim against the racer’s insurance is your first avenue of recovery. But if the racing occurred on a road or in an area with a known history of the same activity — and the police chief has identified street racing as a recurring summer crime trend in Midland — there may be additional defendants whose negligence contributed to the conditions that allowed the racing to continue. Every defendant with a share of fault is a separate source of recovery.
Does Texas cap damages in injury cases?
Texas does not impose a general cap on non-economic damages — pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life — in ordinary personal-injury cases. Medical-malpractice cases carry statutory caps on non-economic damages, but those caps do not apply to negligent-security, premises-liability, or vehicle-crash claims. Punitive damages are available for gross negligence but are subject to a statutory cap in most cases. The economic damages — medical bills, lost wages, future care — are not capped in any case type.
What should I do in the first 72 hours after a crime-related injury?
Get medical treatment immediately. File a police report. Photograph everything — the scene, the lighting, the lack of security, your injuries, your damaged property. Get witness names and contact information. Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance adjuster. Do not sign a release or cash a settlement check. Do not post about the incident on social media. Call a lawyer. The preservation letter that freezes the evidence goes out the day you call — and every day you wait is a day the surveillance footage, the witness memory, and the physical evidence are degrading.
Will my case go to trial?
Most personal-injury cases settle before trial. But a case that is prepared for trial from day one — with evidence frozen, experts retained, depositions taken, and a demand that reflects the full value — is the case that settles for what it is worth. A case that is built to settle quickly, without the evidence and the leverage, settles for whatever the insurer offers. The difference is in the preparation. We prepare every case as if it is going to trial, because that is what makes the insurer pay.
How much does it cost to hire Attorney911?
Nothing upfront. We work on contingency — 33.33 percent before trial, 40 percent if the case goes to trial. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The consultation is free. The first conversation costs you nothing and tells you whether you have a case worth pursuing. Call 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, any day.
Why Attorney911
Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years trying cases in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. He was a journalist before he was a lawyer — he knows how to find the story the evidence tells, and he knows how to tell it to a jury. He has recovered more than $50 million in aggregate for injured clients, including multi-million-dollar results in brain-injury, amputation, and truck-crash cases. He handles the active $10 million-plus hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston. He is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Houston Bar Association.
Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their valuation software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims from people exactly like you. He knows how the reserve is set in the first 48 hours. He knows how the recorded statement is engineered. He knows which doctors the insurer sends you to and why. He knows the playbook because he used to run it — and now he uses that knowledge for injured clients. Lupe is fluent in Spanish and conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter.
We serve your family fully in Spanish. Hablamos Español.
We do not get paid unless we win your case. The consultation is free. The first call costs you nothing. The preservation letter that freezes the evidence before it disappears goes out the day you hire us — and in a crime-related injury case, that letter is the difference between a case and no case.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Free consultation. No fee unless we win. 24/7 live staff — not an answering service. We handle cases across Texas, including Midland, the Permian Basin, and every community along I-20, US 385, and State Highway 349.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting the firm is free and confidential. If you or someone you love was hurt by criminal activity on a property that should have been safe, the clock is running. Call today.