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$73.21 Million Verdict Birth Injury
The Buckingham & Vega legal team secured a $73.21 million verdict on behalf of a baby who was catastrophically injured due to the negligence of their doctor and medical team.
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Record-Setting $72 Million Verdict Birth Injury
The Buckingham & Vega team obtained a $72 Million verdict in a birth injury case when an OB/ GYN failed to properly monitor the mom during pregnancy.
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$16 Million Truck Accident
Buckingham & Vega obtained a $16 million settlement in a truck accident case. The truck driver was speeding and inattentive (texting) and crashed into the rear of a pickup truck stopped at a stoplight.
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$14 Million Dram Shop Liability
Our team obtained a $14 million dram shop verdict on behalf of a client who was injured due to negligence.
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$13 Million Truck Accident
Our team secured a 13 million settlement in a truck accident case. An eighteen-wheeler made an unsafe turn in front of a car driven by a grandmother and her family. The grandmother was killed and the family suffered severe injuries.
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13 Million Work Injury
Buckingham & Vega represented an oilfield worker who was killed when their company failed to properly train its employees on how to safely move waste bins. Our client was killed when he became trapped between two bins.
Texas Premises Liability Statutes
When you’ve been harmed on someone else’s property, the first thing your lawyer will look into is what status you had as a visitor. This is essential to your claim because your visitor status determines whether or not you have a legal right to file a claim.
These laws determine how much care a visitor is owed because property owners only certain responsibilities towards different kinds of visitors. Here are the three different types of visitors, according to Texas premises liability laws:
- Invitee. The type of visitor who is owed the most care while on someone else’s property is an invitee. These visitors have been directly invited onto the premises for both their own benefit and the owner’s benefit, like a shopper or a friend. Property owners need to know about any potential hazard on their property and either fix it or make a sign to warn about what they’ve found that’s dangerous.
- Licensee. A licensee is owed less care than an invitee, but more than a trespasser because they are on the property legally. They have permission to be on the property, but it’s not explicitly like an invitee. Licensees are on the property for their own benefit, and while property owners need to know about hazards and warn if there are any dangers on the property, they don’t need to go out and search to ensure there aren’t any hazards.
- Trespasser. This type of visitor is not owed any care, and if you were trespassing at the time of your injury on someone else’s property, you most likely can’t file a legal claim against the owner. The only time you might have a claim against the property owner is if you are under 18 years old or the owner intentionally caused you injury.
All of these classifications might seem complicated and confusing—they can be. When you’ve been hurt on someone else’s property, you likely weren’t thinking about how you’d be classified as a visitor, so you never considered these specifications. That’s why having an attorney on your side can help.
Our Fort Worth, TX premises liability attorney has experience with these kinds of cases and has full understanding of Texas law. Based on what happened to you and any evidence you can provide, we’ll work to determine what type of visitor you were so that we can build you the strongest claim possible for your injuries.