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All drivers in Texas must carry automobile insurance in at least the minimum required amounts. Texas uses a fault-based system to determine liability for an auto accident, meaning the insurance of the at-fault party will pay for the crash. If the other driver admits fault for your auto accident, he or she should report…

Pursuing financial compensation as the victim of a car crash in Texas may require proving your injuries, as well as the other driver’s fault, through a preponderance of the evidence. This refers to enough evidence to establish that at least 50% of the fault for the accident rests with the defendant. Evidence can take…

Building a car accident claim from day one is important to strengthen your ability to recover compensation from the party at fault. If you have serious injuries or property damages, collecting evidence could help you file a stronger claim with the other driver’s insurance company. When it is possible, all crash survivors should preserve…

Even though there have been many regulations designed to mitigate the problem for many years, slips, trips and falls are still among the most common workplace accidents every year and the conditions leading to them are still among the most common issues cited during workplace inspections undertaken by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

Finding the Right Attorney For Your Case Can Hill Law Firm Handles Cases in Other Cities? Some of the most common things we hear from potential new clients are questions about locality, why it matters, and what the potential client’s options are in hiring an attorney. Many callers need an attorney in other parts…

In this, the seventh in a series regarding the importance of safety in the workplace, we discuss the importance of working safely around electricity. Electricity is such a common part of life that it is all too easy to take for granted and to forget the dangers associated with its use. It is too…

Justin Hill, owner and founder of Hill Law Firm, was interviewed by the Lawyer Mastermind podcast about 5 keys to running a profitable firm. You can learn about Justin’s philosophy on running a law firm, interacting with staff, and humbling himself to be successful. After five years of building the Hill Law Firm, Justin…

  Our law firm was recently hired to represent a family that lost a child due to the an instance of firearm negligence. In this specific case, a gun owner left a dischargeable (loaded) handgun accessible to an eight year old boy. At some point, the child accidentally shot and killed himself. In spite…

In this, the sixth post in our series on the importance of workplace safety in San Antonio and Texas in general, we start with a story that hit the news earlier this year. It probably seems like a long time ago, but before the pandemic shut everything down and forced many of us to…

With this, the fifth entry in our ongoing series on the state of workplace safety in San Antonio, Bexar County, and Texas in general, we discuss another of the most common safety issues in the state, having to do with the use of scaffolding at work sites. Then, last week, the news brought the…