Serious Personal Injury · Texas & Nationwide

Houston Serious Personal Injury Lawyers

Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord, Amputation, and Burn Injury Attorneys. Trial Representation When a Serious Injury Changes Everything.

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Why VB Attorneys
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Board Certified Specialists. Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — a distinction held by less than 1% of Texas lawyers.
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Your Lawyer, Start to Finish. We handle a limited number of cases, so the lawyer you hire is the lawyer who leads your case and takes your calls — not a case manager.
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Lifetime Case Valuation. We retain life-care planners, economists, and medical experts early to prove the full multi-decade cost of your injury before the defense even opens their file.
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No Win, No Fee. We advance 100% of the substantial expert and litigation expenses required to win. You owe us nothing unless we recover compensation for you.
The First Question

What counts as a serious or life-altering injury?

Rusted rigging chain and hook on a crane outrigger
Failed rigging is a leading cause of crush and struck-by injuries. The rust is the argument.

How We Prepare Your Case

Most cases settle. The number they settle at depends on whether the other side believes your case is ready for a courtroom. Ours always are.

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Your lawyer leads your case. The lawyer you hire is the lawyer who leads your case — an experienced trial lawyer, supported by a Board Certified partner — and you can talk to your lawyer directly. Not a case manager. Not an associate you’ve never met.
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We find the evidence. Medical proof built early: life-care planners, economists, treating physicians, before-and-after witnesses. We dig until the other side’s own documents tell the story.
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We build it for court. Experts retained early. Depositions taken to lock in testimony. Every claim traced to the defendant’s own witnesses and records.
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You decide. When the offer comes — and it usually does — you’ll know exactly what your case is worth and exactly what going to court means. We give you our best advice; the decision to accept a settlement or go to trial is always, and only, yours.

The Serious Injuries We Handle

Neurological Trauma | Spinal Cord & Mobility | Amputations, Burns & Industrial Accidents

Some injuries heal. The cases we handle involve the ones that don’t: the brain injury that doesn’t show on a scan but shows up at every family dinner, the spinal cord that will not carry a signal again, the hand or foot that is simply gone, the burns that require surgeries for years.

The insurance company looks at a file like this and sees a hospital bill to negotiate. The real math is a lifetime: decades of medical care, a career that ends in a single morning, a house that has to be rebuilt around a wheelchair. The gap between those two numbers, the bill and the lifetime, is where these cases are won or lost.

We build the lifetime case. Life-care planners, economists, neuropsychologists, treating physicians, all retained early, before the defense knows the case exists, and all of it prepared for a jury. We take a small number of these cases so each one gets its lawyer’s full attention, because a case about the rest of someone’s life should not be run by a case manager.

The Anatomy of a Lifetime Claim vs. The Insurance Defense Strategy

Serious personal injury litigation turns entirely on projecting multi-decade economic and medical needs before a jury. Insurance adjusters attempt to value cases based on immediate medical invoices; we build cases around your lifetime horizon.

Each serious injury category, the lifetime picture we build, how the defense shrinks it, and the expert proof we put in place early.
Injury Category The Lifetime Picture (the math we build) How the Defense Shrinks It Expert Proof, Built In Early
Traumatic Brain Injuries Permanent changes to memory, concentration, personality, executive functioning, and long-term career viability. Pointing to “normal” standard CT or MRI scans; claiming cognitive fatigue is pre-existing. Neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, advanced cognitive testing, before-and-after witness profiles.
Spinal Cord Injuries & Paralysis Lifelong attendant care, repetitive medical equipment replacements, extensive home modifications, secondary medical complications. Arguing future medical procedures or 24/7 care models are medically unnecessary or inflated. Certified life-care planners, spinal cord specialists, architects for accessibility, economists.
Amputations & Crush Trauma Prosthetics replacement cycles (every 3–5 years for life), socket adjustments, phantom pain treatments, secondary revision surgeries. Valuing only the initial surgical amputation bill; minimizing the ongoing degradation of mobility. Prosthetists, orthopedic surgeons, occupational therapists, vocational rehabilitation experts.
Severe Burn Injuries Repetitive skin grafts, scar revision surgeries, permanent thermoregulation issues, extensive psychiatric care for trauma. Labeling necessary reconstructive surgeries as “cosmetic”; downplaying long-term psychological suffering. Burn unit surgeons, plastic surgeons, clinical psychologists, life-care planners.

The Injuries We Handle, in Plain English

Traumatic brain injuries

Often invisible on a standard CT or MRI, and devastating anyway: memory, personality, concentration, the ability to work. We prove them with neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging, treating physicians, and the before-and-after testimony of the people who know the injured person best. The phrase “the scans were normal” ends the conversation for insurance adjusters. It starts ours.

Spinal cord injuries and paralysis

Paraplegia and quadriplegia carry the largest lifetime costs in injury law: attendant care, equipment, home modification, and the medical complications that follow paralysis for life. A life-care plan converts all of it into a number a jury can award. Nothing about these cases is routine, and they should never be valued as if they were.

Amputations and crush injuries

Winches, machinery, vehicles, industrial equipment. The lifetime picture includes what people rarely see coming: prosthetics replaced every few years, revision surgeries, phantom pain, retraining for new work. We have resolved these cases, including a maritime crush injury leading to partial foot amputation, on terms that secured the client’s future.

Severe burns

Grafts, reconstructive surgery, scar revision, and psychological care, frequently arising from industrial explosions and equipment failures, which means there is usually a company, and often more than one, whose decisions caused the fire.

Go Deeper

Each injury type carries its own medicine, its own proof, and its own fight.

Traumatic Brain Injury

Proving the injury the scans don’t show.

Traumatic Brain Injury
Spinal Cord Injury & Paralysis

Lifetime care, priced and proven.

Spinal Cord Injury
Amputation & Crush Injuries

Prosthetics, revisions, and the full lifetime cost.

Amputation & Crush
Burn Injuries

When equipment failures and explosions cause the fire.

Burn Injuries

Serving Seriously Injured Texans Throughout the Gulf Coast

When corporate recklessness or heavy equipment failures disrupt your life, an internal corporate defense investigation begins immediately. Contact VB Attorneys today to launch your independent trial preparation.

Our specialized personal injury practice areas span the regional legal corridors, including:

  • Houston Serious Injury Lawyers
  • Dallas
  • Austin
  • San Antonio
  • Beaumont
  • Corpus Christi
What Our Clients Say

In their words.

“If I hadn’t met Brian, we would be dependent on the government for a lot of care today. He was there for us through everything.”

Carolin H. · Wife of Injured Logger · Ramrod Enterprises Case

“He stood behind what he said and really made me feel like he was working hard for me.”

Jeremy · Traumatic Brain Injury Case

“Not only were they good at what they did — they got to know us, and made it seem like it was just as personal to them as it was to us.”

Nick’s Mother · Traumatic Brain Injury Case
Serious Injury Questions

Serious injury questions, answered.

An injury that changes the rest of a life: traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and paralysis, amputations and crush injuries, severe burns, and injuries that permanently end a career. The legal difference is the time horizon. These cases must be valued across decades of future medical care and lost earning capacity, not measured by the hospital bills already in hand.
With experts, built into the case early: a life-care planner who prices every future surgery, therapy, medication, and piece of equipment; an economist who calculates lost earning capacity over a working lifetime; and treating physicians and specialists who establish permanency. The defense will hire its own experts to shrink every number. Ours are retained before the defense knows the case exists.
Yes. Many serious traumatic brain injuries are invisible on a standard CT or MRI. They are proven with neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging where appropriate, treating-physician testimony, and, often most powerfully, the before-and-after testimony of the people who know you: family, coworkers, friends. We have built brain injury cases this way for years. Insurance companies count on injured people giving up at the words ‘normal scan.’ Don’t.
A medical and economic roadmap of everything your injury will require for the rest of your life (surgeries, rehabilitation, attendant care, equipment, home modifications, medications), with each item priced and totaled. It converts ‘he’ll need care forever’ into a number a jury can award. No serious injury case should be valued without one.
Not before you know what your injury will cost over a lifetime. Early offers are made precisely because they are cheap. The adjuster is pricing your hospital bill, not your future. Once you sign a release, there is no going back for the surgery you need in year five. Have the case valued properly first.
Lost earning capacity is one of the largest components of these cases: not just the wages you’ve already missed, but the career you’ve lost, calculated by economists across your working life. For skilled workers (mariners, operators, tradesmen), the numbers are substantial, and the defense fights them hardest. That fight is exactly where prepared experts and a firm with a trial reputation matter.
Yes. Crush injuries and amputations, from winches, machinery, vehicles, and industrial equipment, carry lifetime costs people rarely see coming: prosthetics replaced every few years, revision surgeries, phantom pain treatment, retraining. We resolved a maritime crush-and-amputation case confidentially on terms that secured the client’s future, and we build every one of these cases around the full lifetime picture.
Burn cases combine some of the worst human suffering with some of the largest future costs: grafts, reconstructive surgeries, scar revision, and psychological care. They frequently arise from industrial explosions and equipment failures, which means there is usually a company, and often more than one, whose decisions caused the fire.
Our cases typically take one to two years from intake to resolution. When a family needs resolution faster, preparation creates that option too: the $5 million head injury result above was completed in under six months.
Often it doesn’t. If another company contributed to your injury — a contractor, an equipment manufacturer, a property owner — that company is fully responsible for its share, no matter who you worked for. If you were injured working on the water, the Jones Act gives you rights most land-based workers never have. The question is never just who employed you. It is every company whose decisions led to the injury.
Yes. The label on your paperwork does not decide your rights. If a defective tool or another company’s negligence contributed to your injury, you can pursue a third-party claim against the operator, the contractor, the equipment manufacturer, or any company whose conduct played a part, regardless of how you were classified.
Texas follows proportionate responsibility under Chapter 33 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code: fault is apportioned among every responsible party, and a defendant found more than 50 percent responsible can be held liable for the entire judgment. We systematically investigate and name every negligent party — whether it is an equipment manufacturer, a subcontractor, or a site operator. Tracing how different corporate errors linked together to cause an incident prevents a single defendant from escaping their fair share of liability and maximizes the total pool of financial recovery available to secure your lifelong care.
Yes. Many neurological injuries involve a cascading biological timeline. Internal bleeding, swelling, axonal shearing, and secondary chemical imbalances in the brain frequently develop over days and weeks following a traumatic strike or blast exposure. Insurance companies argue that a delay in documentation proves the accident didn’t cause the deficit. We counter this defense by tracing the precise medical evolution of your symptoms using expert neurological testimony and baseline behavioral shifts documented by family and colleagues.
The defense will use your medical history to claim your current suffering is entirely old. Texas law protects you under what is commonly known as the ‘Eggshell Skull Rule.’ A negligent company is legally responsible for any aggravation or worsening of a pre-existing condition. If you were managing a minor back issue but an accident turned it into a permanent, paralyzing injury, they must pay for the full life-altering difference. We use medical experts to clearly isolate and prove how the trauma fundamentally changed your physical baseline.
Yes. In Texas, the spouse of a seriously injured individual can bring a separate legal claim for ‘loss of consortium.’ This component seeks financial recovery for the damage done to the marital relationship, including the permanent loss of companionship, emotional support, affection, and physical intimacy. When an accident transforms a spouse into a full-time caregiver, the human cost to the relationship is profound, and a jury is legally permitted to compensate for that loss.
Yes, insurance companies routinely hire private investigators to conduct surveillance on seriously injured people. They will film you pumping gas, carrying groceries, or sitting outside, hoping to capture a single frame out of context to argue you are faking or exaggerating your physical limitations. Assume you are being watched or filmed any time you leave your home. The best defense against surveillance is simple: follow your doctor’s exact medical restrictions and let our trial team address their context traps in court.
Claims against government entities are strictly governed by the Texas Tort Claims Act, which carries extraordinarily short deadlines — frequently requiring a highly specific formal notice to be filed within 90 days or six months of the accident, depending on the municipality. Government claims also face strict statutory damage caps. If you are struck by a municipal vehicle or injured on government property, you cannot afford to wait. Immediate investigation is required to preserve your right to file a claim.
Your Legal Team

Board Certified. Partner-led. From day one.

When you hire VB Attorneys, you work directly with Brian or Vuk. Not a case manager. Not an intake coordinator. Experienced, Board Certified attorneys.

Brian Beckcom — Founding Partner, VB Attorneys

Brian Beckcom

Founding Partner

When Somali pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama, Brian Beckcom represented nine of her crew against Maersk in one of the most complex maritime and Jones Act cases in history — a case that changed the safety and security of mariners — and won confidential recoveries for every one of them. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, a distinction held by less than 1% of Texas lawyers.

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Vuk Vujasinovic — Founding Partner, VB Attorneys

Vuk Vujasinovic

Founding Partner

Vuk Vujasinovic is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, a distinction held by less than 1% of Texas lawyers. Vuk’s signature win is a $44 million trial verdict in a wrongful death case.

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