You are hurt, the bills started before the pain stopped, and someone from an insurance company has already called. The McAllen personal injury lawyer team at George Salinas Injury Lawyers handles claims across Hidalgo County so you can put your attention where it belongs, which is getting better.
We take car and truck crashes, workplace and construction injuries, and wrongful death claims throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Consultations are free, we work in English and Spanish, and you owe nothing unless we win.
Call (210) 225-0909 for a free case review.
Resources On This Page
- Do You Need a Lawyer After an Accident in McAllen?
- What Kinds of Injury Cases Do You Handle in Hidalgo County?
- How Dangerous Are McAllen Roads?
- Why Does Freight Traffic Matter to Injury Claims Here?
- Where Are McAllen Injury Cases Filed?
- How Much Time Do You Have to File?
- McAllen Injury Questions, Answered
- Someone Should Be in Your Corner Down Here
Do You Need a Lawyer After an Accident in McAllen?
If your injuries required more than one medical visit, or if fault is being disputed, the answer is usually yes. Adjusters open with a fault theory and a low offer, and both are easier to challenge before you have signed anything.
You likely do not need a lawyer for a minor fender bender with no injury. You likely do for a crash involving surgery, missed work, a commercial vehicle, a government vehicle, or a driver whose insurance falls short of your bills.
The consultation costs nothing, so the question resolves in one phone call rather than in six months of guessing.
What Kinds of Injury Cases Do You Handle in Hidalgo County?
Serious injury claims, across the situations that produce them in the Valley.
- Motor vehicle collisions. Crashes on Expressway 83, US 281, and the arterials that feed them. We handle car accidents in McAllen from first notice through trial if needed
- Commercial truck and 18-wheeler crashes. Freight traffic in this county is not incidental. It is the economy
- Workplace and construction injuries. Including third-party claims that exist alongside a workers’ compensation claim, covering construction accidents in the Valley
- Pedestrian and bicycle collisions
- Motorcycle crashes
- Rideshare collisions involving Uber and Lyft
- Fatal crashes. We handle wrongful death claims for families across Hidalgo County
How Dangerous Are McAllen Roads?
Dangerous enough that Hidalgo County accounts for close to 3% of all crashes in a state of 30 million people. TxDOT crash data for 2025 recorded:
| Hidalgo County, 2025 | Count |
|---|---|
| Total crashes | 15,390 |
| Traffic deaths | 52 |
| Suspected serious injuries | 360 |
| Commercial vehicle crashes | 597 |
Statewide, Texas has not gone a single day without a traffic death since November 7, 2000. TxDOT tracks that streak publicly, and 2025 did not break it.
Most of these crashes cluster where you would expect: the US 83 and Interstate 2 corridor that locals call Expressway 83, the US 281 and Interstate 69C corridor running north out of Pharr, and the heavily traveled arterials including 10th Street, Ware Road, and McColl Road.
Why Does Freight Traffic Matter to Injury Claims Here?
Because the Valley moves more commercial trucks than almost anywhere on the border, and those trucks share your commute.
The Pharr crossing, which federal statistics report under the Hidalgo, Texas port of entry, handled roughly 719,000 incoming commercial trucks in 2025 according to Bureau of Transportation Statistics border crossing data. That is the third busiest commercial truck crossing on the entire United States and Mexico border, behind only Laredo and Otay Mesa in California.
Those trucks feed onto the same roads families use every day. A truck claim runs against a business insurance policy rather than a personal one, and it involves records that disappear on a schedule, so it is not a claim to sit on.
Injured by a commercial truck in McAllen? Call (210) 225-0909 today.
Where Are McAllen Injury Cases Filed?
At the Hidalgo County Courthouse in Edinburg, at 100 North Closner Boulevard. The county has 13 district courts, which handle civil lawsuits including personal injury claims, along with nine county courts at law for lower value civil matters.
Filing in Hidalgo County rather than in a distant venue matters. Local juries understand the roads, the industries, and the wage realities of this region, and defense lawyers frequently try to move cases out. Knowing the local bench and how these dockets move is part of the work.
How Much Time Do You Have to File?
Two years from the date of injury in most Texas personal injury cases, under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003. A wrongful death claim also runs two years, measured from the date of death.
Two exceptions change the math sharply. A claim against a city, county, school district, or other government body generally requires written notice within six months, sometimes less under a city charter. And evidence such as vehicle data, surveillance footage, and maintenance records is usually gone within weeks regardless of the filing deadline.
McAllen Injury Questions, Answered
Do I have to travel to San Antonio to work with your firm?
No. Most communication happens by phone, text, video, and email, and we come to you when meeting in person is the right call. Our offices are in San Antonio and Austin, and we handle Hidalgo County matters from there.
What if the driver who hit me had no insurance?
Your own policy may cover it through uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, which Texas insurers must include unless you rejected it in writing. Pull your declarations page and let us read it with you before you assume there is no recovery.
Will hiring a lawyer slow down my medical care?
It usually does the opposite. Part of what a firm does is help arrange treatment for people without health insurance, often on a letter of protection, so care is not delayed while the claim develops.
What does it cost to hire you?
Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee, so the fee comes out of the recovery, and there is no fee unless we win.
Meet Our Top-Rated Personal Injury Attorneys
Someone Should Be in Your Corner Down Here
Insurance carriers handle thousands of Valley claims a year and have a process for each one. You have this one, and it happens to be your life, your job, and your family’s next twelve months.
George Salinas started his career representing insurance companies before he began suing them, so he learned early how a claim gets valued and where corners get cut. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an organization that requires attorneys to have actually tried cases before juries.
The consultation is free, we will tell you straight whether you have a case worth pursuing, and there is no fee unless we win.
Call George Salinas Injury Lawyers at (210) 225-0909.