Choosing a car accident law firm in Houston is choosing the people who will speak for you to an insurance company for months. Here is who we are, who works at our Houston office, how we run a claim and what you can expect from us.
Car Wreck Lawyers Houston is a website of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC, a Texas personal injury law firm with offices in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Our principal office is in Dallas. Our Houston office is at 5300 Memorial Dr Ste 810, Houston, TX 77007, by Memorial Park west of downtown. The attorney responsible for this site is Jonathan Harris, Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
A firm founded on the other side of the claim
LAWBOSS was founded by Michael Uvalle after he worked for several of the largest insurance companies in Texas. He saw how injury claims are valued and defended, and he built a firm around that knowledge. The firm calls it the Insurance Insider Advantage. Five of our seven attorneys came from the insurance side, as adjusters, insurance defense attorneys or trial attorneys for insurers.
We do not say this to suggest that insurers are villains. An adjuster has a job: to close the file for as little as the policy and the facts allow. Our point is that the person working your claim should understand that job as well as the adjuster does.
The attorneys at our Houston office
That background shapes small things as well as big ones. We know that an adjuster’s notes from the first call travel with the file, that an early recorded statement can be quoted back months later, and that a gap in treatment is one of the first things a reviewer looks for. So we start early, we keep the record complete and we answer the insurer’s questions before they become arguments.
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris, Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization, is a partner and the firm’s managing attorney of litigation. The State Bar of Texas shows him licensed since 1998. Before he joined LAWBOSS in 2017 he spent more than a decade as a senior trial attorney for a major automobile insurance company. He studied law at the University of Houston. He is the attorney responsible for this website, and his primary practice location is our Houston office.
Ian Nelsen
Ian Nelsen is a partner attorney who joined the firm in 2016. He was an adjuster and an insurance defense attorney before he represented injured people. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and a master’s degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and he graduated third in his class at South Texas College of Law. The State Bar of Texas shows him licensed since 2016.
Howard Hill
Howard Hill is a litigation attorney based in Houston. He has practiced law since 1998 and spent over 20 years with two of the nation’s largest auto and commercial insurance carriers, with more than 23 years of trial work in complex civil matters. He studied law at the University of Houston.
How our Houston office runs a car accident claim
Every claim is different, but we run each one the same disciplined way, so nothing depends on luck or memory.
- Intake. You reach our intake team by phone or form, any hour. An attorney reviews what you told us and calls you back.
- Agreement. If we can help and you want to hire us, we go through the written agreement with you before you sign.
- Notice and evidence. We notify the insurers, request the crash report and send letters asking that video and data be kept.
- Treatment. While you recover, we gather records and bills from every provider and keep track of your out-of-pocket costs and lost work.
- Demand and negotiation. When the injuries are understood, we send a demand and negotiate with the insurer. You decide on any offer.
- Litigation, if needed. If the insurer will not deal fairly, we discuss filing suit before the two-year deadline in Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 16.003.
What we ask of you
A claim goes better when we work together. We ask you to keep your medical appointments, to tell us about new symptoms, bills and calls from insurers, and to stay off social media about the crash. We answer your questions in plain language, and we tell you what we think even when it is not what you hoped to hear.
No Fees or Costs Unless We Win
The firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you. The consultation is free and comes with no obligation.
How we keep you informed
People who call us after a crash often say the same thing about their first weeks: nobody tells them anything. The adjuster calls when it suits the insurer, the body shop calls about the car, and the doctor’s office asks who is paying. We try to be the one call that makes sense of the others.
When you hire us, you know who is working your file and how to reach them. We tell you when the crash report arrives, when we have notified each insurer, when records come in and when a demand goes out. When an offer arrives, we explain it, tell you what we think and why, and wait for your decision. If you call with a question, you get an answer in plain words.
We also tell you what not to worry about. Calls from the other driver’s insurer can come to us. Letters about medical liens and PIP can come to us. Your job is to get better; ours is to carry the claim.
Why the plural in our name
Car Wreck Lawyers Houston is the name of this website, not a separate firm. Behind it are the attorneys of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC: Jonathan Harris, Ian Nelsen and Howard Hill at our Houston office, with the rest of the firm’s attorneys in Dallas and San Antonio. When you call the number on this site, you reach our own intake team, not a referral service or another firm.
The Texas rules we work within
| Rule | What it says | Where it is |
|---|---|---|
| Deadline to sue | Generally two years from the crash | Civil Practice and Remedies Code 16.003 |
| Government claims | Written notice within six months, or less under a city charter | Civil Practice and Remedies Code 101.101 |
| Shared fault | No recovery above 50 percent; recovery reduced by your share | Civil Practice and Remedies Code 33.001, 33.012 |
| Minimum liability coverage | $30,000 per person, $60,000 per crash, $25,000 property | Transportation Code 601.072 |
| UM/UIM and PIP | Included unless rejected in writing | Insurance Code 1952.101, 1952.152 |
These are statutes as published by the Texas Legislature. The dollar figures are legal minimums for insurance, not a measure of what any claim is worth.
Where we work in the Houston area
Harris County is busy. TxDOT counted 115,173 crashes in the county in 2024, including 546 fatal crashes. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s 2025 list of the most congested road segments in Texas puts the West Loop (I-610) between the Katy Freeway and the Southwest Freeway first in the state, the Eastex Freeway between SH 288 and I-10 second and the Southwest Freeway between the West Loop and SH 288 fourth.
We take car accident claims from Houston and from Pasadena, Baytown, Pearland, Sugar Land, Katy, The Woodlands, Spring, League City and Missouri City. Clients from those towns talk with the same Houston attorneys, by phone or at our office. Our only Houston-area office is the one on Memorial Drive.
Questions to ask any car accident law firm
- Who will actually work on my file, and how do I reach them?
- What does the fee agreement say about case costs if there is no recovery?
- Has the attorney who will handle my claim tried cases in Texas courts?
- How will you keep me informed, and how often?
- What do you need from me, and what should I avoid doing?
Ask us the same questions. For the step-by-step detail of the legal work, read our page on hiring a car accident attorney in Houston. If you were hurt in a rideshare car, see our page for an Uber accident lawyer in Houston.
Questions people ask
Is Car Wreck Lawyers Houston a separate firm?
No. It is a website of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC. Calls and forms from it go to our own Houston intake team, not to another firm.
Where is your Houston office?
At 5300 Memorial Dr Ste 810, Houston, TX 77007, by Memorial Park west of downtown. The phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Who is responsible for this website?
Jonathan Harris, whose primary practice location is our Houston office.
Do I pay anything up front?
No. The consultation is free, and the firm advances case costs. You owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.