The accident lawyers Houston families reach at our Memorial Drive office

Three accident lawyers Houston callers can reach day or night work out of our office on Memorial Drive, and two of them spent years working for insurance companies before they switched sides. This page says who they are, which part of a case each one carries and the kinds of Houston crashes and injuries they take on.

You are reading a page published by the Houston office of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC, which runs Injury Accident Lawyer Houston as its own website. The office sits on Memorial Drive beside Memorial Park, a few minutes west of downtown, and it takes injury cases from across Harris County and the towns that ring it. Jonathan Harris, Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization, is the attorney who answers for this site.

Three Houston attorneys and the part each one plays

Jonathan Harris is a Partner Attorney and the Managing Attorney of Litigation for the whole firm. He earned his law degree at the University of Houston and was licensed in Texas in November 1998. For more than a decade after that he was a senior trial attorney for a major automobile insurance company. He came to LAWBOSS in 2017 and now leads its litigation, so when a Houston claim cannot be settled and has to go to court, the plan for trying it is his.

Howard Hill, a Litigation Attorney, is based in Houston. Like Jonathan, he studied law at the University of Houston and has practiced since 1998. His record includes more than 23 years of trial work in complex civil matters, and for over 20 years he worked with two of the nation’s largest auto and commercial insurance carriers. He spent two decades seeing injury cases from the carriers’ side of the courtroom, and that is the view he now brings to the injured person’s side.

Ian Nelsen is a Partner Attorney who began his career as an insurance adjuster and later worked as an insurance defense attorney. His studies took him from Baylor University (BA) to Texas A&M University-Commerce (master’s degree) and then to South Texas College of Law, where he graduated third in his class. He was licensed in May 2016 and joined the firm that same year. Having once been the person who reads a claim file and decides what to offer, Ian knows which records move an adjuster and which ones get set aside.

Attorney	Title at LAWBOSS	Licensed in Texas	Insurance-side background
Jonathan Harris	Partner Attorney, Managing Attorney of Litigation	November 1998	More than a decade as a senior trial attorney for a major auto insurer
Howard Hill	Litigation Attorney	November 1998	Over 20 years with two of the nation’s largest auto and commercial carriers
Ian Nelsen	Partner Attorney	May 2016	Insurance adjuster, then insurance defense attorney

The pattern runs through the whole firm. Five of our seven attorneys came from the insurance side, starting with the founder, Michael Uvalle, who worked for several of the largest insurance companies in Texas before he became a lawyer. You can read fuller profiles of the Houston three on our Houston team page.

What the 2024 county numbers show for Harris County

TxDOT’s table of crashes and injuries by county for 2024, the most recent county year it has released, lists 115,173 crashes in Harris County. Of those, 546 were fatal crashes that took 579 lives, and 2,282 were crashes with a suspected serious injury, in which 2,688 people were seriously hurt. Statewide, TxDOT counted 4,159 traffic deaths in 2024 and 3,769 in 2025, a decline of 9.38 percent, with the 2025 figure based on reports processed by 7 April 2026.

County (2024)	Total crashes	Fatal crashes	People killed	Serious-injury crashes	People seriously injured
Harris	115,173	546	579	2,282	2,688
Fort Bend	13,217	38	41	257	313
Montgomery	12,352	59	61	300	353
Galveston	6,667	34	39	181	218

The three neighboring counties are in the table because people come to us from them too. Fort Bend County takes in Sugar Land, Missouri City and part of Katy, Montgomery County holds The Woodlands and Conroe, and Galveston County includes League City. We serve all of those communities from the Memorial Drive office.

Houston roads on the state congestion list

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s 2025 list of the 100 most congested road segments in Texas gives Houston six of the first seven spots. The West Loop Freeway (I-610) between the Katy Freeway and the Southwest Freeway ranks first. The Eastex Freeway (I-69 / US 59) from SH 288 to I-10 ranks second, the Southwest Freeway from the West Loop to SH 288 fourth, North Loop West (I-610) from I-45 to I-10 fifth, the Katy Freeway (I-10) from the West Loop to I-45 sixth and the Gulf Freeway (I-45) from I-10 to the South Loop seventh. The institute measures delay, not danger, so these are among the most congested roads in the state rather than a crash ranking. Still, crowded lanes that stop and start without warning are a familiar setting for rear-end and lane-change collisions.

Accident lawyers Houston: the crashes and injuries our team handles

Car wrecks

Car wrecks come in every shape: a rear-end hit on the Katy Freeway, a left turn across oncoming traffic, a driver who drifted lanes while looking at a phone. Texas makes it an offense to read, write or send a message on a portable device while the vehicle is moving (Transportation Code section 545.4251), and proof of phone use can shift the fault picture. Fault is the first question in nearly every car claim, so the crash report, photos and witness names come first.

Truck and 18-wheeler crashes

Freight traffic shares Houston freeways with commuters at every hour. Carriers must keep drivers’ duty records and supporting documents for at least six months (49 CFR 395.8), which is why we send a preservation letter early. Our truck accident lawyer Houston page covers hours-of-service rules, maintenance records and the Texas trial rules for commercial vehicle cases.

Motorcycle crashes

A rider at least 21 years old may ride without a helmet in Texas if they finished an approved safety course or carry health coverage for motorcycle crash injuries (Transportation Code section 661.003). Going without one does not by itself bar a claim, though an insurer may raise it under the comparative fault rule. TxDOT recorded 585 motorcyclists killed statewide in 2024. More is on our motorcycle accident lawyer Houston page.

Pedestrian crashes

Someone on foot has nothing between them and the vehicle. These claims depend on the details of the place: where the crosswalk was, what the signal showed, how the street was lit and how fast the driver was going. A bus shelter, a store or an apartment gate nearby may have a camera, and since many systems record over themselves within days, asking for that footage is one of our first tasks.

Rideshare crashes

With a rideshare driver involved, more than one insurance policy can be in play, and which one applies may turn on whether the app was on, a ride was accepted or a passenger was in the car. We sort out which policies reach your crash and put each insurer on notice. Passengers should save the trip receipt from the app, since it records the time, route and driver.

Work, construction and oilfield injuries

Construction sites, plants and oilfield work produce injuries that may involve workers’ compensation, a third party such as an outside contractor, or both. An employer without workers’ compensation coverage (a non-subscriber) cannot defend by saying the worker was negligent, assumed the risk or was hurt by a co-worker’s negligence (Labor Code section 406.033). Our work accident lawyer Houston guide explains how those claims differ.

Falls and other injuries on someone’s property

Wet floors in a grocery store, broken stairs at an apartment complex, poor lighting in a parking garage: property injuries turn on what the owner knew or should have known and what was done about it. Store video and incident reports matter here as much as a crash report does in a wreck. Our slip and fall lawyer Houston page goes through those cases.

Trauma hospitals in the Texas Medical Center

The Texas Department of State Health Services lists two Comprehensive Level I trauma facilities in Houston: Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital and Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center, both inside the Texas Medical Center. If an ambulance took you to one of them, the emergency and trauma records from that first visit usually become the starting point of the medical side of your claim, so we ask for them early and in full.

Talk to a lawyer before the adjuster calls back

The other driver’s insurer often calls within days, friendly and in a hurry. Our attorneys know that call from the inside, because some of them used to work on the insurer’s end of it. Speaking with us first costs nothing, and it lets us handle the contact with the insurers from that point on. If you want to know what a lawyer actually does from the first call through a lawsuit, our accident attorney Houston page walks through each stage.