Lakeway, TX Car Accident Lawyer

After a crash near Lake Travis, the other driver’s insurer may try to pin part of the blame on you — because every share of fault they shift is money they keep. SMB Law, PC protects injured Lakeway drivers from an unfair split.

Lakeway’s winding hill-country roads, the RR-620 and TX-71 corridors, and heavy weekend lake traffic create crashes where fault is genuinely contested, which is exactly where the comparative-fault rules matter most.

Where a Lakeway car accident claim is handled

Lakeway is in Travis County, so a lawsuit is filed with the Travis County District Clerk at the Civil and Family Courthouse on Guadalupe Street in Austin — close to our office. Most claims resolve with the insurer before that point.

Comparative fault and the 51% bar

Texas uses proportionate responsibility, which means your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault and barred entirely only if you are found more than 50% at fault. That single rule drives how insurers approach a Lakeway claim: their first move is often to argue you were speeding, distracted, or partly to blame, because shifting even 30% of the fault onto you cuts what they pay by nearly a third. Fault is rarely as one-sided as an adjuster claims, though. We investigate the crash — the police report, vehicle damage, road design, and any camera footage — and hold the other driver’s share of the blame to what the evidence actually supports, so a fair result is not quietly eroded by an inflated fault argument.

How a fault fight is actually won

Because so much money rides on the fault percentage, a Lakeway car-accident case is often won or lost in the investigation, not the argument. We reconstruct the crash from the objective evidence: the physics of the vehicle damage, skid and debris patterns, signal timing, and independent witnesses who have no stake in the outcome. Where a driver claims you ‘came out of nowhere,’ the data frequently tells a different story. Building that record early — before memories fade and vehicles are repaired — is what keeps an adjuster from assigning you a share of fault the facts do not support, and it is the difference between a discounted offer and full, fair value for the injury.

Decades of Texas injury experience on your side

Car accident cases turn on details, and details reward experience. You work directly with attorney Shane M. Boasberg, who has represented injured Texans for more than two decades and has been licensed by the State of Texas since 2003. He knows how Central Texas insurers value crash claims, how local juries weigh fault, and how to counter the tactics adjusters use to pay less. You get a lawyer who has done this many times — not a case manager reading from a script.

Working with us from Lakeway

Our office is in downtown Austin, an easy reach from Lakeway. We handle most consultations and case updates by phone and video, and there is no fee unless we recover for you. If travel is difficult, we can also come to you.

Why injured clients choose SMB Law, PC

• Direct attorney access — you talk to Shane, licensed since 2003, not a call center.
• No fee unless we recover — injury cases are handled on a contingency basis.
• Honest advice and transparent terms explained before you commit.

What working with us looks like

1. Free consultation to understand what happened and the law that applies.
2. Investigation — we preserve evidence, obtain the crash report, and identify every insurer.
3. Negotiation or court — we settle when the offer is fair and litigate when it is not.
4. Recovery paid out and medical liens resolved so you keep more of it.