What “Comparative Fault” Means
Comparative fault is Texas’s system for handling shared blame: under the state’s “proportionate responsibility” statute, each party is assigned a percentage of fault, and a plaintiff’s recovery is reduced by their percentage — but barred entirely if they’re found more than 50% responsible.
Why It Matters in Your Texas Case
That 51% bar is why insurers inflate blame so aggressively: every percentage point shifted onto you discounts their payment, and pushing you past half erases it. McKay Law treats fault percentages as contested territory, not conceded math — reconstruction, witness work, and camera canvasses that keep the numbers honest. Our $500,000 wrongful death recovery in a heavily contested comparative-fault case shows what disciplined fault-fighting is worth: the defense believed blame-shifting would gut the claim, and the evidence proved otherwise.
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