Personal Injury Defense

Aggressive, Strategic Defense of Personal Injury Claims

Personal injury plaintiffs and their attorneys target companies with deep pockets, often inflating damages, manufacturing liability theories, and banking on settlement pressure to extract payments that bear no relationship to the actual facts. Effective defense requires counsel who will push back at every stage—who will challenge causation, contest damages, and take cases to trial when the numbers do not justify settlement.

Preminger PLLC defends corporations, rental car companies, premises owners, employers, and other commercial defendants against personal injury claims in Texas state and federal courts. Dov Preminger spent years at Norton Rose Fulbright defending Fortune 500 companies in high-exposure personal injury and wrongful death litigation. That experience—handling cases with eight-figure exposure against sophisticated plaintiff firms—is now available to companies of all sizes through a streamlined, efficient practice.

Rental Car and Fleet Liability Defense

Rental car companies face a unique litigation profile. Plaintiffs sue the rental company alongside the driver, asserting theories of negligent entrustment, negligent maintenance, vicarious liability, and violations of federal and state fleet safety regulations. The Graves Amendment provides important federal protections for vehicle rental companies, but its application varies by jurisdiction and fact pattern, and plaintiffs routinely attempt to plead around it.

We defend rental car and fleet companies against these claims, leveraging deep familiarity with the statutory framework, common plaintiff strategies, and the discovery battles that define these cases—including disputes over maintenance records, rental agreements, driver screening protocols, and corporate policies.

Premises Liability Defense

Property owners and occupiers face claims from invitees, licensees, and even trespassers who allege injuries caused by dangerous conditions on the premises. Texas premises liability law turns on the legal status of the entrant, the foreseeability of the hazard, and whether the owner or occupier exercised reasonable care. Slip-and-fall cases, negligent security claims, swimming pool injuries, and construction site accidents all fall within this category.

We defend premises owners by:

• Challenging the plaintiff's status on the property and the corresponding duty of care
• Establishing that the condition was open and obvious or that the plaintiff bore comparative responsibility
• Contesting causation through biomechanical and medical expert analysis
• Aggressively litigating damages to counter inflated medical billing and speculative future-damages claims

Employer Liability and Workplace Injury Defense

When employees or third parties are injured in the workplace, employers face claims under multiple theories—respondeat superior, negligent hiring and supervision, negligent training, and premises liability. For non-subscriber employers who have opted out of the Texas workers' compensation system, the exposure is substantial because injured employees can pursue common-law negligence claims without the statutory defenses available to subscribers.

We defend employers in workplace injury litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases arising from industrial accidents, construction incidents, and transportation-related injuries.

Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful Death Defense

Cases involving traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage, amputations, severe burns, and death carry the highest financial exposure in personal injury litigation. Plaintiff attorneys retain life-care planners, economists, and vocational rehabilitation experts to present damages models that can reach tens of millions of dollars. Defending these cases requires retaining equally credible experts, challenging the methodology behind damages opinions, and presenting a compelling counter-narrative at trial.

Preminger PLLC handles catastrophic injury defense with the seriousness these cases demand. We work with experienced defense medical experts, accident reconstructionists, and damages consultants to build defenses that hold up under scrutiny.

Product Liability Defense

Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers face strict liability and negligence claims when products allegedly cause injury. Texas product liability law requires proof of a defective condition—whether in design, manufacturing, or marketing—that rendered the product unreasonably dangerous. We defend product liability claims by challenging defect theories, attacking causation, and raising sophisticated affirmative defenses including product misuse, alteration, and the state-of-the-art defense.