Our Houston attorneys, who learned claims on the insurance side

Car Wreck Claims Houston belongs to LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC. Meet the attorneys at our Houston office, learn where they worked before they represented injured people, and see how the firm handles a claim.

This site is not a referral service and not a separate firm. Every call and every claim review request from it reaches the Houston office of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC at 5300 Memorial Dr Ste 810, Houston, TX 77007, on Memorial Drive by Memorial Park, west of downtown.

Five of the seven attorneys at our firm came from the insurance side of car wreck claims.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris finished law school at the University of Houston and was licensed in Texas in 1998. For more than a decade after that, he was a senior trial attorney for a major auto insurer, defending the kind of claims we now bring for injured drivers and passengers. He joined our firm in 2017 and leads its litigation.

Jonathan Harris, Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization, is the attorney responsible for this website, and his primary practice location is our Houston office. When a claim has to become a lawsuit, it is his team that takes it to the courthouse.

Years on the defense side taught him how an insurer decides whether a file is worth fighting. He knows which gaps in a claim a defense lawyer will press on, and he builds our files so those gaps are closed before the demand goes out.

Ian Nelsen

Ian Nelsen started on the other side of the claim. He worked as an insurance adjuster, then as an insurance defense attorney, before coming to represent people hurt in wrecks. He earned his law degree at South Texas College of Law, was licensed in 2016 and joined the firm that same year. He works from our Houston office.

An adjuster spends the day reading claim files and deciding what each one needs before it can be paid. Having done that job, Ian reads an adjuster’s letters as positions in a negotiation rather than final word, and he answers them the same way.

Howard Hill

Howard Hill has practiced law since 1998. He spent over 20 years with two of the largest auto and commercial insurers, which gave him a close view of how big carriers staff, review and defend claims involving cars and commercial vehicles. He now uses that knowledge for injured people on the claims our firm handles.

Why the insurance side matters to your claim

An insurer handles a car wreck claim with a routine: an early phone call, a request for a recorded statement, a records authorization, a review of treatment dates, and an argument about fault. Our attorneys spent years inside that routine. We know which step comes next, what the adjuster is looking for at each one, and when the file has moved from a desk to a defense lawyer. That knowledge does not change Texas law, but it does let us prepare a claim for the questions it will face instead of reacting to them one at a time.

How the firm began

Before he started LAWBOSS, Michael Uvalle worked for several of the largest insurance companies in Texas. He saw how claims were handled from the inside and built a firm around using that knowledge for the people on the other end of the phone call. He gave the firm a four-word motto that still sets the tone in our Houston office: Work Hard and Do Right.

The principal office is in Dallas, and the firm has offices in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Claims from Houston and the towns around it, including Pasadena, Baytown, Pearland, Sugar Land and Katy, are handled from the Houston office. Our Houston office holds a 4.8 rating on Google from 1,728 reviews (November 2026).

How we work a car wreck claim

We treat every claim as a file that moves through seven stages, and we tell you which one you are in.

1. Report: we order the CR-3 crash report and check it against what you remember.
2. Coverage: we find every policy that may apply, including your own PIP and uninsured motorist coverage.
3. Records: we gather medical records, bills, wage proof and photos while you focus on treatment.
4. Demand: we write the claim up and send it with the proof attached.
5. Negotiation: we answer the adjuster and bring every offer to you with our advice.
6. Lawsuit: if the claim does not resolve, we file before the two-year deadline.
7. Release: you decide whether to resolve the claim, and we handle liens and the paperwork that closes it.

Our pages on a car accident claim lawyer in Houston, the car wreck settlement in Houston process and a diminished value claim in Texas explain those stages in detail.