There’s real progress. Oregon became the first state to bar race- and ethnicity-based
earnings projections in 2018. California followed with S.B. 41, and New Jersey enacted
its own protections. At the federal level, the Fair Calculations in Civil Damages Act has
been introduced in Congress to ban the practice in federal courts nationwide.
But Texas has not yet enacted a comparable prohibition. Which means, here in our own
state, the burden still falls on the injured person — and on the lawyer willing to fight for
them — to make sure these discriminatory assumptions never define a case.
How We Address It Here at The Sparks Law Firm
We treat this as exactly what it is: a fight over our clients’ freedom and their future.
Concretely, that means:
- We refuse the lowball. We don’t let an insurer’s “first offer” stand in for what a
case is actually worth, and we make clear we’re prepared to take it the distance. - We challenge biased calculations. When a defense expert leans on race- or
gender-based wage tables to shrink a client’s future, we contest it — through
cross-examination, competing experts, and the growing body of law and
scholarship that calls the practice what it is. - We prove the individual, not the average. Our clients are not a statistic. We
build the record on their ambitions, capacity, and trajectory, so a number based
on someone else’s history never gets to define them. - We take the cases others might pass on. We don’t measure a person’s worth
by a table that was rigged before they walked in the door.
Because to us, the value of your future is not a discount item. It’s your freedom — and
we fight for it like it matters, because it does.
If you or someone you love has been seriously injured, don’t let anyone tell you what
your life is worth based on a number borrowed from the past. Call us at (713) 520-7000
or reach out at info@thesparkslawfirm.com for a free, confidential consultation.
Let’s make sure you’re valued in full.