Injury Law

A injury lawyers can help you claim compensation through a settlement or lawsuit. It is important to give your attorney enough time to work through the insurance claim process and build your case for civil court.

What Types of Accidents Fall Under Personal Injury Law?

Motor Vehicle Accidents

This includes car, truck, bus, motorcycle, and 18-wheeler accidents. It also includes accidents related to vehicles and bicyclists or pedestrians.

Premises Liability

Premises liability cases seek compensation for accidents that occur on someone else's property due to a failure to take proper safety measures or property maintenance problems. Dog bite injuries, slip and fall accidents, negligent security cases, and swimming pool accidents are all examples of these types of cases.

Medical negligence

Medical malpractice cases focus on mistakes made through the negligence of a health care provider. They involve medical errors, wrong-site surgeries, missed or wrong diagnoses, and some failed procedures.

Construction Accidents

A personal injury attorney from our firm can help you if you have been injured due to unsafe working conditions. These types of cases include falls, equipment-related accidents and injuries, and illnesses caused by contact with harmful materials.

Civil Liability

These cases relate to dangerous, defective, or deficient products. Civil liability can appear in other types of personal injury cases. For example, a car accident case could also involve liability if a vehicle or vehicle component problem contributed to the victim's injuries. Medical malpractice cases could involve a defective device.

Negligence And Damages

To win compensation for your personal injuries, you must prove the negligence of the other party that caused your accident and the related financial losses.

The Legal Information Institute (LII) defines negligence as: ¨A failure to behave with the level of care that someone with normal prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances¨.

Your lawyer under the correct ethical standards will work to demonstrate:

That the party responsible for your accident had a legal obligation of care to you

That the responsible party breached that duty of care

That you suffered injuries and damages

That your injuries are the result of the actions of the responsible party