Why Hire A Personal Injury Attorney?

Posted by Bob Reehal on July 29, 2011 under Personal Injury | Be the First to Comment

Before you can make a final decision as to whether or not you need to employ a personal injury attorney / lawyer, you initially need to know what a personal injury case is.

Many people think that a personal injury claim is a car or motor vehicle accident claim. While an injury sustained in

an automobile accident where another was at fault would be a personal injury claim, there are many other matters that also fall under that heading.

A personal injury attorney / lawyer handles matters where there has been a personal injury, either physical or emotional, which has been brought on by the neglect of another. If there is no negligence then there is no case. There should be neglect, whether intentional or unintentional, on the part of another, for a claim to be valid. In other words, you would have trouble making a case against your landlord, where you spilled water on your kitchen floor and then slipped and fell because of the water. However, if the landlord had neglected to repair the plumbing under your sink and the water was on the floor due to leaky plumbing then you may, I say might, have a case. You will find other factors that may come into play and you would have to seek the guidance of a good personal injury lawyer, to be able to determine your rights.

There are many matters apart from car accident matters that can many times be included under personal injury, IE: slips and falls, workplace accidents (after a workplace accident you might be covered under employees compensation or disability but you may also have a personal injury claim), injuries caused during a storm or power outage, airplane, bus and train crashes, construction accidents, fires, food poisoning, drug or vitamin overdoses, animal bites, getting beat up, robbed or otherwise injured inside or outside of a business, medical malpractice as well as malpractice by an attorney.

There are many factors that can come into play in identifying negligence and numerous times you might think that there was no negligence on the part of anyone when there actually was. I myself, know a case where a party was struck by a automobile while riding a motorcycle and damaged severely. He settled with the driver and the driver’s insurance company for the $100,000.00 maximum of the driver’s insurance policy. This settlement did not even begin to cover his medical bills. Some time later, a personal injury lawyer, while speaking with a member of the injured party’s family, found about the case and was requested to look into it for the loved ones. The injured party was broke and disabled. The attorney performed some checking then concluded that, even though the man had accepted the settlement, there may still be a case. Then he hired my detective agency and another to do further study. Ultimately, he submitted a suit up against the car driver, the drivers insurance coverage company, the motorcycle manufacturer and others. I will not go into the whole case, but suffice it to say that he went along to trial and ended up acquiring a verdict against a number of of the parties, such as the drivers insurance company and also the motorcycle manufacturer, for a number of million dollars and the injured party is no longer broke. I might add that the lawyer took the case on contingency and advanced, out of his personal pocket, all of the expenses including court expenses and investigation charges. The idea of the foregoing is that when you have been injured, you should seek the guidance of a skilled personal injury lawyer even if you do not think that there’s anyone at fault. Only a good experienced personal injury attorney can attempt to make that determination.

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