Expert Advocacy

Personal Injury

If you have been seriously injured because someone was negligent, you may be eligible for an amount of compensation. Our civil justice system and laws regarding injury rely on the concepts of accountability and prevention to achieve their goals. To enhance the safety of our community for residents and employees, this system serves two purposes: providing support to injured individuals and preventing dangerous actions from recurring.

What types of injuries qualify as injuries?

If someone’s negligence leads to harm to you or others around you, legally provided compensation is available.   The types of injuries involved in the cases we handle are many and include traumatic brain injuries or brain damage, paralysis, burns, fractures, amputations, spinal cord injuries, and orthopedic injuries, among others.

Personal injury lawsuits can involve injuries arising from a wide range of incidents; transportation accidents, including car accidents, tractor-trailer crashes, airplane accidents, tour bus crashes, boat accidents, personal watercraft accidents, and train derailments often cause these injuries.

Sometimes serious injuries are the result of dangerous premises, such as a slip or trip hazard at a restaurant, shopping mall, nightclub, or gas station or safety violations at a construction site.

Negligent or inadequate security at these establishments can also result in visitors being shot, stabbed, or beaten, resulting in severe or even fatal injuries.

These categories are the most common scenarios where people suffer harm due to negligence. There are many others.

How to know if you have a personal injury case

To determine if you have a viable personal injury case, you should speak with an experienced personal injury attorney, one with a track record of success, the experience, and the resources to take a case all the way to trial if necessary to achieve fair compensation.

Responsibility of establishments

When you find yourself in a restaurant, shopping mall, synagogue, resort, or business space—that is, when you are in a place other than your own home—you have a right to expect that you will be safe and that you will not come to harm. Premises liability is a category of personal injury that includes accidents and injuries that occur due to the negligence or dangerous conduct of the person or entity responsible for keeping these places safe.

Personal injury arising from criminal activity

The world we live in is far from perfect; bad people do bad things and commit crimes, and when those crimes can cause personal injury or even death, criminals are held accountable in a criminal court.

What many people don’t appreciate is that criminal courts aren’t the only ones that can be involved when someone is the victim of a violent crime. If the business or property owner where the crime occurred failed to provide adequate security, they can be held liable for the resulting damage in civil court.

As such, this category of personal injury cases often overlaps with premises liability. Here are some examples that would fall into this category:

• Injury or death from violent crimes.
• Assault and battery.
• Rights of crime victims.
• Atm robbery victims.
• Sexual assault

Personal injuries resulting from product failures

Sometimes, a person suffers damage to their own home or vehicle; the damage may be considered a personal injury when it occurs as a result of the negligence of a manufacturer who designed, built, marketed, and sold a dangerously defective product that caused the injury. Product failure cases in this category include:

• Design flaws.
• Manufacturing defects.
• Marketing defects.