Personal Injury
Personal injury lawsuits are filed by a victim of a tort (or their representatives) against a negligent party in order to seek compensation for damages suffered. Personal injury lawsuits can be brought against a party for negligence (e.g., causing a car accident by failing to obey traffic rules), strict liability (e.g., liability for making and selling defective products, or intentional wrongs (e.g., intentionally striking a person). Negligent torts occur when the defendant's actions were unreasonably dangerous. Strict liability wrongs do not depend on the degree of carefulness by the defendant, but are established when a particular action causes damage. Intentional torts are those wrongs which the defendant knew or should have known would occur through their actions or inactions.
Examples of common legal actions which may be filed include liability for car accidents, workplace injury, drug injury, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, slip and fall injury, exposure to toxic materials, dog bite injury, wrongful death as well as additional personal and commercial causes of action. If personal injury caused death, lawsuits can be filed by a decedent's beneficiaries or dependants in order to seek compensation for damages.
A personal injury attorney can file a claim for any kind of bodily injury, sickness, disease, or death sustained by any person and caused by an occurrence for which another party may be held liable. The first step in a possible personal injury claim is to assess whether the person who you are claiming is at fault is truly legally responsible for your injuries. Then you should analyze whether or not the damages you are claiming truly reflect the extent of your injuries or losses. The types of damages the injured party may recover include: loss of wages and earning capacity, pain and suffering, disfigurement, loss of consortium, reasonable medical expenses and other economic and non-economic damages. These damages include both present and future expected losses. If both of the above conditions are satisfied, you may have a personal injury case.
In many states, a statue of limitations controls the amount of time a person has to file a claim. A personal injury attorney should be contacted early on in the process. Our firm’s experienced attorneys will be able to answer your questions and provide the guidance you need in a complicated situation like this.
Sardo & Batista’s attorneys have represented many people in complex personal injury actions including, but not limited to, wrongful death, commercial fraud, premises liability and catastrophic automobile accident actions. Our goal is to obtain a fair and just result for our clients. We look forward to putting our injury lawyers’ experience to work for you.
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