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Understanding Personal Injury Law

Personal injury law allows individuals who have been harmed because of another person's negligence to seek financial compensation. These cases arise when a person or business fails to act with reasonable care and another person suffers injury as a result. Personal injury attorneys represent accident victims and help them recover damages for medical bills lost wages and pain and suffering.

In the United States personal injury claims are governed by state tort law. Victims may pursue compensation through insurance claims or civil lawsuits. Lawyers investigate accidents gather medical records interview witnesses and negotiate with insurance companies. Because insurers often attempt to minimize payouts, legal representation can significantly improve the chances of obtaining fair compensation.

Serious injuries may lead to long term medical treatment disability or permanent changes in lifestyle. Lawyers help ensure compensation accounts for current and future medical costs rehabilitation and lost earning capacity.

Common Personal Injury Cases

  • Car and truck accidents
  • Slip and fall incidents
  • Workplace injuries
  • Defective products
  • Dog bites
  • Medical malpractice

Each type of case requires evidence such as accident reports photographs medical records and expert testimony.

When You Should Contact a Personal Injury Lawyer

Victims should consider contacting a lawyer when injuries require medical treatment or when insurance companies dispute liability. Legal advice is especially important when injuries cause long term disability or significant financial loss.

How the Legal Process Works

  1. Initial consultation and case evaluation
  2. Investigation and evidence gathering
  3. Insurance negotiations
  4. Filing a lawsuit if necessary
  5. Settlement or trial

Cost of Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer

Most personal injury attorneys work on contingency fees meaning clients pay no upfront legal fees. Lawyers typically receive between twenty five and forty percent of the recovered settlement.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a personal injury lawyer do?

Personal injury lawyers investigate accidents gather evidence negotiate settlements and represent clients in court.

How long do personal injury cases take?

Some cases settle within months while complex cases involving serious injuries may take years.

What compensation can victims recover?

Victims may recover damages for medical expenses lost wages rehabilitation costs and pain and suffering.

Do most cases go to trial?

Most personal injury claims settle before trial through negotiation.

When should I hire a lawyer?

It is best to contact a lawyer soon after an accident so evidence can be preserved and legal deadlines are not missed.


17530 Personal Injury Lawyers Found

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.7 out of 5
206-622-1604
Location: Seattle 98104
Firm: MacDonald Hoague and Bayless, A Professional Service Corporation

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 4.7 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 4.4 out of 5
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Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Williams Kastner

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 4.6 out of 5
206-269-4438
Location: Seattle 98164
Firm: Law Offices of Douglas R. Soderland

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
206-568-0082
Location: Seattle 98104
Firm: Fred Diamondstone

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 4.9 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
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Location: Tukwila 98188
Firm: Law Offices Of Steven D. Weier, PS

Paul B. Apple is an experienced and highly effective attorney, skilled in handling personal injury and wrongful death claims at trial. His accomplishments include being the current  Secretary/Treaser for the Legal Assistance to Military Personnel Section of the WSBA, being selected as a member of the  Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is limited to Trial Lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional skill, experience and excellence in advocacy by achieving a trial verdict, award or settlement in the amount of One Million Dollars or more, winning an appeal in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, and serving a number of times as an arbitrator for Pierce County and King County Superior Court Cases. Mr. Apple has successfully represented numerous clients on cases involving, wrongful death, serious personal injury, premise liability, and general aviation sample of cases handled by Mr. Apple includes:

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 4.5 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98119
Firm: Daniel R. Laurence Attorney at Law

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.4 out of 5
206-622-2655
Location: Seattle 98109
Firm: Murray, Dunham and Murray

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 4.6 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 4.3 out of 5
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Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Keller Rohrback Law Offices

Irene Hecht is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice emphasizes insurance law, particularly in coverage and bad faith litigation. She also has an active appellate practice and has represented insurance companies in trial courts, the Court of Appeals, and before the Washington State Supreme Court. Ms. Hecht has over 30 years of experience in coverage analysis and representation, including both commercial and personal lines, umbrella and excess coverage, and first- and third-party coverage. She has dealt with a wide variety of coverage issues including: advertising injury, personal injury, construction defect, automobile, underinsured motorist, personal injury protection, homeowner’s, products-completed operations, E&O, and D&O. Ms. Hecht also actively advises and defends insurers in bad faith litigation, with respect to both first- and third-party matters.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.6 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 3.6 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Keller Rohrback Law Offices

Mike Woerner works for the public good. A member of Keller Rohrback’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group since 1985, Mike focuses on class action and mass personal injury cases. He is skilled at focusing the Courts’ attention on key issues in litigation and at negotiating favorable settlements to bring relief to people who have experienced physical, emotional, and financial harm from environmental contamination, dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, and other negligent acts with far-reaching consequences.Mike was a member of the litigation team that received the 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for the In re Exxon Valdez litigation resulting from the devastation of thousands of miles of fishing ground around Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, Chignik, and Cook Inlet after the infamous oil spill. He has more recently represented hundreds of clients in multiple states at risk of heart-valve damage or primary pulmonary hypertension from fen-phen diet drugs. Mike also has experience litigating and negotiating widespread medical negligence issues and misconduct by fiduciaries charged with investing retirement plan assets. With his focus on impact litigation, Mike strives to achieve full compensation for his clients as well as to compel institutional reform and change the conduct of powerful bad actors to prevent them from causing future harm. Outside of work, Mike enjoys traveling with his family experiencing new places and cultures, as well as staying closer to home cheering on his kids’ basketball and volleyball teams.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.3 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 3.3 out of 5
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Location: Seattle 98104
Firm: Carney Badley Spellman, P.S.

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 4.6 out of 5
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Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Sedgwick LLP

Barry Mesher is a Shareholder in the Seattle office of Lane Powell PC and focuses his practice on toxic tort, mass and municipal tort, premises liability, insurance coverage, personal injury, product liability, professional liability and labor and employment law.  He  was a co-founder of the Washington Asbestos Defense Association and has served as its Court Liaison and President.  He has been named by peers as a Washington “SuperLawyer” in Washington Law and Politics Magazine from 2006 - 2008.  He is a member of the American College of Law and Medicine and New York Academy of Sciences. Barry has been involved in the "bet the company" asbestos litigation continuously since 1980. He regularly serves as national, regional and local counsel for firm clients, devising and executing comprehensive defense strategies in mass tort cases across the country.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98103
Firm: Law Office of Jo-Hanna Read

Jo-Hanna brings to her practice many years of legal experience, a strong belief in individual rights and justice for all, and a continuing commitment to effectively and compassionately address the immediate and long-term needs of her clients.

Avvo Rating: Rated 4.7 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 4.7 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson, PLLC

Robin's practice emphasis is on employment law including employer/employee disputes including wrongful discharge, retirement and severance, Title VII claims, wage and hour issues, ERISA/trust funds, union issues and more.  She teaches many seminars throughout the year to Human Resource professionals through Lorman Education Services.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
206-292-1144
Location: Seattle 98154
Firm: Helsell Fetterman LLP

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
+1 (206) 900-9091
Location: Seattle 98121
Firm: Law Offices of David S. Roth

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.3 out of 5
206-622-2200
Location: Seattle 98101

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.0 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 3.9 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98154

I consider myself lucky to have spent a career in a field to which I was attracted as a child, and which still provides me with plenty of reasons to look forward to going to work each day. Throughout my career, I have focused on representing individuals, rather than corporations. My clients have come from all walks of life, and all parts of the world. People of every personality type have walked through my door. I have represented both homeless people and corporate executives, proponents of civil disobedience as well as law enforcement officials. Despite their differences, the people I have represented have shared one thing in common: something to which they are entitled has been denied. Trying to restore what has been taken away from them keeps me motivated.. I have spent most of my life and all of my career in the Pacific Northwest, which I love. I was raised in various parts of Alaska and Washington, My first job was picking blueberries and raspberries in Whatcom County, just south of the Canadian border. Then, it was work in orchards in central Washington and construction in Southeast Alaska. In such work, I became familiar with what it’s like to put in a 12- or 14-hour day. Such work also taught me that I’m not all that good working with my hands, so I had best figure out something to do that didn’t require such skills. The law beckoned.. After law school, I went into private practice. I left Scott, Kinney, Fjelstad & Mack in 2016 after 25 years to start my own practice. Aside from having a difficult boss, I am liking the challenge and freedom a solo practice provides. I can take the cases I want to take, and pursue the causes I want to pursue. And, of equal importance, I don’t have to make any excuses to anyone if I want to take off to go flyfishing, and I can play a guitar in my office, if the mood were to strike. I would, however, need to shut the door. I do, of course, have neighbors.. After nearly 30 years of working as a lawyer, I understand that people aren’t coming to see me because all is right in their world. Rather, they need help trying to fix something that’s gone wrong, something that the law might remedy. I may not be able to fix all the problems that come to me, but I will bring the same client-centered approach to trying to fix such problems that guided me when I started in this profession.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.4 out of 5
Lawyers Rating: Rated 3.5 out of 5
Not Available
Location: Seattle 98101
Firm: Ellis, Li & McKinstry PLLC

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 3.6 out of 5
206-622-2295
Location: Seattle 98104

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Avvo Rating: Rated 5.0 out of 5
206-676-7500
Location: Seattle 98101

Experienced Personal Injury attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

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