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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.


17531 Personal Injury Lawyers Found

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Location: Boston 02116
Firm: Farrah & Farrah Law Offices

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Location: Newton 02466
Firm: New England Law Group, P.C.

Known for his approachable personality and responsiveness to his clients, Attorney David Reservitz began his career in the 1980's as a clerk for the District Attorney's Office and has since established a lauded reputation as a trial lawyer successfully bringing cases to vertict in multiple courts.. Attorney Reservitz's credentials and experience include a tenure in the elected position of President of the Plymouth County Bar Association in 2007 and 2008- one of the longest serving and youngest Presidents of the oldest county bar in the country. In addition, he has also served as a past President and Chairman of the Pligrim Bar Advocates, an association dedicated to providing service to indigent people. Furthermore, Attorney Reservitz is a frequent guest lecturer at several universities and legal groups, as well as being a mentor for young attorneys.. In 2009, Attorney Reservitz was selected to sit on the Massachusetts Joint Bar Committee for Judicial Appointments for the Massachusetts Bar Association. He held that position until 2012 when he was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Committee (JNC).

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Location: Woburn 01801
Firm: Faneuf Law Group LLC

Daniel Faneuf established the Faneuf Law Group in an effort to provide clients in Massachusetts with a better experience. Since entering the field in 2004, Attorney Faneuf has worked at several large civil litigation firms in Boston. His experience in the practice motivated him to establish his own firm with a focus on honesty, integrity and excellence. He takes pride in knowing that he and his staff work very hard and care about their clients. Daniel has settled thousands of injury cases over his career. Many of the clients he has worked with still reach out to him for their legal needs and sometimes call just to stay in touch.. Attorney Faneuf's accomplishments have been recognized by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Boston Globe, Telemundo and others.. Prior to going to law school, Attorney Faneuf was a headliner at New England's largest comedy club, Improv Asylum. His experience writing and directing films, which have also won awards, helps his approach to cases and preparation of clients.. Attorney Faneuf is licensed to practice in the Massachusetts Bar, the Federal First Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Location: Charlestown 02129

Michael A. Waryasz is a graduate of Boston College and the Northeastern University School of Law.  His practice areas include complex civil litigation, business litigation, consumer protection, personal injury, real estate, criminal defense, appeals, post-conviction relief, family law and immigration.  He is licensed to practice law before the United States Supreme Court and Massachuetts state and federal courts.  He is also licensed in Massachusetts as a Real Estate Broker and can represent you from start to finish in buying and selling real estate.

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Location: Boston 02114
Firm: Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C.

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Location: Boston 02116
Firm: Santoro & Gray, LLC

Victoria Santoro is the co-Founder of Santoro & Gray Law. She co-founded the firm with her longtime trial partner Jessica Gray after fourteen years in the field of personal injury law. A skilled trial attorney, she handles a variety of different types of cases including UBER/rideshare collisions, pharmaceutical litigation, wrongful death, product liability, and sexual assault. Notable results include a multi-million-dollar verdict against an international hotel chain for the wrongful death drowning of a father of four. Santoro has also had several seven-figure plaintiff's verdicts. During the height of the COVID crisis, she prevailed in the state’s first entirely remote civil jury trial.. Extremely active in the Massachusetts Bar Association, Attorney Santoro currently serves as the MBA President for the 2024-2025 association year. She is past Chair of the Young Lawyers Division, is a member of the Civil Litigation Section Council and past chair of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Scholarship Committee. Attorney Santoro co-chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Recently Elected Partners Forum from 2017-2019.. In her first year of eligibility, Attorney Santoro was voted a Super Lawyers Rising Star and has received this recognition every year since. In 2014, she received an Excellence In The Law “Up & Coming Lawyer” award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. In 2022, she was announced in Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in three practice areas: Products Liability, Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. She was named to the 2022 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Santoro was awarded an Emerging Women Leaders in the Law honor by the Women's Bar Assocation at their 2024 annual gala. She has also been named to the 2025 Best Lawyers in America list for personal injury litigation.

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Location: Somerville 02145
Firm: Fulgione Law Office, P.C.

Although I consider myself a seasoned negotiator, I refuse to take " NO" for an answer - which really makes me a Trial Attorney, having served a lead counsel on more than 50 jury trials in personal injury and criminal defense cases. I have also tried probably just as many cases as lead counsel before judges, arbitrators and State Agency Commissioners (MCAD).

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Location: Boston 02108
Firm: Murray Law Office

Vincent Murray is a principle and founding member of Murray Law Office. He has represented injured clients for over thirty eight years and helped to author the nations first No Fault Insurance Law (PIP) as counsel to the Committee on Insurance in Massachusetts. He represents individuals and businesses in all areas of the firm's practice, in personal injury matters, in business litigation, in probate and estate matters, and in criminal matters.

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Location: Boston 02110
Firm: Combies Hanson

Adam Joseph Combies co-founded Combies Hanson in 2010. Mr. Combies concentrates his practice on the areas of general, civil and commercial litigation, construction law, asbestos defense, medical marijuana compliance, and small business services. Mr. Combies was recognized as one of Massachusetts' "Rising Stars" in the field of civil litigation defense by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston Magazine in 2009.Mr. Combies has prior experience at two Boston law firms. There he concentrated his practice on defense and litigation of civil actions in state court and federal court, including municipal liability, products liability, premises liability and the defense of toxic tort and other long-term environmental exposure claims. Mr. Combies also has experience in the area of insurance coverage.Prior to entering the private sector, Mr. Combies served a one-year term as law clerk for the Honorable Patricia A. Hurst of the Rhode Island Superior Court. A member of the Massachusetts Bar since 2007, and the Rhode Island Bar since 2006, Mr. Combies received his B.S. in Finance from Boston College and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. At Syracuse, Mr. Combies was a Dean's Scholarship recipient and served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of International Law and Commerce.Mr. Combies also is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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Location: Medford 02155
Firm: Brooks Law Firm

Albert is from Wyoming, Michigan, a very small town where his parents owned a small, family-owned Chinese restaurant. Being exposed to business very early on in his life, Albert always had an interest in business and entrepreneurship. In high school, he started forming what would later become a successful on-demand iPhone repair company, A&E Fixit.. Albert would later attend Michigan State University with a major in Political Science. He interned at the Michigan House of Representatives while co-managing A&E Fixit, which was later accepted into the MSU Hatch, a student entrepreneurship consortium in Michigan State.. Albert graduated from Michigan State University in 2017 and was later accepted to Boston College Law School as a J.D. candidate. He was excited to leave his small-town life to try studying, working and living in a big city.. Albert went on to get a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2020. At Boston College Law School, Albert got a taste of various fields of law. He gained experience in trademark and IP law while working at a start-up developing a dating app for dog lovers, gained public interest legal experience working for Community Legal Aid and Greater Boston Legal Services while serving his Cantonese Chinese community, and clerked at the Law Offices of Robert W. Joyce in Newton, MA, gaining experience in real estate and trusts & estates law. He also briefly worked for Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster as a legal intern in the tax department prior to the pandemic.. Before taking the bar exam, he partnered with another BC Law graduate to create , a centralized database of free legal resources and tools aimed at lawyers and law students.. After passing the bar exam on his first try during the pandemic, Albert recently joined Brooks Law as a newly minted attorney. He is currently a partner, head of Personal Injury, and COO of the firm focusing on streamlining operations and introduction of new technologies to the firm.

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Location: Boston 02108

Frank J. Federico, Jr. has been practicing in the area of personal injury litigation since 1987. Attorney Federico has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in serious personal injury matters in many areas including, but not limited to, motor vehicle collisions, construction site accidents, premises liability claims, medical malpractice matters and insurance coverage disputes. Attorney Federico is admitted to practice in all Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Federico is a long term member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA), The Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ). In addition to his law practice Attorney Federico maintiains a high degree of public service comittments.  He has volunteered his services coaching for several youth sports organizations in his community and served three consecutive 5 year terms as an elected member of the Stoneham Planning Board.  Attorney Federico also has served as a Judge for several moot court trial competitions at Suffolk Law School, New England Law and Northeastern Law School.

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Location: Boston 02210
Firm: Schulze Law

Hello, I am founding attorney Marc Schulze, and I have been practicing law for over 20 years.. Over the past two decades working in the areas of personal injury and criminal law, I have earned a stellar reputation for not only getting the job done, but getting the job done right—and I have put together an intelligent, intrepid team to help me. I have gone to bat for each and every one of the clients I have represented and worked diligently on each and every case. I am proud to have won major settlements for my clients over the years. Some of my most successful cases include a motorcycle accident settlement for $750,000, a settlement for a pedestrian hit in a crosswalk for $1.1 million, a settlement for an injured passenger in an automobile for $1.2 million and a medical malpractice settlement for $4.8 million.. My clients describe me as dedicated and tenacious, and I am an ardent supporter of and advocate for them all. I would be honored to represent you, and I promise to zealously pursue the justice you deserve.

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Location: Boston 02110
Firm: Rawson, Merrigan & Litner, LLP

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Location: Burlington 01803
Firm: Law Office of Amanda Dowgiert

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Location: Boston 02114
Firm: Law Office of Steven R. Whitman, LLC

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Location: Boston 02109
Firm: Diller Law, LLP

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Location: Boston 02210
Firm: Sweeney Merrigan Law, LLP

Boston injury attorney Erin E. McHugh represents clients in personal injury cases involving: motor vehicle accidents, premise liability, products liability, medical malpractice, bicycle accidents, and dangerous drugs. She is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut.. Attorney McHugh Graduated from Suffolk University Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College. As a law student, she served on the board of the Suffolk Public Interest Law Group, and was a member of the Lefkowitz Moot Court Team. She also graduated from Suffolk Law with Pro Bono Honors, having completed over 100 Pro Bono hours throughout the course of her law school career. As an undergraduate student, Attorney McHugh double majored in Government & Law and Spanish, and was inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Spanish Honors Society.. Prior to joining Sweeney Merrigan Law, Attorney McHugh worked for a small business litigation firm in Boston, as well as for the Boston Public Schools’ Office of Legal Advisor.. She’s a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Boston Bar Association.

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Location: Norton 02766
Firm: Henry J. Sousa, Jr. Attorney At Law

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Location: North Attleboro 02760
Firm: Kerri A. Quintal, Attorney At Law

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Location: Norton 02766
Firm: Law Offices of Douglas C. Dufault Jr.

This office maintains a small, full service law practice located in Norton, Massachusetts. For more than 26 years, Attorney Dufault has been providing a broad range of high quality legal services to a wide range of clients, including both businesses and individuals, throughout all of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Whether you are in need of a lawyer for handling your bankruptcy filing, real estate purchase or sale, personal injury or workers’ compensation case, negotiating a lease or contract, or litigating a breach of contract, this office will act on your behalf, aggressively and competently, to get you or your business the results to which you are entitled.

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