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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
- Initial consultation and case evaluation
- Investigation and evidence gathering
- Insurance negotiations
- Filing a lawsuit if necessary
- 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.
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John is an Associate at Cloppert, Latanick, Sauter & Washburn in Columbus, OH. He primarily represents three types of clients: those injured as the result of another's negligence, those who have general civil legal needs, and labor unions and their employees in labor/employment law matters.
Attorney. Entrepreneur. Philanthropist. Rob Levine wears many hats, but his passion for standing up for those in need runs through everything he does. Over more than 24 years of legal experience, Rob earned the nickname “THE HEAVY HITTER®” by fiercely advocating for those with injuries and disabilities.. Since founding Rob Levine Law, Rob has helped more than 50,000 people recover more than $2 billion in personal injury compensation and disability benefits. The firm handles social security and veterans’ disability claims nationwide and has built a strong personal injury presence in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.. Rob’s exemplary leadership and passion for serving others shine through his collection of legal, professional, and philanthropic ventures.. Rob’s success led him to start a company to support, assist, and empower other law firms. Rob Levine Legal Solutions offers an array of essential services designed to help firms grow, including medical record retrieval, international staffing and training, mastermind and consulting programs, and technology services. Rob even teaches seminars and provides consultations, showcasing his dedication to helping other firms thrive like his.. From his work as a military police officer, retired local Central Falls police officer, paramedic, and ski patroller through his legal and entrepreneurial careers, Rob has made a lifelong commitment to serving his community and keeping others safe. Through Rob Levine Gives Back, Rob spearheads annual charity efforts like giving away 500 Thanksgiving turkeys and donating 1,000 backpacks. The program even provides free Uber vouchers on holidays to help prevent drunk driving. Additionally, Rob hosts the annual Family Fun Fest in Providence, RI which features a petting zoo, face painting, clowns, performers, stilt walkers, jugglers, music, food trucks, and carnival games.. In his spare time, Rob enjoys skiing, staying active, and seeking out new challenges. Of all his accomplishments, Rob is most proud of becoming a father to his daughter, Chelsea, who now serves her community as a registered nurse.
Brian Cunha, with a law office in Fall River, has performed a wide variety of different roles in his career. No matter the role, the main thrust of his professional life has come from being a lawyer fighting for victims against insurance companies.. Over the last 35 years, Brian Cunha has become a highly regarded personal injury trial attorney. He is recognized as an authority on personal injury law. His results are outstanding having won or settled cases worth over $200 million.. His clients come from Massachusetts and Rhode Island and all the way from North Carolina. His cases include car accident cases, and class actions against the manufacturers of Vioxx, Phen-fen and the Dalkon Shield and Medtronic Pacemakers, Baycol. Additionally, Attorney Cunha has represented the clients in several well known cases, including the R.I. Station Fire as well as the MTBE Drinking Water Litigation in Rhode Island.. Brian Cunha earned a Bachelors degree from Boston College in 1971. After college he worked as a high school math teacher while attending an MBA program at Boston College.. In 1974 Mr. Cunha was accepted into law school. While Mr. Cunha attended Suffolk Law School, he was chairman of Newbury College’s marketing department. In 1976, he graduated law school and gained admissions into the bar in 1977. To start off with, he worked in Fall River, Massachusetts in a partnership with two other attorneys working on civil and criminal cases. In 1986, he opened his own practice with offices in Fall River, Rhode Island, and New Bedford.. He has been recognized by Lawyers Weekly, making it to their annual survey of top verdicts and settlements for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mr. Cunha is often featured in the national press, which recognizes his successful representation of his clients’ cases. More recently, he has made contributions in the form of articles in major newspapers, writing on protecting injured persons’ rights. He is a frequent guest on television shows include news broadcasts, The Rhode Show and local news casts.. He is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Rhode Island Bar Association. He is also on the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association’s board of governors. He works to protects plaintiffs’ rights, especially regarding personal injury legislation relating to personal injury law in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Attorney Cunha has been on the board of directors of the Brain Injury Foundation’s Rhode Island Chapter, is a fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, an honor enjoyed by only 2% of trial lawyers.. For almost twenty-five years, he’s provided a total in excess of $ 100,000 in annual college scholarship awards for deserving high school students in East Providence and Fall River. In addition, he’s donated to the City of Fall River an original Felix de Weldon Iwo Jima Memorial statue.
Matthew Fabisch is the Managing Attorney of the Fabisch Law Office and assists clients facing legal challenges including injury and estate planning matters.. He proudly assisits elderly clients and their children with a full range of elder law services including estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, business successions, Medicaid planning, disability planning, and tax planning. Attorney Fabisch also practices in the areas of IRS tax problem resolution and Appellate matters.. Mr. Fabisch primarily focuses his practice on matters impacting individuals and small to medium sized the services regularly offered are individual, business, estate and gift tax litigation, preparation of trusts and wills, and handling probate and trust administration for individuals and owners of businesses. Mr. Fabisch works with both the high net worth client, using sophisticated estate planning strategies and tools, as well as with the client who has non-tax related planning goals, such as nursing home asset protection. He also works closely with trust officials, financial planners, insurance agents, accountants and appraisers in a team effort to design and implement plans that will best meet each client's needs and objectives.. For clients who have faced unforseen injuries due to the negligence of others Mr. Fabisch offers aggressive representation in order to help client secure the largest possible settlement or judgement so that the injured client can rebuild his or her life.. Mr. Fabisch has been a welcome guest lecturer on diverse advanced estate planning and litigation subjects. A lifelong resident of southern new england, after undergraduate school, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Roger Williams University School of Law where he served as Editor-In-Chief of the law review. He is admitted to practice in all Massachusetts and Rhode Island State and Federal Courts.
Victoria Nichole Smith is a South Carolina native. She is devoted to providing quality legal representation to the citizens of South Carolina.. Victoria graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina Upstate in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications and a cognate in psychology. She went on to obtain a Doctorate of Juris Prudence from the Charleston School of Law in 2014. The combination of Victoria's educational background and real world experience allows her to be an effective communicator who knows the law and understands people.. Finding her passion in helping others who have been injured, Victoria opened the Victoria Smith Law Firm, LLC in 2020, allowing her to devote her practice exclusively to personal injury and to focus on a select number of cases. Victoria is a strong advocate for her clients and works vigorously to help them recover.
Connie J. Flores, founding partner of Flores Mendez Law, is a dedicated personal injury attorney serving clients in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. Her unique legal skills include wrongful death, 18-wheeler accidents, workplace injuries, premises liability, dram shop cases, and auto collisions. Connie’s mission is to advocate for injured individuals facing unfair treatment from insurance companies, ensuring they receive the justice they deserve. A proud El Paso native, she graduated with honors from the University of Denver in 2003 and earned her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2008, where she was awarded the Dean’s Award and led the Mexican American Law Student Association as President. Connie co-founded Flores, Tawney & Acosta, P.C. in 2016, helping expand the firm to four locations. In 2023, she established Flores Mendez Law to continue her commitment to client advocacy. Beyond her legal work, Connie mentors teenage parents, sharing her journey as a young mother to inspire others to overcome challenges and achieve success. She is an active member of several professional organizations and has been recognized for her leadership, including receiving the El Paso Young Lawyer’s Association Outstanding Lawyer Award in 2017.
Justice. It seems such a simple phrase, yet hidden underneath are complexities which humanity has debated since the time of Socrates. What does justice mean? By what moral codes do we define justice? Does justice even exist beyond the human imagination? Questions like these drove me while I was a student at New Mexico State University studying for my Philosophy degree. As a result of my studies, I became fascinated by the law as a form of applied justice. I knew then that my calling was to be an attorney.. After graduating from NMSU in 2006, I decided to attend law school at Western New England University. While there I had many opportunities to immerse myself in the practice of law. I was selected to be an extern for the Honorable Robert Field of the Housing Court, a court which had jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters involving the use of residential property. I was also selected to be a student attorney in the Consumer Law Clinic, which allowed me to represent indigent clients who had been taken advantage of by businesses or landlords.. After I graduated law school in 2010, I decided I was sick of the cold weather in Massachusetts and moved back to sunny New Mexico. I took the NM Bar Exam that summer and was admitted to the New Mexico bar in September 2010.. In December 2011, I decided to become a prosecutor for the Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office, where I worked for about a year and a half. Thanks to my time at the District Attorney’s office, I learned how to handle to fast pace of the legal profession (my caseload comprised of an average of 150 active cases), how to construct a case to overcome a heavy burden of proof, and how to protect a case against the attacks of opposing counsel. While at the District Attorney’s office, I also had the opportunity to be part of the Magistrate Drug Court program, which is dedicated to providing treatment services for repeat DWI offenders. Being part of Drug Court was one of my favorite experiences of being a prosecutor because it allowed me the opportunity to see the law used as a source of rehabilitation and healing.. After several years focusing on primarily criminal matters, I decided to further expand my experience in civil law, so I accepted a position at a local civil firm. During this time I worked to refine my skills in the civil law realm. I handled a wide range of cases from probate of wills to property disputes to divorce and child custody issues.. When I decided to open my own firm, I was determined to my it the goal in every case is to provide my clients with the best possible representation and to obtain the best possible result at the most reasonable price possible. “Seek Justice” is the motto I live by, and I will fight tooth and nail to see justice is done.. If you have a legal matter for which you are seeking effective representation, call the Cardenas Law Firm.. Now accepting cases for:
I have been an attorney representing people in New Mexico since 1996. I started my career as a prosecutor with the District Attorney's office in Las Cruces. I have been in private practice since 1999. I am honored to represent people that need help in difficult times in their life. I devote my work to helping people who have been harmed by another person or comany in many different areas such as car or truck wrecks, medical negligence, and bad faith practices on the part of corporations or insurance companies. I also represent people charged with crimes to make sure their rights are protected through the criminal justice system.
/ Email: Website: www.thehayeslawyers.comWith offices in Santa Fe and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Representing victims of personal injury throughout the entire state of New Mexico.The Hayes Law Firm is dedicated to aggressively protecting the legal rights of those who are trying to cope with the physical, emotional, and financial pain that comes after a personal injury.
Mr. Watson graduated from New Mexico State University in 1999 with a Bachelors in Government Studies and a Minor in Spanish. He then obtained his law degree from the University of New Mexico in 2002.. He worked as an Insurance Defense Litigation Attorney for The Scott Hulse Law Firm in El Paso Texas until 2004.. Beginning in 2005 he worked for Keithly and English, P.C. as an associate Attorney handling cases that involved Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Real Estate, and General Litigation. After approximately four years with Keithly and English, P.C. Mr. Watson decided to open his own practice.. His law practice has centered around litigation with a focus on personal injury Plaintiff’s work and real estate related litigation. He has also developed a successful criminal defense practice. In January of 2008 he opened the Watson Law Office, LLC because of his desire to be a part of the business management side of a Law firm, as well as to create a work environment that is family friendly his employees, his clients, and himself.. Mr. Watson grew up in San Bernardino, California and in his spare time enjoys spending time with his children, riding his motorcycle, philosophy and spending time outdoors.