Injured and Your Future a Little Dim? You Probably Should Call Jim!
Personal injury law is recovering monetary damages from another person because you sustained an injury due to that person’s negligence. So, as a personal injury lawyer, I am trying to recover damages on behalf of my client that include things such as medical expenses, lost wages and their claim for pain and suffering. However, to pursue a successful personal injury claim on my client’s behalf, I have to be able to show someone’s negligence, i.e. fault, caused their injuries. Evidence captured on video can be overwritten, so time is of the essence, call or text my cell phone 502 609 7657 sooner rather than later.
Steps To Take When Someone’s Negligence Causes Personal Injury
First, you need to understand that even if you have a slam dunk case, I can only recover money on your behalf. What do I mean? I meant that the law only allows someone in a car accident to recover money from the at-fault driver or the at-fault driver’s insurance. I can not force this drunk driver to never drive again or force a negligent driver to attend a driving school.
Second, we use terms like “fault” but the actual legal term is negligence. Negligence has four elements: 1) the person had a legal duty under the law; 2) the person breached that duty; 3) causation and; 4) damages. So, to recover money on your personal injury claim, I have to be able to show some fault on the other driver. So, for example, I will represent a lot of people who will be involved in a four-car pile-up. If the first three cars are standing still at a redlight and the fourth car piles into one of these cars, it does not matter which car came into contact with your vehicle. The issue is who was negligent in operating their car and in doing so, caused the automobile accident and injured you? That’s the driver, and their insurance company, that your claim for pain and suffering will be against. Think about it. That driver had a duty to keep his vehicle under proper control, failed to do so and that resulted in your damages. That’s essentially the textbook definition of negligence.
Lastly, as a Plaintiff bringing a personal injury claim arising from a car wreck, we have the burden of proof to show that the other person was negligent and because of their negligence, you were injured. The law is all about what FACTS we can offer to prove this. Judges and juries don’t care about what we think happened but rather, what can we prove. The burden of proof for a civil lawsuit is that we have to prove the case by a preponderance of the evidence. Basically, this is a lesser standard the criminal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. However, it still means that we have to show that our version of the facts, that demonstrate the negligence of another person caused your injuries, is more likely to be the truth than not. This is why I want you to call me soon after a car wreck happens, even if it is from the Emergency Room of the hospital. If I can get in the case early, I can try to gather as much evidence to support your version of the automobile accident whether it is talking to witnesses or looking for videos that may have caught the car accident on tape.
My job, as a good personal injury lawyer and one with perhaps the best customer service, is to prove your claim of negligence so you can recover on your personal injury claim. That’s a lot easier if I can get a jump on things. After all, the insurance company is already starting to investigate the claim and trying to figure out how to defend the damages composing your personal injury claim. So make it simple, call or text my cell phone as soon as the car wreck happens. My cell is (502) 609-7657.
