When you are hurt in an accident, it is important to find out if you have grounds to hold liable parties responsible for the harm they caused. An experienced injury attorney can protect your legal rights and help you recover damages to which you may be entitled.
What is a Personal Injury?
Personal injury is a branch of tort law, which involves serious physical, mental harm or wrongful action to the property, rights or reputation caused by the negligence of another.
The range of injury accidents is quite broad. Some common examples include:
- Car accidents
- Truck accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Drunk driving accidents
- Construction site accidents
- Workplace accidents
- Premises liability
- Product liability
- Medical malpractice
- Professional liability
- Government liability
- Wrongful death
- Slip and Fall
- Mesothelioma
- Nursing home abuse
- Dog bite/attack
- Maritime accidents
- Amusement park accidents
Among the types of serious and catastrophic injury are:
- Traumatic brain injury
- Birth injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Bone fractures
- Eye injury or blindness
- Paraplegia
- Quadriplegia
- Loss of limbs
- Neck and back injuries
- Paralysis
- Skull fractures
- Loss of hearing or smell
- Ligament and tendon injury
- Burn injuries
Legal Services for Serious and Catastrophic Injury
Personal injury law firms tend to concentrate their practice serious injury and wrongful death cases in which the client has suffered an injury, the loss of a family member or substantial financial loss through the wrongful and negligent conduct of individuals, corporations or government.
- Dog Bites
- Car and Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle, Boat and ATV Accidents
- Construction Site Accidents
- Defective Products
- Medical Malpractice
- Exposure to Asbestos, Chemicals, Toxic Substances
- Nursing Home Abuse, Neglect and Injury Accidents