Navigating Unexpected Injuries with a Personal Injury Lawyer

No one wakes up expecting to sustain injuries during their day. Car accidents, slips and falls, and defective products can all lead to significant but unexpected injuries. When these injuries occur, you need a personal injury lawyer by your side to help you move forward. 

Your personal injury lawyer will be able to walk you through the claims process. This way, you can recover the compensation you both need and deserve. When life throws you a curveball, here’s how a personal injury lawyer can keep your feet on solid ground. 

Your Personal Injury Lawyer Will Investigate the Details of Your Accident Claim

Soon after contacting an experienced personal injury firm, your attorney will investigate the details of your claim to see if you have a case. 

While this largely involves hiring accident reconstructionists to determine how the accident occurred, reviewing police reports and witness statements, and checking photographic and video evidence and medical records, it also includes making sure you have met all the elements of a personal injury claim. 

Duty of Care

To move forward with a personal injury claim, you must first prove that the person or place of business that led to your injuries had a duty of care to protect your safety. For example, before they get behind the wheel, it’s expected that Texas drivers will drive safely. They have a legal responsibility to act safely. So, if they drive drunk and hit you, they violated the duty of care owed to you. 

The same goes for a place of business. If a restaurant owner is inviting patrons onto the property, they have a reasonable legal responsibility to provide a safe premises. Failure to do so leads to the next element to meet, which is…

Breach of Duty of Care

If you were owed a legal responsibility for safety and you did not receive it, and you faced injuries as a result, that’s a breach of the duty of care owed or, in other words, negligence. 

Your lawyer will investigate the details of your injury to determine if there was negligence. 

Causation 

If your personal injury lawyer is able to prove that, yes, your injuries were the direct result of negligence, then you’ve met the third element of a personal injury claim: causation. 

It’s during this part of the investigation that your attorney will assign a percentage of fault to your injuries. For example, maybe another driver was speeding when they hit you, but you made a right on red when you shouldn’t have. In cases like this, your injury is partially your fault but partially the other driver’s. As long as your degree of fault in the accident is less than 50%, you should be able to collect compensation. 

Compensable Damages

Last but not least, your attorney must prove that your damages are compensable. Compensable damages refer to any losses, such as loss of consortium, financial loss, property damage, and medical bills. 

Once these elements have all been met, your attorney can move forward with filing a claim. 

Your Personal Injury Lawyer Can Help You File a Claim on Time 

In Texas, injured car accident or slip and fall victims have two years from the date of the injury to file a personal injury claim. 

This sounds like a long time. However, it can go by quickly when you’re trying to navigate life after a significant injury. Unfortunately, once this window closes, so does your ability to collect compensation. By hiring a personal injury lawyer, you guarantee that they will file your claim on time. 

When you have costly medical bills and are out of work, missing the deadline to file a claim and receive compensation is the last thing you want to run into! 

Need Compensation After an Accident? Contact an Experienced Personal Injury Lawyer from the Vickery Law Firm for Help!

While the acts mentioned above aren’t the only ways a personal injury lawyer can help you, they are some of the most important. 

Whether a negligent driver or property owner who failed to ensure the safety of their premises injured you, you are not alone in this fight. An experienced attorney from the Vickery Law Firm is here to stand by you every step of the way. While the majority of personal injury cases settle, we’re not afraid to take your fight to the courtroom to get you the justice and compensation you deserve. 

Schedule a consultation with us today. We can be reached at (903) 504-5490 or via email at ron@vickerylawfirm.com.