Personal Injury

Personal Injury

The most common types of personal injury are car accidents, defective products, dog bites, brain injury, spinal cord injury, birth injury, medical malpractice and on-the-job injuries.

Car accidents are the most common cause of injury.  Millions of accidents take place each year with close to 1/3 of the accidents resulting in injury and tends of thousands each year resulting in death. 

According to the Brain Injury Association of America, every year in the United States, 1.4 million people receive brain injuries. Of those, 50,000 die and another 80,000 suffer permanent disabilities. Depending on the severity of the brain injury, the lifetime cost of care can be over a million dollars. The effects of a brain injury can be traumatic for the victim and their loved ones. Most people do not think about what they would do if they or a loved one suffered a brain injury.

Product liability refers to the liability of any companies involved in the manufacturing of any product for damage caused by that product. This includes the manufacturer of component parts, an assembling manufacturer, the wholesaler, and the retail store owner.  Products liability claims can be based on negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty of fitness depending on the jurisdiction within which the claim is based.

War Injuries are a harsh reality of this day and age.  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a new range of injuries to standard workers compensation IED attacks, Al Queada rocket attacks, and other war related dangers have resulted in unthinkable internal and external damage, traumatic brain injuries, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Read more about the The Defense Base Act and severe bodily injury.

Workers Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary awards, eliminating the need for litigation. These laws also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. Some laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers in most accidents.

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