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However, if you hesitate of filing a personal injury lawsuit, let us explain the whole thing so you can understand the topic better.
What is Personal Injury?
Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind or emotions.
Personal injury law is also known as ‘’tort’’ law. It alows an injured person to file a lawsuit in court. That results in getting a legal remedy for the losses made from an accident or by other types of incidents.
Personal injury system has the purpose to compensate the injured person financially after he/she has suffered harm due to someone else’s fault.
Where Does Personal Injury Apply?
There are many situations where personal injury rules can apply. We’ll mention some of them:
- Accidents – When someone acts in a negligent manner and that carelessness harms another person, thats where personal injury rules apply. Most commoncases would be car accidents, eye injury, back injury, foot injury
- Intentional acts – In this situation personal injury rules apply when a defendan’ts intentional conduct causes harm to another person.
- Defective products – This happens when a vehicle component, consumer product, medical device or pharmaceutical products are defective or unusually putting the users in danger. All of whom are being dangered by them are able to file a product liability lawsuit against the manufacturer of that product.
The Most Common Type Of Personal Injury Case
There are a wide variety of personal injury cases which are never the same. There is actually one most popular path that most of the personal injury cases take. We’ll mention some of these steps and how they play out.
- Defendant injures plaintiff – Almost anything bad that defendant did can result in this except of contractual breaches. Contract law is a separate body of law that handles these cases.
- Defendant breached a legal duty and the plaintiff determines it – Depending on the situation in which the injury occurred the specific legal duty will be considered. Manufacturers and distributors have a legal duty not to put defective or dangerous products on the market for example, the same goes for drivers, doctors etc. They all have legal duties to stick to while doing what their job is.
- Settlement talks occur – When it is clear that the defendant breached a legal duty, the insurance company that represents him or her, or the defendant himself may want to settle outside of court. Making a monetary compensation to the injured person, and the injured person would not file a lawsuit in exchange. It is important to notice that if the plaintiff agrees to a settlement the case will end automatically. In other case it may go to the court filing a lawsuit over the matter that happened.
You can read more about Timeline of a Personal Injury HERE.
How Long do I Have to File a Lawsuit of Personal Injury Claim After a Car Accident
This is kind of tricky question because it depends who you really are and who claim is against.
For the purposes of this question, let’s assume you are not a minor and this claim is not against the governmental organization.
So, it’s a straight rear-end car accident collision.
Then the answer is, you have 5 years after the car accident to file a lawsuit. That’s called the statute of limitations, here in Missouri. If you don’t do anything within those 5 years, you will be forever barred. The reason for that is, in Missouri, it’s actually very liberal, other states have much shorter statute of limitations of one, two or three years for these car accident claims and lawsuits.
The reason for that is, the statue is there to prevent a fraudulent lawsuit.
After 5 years people start forgetting, and it’s getting much more difficult to prove what really happened.
The answer is you got 5 years after a collision, if it’s not a governmental organization, you are not minor to file a lawsuit.
Find out more about this topic HERE.
Why do you need a personal injury lawyer for your case?
Why do you need a personal injury lawyer for your case?
Personal injury law is an ocean without bottom. There is no two identical cases, it just doesn’t happen. If you wan’t to win on court and get yourself a decent compensation, you will need professional assistance.
A good personal injury attorney will guide you the right path and give you correct directions, of course if hired on time.
You can read more about this topic HERE.
How Can a Lawyer Get You Compensated?
What is the goal of everyone that has not been injured by his fault? Very simple. Everyone wants to get compensated for the damages they suffered. In order to secure a good compensation, it is unlikely that you will get it by yourself. You’re going to need a good lawyer.
A good attorney knows his field of work just like you know whats in your pockets. The point is that you just follow the instructions. Whatever the lawyer tells you to do, you should not hesitate to do it.
You can read more about this topic HERE.
Medical Payments Coverage After a Car Accident
One of the most common injury cases that we handle here at the office is car accident cases, or truck accident cases, or motorcycle cases. And inevitably every time an accident happens, there are large amounts of medical bills that need to be covered. And if you have med-pay or medical payments coverage under your own policy, that is a good thing.
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Strain of Medical Bills After a Car Accident
One of the biggest issues that we deal with on behalf of our clients, or medical bills after a car accident.
They can be life-changing because those medical bills can go up pretty quickly, a couple of days stay at the hospital can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range and it’s scary. It is scary. A lot of my clients ask me well what are my options how can I get rid of this?
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Personal injury lawyers in St. Louis Missouri
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