A Personal Injury Lawyer Can Help Uncover All of The Responsible Parties
Finding All the Responsible Parties When You Are Injured
Who is responsible? A personal injury lawyer can help!
Figuring out who is responsible is such a basic job of a personal injury lawyer. Uncovering that responsibility often does not receive the attention it deserves. However, experienced attorneys know that this can be a nuanced issue that has a huge effect on a client’s ability to get compensation. The most obvious defendant is often only one of several people or parties whose negligence contributed to your accident. Even those who played only a small part are still potentially liable for your resulting injuries.
Because the ability to pay is so often a factor, especially when the injuries are serious and the damages are extensive, identifying and including every viable defendant is crucial to preserving client rights:
- Even drivers not directly involved in a collision may contribute to a car accident.
Property owners may be liable for overgrown trees or other obstacles that obstruct traffic signals and visibility. - Municipalities may be liable for unsafe road conditions that contribute to accidents.
- Employers may be liable when their employees cause accidents in the course of their employment.
- Mechanics may be liable for accidents caused by faulty work or maintenance on the involved vehicles.
- While most cases do not turn out to be this complicated, there are circumstances when bringing in additional defendants is necessary. Identifying these other responsible parties is not always easy and frequently takes a great deal of research and analysis prior to initiating legal action. By giving a thoughtful and complete account of your accident, you can help your personal injury attorney identify every possible party that could be liable.
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Our Policy: If you have been injured or lost a loved one in an accident, we would like to help you. You can see us for free. In fact, we’re paid our fee and we recover expenses only if we collect money for you on your claim. Fees will be calculated before deducting the expenses advanced on behalf of the client.
For a free confidential consultation and information on how a personal injury lawyer at the Clekis Law Firm can put over 40 years of combined experience to work for you, please contact us.