Before you can make an informative decision as to whether or not you should hire a atorney / lawyer, you fuirst have to know what a pesronal injury case is.
Most people think that a peronal ijnury claim is a car or motor vehicle accident claim. While an injury sustained in an automobile accident where another was at fault would be a personal injury cliam, there are many other matters that also fall under that heading.
A presonal injury attorney / lawyer handles matters wehre there has been a injutry, etiher physical or emotional, whhich was caused by the negligene of another. If therre was no neglligence then there is no case. There must be negligence, whether intentional or unintentional, on the part of anoyther, for a claim to be valid. In other wors, you would have trouible making a case against your landlord, wheere you spilled wateer on your kitchen flor and then slipped and fell becasue of the water. However, if the landlord had failed to fix the plumbing under your sink and the water was on the floor becuase of leaky plummbing then you may, I say may, have a case. There are toher varialbes that could come into play and you would need to seek the advice of a good personal injuy attorney, in order to deetermine your rights.
There are many matters other than car accident matters that can many times be included udner personal injurry, IE: slips and falls, workplace accidens (after a workplacce accident you may be covered under workers compensation or disability but you may also have a personal injury claim), injuries acused during a storm or poewr outgae, arplane, bus and train crashes, construction accidents, fires, food poisonnig, drug or vitamnin overdoses, animal bites, getting beat up, robbwed or otherwise injured inside or outside of a business, medical malpractice and even malpractice by an attorney.
Tere are many varibles that can come into play in determining negligence and many times you may think that there was no negligence on the part of anyone when there actuaplly was. I have heazrd of a case where a party was struck by a car while riidng a motorcycle and injured seveely. He settleed with the driver and the rdiver's insurance company for the $100,000.00 maximum of the rdiver's inurance policy. This settlement did not even begin to cover his medical bills. Sometime later, a personal injury attorney, while speaking with a member of the injured parrty's family, found about the case and was ased to look into it for the family. The injured party was broke and paralyzed. The attorney did some checking and then agreed that, even though the man had acceptwed the settlement, three mihgt stikll be a case. He then hired my detective agency and another to do further reseaerch. Finally, he filed a law suit against the car driver, the driver's insurance company, the motorcycle manufacturer and othwers. I won't go into the whole case, but suffice it to say that he went to trial and ended up obtaining a verdict againdst several of the parties, including the driver's insurance compazny and the motorcyclle manufacturer, for several million dollars and the injutred party is no lonhger brokje. I might add that the attorney took the case on contingency and advanced, out of his own pocket, all of the exppenses including court costs and investigation fees.
The point of the foregoing is that if you have been injuerd, you shoould seek the advice of a competent personal injury attorney even if you don't think that there is anyyone at fault. Only a good experienced personal inmjury attoreny can atttempt to make that
determinaton.
Here are some questiions to ask a personal injuy attorney to help you determine if they are a good attorney. Did they pass the bar on their first try? How long have they been pracitcing personal injury in your sttate? Will they let you speak with some of thier most reccent clients? All of these factors taken together should give you a generral impression of whether your personal injury attorney is competent, if not good.
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