Personal Injury

Every state has its time limit, called a statute of limitations, by which you must file a personal injury lawsuit or workers’ compensation claim. It is vital that you do not miss the deadline for filing your case! You can lose your legal right to recover losses and claim compensation for your injuries if you wait too long to file. It is vital that you or a loved one contact us as soon as possible after you suffer or discover an injury.

A personal injury case is a legal dispute that occurs when one party endures an injury due to the negligence of another. The goal of filing a personal injury lawsuit is to recover compensation for the alternate party’s wrongful act that is responsible for the injury.

In a personal injury case, you and/or your property will have suffered an injury due to someone else’s negligence or intent to harm. An actual physical injury is not necessary for a personal injury lawsuit, but you must have sustained some form of harm or loss. That might include a physical injury, mental/emotional trauma due to threats or harassment, a loss of your or your business’s reputation, or an invasion of privacy, for example.

If you or someone you love has been injured as a direct result of someone else’s negligence or intention to harm you, you have the right to file a claim for compensation. As long as you played no part in causing your injuries and other damages, you can recover compensation by establishing that the other person was at fault. Our firm has handled hundreds of personal injury cases over the past five decades. We have the experience and legal know-how to successfully gather all necessary evidence, argue on your behalf, and hold those responsible accountable for your damages and losses.

Personal injury cases can involve financial, physical, mental/emotional, and damages to property and business reputation. Compensation can be paid to cover many areas, including:

• Medical expenses, including medication, therapy, doctor’s office visits, hospitalization, assistive devices, and rehabilitation
• Lost wages and benefits (current and future)
• Gas mileage to and from the hospital or doctors’ appointments
• Property loss or damage
• Lost business income
• Pain and suffering
• Mental anguish
• Loss of the injured person’s participation in family life, including loss of parental care
• End-of-life expenses
• Temporary or permanent disability

If the injured person dies because of their injuries, their family may recover money through a wrongful death action. If they die from unrelated causes, a personal injury claim can still be made on their behalf. The claim would be filed by the executor or representative of the deceased person’s estate.

A person is negligent when they fail to act like an “ordinary reasonable person” would have acted. Negligence is a failure to act with the level of care that any person of ordinary carefulness would have used under the same circumstances. Negligence usually refers to actions, but can also refer to lack of action when there was a duty to act. This might include a person failing to stop someone from becoming injured because of some action or situation the negligent person created. That refusal to take responsibility, warn or help another person can apply to individuals, businesses, employees, and consumers.

Some companies or individuals may be held “strictly liable” for certain actions even if they have not acted negligently or with wrongful intent. This applies if you were injured by a defective or dangerous product, for example. You may recover compensation from the manufacturer or seller of the product without having to show that one of them was acting in a negligent way. For example, individuals or businesses that use explosives or store dangerous substances on their property can be strictly liable for harm caused to others, because of these actions.

You have a far greater chance of receiving full and fair compensation for your losses if you are represented by an attorney. Those who turn to a law firm for guidance through the claim or lawsuit process recover far more compensation on average, than those who file a claim on their own. A skilled attorney’s knowledge and ability will help immeasurably. You do not want to stand alone when dealing with insurance companies in a settlement or in the courtroom.

Defense attorneys and insurance companies know that the average person does not know the law sufficiently, or the loopholes they are skilled in finding. They will take advantage of that lack of legal knowledge at every turn—and you and your family will lose thousands of dollars you might have received if you had had a professional attorney guiding the process for you.

A personal injury lawyer is someone who provides legal representation to individuals who have been injured in an accident.

You can try to do this on your own, but you will be facing insurance companies who are experts at finding ways to pay you as little as possible, or nothing. It will not matter how strong your claim is. Because you are not a lawyer who can sue them, they will not take your letters or emails very seriously. They will prolong the process and find the right loopholes to get out of paying you the money you have a right to receive. Also, there are usually several different insurance policies to collect from—insurance companies will not tell you this.

We will charge you absolutely no fee unless we recover financial compensation for you.

We will work hard to get you your compensation as quickly as possible. If you were injured in an accident, we can sometimes get you a settlement check in a number of weeks. Cases such as medical malpractice and product liability and more complex, and can take several months or longer. But we always work to get compensation to clients as soon as possible.

Settlement Guarantees an Award: Trials are unpredictable. A personal injury plaintiff who takes their case to trial must remember that there is always a chance that they will lose their case and get $0. By settling their cases victims guarantee that they will be compensated for their losses.

We are able to settle the vast majority of our clients’ claims without having to go to trial, but should your case come to trial, we will use our strong trial skills to powerfully represent your interests in court.

Our Philadelphia-based lawyers are known for reaching excellent settlements as quickly as possible, treating clients with the respect they deserve, and working as conscientiously and as hard as we can. We have an excellent track record of serving clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and surrounding areas for the past five decades. We are here to help you and your family.