| Practice Areas Automobile,
Motorcycle, Bicycle, Vehicle, and Truck Accidents
If you are injured while driving any kind of vehicle, or as a passenger or pedestrian,
whether the party at fault is insured or not, you have valuable rights which should be
protected at the earliest opportunity by an experienced law firm.
Some vehicle accidents are relatively straightforward, but the majority of them often
involve complicated questions requiring analysis of the vehicle code, insurance coverages,
accident reconstruction, employment relationships, biomechanical issues, and so forth.
Common Carrier Liability
Passengers on Buses, Trains, Airplanes, Cruise Ships and in Taxis are owed a high duty
of care by the transporting company. The law regarding Common Carrier liability is unique
and provides you special protection. Persons injured through a carrier's negligence are
usually negligence free, yet the defendants and their insurers rarely treat such
individuals fairly. You need an attorney to protect you from their efforts to minimize
your claim and convince you to resolve your case for less than its full value.
Dangerous or Defective Premises
The owners and lessors of property have legal duties to those who come onto the
property. For example, patrons of a business; tenants of a house or apartment; visitors to
a public or private business, office building, construction site; guests of a property
owner; pedestrians walking along the sidewalk, all have a right to make a claim for
injuries suffered due to defects or dangerous conditions. We have successfully represented
countless persons who have suffered injury while on someone else's property. However, we
can only help if we are contacted and retained promptly. Investigating these types of
cases early is very important because the law usually requires you to establish actual or
constructive notice of the dangerous or defective condition.
Construction Site Accidents
The persons who own or control a construction site owe certain duties of care to
persons working on the site and other duties to persons visiting the site, for whatever
purpose. These sites can often be dangerous, despite the many safety regulations that
apply. There are often multiple defendants who share the responsibility and who would thus
be responsible to pay damages to the person injured on the site. Expertise in this field
is essential to your receiving proper compensation. Experienced lawyers who handle this
type of case have the resources and the ability to explore your claim, conduct a full
investigation of all possible claims, identify all potential defendants and sources of
insurance coverage.
Note that workers on construction sites may be limited in certain cases to damages
provided for by Worker's Compensation laws. However, even such workers may be able to step
outside of those boundaries to win a more complete recovery of their damages, depending on
the facts. This is another reason why it is so important to contact a lawyer as soon as
possible, so that valuable evidence and information which may help establish your rights
can be discovered and preserved before it is too late.
On-the-Job injuries (other than railroad or maritime)
If you have suffered an injury while at work, the California Workers' Compensation
system provides for certain benefits. As with any injury, you have specific rights as well
as obligations and you should immediately contact a Workers Compensation specialist for
advice and representation.
We refer our clients who need such specialized service to attorneys who are expert in
this field. They can assist you in presenting your claim against your employer for the
full benefits to which you are entitled. Such benefits are set forth by statute and are
more limited that the full damages a person can recover in a lawsuit against a third party
(i.e., someone other than the injured person's employer.)
In many situations, however, we can help you with your on-the-job injury. Often there
is a person or business whose negligence combined with the injured person's employer's
negligence and helped cause of contribute to the accident. In such a case, we can
prosecute the claim against that person or business and you will not be limited by the
Workers' Compensation system restrictions.
If you have suffered an injury at work, please contact us at once. We can analyze your
case and advise you whether we can help you to escape the limits of the Workers'
Compensation system by presenting a third party claim.
Dog Bites
The owners of domestic animals owe a legal duty to the public and
are responsible for injuries caused by their pets. Dog bites, for example, can cause
significant pain, nerve damage and permanent scarring. By referring you to skilled medical
professionals, including plastic surgeons, we can maximize recovery of your damages for
what can be a very traumatic experience, which often results in serious physical and
emotional injury. |
