Your personal health is important to you and those around you. Dealing with a bout of inactivity, physical injury, or mental illness can affect your life in more ways than one. If a bout of physical or mental disruption comes at your doing, well, it’s an unfortunate set of circumstances that must be dealt with. However, if you are caused damages due to the negligence of another party, whether that be a singular person, business, or organization, then you might be deserving of reparations for said damages.
The type of cases that are described above are personal injury cases. Personal injury claims can be filed when mental, emotional, or physical damage is caused due to the negligence of another party. If the damages caused to you were primarily to your physical self and not solely to your property then you might have a legitimate personal injury claim. Consider this: You get into a car accident: If just your car is damaged, then you do not have a personal injury claim; if you are seriously injured along with your vehicle, wherein you needed expensive medical treatment, then you have a personal injury claim on your hands.
In the event of an accident, you should consider contacting a personal injury attorney as quickly as you can. Personal injury lawyers can help you by navigating the legal laws of your state of residence, as well as determining the type of reparations that you should be seeking in return for the damages caused by the negligence of another party. In particular, they can properly determine if your accident warrants a personal injury claim.
Car Accidents
The most common type of accident that leads to personal injury claims in the United States, car accidents are normally caused by one party that is considered “at fault.” These accidents can be caused where the damaging party is either speeding, drunk driving, or distracted by talking/texting on their cellphone. If you are injured by a negligent, distracted, or impeded driver, you might have a claim on your hands, as careless drivers tend to be entirely at fault, but there are some states that call for “no fault” cases, where only minorly injured drivers must receive damages only through their insurers.
Construction Accidents
Construction accidents occur primarily on land where current construction projects are underway. The types of construction accidents can run the gamut, whether it affects a bystander that is passing through the construction site, or if a worker is physically injured while on the job site. For bystanders, construction accidents can occur while walking by the site and either being harmed by falling debris or through slip and fall accidents caused by messy sites. Construction accidents upon employees (workplace injuries) can occur where faulty equipment causes serious injury, falling debris might cause harm, or where the employer’s negligence negatively affects their way of life.
Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice claims occur when a health care professional or doctor makes a serious, negligent mistake or fails to meet the standards called for in the health care business. The result from medical malpractice cases is that a patient is seriously injured — whether physically, mentally, or emotionally, and where the doctor or healthcare professional is considered to be at fault.
Assault and Battery
While cases of this nature will lead to further legal action, assault and battery still falls under personal injury, except rather than one of the parties acting with negligence, they instead acted with intent. Under such circumstances, reparations can still be sought, especially for any medical or psychological treatment was needed by the injured party following the assault.
