Delray Beach may be a bit farther north than Miami proper, but the waves and recreation are just as enticing. At the same time, the same risks of accidents that come with any seaside city are present, and you might end up being injured on the road, in the water, or even just walking into a business or public place.
If you do suffer an injury in an accident, a Delray Beach personal injury lawyer can help you recover with a compensation claim. Our team at Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia can bring experience and care to your case with the goal of getting you the compensation you deserve.
In the immediate aftermath of a car crash, slip and fall, work accident, or other event, check yourself (and others) for potential injuries. Even if you do not feel significant pain, it may be best to see a medical professional to confirm. Do not talk with anyone about the incident – it could jeopardize a claim later, though you may have to contact police to come to the scene of a vehicle accident and file a report. Once you are treated, call a personal injury lawyer on our team to discuss a potential lawsuit.
Perhaps the most important thing to know when thinking about a legal claim is damages. Damages are the effects of injuries that can be sorted into compensable categories, rather than the injuries themselves having a value.
For example, a head injury might include a concussion or other traumatic brain injury, as well as damage to the spinal cord. The costs you will incur in medical treatment for that injury, both immediately after an accident and for years to come, can count as damages, as well as your lost income from no longer being able to work as you once did. Even the pain and suffering you may sustain from long periods of time, like nerve pain and reduced mobility or cognition, can make up your damages, even if harder to calculate as an exact amount.
Documentation of injuries is key to later showing your damages, and you can consult a personal injury lawyer for help estimating your specific damages after a Delray Beach accident. Your attorney can walk through your injuries and medical records, as well as obtain the opinions of experts for a life care plan and level of disability, if necessary.
Negligence is a common word tossed around to mean fault, but the term refers to unreasonable, typically unintentional, conduct that both breaches a legal duty and causes legal damages. So a person may be negligent if they fail to drive safely and cause a car crash, for example, or if they fail to keep their business location clean and a customer slips and falls. Proving negligence requires evidence of that duty, breach, causation, and damages, but an attorney can investigate your accident for you and bring that evidence together in your compensation claim.
As much as you might know how your accident in Delray Beach happened, you will still need to help of a personal injury attorney in order to show both your damages and the negligence of another person or entity. Figuring out the true cause of an accident, and who should be held responsible, requires more than a sense of what happened. An accident can happen with no one being liable and even a potentially clear case could become more complicated depending on the particular facts.
You probably do not have years of legal experience, and are too occupied with recovering from your injuries after an accident. You can have a Delray Beach personal injury lawyer from Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia represent you and push your claim forward on your behalf. We fight hard for you, because you should not be financially disadvantaged for someone else’s misconduct.
You will not have to pay any fees unless and until you get compensation, as we only take cases on contingency fee. Contact our offices today to get your claim started.
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