Companies and individuals who cause injuries should be held accountable for the harm they cause. Victims can be left with expensive medical bills, inability to work, and other interruptions in their lives that can justify monetary damages. Our attorneys help victims fight to get these damages paid.
Were you hit by a car? Did you slip and fall at a store? Our lawyers have you covered. We can help you fight hospitals, businesses, trucking companies, and individuals who caused your injuries, tried to deny blame, or put their insurance companies in front of them to fight the case for them. We can represent you in insurance negotiations, lawsuits, and other negotiations to get your damages paid.
Contact Rice, Murtha & Psoras today at (410) 694-7291 for a free review of your potential injury case with our Annapolis, MD personal injury lawyers.
Do I Have a Personal Injury Case?
Recognizing when you have a case and when you should seek damages for it is important. Our personal injury attorneys offer free case reviews where we can analyze the specifics of your case and help you understand what we can do going forward to help you get compensation. If you are thinking about calling, here are a few things to consider:
Who Was at Fault?
To have a personal injury case, you need someone to hold responsible for your injuries. This could be a property owner whose dangerous premises caused your injuries, a doctor who made a mistake in your health care that cost you dearly, or simply a driver who hit you. In most cases, the person who hurt you was right there when the accident occurred.
Even if you think you were the one who “hurt yourself,” a property owner might be liable for a slippery floor, or a product manufacturer might be responsible for a dangerous product, so do not give up on your case just because the at-fault party is not obvious.
Were You Injured?
If you faced any injuries whatsoever, you were hurt “enough” to potentially sue. If you faced any medical bills, those are often worth claiming. If your medical bills were especially high or you now face ongoing therapy needs, then you almost certainly have a case that is “worth it.”
Did You Face Other Damages?
Pain and suffering is present any time there is an injury. Like with medical expenses, your case is potentially serious enough to pursue damages if you faced noticeable pain and suffering, and your injury kept you from participating in daily activities of living or caused you low mental health days, fear, anxiety, shame, or other examples of emotional distress like this.
Injuries are also worth pursuing a case for if you had to miss work for your injuries. A few days of lost wages might not be enough to justify a whole lawsuit, but an insurance claim might be enough to cover these. If you faced serious injuries that will prevent you from working at full capacity in the future, your case is certainly worth calling a lawyer about.
Do You Meet the Elements of a Negligence Claim?
For your case to be successful in court, your case must meet all of the elements of a negligence claim. This means showing that the defendant owed you a legal duty and breached that legal duty and that the breach of duty caused your injuries and other damages. Our lawyers can analyze this issue for you, along with questions of fault.
We can also look into whether multiple parties might have shared fault, pursuing a claim against each defendant whose actions meet these elements. One caveat, however, is that if your own actions meet these standards it might impair your ability to file a claim – though our lawyers can deploy many legal arguments that might get around these restrictions by recentering blame on the defendants.
Types of Personal Injury Claims in Kettering, MD
We listed a few examples of various personal injury cases earlier in this article, but it is important to note that we handle all kinds of injury cases. While some of the cases we will discuss here are some of the more common cases we handle, our lawyers can also help with all kinds of injury and accident claims that fall outside these categories.
Many accidents involve someone who owns the property or premises allowing dangerous conditions to hurt visitors. Customers can often sue stores, and guests at someone’s house can sue the property owner/tenant for dangerous conditions. A violation of the owner’s duty is usually present if they allowed the dangerous condition to injure their guest or customer without warning them or taking reasonable steps to repair the conditions. Property injuries can also involve collapsing buildings, decks, or stairs; fires and explosions; electrocution; drowning; and many other accidents.
Perhaps the most common types of accidents are auto accidents. Our lawyers can help you deal with insurance and with at-fault drivers to get you the damages you deserve in what can often be an opaque and confusing system. Our lawyers can also help you pursue damages against a trucking company if you were hit by a commercial truck driver, or we can similarly seek compensation from any other commercial driver’s employer.
Other injuries are caused not by accidents but by mistakes. Product manufacturers might put dangerous products on the market because of mistakes in design or errors in the manufacturing process. Doctors and hospitals might provide negligent healthcare through misdiagnosis, surgical errors, or other mistakes that fall below the “standard of care.”
The most serious injury cases can often result in ongoing disabilities that our attorneys can help you fight for damages for. We can also help you recover compensation if a loved one was killed in an accident, seeking damages they could have claimed if they had lived, as well as additional damages for your family in the wake of their loss.
Call Our Personal Injury Lawyers in Kettering, MD Today
Call Rice, Murtha & Psoras’ personal injury lawyers at (410) 694-7291 today for a free review of your potential injury case.