Rosebank Personal Injury Lawyer
If you suffered injuries in an accident, you might not know how personal injury law works. You might not be aware that you can often hold parties responsible for causing your injuries even if they were not present when the accident happened. You may not even know how much your case could be worth.
That is where our attorneys can help. We can identify the responsible parties, whether they are store operators, property owners, doctors, drivers, or product manufacturers. From there, we can gather evidence to help prove your case and assess the financial and mental/emotional impact of the accident to determine the damages you can claim in your case.
For a free case review, call our Staten Island personal injury lawyers today for a free case evaluation at The Carrion Law Firm: (718) 841-0083.
Types of Personal Injury Cases Our Attorneys Handle in Rosebank
In Rosebank, Staten Island, you could face injuries from many different sources and problems. Our personal injury attorneys widely represent all kinds of victims in all kinds of accidental injury cases, helping them get compensation from whatever parties caused the accident.
Property Injury Cases
Many of the injury cases we handle for our clients are cases involving falls, slips, collapses, burns, electrocutions, and other injuries that came about because of dangerous or defective conditions on someone else’s property. In these cases, your presence on the property is often called into question, but social guests and customers are owed the highest standard of care from the property owners. Anything short of repairing or warning you about known dangers to keep you from being injured is often going to qualify as fault.
These cases can involve slip and falls on icy sidewalks or parking lots, shelf collapses in a store, a handrail collapse on a deck or staircase, and more.
Auto Accident Cases
Accidents involving cars, trucks, motorcycles, buses, scooters, and pedestrians can all lead to serious injuries that we can help you get compensation for. This often means suing the driver directly if your injuries are sufficiently “serious” to open the right to sue under New York’s “no-fault” insurance rules. When this happens, we can potentially get you high-dollar compensation from your own insurance and the at-fault driver’s insurance. However, these cases can also be filed against the employers of commercial drivers when they cause crashes, allowing us to bring in trucking companies, bus companies, and other employers in many accident cases.
Product Injury Cases
When you are hurt by a product, you can often bring a case against the producer or manufacturer of that product. Whether your case involves an exploding lithium battery, a defective auto part, or a dangerous household product that failed to include sufficient warnings to keep you safe, our lawyers can research who produced the item and bring a case against them under New York law.
Medical Malpractice Cases
Often, doctors fail to provide the care that they should be providing when compared to the relevant standards and practices in the medical community. If their misdiagnosis, surgical errors, birth injuries, or other mistakes were caused by inattention, a lack of skill, or an intentional deviation from the standard of care, you might have a malpractice case.
It is often difficult to tell whether the doctor is a hospital employee or works for their own practice, and depending on the facts of your case and how you were injured, we may sue different parties for these cases. For example, if the doctor made a mistake during surgery, the case is likely filed against the doctor directly, versus cases where you contracted an illness because of unsafe or unsanitary hospital conditions are likely filed against the hospital for hospital negligence.
Work Injury Cases
Our laws on Staten Island and throughout New York often prevent lawsuits from being filed directly against an employer for a work injury. However, you can often get past this block if the employer committed negligence to cause the injury and violated other safety rules on the books, such as New York’s scaffold laws. Our attorneys can also help you bring your case against other third-party defendants like property owners, suppliers, customers, drivers, and manufacturers for injuries on the job caused by outside sources. Lastly, if you are an independent contractor, then you are not typically limited in your ability to sue unless you were misclassified and actually fall under the definition of an “employee.”
Wrongful Death Cases
The death of a loved one is typically the most tragic kind of case we handle as injury attorneys. When we take on these cases on behalf of families, our goal is to get you compensation for your own financial damages as well as the harms your loved one faced before death. There are limits on what damages can be claimed in these cases and multiple types of lawsuits that are filed together in one case, but our lawyers can ultimately work to get you compensation for the victim’s pain and suffering before death, all lost earnings, all medical bills, burial, funeral costs, future lost support, and more.
Proving Your Injury Case in Rosebank
In order to file a case – and especially to win the case – we need evidence of four elements. Personal injury claims are usually built on a “negligence” cause of action, meaning that we need to show that 1) the defendant owed the plaintiff a legal duty, 2) the defendant breached that duty, 3) the breach of duty caused your accident, and 4) the breach of duty resulted in injuries and other damages the court can order the defendant to pay for. Importantly, if the defendant did not do anything wrong, they cannot be held liable. Similarly, if no harm actually resulted, there is no case, but the “damages” element can be met by economic (e.g., hospital bills and lost wages) and/or non-economic damages (e.g., pain and suffering, emotional distress, etc.).
Our lawyers will seek out evidence of each element of the case, build a strong theory of the case, and lay out all of the facts supporting your claim when we present your claim to insurance companies or the courts. Ultimately, we will have to prove each element “by a preponderance of the evidence” to win your case at trial if it goes before a judge and jury.
Contact Our Rosebank Injury Attorneys Today
Call (718) 841-0083 for your free case assessment with the personal injury attorneys at The Carrion Law Firm today.