Personal injury lawyers help victims of all sorts of accidents seek damages for the monetary effects of the accident as well as the pain and suffering they faced. Whether your injury stemmed from a slip and fall, another injury on someone else’s dangerous property, a car crash, or any other accident or dangerous situation that someone else put you in, our lawyers can help.
Your case might involve medical bills, disabilities, time away from work during your recovery, expenses at home, property damage, and other economic damages we can help you claim. You might have also experienced significant pain and suffering or emotional distress, depending on the circumstances and the injury you faced. We can also seek full compensation for these effects.
Call The Reiff Law Firm today at (215) 709-6940 for a free case evaluation with our personal injury lawyers.
Common Areas of Personal Injury Claims
The following are some of the most common areas of cases that our personal injury lawyers help clients with:
Property Injuries
When a store or other business opens itself to the public, its premises need to be reasonably safe. Spills in grocery stores, broken glass littering the floor of a bar, or icy walkways and parking lots outside office buildings are unacceptable injury risks, and these companies can be held liable for property injuries like these.
Private homeowners can also be held liable for accidents on their property. These injuries can involve dangerous, unrepaired structures that might collapse or break; dangerous electrical hazards that might shock you; and dangers on the property that any reasonable property owner would think to warn you about. In residential settings, apartment buildings and property managers can also be responsible for dangerous premises, malfunctioning smoke alarms, and more.
All in all, these cases can involve a range of injuries, including slip and fall injuries, burns, smoke inhalation, electrocution injuries, and more.
Car Accidents
If someone hits you, the crash is typically their fault. However, many car accident cases are far more complex, especially once you involve both drivers’ car insurance policies, dark lighting, inclement weather, covered traffic signs, and the other imperfect scenarios that arise in real life. Our lawyers can cut through the lies, shut down low-dollar settlement offers from insurance carriers, and fight to get you the full damages you are entitled to.
Whether your case involved serious injuries, a drunk driver, or even a low-speed parking lot accident, we can fight to get your injuries paid for.
Truck Accidents
We bring your attention to truck accidents separately because these cases often have very important differences from everyday car accidents that our attorneys pay special attention to. In most truck accident cases, the truck driver works for a larger company, and our attorneys can go up against these companies and fight to get them to pay for your damages under “vicarious liability” laws. We can even potentially hold these companies directly liable for their own mistakes, including maintenance issues with the trucks they own, safety issues with the drivers they hire, and violations of the safety rules they are required to obey.
Many trucking companies have been held responsible in the past for nefarious rule-breaking, including going so far as to withhold their truckers’ paychecks until they lied about driving hours. Other more mundane issues include sending trucks back on the road without required maintenance, overloading truck weight limits, and failing to properly secure cargo.
Dangerous Product Claims
Our attorneys have no hesitation when going after huge companies that manufacture dangerous products. Whether that means taking on auto part manufacturers, electronics companies, toy companies, or food and pharma companies, our attorneys are ready and willing to hold manufacturers and producers responsible when their products injure our clients.
Many dangerous product claims are caused by problems in the manufacturing process, where either a design was too dangerous or the product was improperly assembled at the factory. Other cases involve a failure to warn, where inherent dangers in the product were not properly explained on the packaging or in the instructions.
Work Injuries
Many lawyers will tell you that you cannot file a lawsuit for injuries that happen at work, but this is only partially correct. The law often prevents a lawsuit against your direct employer, but many workplace injuries are caused by outside parties and other issues that you can certainly file a lawsuit for.
Many accidents at work stem from dangerous drivers crashing into workers, defective or dangerous tools, defective or ineffective personal protective equipment, injuries caused by vendors or suppliers, and other accidents caused by people who do not work directly with you. Lawsuits against these individuals and companies can often result in pain and suffering and additional damages above what you might be able to claim from Workers’ Compensation, which covers only the bare minimum.
Wrongful Death
The loss of a loved one cannot be repaired with monetary damages, but the money your family receives from a wrongful death claim can often be enough to help your family move forward in light of missing income, hospital bills, funeral bills, and other overwhelming expenses from the death of a loved one.
These claims can be filed for any other kind of accident case we handle that results in death instead of injuries. In these cases, we seek damages for both the harms that you and your family now face and the harms that your loved one faced before their death. This can include compensation not only for your family’s grieving and your lost companionship but also for the pain and suffering your loved one experienced before death.
When to File a Personal Injury Case in Newtown, PA
Any time your injury case involves medical bills, lost time at work, physical pain, or emotional distress, your case is likely “serious enough” to involve a lawyer. However, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5524 typically gives victims only 2 years to file their claims, so you need to act quickly to get our lawyers involved with enough time to build and file your case.
Call Our Personal Injury Attorneys in Newtown, PA Today
Call (215) 709-6940 for a free case evaluation with the experienced personal injury lawyers at The Reiff Law Firm today.
