Personal Injury Cases
What comes under personal injury?
Personal injury includes the damages caused to the person’s body, emotions or which may lead to the disability both physically and mentally. The litigant is being sued for the injury and the damaged caused through negligence. The personal injury claim is compensated by the injured person’s medical expenses, pain and their suffering and the disabilities as a result of the injury.
Types of personal injury cases:
- Automotive accident: Motor vehicle accidents includes motorcycle accidents, auto accidents, car accidents, tractor-trailer accidents, boating accidents, even pedestrian accidents. The negligence of the driver is the cause of many motor vehicle accidents. Negligence can be due to the driver’s reckless driving, influence under drugs and alcohol, or distracted driving. This includes pedestrian struck, public transport accidents.
- Workplace injury: There are more than 99 work related injuries and fatalities per week. The federal workers’ compensation law covers employees in all fifty states. To establish a personal injury case for workplace accidents, you must be prepared to prove that you sustained an injury or illness related to your employment. All kinds of injuries can occur in the workplace, which can cost both the employer and the employee valuable time and money.
- Slip and fall injuries: These occur when occasional spills, wet or oily surfaces, weather hazards like icy steps or walkway, and loose rugs. Poor lighting, clutter, wrinkled carpeting or mats, uncovered cables, and uneven walking surfaces.
- Sports injury: Sports injuries occur during exercise or while participating in a sport. Children are particularly at risk for these types of injuries, but adults can get them, too. Some examples are Sprains, Strains, Knee injuries, Swollen muscles, Achilles tendon rupture, Fractures, Dislocations, Rotator cuff injury.
- Dog bites/animal bites.
- Brain and spinal cord injuries: Traumatic brain injury usually results from a violent blow or jolt to the head or body. The spinal cord injury is damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal (cauda equina) often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation and other body functions below the site of the injury.
- Birth injuries: Sometimes during the birth process, the baby may suffer a physical injury that is simply the result of being born. This is sometimes called birth trauma or birth injury.
How does attorneys approach personal injury cases?
The attorneys help in seeking the justice and the help them in getting their compensation as a result of the injury sustained and the suffering and disabilities caused due to the injuries. The attorneys investigate the situation, gather the essential documents such as police reports, images, witness statements and the medical records. Further the attorneys analyse the reviewed medical records and present it for the compensation or in the courtroom. The personal injury lawyers investigate the claims, gathers the evidences, medical records, negotiate the insurance companies. The attorney must hold on to 4 elements:
- The party had a duty to act reasonably according to the circumstances.
- The party breached the duty.
- The party’s breach of the duty caused the plaintiff to be harmed.
- Plaintiff suffered monetary damages.
How does medical record review help attorneys in personal injury case?
The medical records review in the case of the personal injury helps in identifying the disabilities and the pain, suffering caused as a result which occurred after the incident. When the medical records are reviewed it helps to get a suitable claims whose factors include the
- Severity of the injury.
- The defendant’s liability.
- Medical expenses.
- Time for recovery.
- The future effects of the injury.
- Financial loss.
- Disability.
For a claim, the attorney must ensure the medical records are accurate and the missing records are identified accurately. The medical record analysis must have a timeline of the subject which is a main role of the lawsuit. The review of medical charts optimizes the damages sustained by the injured person and the expenses of the treatment connected with the injury that caused the disability is analysed. It is important that the liability, causation, and the quantum is essential for the medical record review.
What will be the compensation of such personal injury cases?
The attorneys help in receiving the compensation of the medical expenses that was caused due to injury. They help in consolidating the future medical costs and the life care planning. In the economical aspect they help in retrieving the financial loss due to the injury and the loss of income in future.
Why Aezen?
At Aezen, we do focus the personal injury cases, from the date of injury, causation of the injury, diagnosis, treatment plan, permanent impairment and future medical needs. Past medical history and future medical needs are well analysed, which helps the attorneys to claim the required compensation and do the needs for the clients. Our summaries include all the records that are required for the attorneys to claim for compensation and/or to win the cases legally. We identify the missing records and analyse by the reviewing medical record which may be a critical point of the legal case. We do provide services customize as per attorney’s specification which help in the better resolution.
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