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Vehicular Accidents 
  • Distraction:  Many drivers and operators of vehicles are distracted due to texting, talking or watching stuff on their cell phones or computer screens. Some crash because of eating, grooming, arguing or reading the pesky billboards polluting our horizons.
  • Impaired Drivers: Some drivers drink alcoholic beverages, smoke or ingest licit and illicit drugs before or during their drives. Driving impaired is not just a major cause of many catastrophic crashes, it is a criminal offense, which could cause years of incarceration. So be wise, drive sane and sober!
  • Speed Injures, Maims or Kills: Many unwise drivers feel invincible when pushing the paddle to the metal. The fact is that our bodies when facing tons of crashing metals have no chance. Better to get there late than never! Let’s abide by the rules of the roads rather than our fleeting emotions.
  • Reckless or Mindless Driving: Some drivers lose their minds as soon as someone honks or cuts them off, or even looks at them in an unfriendly manner. These unwise drivers become aggressive by tailgating, weaving through traffic, and ignoring rules of the roads. These kinds of behaviors are not just dangerous, they are antisocial and criminal. After all, we cannot control what others do, but we can control our reaction to others’ behaviors. Be Wise, Arrive Alive.
  • Drowsy Driving:  Lack of proper rest and sleep prior to driving is as lethal as boozed up driving. Don’t make the hospital bed or the morgue your rest place!
  • Road Conditions: Despite the trillions we pay in taxes, our roads in some places are worse than the Banana Republics. Poorly maintained roads and haphazard construction cause a lot of preventable injuries and deaths.
  • Failing to Yield: Every year tens of thousands of defenseless pedestrians and cyclists are clipped because of our lack of attention to the rules of the roads.
  • Falling Objects: Many irresponsible people place loose objects on their vehicles’ roofs, or trucks’ beds without properly securing them. While driving, the force of wind causes large and small items to fall and hit the cars on their sides or behind, causing catastrophic injuries, paralysis and death. Be Wise! Secure Your Load, prior to Cruising our Roads.

Motorcycle and Bicycle Accidents 
  • Turning Accidents: Drivers often turn right or left in front of oncoming bikers because they don’t see them or misjudge their speed. 
  • Negligent Lane Change: Some drivers zig-zag through traffic as they own the road. This type of careless change of lanes, or improper signaling or not seeing other vehicles, because they are in their blind spots, could and often would cause devastating collisions. An ounce of care could prevent a pound of cure!
  • Rear-End Hits: Drivers, who are distracted or following motorcycles and bikers too closely often hit these defenseless riders hard. Keeping a safe distance can save grave injuries and early grave entries!
  • Careless Door Opening: Some drivers and passengers often open their doors before looking for incoming traffic.  These types of incidents cause a lot of severe injuries, including chopped off limbs of the door openers themselves, let alone the bikers who have no protection against hitting steel and glass heads on. A simple glance prior to blasting your door open, could save a lot of limbs and lives, including your own. 
  • Hazards of the Roads: Objects, road debris, potholes, broken or uneven payments and many other road hazards could and would cause thousands of motorcyclists, and bikers to crash and sustain preventable injuries and deaths. In many cases, governments are in charge of our roadways. And they derelict their duties to the people, because of budgetary issues, sloth and carelessness. If you suffer serious injuries or a loved one has lost their lives due to Hazards of the Roads, let Chosen Lawyers make the wrong doers pay big!

Trucks And Big Rigs Crashes

Crashes involving big trucks are often catastrophic or fatal, even in low speed. That is because, a small family sedan or even a pickup truck and SUV have no chance when hit by 60,000 plus pounds mountain of metal. These preventable accidents happen, because either the truckdriver’s lack of rest, illness, improper change of lane, poor vehicle maintenance, over or improper loading, road hazards and mechanical failures.

Unfortunately, the victims of these road monsters are often crushed to death, or suffer, severe injuries such as multiple bone fractures, internal organ damages, traumatic brain injuries or paralysis. Dealing with legal matters in these kinds of cases is very complicated and predatory. Since commercial trucks must carry big insurance coverages, their Insurers fight tooth and nail to blame the victims in Bad Faith. Chosen Trial Lawyers have dealt with thousands of cases like this and they know Insurance Corporations’ tricks and tactics to the dots. If you’ve been injured or a loved one has been killed, let Chosen Trial Lawyers make the Trucking Companies and their Insurance Corporations pay your fair compensation promptly and properly.

Ride Sharing, Lyft and Uber Accidents 
Pedestrian Accidents 
Medical Malpractice or Negligence 
  • Unnecessary delays or Misdiagnosis: Failing to timely and properly diagnose a medical condition could delay treatment or become an insult upon injuries of the patients or kill them.
  • Wrong Surgery:  It is hard to fathom that a trained medical surgeon could operate on the wrong part of a human body, but this happens. Sometimes, the results are unalterable, painful, debilitating and fatal. 
  • Medical Errors: Prescribing the wrong pill or dose of medication or lack of accurate knowledge of the side-effects of drugs could significantly worsen a medical condition or cause other serious consequences and death.
  • Birth Injuries: Errors during childbirth can lead to injuries that can linger for life of both mother and baby. With today’s advanced technology and medical sciences, these preventable injuries should never happen. Unfortunately, they do more frequently that one can fathom, because of someone’s carelessness, negligence and incompetence.
  • Anesthesia Mistakes: Anesthesia errors can and do occur during surgery procedures and they cause painful physical, emotional and financial costs for patients and their loved-ones.  Here are some of such serious consequences:

Wrong Dose: 

  • Administering inadequate doses of drugs could cause the early wear-out of the drug, which could cause the patient to wake up during a surgical procedure.
  • Administering too much of the drug can cause coma or organ damage and death.
  • Incorrect type of anastatic can have its own slew of injuries and damages.
  • Failure to Monitor: Anesthesiologists are required to be alert and vigilant during their administration of drugs. If they fail to monitor, or their equipment fails, the patient could suffer life altering damages or death. 
  • Healthcare Professional’s drug and alcohol use: If a member of the surgery team is under influence of drugs or alcohol while operating, could cause irreversible injuries to the defenseless and unsuspecting patient.

Product Liability 

1. Design Defect

When a product is designed badly, which makes the product inherently flawed and dangerous to use. For instance, if a car braking system is designed in a way that does not work properly. As soon as one applies the brake, the brake locks and slides, which can collide with other objects or vehicles. This is a faulty design issue. 

2. Manufacturing Defect

This defect takes place by the manufacturer of the item. Generally, such goods function well, but one does not comply with the standard, thus becoming dangerous.  For instance, if a braking system is well designed, which functions as it was intended. However, one braking system, in one vehicle is defective, thus does not function well. This is a Manufacturing Defect.  

3. Failure to Warn Defect

Producers of products have a duty to warn consumers about potential dangers of their products. When a manufacturer fails to provide adequate warnings or use instructions, and these failures cause damages to the user, the entire chain from Manufacturer to retailer can be held liable. Failure to Warn, most often, happens when a new medication enters the stream of commerce, but there is no mention or adequate warning about its potential side effects.

Wrongful Death Claim 
Work Injuries and Accidents
  • Slip or Trip and Fall Injuries: These types of Injuries could happen due to wet floors, faulty steps, cluttered walkways or uneven surfaces, etc. 
  • Slip or Trip and Fall Injuries: These types of Injuries could happen due to wet floors, faulty steps, cluttered walkways or uneven surfaces, etc. 
  • Equipment Injuries: Some workers may sustain severe injuries, amputations or even death, because of a machine malfunction, or the workplace did not provide the worker adequate training on how to safely use the machine.  
  • Repetitive Injuries: Repetitive and monotonous motions, improper postures and overuse of certain body parts could cause debilitating pain, and lingering injuries, such as carpal tunnel, tendonitis or neck and back injuries.   
  • Exposures to Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Substances: Many work injuries are caused by toxic chemicals, gasses, asbestos, and other harmful matters and materials. These exposures could cause respiratory problems, cancer, or other chronic diseases.
  • Vehicular Crashes and Accidents: Some workers, who deliver goods by trucks, cars, motorcycles or on foot could get injured or killed while doing their jobs.
Premises Injuries and Liabilities

Slip or Trip and Fall Injuries:

Slip or Trip and fall accidents are a common type of premises liability claims. Slip and fall accidents often result from hazardous conditions like:

  • Wet or Slippery Floors: Spilled liquids, recently mopped floors, or leaks can create slippery surfaces that increase the risk of falls.
  • Uneven or Damaged Surfaces: Cracked sidewalks, potholes, torn carpeting, or loose floorboards can cause trips and falls.
  • Poor Lighting: Inadequate lighting in stairwells, hallways, or parking lots can obscure hazards and make it difficult for people to see where they are stepping.
  • Cluttered Walkways: Obstacles in walkways, such as boxes, merchandise, or debris, can create tripping hazards.
  • Inadequate Handrails or Guardrails: Lack of proper handrails on stairs or guardrails on elevated surfaces can increase the risk of falls and the severity of injuries.
Animals Bites & Attacks

Despite the fact that dogs are considered man’s best friends, about 4.5 million dog attacks and bites happen each year, here in the United States. Generally, the victims live in the same household.

Dog owners are usually liable if their dogs’ attack or bite someone, who is on public property or legally present on private premises.

Here are the examples, which make the presence of a person legal upon another’s property:

  • The property owner or occupant has invited the person onto their property directly or by implication. 
  • The person was performing a lawful duty upon the property, such a government surveyor.
  • The person was complying with a federal law, such as delivering mail. 

In other words, if the landowner proves that the victim was a trespasser, the dog owner may not be liable for the bite. 

Is it required that the Dog owners know that their dogs bite? 

In some jurisdictions, Dog attack Victims must prove that the Dog Owner knew or should have known that the dog might bite. However, in California, Dog Owners are strictly liable for their attacks and bites. Therefore, even if a dog has not shown any dangerous propensities, the owner could still be held liable.

What happens if a police dog bites?

Liability standards are different, when police, military or other government dogs are used for official government work. Generally, bite victims cannot make claims if a dog was defending an officer or assisting officers in their lawful duties. Lawful duties could include detaining suspects, executing warrants and investigating crimes.

Liability standards are different, when police, military or other government dogs are used for official government work. Generally, bite victims cannot make claims if a dog was defending an officer or assisting officers in their lawful duties. Lawful duties could include detaining suspects, executing warrants and investigating crimes.

What if the victim of a dog bite provoked the dog?

Victims are, generally, barred from seeking compensation, if they provoke a dog’s attack, or if they contributed to the injury. 

California is a pure comparative fault state.  Therefore, in California the amount of compensation could be reduced based on the proportion of the victim’s fault. There are some exceptions for very young children. 

How long is the statute of limitations in dog bites?  

California categories Dog Bite injuries the same as other personal injuries cases. Thus, most victims have two years from the date that the bite took place to file their claims. Should the claims be against governmental entities, the victims have only six months from the attack date to file their claims. 

If you or a loved one have been victims of dog attacks, please click or call Chosen Lawyers right away. It is absolutely essential to start the process, when injuries, witnesses and other facts are fresh and available. And above all, you require the best medical and psychological care available to heal.

Assault, Battery & False Imprisonment-Intentional Torts

What is Tort of Assault?

Under personal injury law, assault is defined as a purposeful act by a person which causes a reasonable apprehension of immediate harm or offensive contact to another person. For example, your cousin Vinny raises his fist at you while threatening to punch you in the face. If you had the apprehension that Vinny is going to punch you, you were assaulted.  

In other words, the Tort of Assault does not require physical injury or even contact. The apprehension of offensive or harmful touching is usually enough for an assault to have occurred.

What is Tort of Battery? 

Tort of Battery arises, when a person intentionally touches another person for the purpose of creating harmful or offensive touching without their consent. For instance, if your cousin Vinny slaps you or offensively touches you, he has committed the Tort of Battery against you.

Tort of Battery arises, when a person intentionally touches another person for the purpose of creating harmful or offensive touching without their consent. For instance, if your cousin Vinny slaps you or offensively touches you, he has committed the Tort of Battery against you.

A Battery could take place with a punch, kick, push, or any other form of unwanted physical contact. 

What is a Medical Battery?

A Medical Battery is committed, when a doctor or a surgeon performs a non-emergency procedure without the patients or their guardians’ permission. In such cases, the victims can sue for Medical Battery and Medical Malpractice, despite the fact that Medical Malpractice is not considered an intentional tort.  

What is the Tort of False Imprisonment?

Tort of False Imprisonment is committed, when a person intentionally and illegally confines another person. Victims of False Imprisonments can sue for damages under civil wrongful act. Here are some examples of False Imprisonments.

Jack and Jill decide to rob a bank. They take their handguns and enter a bank. They order everyone to lay down on the floor. Everyone, including the customers lay on the floor, while Jack and Jill empty out the tills. 

The fact that the people had to lay on the ground against their will is considered False Imprisonment. That is because they were forced to lay on the ground, and they did, because they were afraid of being shot. Therefore, the captive people have the right to sue the robbers, their accomplices and possibly the bank for the tort of False Imprisonment.

Remember, even the law enforcement could become liable for False Imprisonment, if they commit a false arrest or wrongfully detain someone without justification or reasonable suspicion.  

Sexual Assault-Battery Lawsuits

Sexual Assault and Battery are ugly crimes and torts that happen to millions of Americans, every year.   According to estimates, a sexual assault takes place every 68 seconds. Majority of these victims are between the ages of 12 to 34.  Many of these assaults place a nightmarish emotional and physical footprint that lingers for life.

Fortunately, here in the United States, victims are able to file sexual assault and battery lawsuits against their predators. These tort actions are designed to help victims obtain the financial help they need to recover from their physical, emotional and mental injuries. 

The extent of financial recovery could include money for medical expenses, mental anguish, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, and other harms resulting from the sexual assault and battery. 

Most often, victims may also recover punitive damages, which can be significantly more than other awarded damages. Punitive Damages are designed to punish the predator and deter them and others from committing such vile wrongs in the future.

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Personal Injury Lawsuits

Personal injury lawsuits are, generally, filed against the person and/or the corporation that caused the harm. However, in reality, the Insurance Corporations are the ones that must pay the settlements or court awards. Liabilities could be based on negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, intentional acts or refusal to act, and some cases based on strict liability, which means, regardless of fault. 

Every year millions of people sustain personal injuries from vehicular accidents, slip and fall, dog bites, medical malpractice, toxic exposure, and so on. Some of these injuries can make victims’ day-to-day lives excruciatingly painful, if not virtually impossible. 

In order to bring the wrongdoers to justice in any type of accident, one needs a Highly Capable, Credible and Compassionate Lawyer to help navigate through the intimidating and expensive Justice System. The task of finding such a lawyer is complicated, especially when an injured person is dealing with pain and anxieties of an injury.

No wonder why, thousands of gravely injured people choose to live with their pain rather than face the big insurance corporations and other powerful wrong doers, in a court of law. 

Here at Chosen Lawyers, we only work with Highly Competent, Credible and Compassionate {Chosen} Lawyers. And we are with you from Start-to-Success!

LEGAL FEES 

Generally, most Personal Injury Attorneys represent their Personal Injury Clients on a “Contingency Fee Basis”.  Contingency means that the lawyer’s fee is conditional upon the success of the case.

Depending upon individual state laws, a plaintiff’s attorney may charge about 1/3 of the awarded amount if a case is settled out of court or about 40 percent of the total amount recovered, if the matter leads to trial. Nonetheless, Contingency Attorney Fees are negotiable and the fee agreement must be in writing.

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS 

Under Tort Law, harms or injuries are referred to as Damages. And Damages are categorized as either Special or General. 

Special Damages are, generally, measured based on medical costs, lost earnings, property damages, and so on.  General Damages, on the other hand, are calculated based on harder to measure parameters, such as pain & suffering, inability to enjoy life, loss of society or consortium, damages to reputations, emotional distress, and so on. A Personal Injury Tort may result in claims for both special and general damages.

INSURANCE COVERAGE

In the United States, operators of vehicles, businesses, property owners, and so on purchase liability insurance coverage, which are designed to compensate third parties for their injuries. Of course, different states have different rules regarding the amount and extent of such coverages. 

Another category of insurance referred to as ‘uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage’ is supposed to compensate a driver, who is injured by another driver, who does not carry liability insurance or the coverage is not sufficient to make the injured party Whole Again.

TAXATION OF PERSONAL INJURY SETTLEMENTS

In the United States, the money awarded in a personal injury case as compensation for pain and suffering, medical expenses and property damage is not taxable, by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). However, if a plaintiff had a tax deduction in a prior year for the medical expenses related to the case, the awarded amount could be subject to taxation. Moreover, financial awards for lost wages or lost profits are taxable. You should always consult with your accountant regarding tax matters.

WHAT TO DO AFTER AN ACCIDENT? 

If involved in an accident, you should take certain steps to protect your rights and interests.

  • If possible, contact the police authorities and file a collision report. By filing this report, you are able to document the facts that led to the accident, while at the scene. They could be helpful to ascertain the party at fault.
  • Seek proper medical care for yourself or any other injured persons. If the injuries are serious, you should call an ambulance or visit an urgent care facility as soon as possible. 

Please Note: Many serious injuries, some even fatal, may not show at the scene of an accident. A post-accident medical examination is always a prudent decision.

  • If possible, do not leave the scene of the accident until you have obtained all necessary information, such as names and contact information of parties involved and witnesses, if any. Write down the license plate number of the vehicles involved; insurance information; even take some pictures of the involved vehicles, if you can do so safely.
  • Do not discuss the accident or your injuries to anyone other than the police, your doctor and your lawyer. Giving statements to insurance representatives without speaking to your Chosen Personal Injury Lawyer could jeopardize your chances of a just compensation.
DO NOT FALL FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES SHORT CHANGING TACTICS AND LOW-BALL OFFERS

Today’s Insurance Corporations no longer operate based on the fundamental doctrine of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. The same Insurance Corporations that promise you coverage in case of an accident, use all kinds of bad-faith tricks to short change you. That is because they make about 5 cents on each dollar of the premium they collect from you, and the whole dollar that they don’t pay you. Not to mention the fact that they make large sums of interest on your money, while you are fighting them to get it.

Your money is the so-called “float” money that Insurance Corporations lend to other corporations at huge interest rates. This is why they do whatever they can get away with, in order to defend, delay and deny what is rightfully yours.

Moreover, if you’ve suffered from an injury that will affect you for a long time, it may be difficult for you to estimate how much compensation you should claim. This is where you need a Capable, Credible and Compassionate Chosen Lawyer with years of experience to help you assess the extent of your injuries and demand what you deserve. If not, you could be short-changed in the most vulnerable stage of your life. 

AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION 

Compensation is usually decided based on the extent of your injuries. In other words, ‘what does it take to make an injured party “whole” again?’ Severity of an injury is, usually, determined by the amount of medical bills, types of injury sustained, pain and suffering and the time needed to recover fully. These elements are almost always up for negotiation.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER 

In order to find a lawyer, many people either search the World-Wide-Web; or ask a friend or a family member for recommendations. If you choose any of these routes, first you would need to create a short list of the lawyers that you think are fit to handle your case. Then go ahead and interview them to assess their capabilities, credibility and compassion.

Here at ChosenLawyers.com the founder, who is a lawyer, personally searches amongst thousands of lawyers in order to choose the most Capable, Credible and Compassionate Lawyers in each field of Practice. Because, at Chosen Lawyers, we believe, everyone has the right to have a Competent and Caring Lawyer on their side! 

So, if you’ve been injured in any type of accidents, Chosen Personal Injury Lawyers are a click or call away to help you heal and obtain justice. The fundamental question is: are you ready to defend your rights and obtain justice? If so, please click or call Chosen Lawyers for a FREE and CONFIDENTIAL Case Evaluation, Now!

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