Personal Injury

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Events such as falls, accidents, dog bites, and being the victim of a battery can change your life. These events can lead to painful medical procedures, extensive rehabilitation, loss of wages, significant medical bills, and an inability to enjoy life in the same way you did before. When these events were the result of somebody else’s negligence or intentional acts and therefore did not have to happen, the pain is often compounded by frustration and anger. You should not have to suffer because of somebody else’s negligence or intentional act. While the event cannot be undone, it is just for the wrong actor to do what is possible to make you whole. Normally that involves financial compensation and thankfully insurance is normally available to make this happen. Personal injury events happen in all sorts of ways. Below are a few.

Injuries at Businesses:

Commercial establishments have a duty to maintain their facility in a reasonably safe condition and to take all reasonable actions to eliminate hazards which they did or should have known about.

Slip and Fall or Trip and Fall:

When a customer falls in a store, the first question is why they fell. Slippery floors, hazards on the ground, insufficient lighting, uneven flooring, cracks or holes in the floor, tears in the carpet, there are dozens of ways that a business’ inaction can lead to a fall. In order to build a case, the second and third questions often require digging deeper to discover why the condition existed and why was it not fixed before it lead to your injury. This digging is where you need an experienced and skilled attorney to represent you. Stores normally intend to promptly mark off and clean up hazards, but for one reason or another this does not always happen.

Negligent Security:

Stores, hotels, and motels which have reason to believe there are criminals in the area who want to take advantage of their customers, have a duty to warn and protect those customers. Lighting, guards, the elimination of locations for ambush, and limiting access are all precautions that the establishment might need to put into place. When a business does not take the proper steps, an opportunistic criminal may take advantage of that opening to victimize an innocent customer. This can lead to the loss of property, injuries, or even worse.

Whether the business should have done more to protect their customer involves a detailed inquiry into the criminal history of the area, the motivation of the perpetrator, and an evaluation of what could have been done to deter the crime. David Bear’s history as a criminal prosecutor is especially helpful in evaluating these cases.

Negligent Hiring or Retention:

When a company puts an employee or a contractor into contact with you, it has a reasonability to make sure that the employee or contractor is not dangerous. For example, a company that sends a service tech into your house should make sure that person doesn’t have a history of violent crimes or theft. Depending on the position, the company may need to do a background check, contact former employers, interview the employee in person, or take other steps to ensure they are not putting their client at risk. Similarly, an employer has a continuing duty to assess any risks that their employees or contractors pose. If during their employment, the employer learns of, or should have learned of, new reasons why the employee may be a risk to the customer, the employer needs to take action. If you have been injured by the employee or contractor of a business, you need the experience and committed attention that Bear Legal Solutions can provide in order to investigate whether the employer should have known about this risk beforehand.

Automobile and Boating Accidents:

Cars, trucks, and boats are hunks of metal which weigh thousands of pounds. Technology has thankfully made us all safer with our own vehicles having airbags and crumble zones, but there is only so much that can be done to insulate someone from a two ton SUV crashing into them. The impact can of course cause injuries which are immediately apparent, such as broken bones and lacerated organs. Injuries can also be slower to make themselves known. Oftentimes soft tissue injuries are not apparent for a multiple days, however their impact can last a lifetime. All of these injuries can lead to extensive pain, suffering, loss of income, and medical expenses, as wells as a change in your lifestyle. Document these changes, obtain prompt medical care, and retain the services of Bear Legal Solutions, who will give your case the attention it needs.

Intentional Battery:

When you are attacked, the person who has injured you should pay the price. Depending on the circumstances, their employer may also be responsible for their actions. You should not bear the costs of medical expenses and lost wages, your attacker should. Your attacker should be accountable for your pain, suffering, and change in your lifestyle.

Dog Bites:

Dog owners have a duty to protect others from a dog which they know or should know may bite. Depending on the circumstance, this may mean keeping the dog on a leash, keeping the dog inside, or taking special precaution to ensure that the dog does not attack guests. Finding out what exactly the dog owner knew or should have known is a detailed process which an experienced and diligent attorney should be involved in. A dog bite can be physically disfiguring, painful, and traumatic, and if the owner should have prevented it, he should be held accountable.

Bear Legal Solutions is here to fight to make you whole for the injuries that you have suffered.