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Car Accidents

The lawyers at The Abelson Law Firm know that car accidents are frightening. The resulting struggle to be fairly compensated for your injuries can be frustrating, to say the least. For more than 30 years, our firm has been helping car accident victims to obtain successful results. We are ready to help you.

Each year, more than 3 millions people are injured in car accidents, resulting in billions of dollars in damages. When a car accident occurs, it is imperative that aggressive action is taken right away to protect the rights of those who are injured. Every insurance company employs adjusters, investigators and attorneys whose job it is to minimize the compensation paid to the injured victims of the car accident.

All of this can be overwhelming. In addition to the immediate physical injuries, an accident victim (and their families) suffers from emotional and financial consequences. Our firm allows you to focus on your recovery, while we do our best to see that the justice system returns you to some semblance of the life you led prior to an injury. While monetary compensation cannot change the past, it can help lessen anxiety about medical bills, employment, rehabilitation, and your future.

The first thing you must do after a car accident is to seek the medical care you need. Car accident victims should be thoroughly examined by a medical doctor. Seemingly minor injuries often develop into major health problems. Even if you do not have obvious injuries -- broken bones, cuts, lacerations or bruises – you may have sustained a connective-tissue disorder which, if left untreated, could cause major health problems in the long term. Of course many victims of motor vehicle accidents or car accidents sustain devastating injuries such as a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injuries, paralysis and otherwise.

As with other types of accidents, figuring out who is at fault in a traffic accident is a matter of deciding who was negligent. In many cases, your instincts will tell you that a driver, cyclist or pedestrian acted carelessly, but not what rule or rules that person violated. Fault issues can be complicated, and an experienced attorney will look to a number of sources, such as police reports, state traffic laws, and witnesses, to help you determine who was at fault for your accident.

Courts look to a number of factors in determining whether a driver was negligent. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Disobeying traffic signs or signals.
• Failing to signal while turning.
• Driving above or below the posted speed limit.
• Disregarding weather or traffic conditions.
• Failing to drive on the right side of the road.
• Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

A driver may also be liable for a car accident due to his or her intentional or reckless conduct. A driver who is reckless is one who drives unsafely, with "willful and wanton disregard" for the probability that such driving may cause an accident. A driver can be found reckless, for example, if he or she drives in a threatening or harassing manner out of "road rage" and causes an accident. (Criminal charges will also stem from such behavior).

The attorneys of Abelson Law Firm will gather, prepare and present the evidence that is critical to your claim. If you were injured by another person’s negligence, you may be entitled to recover compensation that includes medical costs (past and future), lost wages (past and future), and pain and suffering (past and future). We work with accident reconstructionist experts. Our firm employs the services of physicians, nurses, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and forensic economists to prove damages, future medical costs, past and future lost earnings, impairment and disability, and loss of earning capacity. We also retain the services of psychologists, grief counselors, and others to testify to emotional loss, pain and suffering, and loss of companionship.

Contact Abelson Law Firm to schedule a no-cost consultation. If we find that negligence of another was involved in your motor vehicle or car accident, we will work hard to hold those responsible (and their insurance carriers) for your injuries. For a free claim evaluation and discussion of your legal options, please contact us today.