Why Do You Need a Slip and Fall Lawyer in Los Angeles?

Only if you want maximum compensation for your serious injuries. Insurance companies pay millions of dollars to settle slip and fall claims. 80 Percent of this money goes to victims with lawyers. Your health is at stake as well. Many well-meaning doctors don’t know how to properly diagnose and treat fall-related injuries.

Additionally, usually within a few hours of a slip and fall accident, most insurance companies hire teams of high-priced lawyers to defend their interests. Taking on these lawyers by yourself is like the Los Angeles Chargers playing a high school football team. It’s not a fair fight.

The right Slips and Falls Lawyer Los Angeles addresses all these needs. Attorneys connect victims with doctors who focus on head injuries and other fall-related injuries. Perhaps more importantly, a lawyer begins a case with a vision of what it takes to achieve a successful outcome. After they plan their work, lawyers work their plans. Good things usually happen when a lawyer, or anyone else, does these two things.

Finding a Slip and Fall Lawyer!

Epileptics should see neurologists, not general practice doctors. Likewise, personal injury victims should see personal injury lawyers, not general practice lawyers. That approach narrows the field of potential lawyers and prevents choice paralysis.

Experience usually narrows the field even further. Clients can do some experience research on their own. They also need to know the right questions to ask during an initial consultation.

Anyone can log onto the state bar’s website, type in a name, and determine years of experience. But not all experience is the same.

Many lawyers practice personal injury law for many years and rarely go to court. That’s not too unusual, since over 90 percent of personal injury claims settle out of court. More on that below. However, a lawyer should also have some trial experience.

A slip and fall personal injury attorney who usually looks for a quick settlement or an easy way out usually has difficulties during pretrial negotiations. Insurance company lawyers know they have the advantage. A personal injury lawyer must be willing, and able, to go the distance.

So, during your initial consultation, ask the lawyer about trial experience. If sh/e has never tried a case to a verdict, that’s often a bad sign.

Case Preparation

To obtain compensation, a Personal Injury Lawyer Beverly Hills must prove negligence, or a lack of care, by a preponderance of the evidence, or more likely than not.

Liability, or legal responsibility, is often straightforward in California. Typically, property owners must immediately remove slip and fall injury hazards, such as wet spots on floors and uneven walkways. Evidence is another matter.

Many slip and fall cases have few or no eyewitnesses. To establish claims and refute defenses, attorneys often turn to obscure legal doctrines, such as res ipsa loquitur.

The rule of “the thing speaks for itself” allows jurors to presume negligence in certain situations. Assume no one saw Tony fall down the stairs. Someone might have pushed him down the stairs. But, more than likely, negligence, such as a loose handrail, caused that fall. That’s especially true if another person noted a fall injury hazard at the top of the stairs. If that’s the case, jurors may presume that the property owner’s negligence caused Tony’s fall.

The evidence must be strong enough to refute comparative fault and other insurance company defenses. In a fall injury case, contributory negligence is basically a failure to watch where you’re going. The Best Personal Injury Lawyer must convince jurors that the hazard was so serious and so difficult to see that it, not Tony tripping over his own feet, substantially caused injury.

Case Resolution

As mentioned, most fall injury claims settle out of court. However, the settlement process usually isn’t easy or quick. Only the best Los Angeles personal injury attorney can guide a case through this process and obtain maximum compensation.

If core issues, mostly liability and damages, are clear, California law forces insurance companies to settle cases within weeks. However, mostly for the reasons mentioned above, these core issues are rarely cut and dry.

Therefore, most slip and fall claims settle during mediation. This means that a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer must be a good negotiator, as well as a good litigator. Attorneys who lack these skills rarely obtain maximum compensation.

This compensation usually includes money for economic losses, such as medical bills, and noneconomic losses, such as pain and suffering.

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You should get a lawyer for a slip and fall for medical, financial, and legal reasons. For a free consultation with an Experienced Personal Injury Attorney, contact the Law Offices of Eslamboly Hakim. We do not charge upfront legal fees in these matters.

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