Motor vehicle collisions whether involving slightly more than minimal impact or extensive physical damage to the vehicles involved must be handled properly from the outset in order to ensure that any injuries received because of the trauma forces involved in the accident are properly evaluated. Each case as in all personal injury causes of action must be handled with specific attention to detail. There is no substitute for the proper gathering of information by an experienced trial lawyer. The overall scenario involved in the accident must be analyzed not only from a standpoint of what the official police investigation, if same exists, demonstrates as far as facts in the accident, but often other factors must be analyzed including road conditions, road design, the interplay of actions, which effected the offending driver, be it cell phone or text use, impairment, and various other factors, often there is the need for accident reconstruction analysis. In many motor vehicle accident one must also explore the area of equipment failure from both a mechanical standpoint as well as a potential product liability prospective.

It is imperative that you have a personal injury attorney analyze the available insurance coverages as well as all avenues of recovery related to those insurance policies. Even if you are a limited tort insured, there are exceptions to the application of limited tort depending upon the circumstances of each particular accident. Moreover, although your declaration page on your insurance policy may have you listed as a limited tort insured, depending upon the conduct of the insurance company in gaining your consent to such limited tort election, you may be a full tort insured by virtue of law. Moreover, there are interplays between various forms of health insurance, government benefits, and the benefits available under any particular automobile based insurance policy, which must be analyzed by an experienced attorney in order to protect your rights and maximize your recovery.

Special attention must be given to areas involving hit and run accidents, phantom car accidents, pedestrian accident and bicycle accident involving motor vehicles, both from a coverage prospective as well as investigatively.

Not all, but many injuries received as result of being in a motor vehicle accident are not immediately apparent at the scene because of a combination of physiological factors, and the overwhelming belief of most people that they are just “shaken up” and will eventually get better. This is not a decision that any individual should make. Therefore, it is advisable to seek immediate medical treatment and follow-up on that medical treatment for the benefit of your own health outside the area of potential litigation and recovery.

If you are involved in a motor vehicle accident and have any pain or discomfort, you owe it to yourself to seek medical treatment, which is paid for initially under your motor vehicle insurance.

Do not hesitate to seek a free consultation with a qualified personal injury attorney should you be involved in an accident. It is your constitutional right in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to do so.

If you have suffered an injury due to a slip, trip or fall you should consult with a personal injury attorney concerning that event. Not all slip, trips or falls form the basis of liability against a third party, but many of these incidents are not the fault of the pedestrian or individual who has slipped, tripped or fallen. The Law Offices has represented many clients who were injured as a result of a slip, trip or fall. Whether this occurs on a sidewalk, parking lot, stairs; or whether the fall was occasioned by a slip on ice, snow, a fall from a ladder, or caused by an irregularity on a walking surface, these “simple” slip, trip and fall cases are anything but, simplistic from a legal standpoint.

There are specific legal requirements regarding notice, the type of defect, and engineering concepts, which play an important role when analyzing a slip, trip or fall case. Preservation and gathering of evidence in these cases is crucial. A full understanding of the kinetics involved with ambulation, concepts of conspicuity, lighting, and warnings also play a role in a proper analysis of a slip, trip or fall case. Falls from ladders, scaffolds, or elevated surfaces also need to be analyzed with exactitude in order assure that if you have a right to recovery that your case in handled properly from the start.If you have been injured as a result of a slip, trip or fall under any circumstances you should assure that an attorney familiar with those types of personal injury cases analyzes your potential case. You owe it to yourself to schedule a free consultation.

The attorney you select to handle any accident involving serious injury up to and including death from an accident involving a commercial trucking vehicle bears direct relationship to proper recompense from the trucking company and their insurer. A motor vehicle accident involving an over the road or commercial carrier is a specific and complex legal matter.

Familiarity with hours of services rules, trucking regulations, and a complete knowledge of the communication procedures within the trucking industry is imperative as a starting point to properly represent a client who has been injured as a result of a trucking related accident.

A complete knowledge of these regulations and the complexities of discovery cannot be understated in the handling of such a matter. Admin has represented numerous clients in death cases occasioned by trucking accidents along with very seriously injured clients, who suffered injuries though the improper and illegal actions of commercial truck operators and their owners. You should entrust any potential case involving a truck related accident only to an attorney who is experienced with such matters.

The trucking industry is expert at handling these types of claims, and in fact the trucking interests and their insurers will have their investigators and other personnel present shortly after such a major accident and will begin to gather evidence likely before you even consult with an attorney. Your only defense against their early building of a defense is to consult with an attorney as early in the process as you are able. Do not hesitate….schedule an appointment with an experienced trial attorney who can pursue your rights against these defendants.