Newport Beach Personal Injury Lawyer

Were you injured because of someone else? If you were, you might have a personal injury case on your hands. Newport Beach Personal Injury Lawyers want to help you find the compensation you deserve to help deal with the injuries you sustained because someone else did not do their due diligence to keep you safe. At El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers, we are experienced in handling personal injury claims and lawsuits, and our attorneys work hard to help you obtain the compensation you deserve to cover your medical bills, your lost wage, and even more.

What is a Personal Injury?

Personal injury is not always simple to define if you’re not familiar with the law. If you’re not sure whether or not you’ve got a case, you have to answer three questions. These three questions help you determine whether or not someone else is to blame for your injuries, and whether or not they owe you for the tragedy you’ve experienced:

           1. Was the injury caused by someone else’s negligence?

Negligence means someone else should have made the effort to prevent you from becoming injured. People are expected to act with reasonable care. Reasonable care means that a homeowner or business owner did all that they could do in their power to make their place of business or home as safe as possible so you are not at risk. For example:

You slipped on ice on a sidewalk outside the door of a business.

• It might be careless on your part not watching where you are going, or it might be the business owner’s fault.
• Did he or she know that the ice was there because the gutters are full and leak standing water?

If that’s the case and they didn’t clean the gutters or check for ice following a cold night, it’s their negligence that caused you to slip. They did not behave with reasonable care.

         2. Was the injury intentional?

You might be personally injured because someone else hurt you on purpose. Perhaps you turned down a date with a man. He was angry about it, and he decided to push you down a flight of stairs in a fit of rage. That’s intentional, and your injuries are his fault.

        3. Was your injury caused by strict liability? 

This means your injury is caused by a person or company that manufactured an item that did not work properly. Perhaps your car had a recall for a brake malfunction, and you took the car into the dealer to have your oil changed. The dealer is not legally allowed to let you leave without the recall fixed, but they did. That’s strict liability.

Newport Beach Car Accident Lawyers

Traffic laws are numerous and often intimidating to anyone involved in a car accident. Newport Beach car accident lawyers are familiar with the laws, and El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers are knowledgeable and experienced when it comes to car accident injuries. Unfortunately, car accidents are all too common, and they can have a profound lasting effect on your life.

If you’ve been involved in a car accident caused by someone else, you might be entitled to compensation. Your injuries result in medical bills, and they might even result in your inability to work. This causes financial strain on your life you did not ask for, and someone else might owe you financially to make up for their negligence.

Why Hire Newport Beach Car Accident Lawyers to Help

The law is long and tedious. When you don’t spend every day working with them, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. When it comes to car accidents in Newport Beach, you begin with your personal injuries as well as the damage to your vehicle.

Your insurance should cover a portion of your personal injury bills, but there are limits to how much your insurance company will pay. Insurance companies have to do what’s best for them, and that often means not doing what is best for you. That is where the El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers step in.

Our job is to find out whether or not the accident is someone else’s fault so we can determine the damages you’re entitled to receive. There are more questions than answers in car accident lawsuits, which is why we work hard for your team. Your questions are our answers, and your protection and financial future are in our hands.

Anything can happen when it comes to a car accident lawsuit, and we want to see you receive the compensation you need to get your life back on track. You only have two years to file a lawsuit, and having a professional on your side pays.

Injuries Associated With Car Accidents

Not all car accidents are simple fender benders with minimal damage to your vehicle. On that note, not all simple fender benders are without serious injury. You might suffer from pre-existing injuries that are exacerbated in an accident.

You might experience injuries that are not considered overly severe but still keep you out of work for a time. There are bodily injuries, and there are financial injuries. Some of the most common bodily injuries that occur in car accidents can include any of the following in addition to any other injury imaginable:

• Loss of vision
• Fractured or broken bones
• Loss of limbs
• Back injuries
• Spine injuries
• Head injuries
• Brain injuries
• Paralysis
• Internal injuries

There is no limit to what type of injury might occur in a car accident. Variable factors make a difference, and no two accidents are the same. What typically is the same after a car accident is the financial effect it has on the victim’s life.

First comes the medical bills. The insurance you carry might only cover so much, and then you’re left writing checks for the rest. If your injuries put you out of work, you might lose income. These financial issues make your injuries feel that much more serious; they can make or break a family.

Motorcycle & Bicycle Accidents in Newport Beach, CA

For exercise enthusiasts, there are few things more exhilarating than a morning or an afternoon ride on a bicycle. One of the most appealing features of cycling is that you can take a bicycle just about anywhere, whether it be the countryside or the city, and anywhere in between. The problem, sometimes, with cycling is that you must often share the road with motorized vehicles such as cars and trucks.

For several reasons, the drivers of these motor vehicles can fail to pay close attention to the other people who share the road and accidents occur as a result. When legal action eventually ensues after the occurrence of an accident, often the central issue of litigation is whether the driver of the car or truck was fully negligent or whether the cyclist did something to cause or contribute to the cause of the accident.

Bicycle accident cases are usually quite similar to any other accident involving two automobiles. All such cases usually can get boiled down to a few important issues. First, a court must hear all evidence about and decide the issue of liability:

• Does the evidence support the theory that the driver of the car breached his or her duty of care?
• Was the car driver’s negligence the sole cause of the accident?
• Did the cyclist also breach his or her duty of care to others on the road and did this form of negligence cause or contribute to the accident?
• Lastly, if the car driver was solely negligent, and if this negligence was the only cause of the accident, what was the extent of the cyclist’s injuries?

Negligence of Cyclists

If a cyclist has engaged in conduct that is at least partly the cause of the accident, this determination will have a significant influence on the outcome of the case. Because California is a comparative negligence state, the court will determine the extent to which the driver and the cyclist were negligent and then award damages accordingly. This means that if the driver is 60% negligent, he or she would likely be responsible for 60% of the resulting damages.

Cyclists can do many things to contribute to an accident. Examples of such conduct might include swerving the bicycle into traffic, riding the bicycle the wrong way in traffic, or doing something else to make the accident more likely to happen.

If the person riding the bicycle is a child, the court is likely to hold the driver of the vehicle to a higher standard of care than if the cyclist was an adult at the time of the accident.

How Can Newport Beach Personal Injury Attorneys Help?

The law is complex. There are statutes of limitations that play into personal injury cases. You have to gather evidence. You have to find proof, and you have to talk to witnesses. There is a lot that goes into a personal injury case, and the attorneys at El Dabe Law Firm know each and every detail is imperative to winning your case.

Our attorneys know that you are entitled to receive compensation when someone else is to blame. Our knowledge makes it easier for us to win your case and set you down a path of financial freedom following the financial stress you felt watching the medical bills pile up after your accident.

What Compensation Am I Entitled To?

Any medical bill that you received as a result of your injuries is fair game. Whether you only had to see the doctor a handful of times following your injury or for years to overcome serious injury, you’re entitled to compensation to cover those costs. This accident was not your fault. You shouldn’t be responsible for the medical bills associated with your injuries.

Additionally, we know that the pain and suffering from personal injuries extend well beyond the scope of medical bills. If your injuries prevented you from going to work and making money, you have that to worry about. If your injury disabled you and you can no longer work, you’re entitled to compensation. Our attorneys work to make sure you don’t have to live with this kind of financial stress.

Personal injuries caused by someone else are not your fault. Let us help you find the compensation you need to recover. You simply don’t know whether or not your injuries might provide you lifelong pain and suffering or recovery efforts. Don’t let the opportunity to financially recover pass you by.

Contact us at: (888)540-0325.