What is Personal Injury Law?
Personal Injury is a large area of law that touches many different areas of law. A personal injury can occur in any number of ways and those ways can govern the direction a case may develop. Personal Injury can occur because of medical malpractice, unsafe work places or the simple negligence of another person. Suffering a personal injury can lead to any number of difficult and stressful circumstances that would otherwise have never been a part of your life. Personal injury attorneys are not all created alike and becoming involved in a working relationship with a personal injury lawyer can either be a great blessing or a terrible curse depending on whom you choose. The Armstrong Firm is a personal injury law firm that keeps in touch with its clients so that you can have the peace of knowing exactly what is happening in your case at any time.
Being hurt in an accident does not have to cause the kind of traumatic life change that leads to ongoing depression and unending legal battles. The Armstrong Firm has the experience to make finding the way through the legal process with a positive outcome” a reality for you. Don’t try to wander through the legal terrain of an unwarranted personal injury alone. Let us be the compassionate and knowledgeable guide that can bring a possible outcome out of your difficult time. Call us for a consultation.
Physical and Psychological Injury
As mentioned above, personal injury encompasses a couple of areas. It does not merely restrict itself to bodily hurt, which is painful and takes time to heal but also psychological injury that often leaves an indelible mark on one’s mind and personality. For an instance when a person ends up fracturing his/her leg by slipping on a wet floor; he becomes not only a witness to the physical injury that has been caused but also of the humiliation of falling in public. Hence the primary objectives of personal injury law are to safeguard the interests and rights of the innocent injured person. The Armstrong Firm with its assortment of attorneys, is not just skilled in defending its plaintiffs against physical injury cases, but also acclaims itself for the successes it has had in cases dealing with psychological injury.
Compensation
The major decision of filing a Personal Injury case is determining what compensation a victim is due. Often we don’t realize what aspects of our lives are impacted by a major injury and at The Armstrong Firm our experienced attorneys have seen the devastating impacts a personal injury can have on a person and their family. Compensation can cover everything from lost wages and the loss of future earnings, to future medical care and handicap accessibility.
Tort Law
The basic objective of attorneys at The Armstrong Firm is to fetch for their plaintiffs an adequate compensation for any kind of physical or emotional injury suffered due to an action committed intentionally or unintentionally by someone. Personal injury is also referred to as Tort law. The word tort is a legal term that refers to a civil wrong met upon a person irrespective of it being intentional or unintentional. The law involves economic and non economic damages inflicted to one’s property, reputation and rights.
Causes of Personal Injury
Personal Injury law cases often run into months and years because of their mere nature. Hence a plaintiff must be very sure of the reasons on the foundations of which he wishes to file the case. The attorneys at the Armstrong Firm, with the magnitude of cases handled by them, are skilled and equipped to help their clients file such cases in the most appropriate manner. The pre-eminent causes of personal injury laws could be broadly classified under two headings mainly – Negligence and Intentional Torts.
Negligence:
Each organization or institution has a way of functioning. Its functioning is highly dependent on the meticulous ways deployed and way of running activities around. It has been noted that more than often there is a slack in the smooth running of institutions, courtesy the negligence brought about. Personal injury lawsuit is classified as a “negligence case” when due to someone’s negligence /recklessness/ carelessness an injury is caused to the plaintiff. Some of the most common negligent actions include medical malpractices, defective products, “slip” and “fall” cases, automobile accidents, accidents at work, aviation accidents, food poisoning and also incorporates mental and dental injuries. These could also include industrial diseases such as chest diseases, occupational deafness and occupational stress. Identifying negligence, at the right time and reporting it, when one is already recovering from its consequences is bound to fall tough on an individual. The Armstrong Firm provides assistance at such times through its lobby of attorneys who specialize in specific areas of personal injury law.
Intentional Torts:
Often industries and organizations in order to cut upon their spending knowingly follow practices that are not deemed suitable and even hazardous for its employees. When responsible individuals try taking this issue up they are met with a stiff blow from their employers! A wrongful act done intentionally and not accidentally, inflicting injury on plaintiff is termed as an intentional tort. It includes assault and battery.
Assault:
In personal injury law, assault involves an intentional or unlawful threat. Owing to the nature of the peculiarities under which one can be charged for assault under personal injury law one is required to approach a knowledgeable attorney to do justice to their case. The attorneys at The Armstrong Firm can most easily help a plaintiff with this. It is important to note that an assault can be completed even if there is no actual contact with the plaintiff, and even if the defendant had no actual ability to carry out the apparent threat. For example, a defendant who points a realistic toy gun at the plaintiff may be liable for assault, even though the defendant was fifty feet away from the plaintiff and had no actual ability to inflict harm from that distance.
Battery
In order to charge one with battery there is a need of some willful or intentional touching of a person against that person’s will by another person, or by an object or substance which is put in motion by that other person. The knowledge the attorneys at The Armstrong Firm occupy will bring forth the subtleties under which a defendant can be charged for battery. For an instance offensive touching can constitute a battery even when it is not bound to cause a plaintiff injury. Even a finger poked in the chest of an individual at work to emphasize a point or spitting onto the plaintiff maybe culpable for battery.