Kennesaw Personal Injury Lawyer

Some people struggle with this question. Accidents do happen, but was yours preventable? Could your injury have been avoided if another party had taken reasonable care?

It’s essential to answer these questions to determine if your injury was caused by negligence.

When we review your case, we consider the following elements of a negligence claim:

• Did the defendant (the party you believe is negligent) have a duty of care? In a broad sense, we all have a duty to take reasonable care to avoid harming others. However, what this means specifically differs depending on the situation. A driver’s duty of care is to drive carefully and make a reasonable effort to avoid accidents; that could be interpreted to mean that you shouldn’t speed excessively, drive drunk, or text while driving. A business owner’s duty of care might include maintaining a safe environment for workers and customers alike; this could be interpreted to mean that the owner should fix hazards or warn visitors about them in a timely manner.
• Did the defendant fail in their duty of care? Examples might include a driver who was checking their texts behind the wheel, a business owner who ignored a hazardous condition in their store, a doctor who failed to treat a patient in accordance with the professional standards of their specialty, or a manufacturer who produced a dangerous product. In all of these cases, your lawyer will work to find evidence demonstrating exactly how the duty of care was broken.
• Did the failed duty of care cause your injuries? This is crucial to your case. Proving that someone failed in their duty of care will only matter if we can show exactly how this action led to your injuries. An example would be showing how a business owner’s failure to address a leaky roof led to you slipping on a puddle and hurting your back.
• Did you incur damages as a result of your injuries? We will use evidence like your medical bills, receipts for related expenses, pay stubs showing lost or reduced income, etc.

This is a common defense in personal injury cases. If the responsible party doesn’t blame you, their insurance company may do it because they want to avoid paying your claim.

In some situations, it can be challenging to prove what happened if there isn’t much evidence. For this reason, we suggest calling a personal injury lawyer as quickly as possible so we can begin investigating the accident or injury.

Our investigative team will search for the following types of evidence:

• Video. With the proliferation of smartphones and cameras, we’re finding video evidence more often these days. If we can locate a video from a doorbell or security camera, sometimes it provides all the evidence we need to show the client wasn’t at fault. But this is one of those situations where we need to act quickly because video files are often erased to make room on a hard drive.
• Other electronic evidence. Depending on the situation, we may seek access to phone or other online records. In cases involving a vehicle, like a car or a boat, we could also request data from the vehicle’s event data recorder, or EDR, which provides many data points related to an accident or event.
• Witnesses. We will visit the area where your accident or injury occurred and talk to residents or workers there. Sometimes, we discover a witness who can testify to what happened.
• Documentation. In some situations involving companies, internal documents or other evidence may shed some light on when company management knew about a problem or hazard.

If you or a loved one has been injured, you may need help securing the total amount of compensation you deserve for your damages. Please contact the CEO Lawyer Personal Injury Law Firm for a free, no-obligation consultation about your case.

We’ll review the details, answer your questions, and explain the possibilities for pursuing damages.

Attorney Ali Awad founded the CEO Lawyer Personal Injury Law Firm and swiftly built it into one of the fastest-growing law firms in the country. He and his team have since recovered millions of dollars in compensation for injured people and their families.

When Mr. Awad isn’t working on a case, you can find him dispensing no-nonsense legal advice for more than a million followers on social media. You can work with him by calling (470) 323-8779 today.