About personal injury law

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When someone is physically or emotionally injured, or their personal property is damaged, it is considered to be a "personal injury." If you've been hurt or your property has been damaged, it is not always obvious to know what to do when injured.

There are laws that cover personal injury that allow you to collect certain types of damages (financial compensation) for someone else's carelessness, negligence, recklessness, or intentional actions.

Liability

When someone has caused harm to you or your property, they are liable—or responsible—for compensating you for the damages. Liability can be a result of and intentional act or an act of negligence; in the former, someone intentionally wants to harm you; the latter is when someone fails to take appropriate action and you are harmed as a result.

You and person who hurt you can agree upon damages through insurance settlements or by other means. But often, you will not fully get everything that is rightfully owed to you. Insurance company's won't pay you back for the time you have lost from work, your medical bills, and the pain and suffering you have endured because of another person's wrong doing. When you work with a personal injury lawyer, like Slocumb Law Firm, you get what is owed to you.

Note: Most personal injury cases are covered by a statute of limitations, which means that you only have a certain period of time in which you can file a lawsuit.

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