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Personal Injury Lawyer  (Why Hire One?)

Southern California personal injury lawyers deal exclusively with personal injury accident victims. Personal Injury involves civil law cases as opposed to criminal law cases which involve a defendant and the State of California. In a personal injury accident case, you are trying to obtain compensation for a physical or emotional injury that you sustained as the result of the negligent or willful actions of someone else. California injury attorneys help you with any type of litigation involving the physical injuries that occurred due to the negligent or willful conduct of someone else. An injury case may arise from being involved in an automobile accident, a railroad accident, airline or other common carrier accident, a construction or other workplace accident, being injured as a result of a dangerous or otherwise unsafe product and other injury-causing situations. However, personal injury cases do not necessarily have to involve a physical injury (broken bone, cuts, etc…); they sometimes only involve psychological or emotional damages. Only a skilled personal injury accident lawyer has the experience to determine whether or not you have the type of injury that would allow you to recover damages from a third party.

Lawyers typically categorize emotional injuries as those that are caused by psychological trauma associated with life-threatening and/or disfiguring physical injuries, or as a result of witnessing trauma to others. Before you can recover damages (money) from someone else for your injury, whether physical or emotional, your lawyer will have to prove that someone else (the defendant) is liable or responsible legally for your injury. Liability is proven be demonstrating that the defendant was negligent.

To prove negligence in a physical or emotional injury case is a difficult process. There are many things that must be demonstrated in order to prevail. If you are unable to negotiate a settlement with the responsible party in order to compensate you for the physical or emotional damage that you suffered, then a lawsuit will need to be filed. Trying a case before a judge or a jury is a complicated matter that requires in-depth knowledge of the California rules of evidence and civil procedure. Attempting to do this without a lawyer would likely be disastrous.

Typically, the party responsible for your physical or emotional injury is represented by an insurance carrier. The insurance carrier employs insurance adjustors or claim adjusters who handle the case, before a lawsuit is filed. Their sole job is to pay you as little as possible. They are skilled at what they do because they typically have a great deal of experience. The adjustor will typically request that you provide a written or recorded statement. Providing a statement without the advice of a lawyer can result in you damaging the value of your case. In addition, California has statutes of limitation which determine how long a person has to file a lawsuit. Missing the deadline to file will result in you being unable to file a lawsuit or recover any money for your injury. An experienced attorney will know what the applicable statute of limitations is an how to avoid missing the deadline. Hiring a personal injury lawyer from the Laguna Hills, California based Mathews Funk & Associates will dramatically improve your ability to pursue your injury claim.

If you or someone you know in Laguna Hills, California or anywhere within the surrounding Counties of Central Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino needs the assistance of an experienced personal injury lawyer, contact Mathews Funk & Associates at 866-692-1337 or via their convenient contact form to schedule a free consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer.