Injuries for Which You Need Help
North Palm Beach Personal Injury Law Firm
If you are among the one in nine Americans who are unintentionally injured this year, the personal injury law firm Vastola & Associates in Stuart, Florida urges you to seek a knowledgeable, experienced injury attorney to protect your rights. Of course, many unintentional injuries are the fault of the person injured. The person simply did a careless or dumb thing. Many injuries are not serious, although they require some limited medical treatment.
According to the National Safety Council (NSC) (www.nsc.org), in 2006, 33.3 million people – about one out of nine Americans– sought medical attention for an injury and three million people were hospitalized for injuries. Unintentional injuries accounted for about 27.6 million hospital emergency department visits and 6.4 million hospital outpatient department visits.
Most injuries are slip-and-fall accidents; many are caused by being struck by something or falling against something. Automobile accidents account for the most serious accidental injuries. Cuts and impalements are a leading cause of injury in adults; suffocation injures many small children.
A startling number of these injuries are not only unintentional, but also completely unnecessary. They are caused by the negligence, carelessness, incompetence, and disregard or deliberate wrong-doing of someone else. For example, the Stuart personal injury lawyers at Vastola & Associates explain that drunk driving is deliberate wrong-doing; so is assault. But serious accidents may be caused by other faults:
- A property owner may be careless about maintenance, leaving broken or wet surfaces that cause falls.
- Doctors may be incompetent in the delivery of medical care, with devastating consequences for the patient.
- A manufacturer may make and sell dangerous products.
- Dog owners may fail to restrain a biting pet.
If someone else’s actions, reactions, or lack of action causes you a serious injury in Stuart, Florida, including:
- Amputation
- Birth injury
- Brain injury
- Broken bones
- Burns and scarring
- Disfigurement
- Head injury
- Internal injuries
- Lacerations requiring stitches
- Paraplegia
- Quadriplegia
- Spinal cord injury
- Surgical injury
- Documented trauma
Seek legal assistance immediately from an experienced personal injury law lawyer, like one of the well-regarded community attorneys of Vastola & Associates.
Serious injury in Stuart deserves serious consideration of the possible application of personal injury law assistance. We offer advice about personal injury law, and pursue legitimate lawsuits on a contingency basis.
