North palm beach Injury Lawsuits
Common Lawsuit Misconceptions
Seek legal assistance immediately from an experienced personal injury 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.
Personal injury litigation saves families from economic ruin when members meet untimely, unexpected and wholly preventable accidents that destroy their property, seriously injure their bodies and threaten their livelihoods. Sometimes it is necessary to force the drunk driver, or negligent corporation, or careless employee, or even the murderer to acknowledge wrong-doing and make restitution.
However, often the most important issue is protection of other citizens, that they might not fall victim to similar wrong-doing.
What myths about personal injury do you believe?
One of the most persistent and most untrue myths about personal injury lawsuits is that they are easy money. To the contrary, laws governing who can sue for damages, what they must prove in order to be eligible for damages, and how much compensation they can receive are quite strict. Calculations to decide the amount of damages in a serious injury case are extremely complicated. Judges and juries must hear expert witnesses about medical costs, income lost, pain and suffering.
No one could believe that the legal mechanisms of civil lawsuit discovery, the process of assembling all the facts of an accident, could be anything other than difficult for a lawyer and devastating for his client who has already been injured, who is out of work, and who may be disabled for life.
Will insurance companies help you?
Another myth is that insurance companies protect individuals, and will take care of them and their families in case of catastrophic injury. Insurance companies, whether they represent an injured party or the defendant who caused an accident, actually have one priority: the interest of their shareholders. Insurance companies routinely suggest low settlement amounts, trusting that an injured person will, in distress and grief, accept their offer without consulting an experienced and knowledgeable personal injury attorney.
Do people and their lawyers get too much money for personal injury?
Perhaps the greatest misconception is that monetary awards in catastrophic injury cases in south Florida are not in proportion to the suffering and loss of the plaintiffs. Some people believe that an injury case has no merit if the injured person had no income. Think about that. Does the life of a child or a stay-at-home mom or a retired grandfather have no value? Personal injury lawsuits are often settled out of court, but when they do go to court, they are decided by a jury. People like your neighbors, the ordinary citizens of Stuart, North Palm Beach and Vero Beach decide the fair amount of compensation for an injury.
It is true that punitive damages are sometimes awarded to punish a defendant for particularly deplorable conduct leading to injury. The purpose of punishment is prevention. No one else should ever have to suffer because of the defendant's negligence again.
Do good personal injury attorneys make a difference?
Carelessness, disregard, negligence, and incompetence cause needless pain and suffering. Often, a product defect or a safety hazard at work is a simple, inexpensive thing to correct, but no correction will be made until someone calls the responsible parties to task.
When families are torn apart by injuries that might have been prevented because a person routinely drives drunk, or a corporation covers up multiple injuries caused by its products, or an incompetent doctor continues to botch surgeries or a trucker believes he is king of the road, a good personal injury attorney can help as families rebuild their lives and save other citizens from serious injury.
We do not seek out or bring frivolous lawsuits for personal injury. We work and live in the south Florida community. We care about your safety and well-being, as good neighbors do. We are not out to ruin small business in south Florida; we're a small business ourselves. Our goal is to help members of our community who are needlessly and unexpectedly injured in accidents caused by negligence get the monetary compensation they and their families need to recover.
