Personal injury cases concern damages that have caused physical or mental harm to a person as opposed to damages inflicted on a business or property.
Personal injury cases fall under the body of law called tort law, or law that address fixing injuries and harm. Personal injury lawsuits are filed by the person who has been harmed (the plaintiff) against the person or entity that caused them harm through negligence, reckless conduct, liability, or misconduct. There are many types of personal injury cases, e.g. slip and falls, car accidents, premise defects or liabilities, medical malpractice, wrongful deaths, police misconduct and traumatic brain injuries.
Why file a personal injury lawsuit? It’s one of the only real ways to get justice or recompense for damages caused to a person. After an accident involving physical or mental harm, its not uncommon for individuals to be left with exorbitant medical bills and for their quality of life to be forever altered. Personal injury lawsuits factor in those medical bills, pain and suffering, and a change in quality of life.
At MacArthur Moten P.C., we have handled a myriad of personal injury cases. While we specialize in medical malpractice and neurological cases, we also have experience in premise defects. Recently, we recovered over one million ($1 M+) in a premise defect case for the mother of a man killed at a convenience station.