Characteristics Of A Good Personal Injury Case? By good personal injury case we mean a strong personal injury case worth compensation.
- Large Injury
- An injury caused by an accident occurring
- Someone else’s at fault/Accident is not your fault
- Insurance
Large Injury – This is typically when the accident is relatively a severe injury or life altering accident. This can include aspects like surgery, amputation, brain injury, other bodily harm such as broken bones as well as other physical harm. One prime example of is the famous Mcdonald’s Hot Coffee Incident. You can read more about it to get a better understanding of this type of injury.
Injury Caused by Accident – This means that the injury is a direct related to the accident at hand. This kind of ties in to the first “large injury” characteristic as the more easily proven that the injury was caused by a specific stimulus the stronger the case and the chances of winning that case increase.
Caused By Someone Else – You need 100% certainty that the result of the accident was caused by someone at fault or negligence. Without someone at fault your case is worth ZERO. As an example if if you slip and fall was the accident caused by someone else’s lack of responsibility or due to negligence (did the business do something wrong) (did the other driver do something wrong) or was it caused by your own judgement. The more fault of the accident lies on you the lower the percentage drops of you having a solid case.
Insurance – The previous few points are essentially useless if you don’t have the money to back your case and compensate you for your injury. This is because if you believe you have a solid case and wish to take it to trial if their is no one to pay for the verdict their will not be anything for you to gain. It is important to remember that it is not the court paying it is the guilty party that caused the accident that must pay for the verdict. ( this especially true in the case of care accidents).