Personal Injury Lawyer in Atlanta
Were You Hurt in an Accident in Georgia? Call Our Personal Injury Lawyer in Atlanta for Help
Accidents are one of the leading causes of injuries or death in the United States. According to statistics, accidental injuries result in almost 25 million doctor office visits and over 24 million emergency department visits each year in the United States. Accidents are also the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in approximately 225,000 deaths each year and being higher than stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and liver diseases. However, according to statistics from the Georgia Department of Public Health, accidents are the leading cause of death for Georgians between the ages of 1 and 44, and the top causes of injuries to residents with approximately 74,000 hospitalizations each year. Our personal injury lawyer in Atlanta knows that there are many ways that this could happen, with most instances being due to the negligence of another person, business, or government entity.
If you or a loved one were seriously injured, or if a loved one was wrongfully killed, in any type of accident in Georgia, call Prieto Injury Law, PC. Our experienced personal injury lawyer in Atlanta offers FREE consultations and case evaluations, where victims and their families can ask legal questions and get answers to them with no obligation to sign up. But if you do choose our bodily injury law firm and if we accept your case, we pay the upfront costs and disbursements of litigation which are only reimbursed after we recover compensation for you. Similarly, our legal fees are only paid from a percentage of what we recover for you and only after we recover it. That means there is no upfront cost, no hidden fees, and no charges unless we recover compensation for you. To learn more about how we can help your case in either Florida or Georgia, including in Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Newnan, Riverdale, the surrounding Atlanta area or anywhere in either state, contact us today to learn more.
Why Our Personal Injury Lawyer in Atlanta is Different
Although there are many options when it comes to a personal injury lawyer in Atlanta and throughout Georgia, our injury law firm should be your first call. Unlike some other bodily injury law firms, our skilled and compassionate legal team will handle your case in-house and not refer it out. That means you can call and speak with a lawyer or staff member in our firm from your community. We also have the capability to meet you over the phone, videoconference, or meet with you at your home or hospital.
We offer the following:
- Free case evaluations and consultations
- We pay the upfront costs and disbursements of a case
- We pay filing fees, record costs, and expert fees upfront
- Our legal fees are not paid until we recover compensation for you in a settlement, verdict, or another type of award
- Our legal fees are only a percentage of what we recover for you, and are only paid after we make a recovery
- The upfront costs, disbursements, filing fees, record costs, and expert fees that we pay back are only reimbursed after we recover compensation for you, and
- No obligations to sign up during a free consultation to learn more about your rights under Georgia law and how we can help you and your family.
In addition, our personal injury lawyer in Atlanta has a proven track record of success handling serious or catastrophic personal injury cases against some of the largest insurance carriers and defense law firms in the region. To do this, our law firm has also developed strong connections with some of the leading experts in the region who can help prove liability and damages against a defendant. Combined with our lawyer’s strong knowledge of both the law and medicine, victims and their families who were seriously injured or wrongfully killed in a personal injury accident should know that they are in good hands with our legal team.
Types of Personal Injury Cases That We Handle
There are many different types of personal injury cases. Each type of case has different elements or requirements which need to be proven. However, most personal injury cases are based on the common-law cause of action (or claim) of negligence. Under Georgia law, negligence is simply the failure to exercise reasonable care which results in a foreseeable injury and damages to another. In order to prove negligence, a victim must demonstrate that the defendant 1) had a duty of care owed to the victim, 2) breached that duty, and 3) that this breach caused (4) damages to the victim.
Based on these principles, some of the personal injury cases that we handle in Georgia based on negligence include the following:
- Car Accidents – including head on, rear end, side-swipe, drunk driving, drugged driving, distracted driving, speeding, and other types of crashes Pedestrian Knockdowns and Hit by a Car
- Slip and Falls – including on spilled products, grocery store produce, wet floors, leaky refrigerators, tracked in rain, and other slips Dog Bites and Animal attacks
- Trucking Accidents – including crashes with 18-wheelers, big rigs, tankers, flatbeds, and other large commercial vehicles which drive negligently, have defective mechanicals, or otherwise cause needless harm Bicycle Collisions
- Motorcycle Crashes Trip and Falls – including on uneven flooring, inadequate lighting, debris on the ground, holes, and other dangerous hazards on walking surfaces Medical Malpractice and Birth Injuries Nursing Home Neglect, Abuse, and Negligence Wrongful Death and Survivorship Actions, and Other types of serious, catastrophic, life-changing or fatal personal injury accidents occurring in Georgia that our experienced personal injury lawyer in Atlanta can handle for you.
Compensation After an Accident in Georgia
Victims and their families may be entitled to “damages” after an accident resulting in personal injuries. The term damages is just the relief that a court can grant a party to a lawsuit. There are many different types of damages that could be awarded in a personal injury lawsuit, and the exact type and the extent of that compensation is dependent on several factors, including the type of accident, the injury, the severity of the injury, liability, locality, and other inherent factors.
Some of the most common types of damages that our personal injury lawyer in Atlanta could recover for you include the following:
- Past pain and suffering
- Future pain and suffering
- Lost wages
- Lost future earnings
- Medical bills
- Loss of consortium Loss of guardianship, guidance, protection, and other society
- Need for nursing care
- Medical devices and ambulatory devices
- Home or vehicle modifications
- Punitive damages in rare and exceptional cases
- Wrongful death damages, and
- Other costs, injuries, or damages caused by an unintentional accident in Georgia
Were You or a Loved One Seriously Injured in an Accident? Call Our Experienced Personal Injury Lawyer in Atlanta for Help
Here at Prieto Injury Law, PC, our bodily injury law firm can help victims and their families recover compensation for a variety of different types of accidents. Whether you were injured in a motor vehicle accident, premises liability case, animal attack, or any other type of accident, call our experienced personal injury lawyer in Atlanta to learn more about your rights to compensation under Georgia law. The call is free, the consultation is free, and there is no obligation to sign up or pay us anything out of pocket until we recover compensation for you. To learn more about your rights, call 678-961-0253 or send us a message on our website’s “Contact Us” box available here.
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