Glendale Car Accident Attorneys

How long it takes you to recover from your injuries will depend entirely on how serious your injuries are. More minor injuries such as a minor concussion, a muscle sprain, or superficial bruising or lacerations may only require a few weeks to recover from. Whereas a more serious personal injury like a spinal injury, brain injury, broken bones, or amputation, will require significantly longer to recover from. Depending on the severity of your injuries, you may never recover to the same level of health you had prior to the accident. Our firm understands this complexity and focuses on collaborating with medical professionals to assess the full scope of your injuries, ensuring lifetime impacts are considered in your legal documents and compensatory requests.

Most attorneys will recommend that you wait to pursue a specific settlement amount until you have reached maximum medical improvement. This means that you have recovered as much as physically possible after your accident. This helps ensure that you don't settle for a lesser amount and then discover this is insufficient to actually cover your medical expenses.

After suffering a car accident, you will experience a variety of damages. In personal injury law, a damage is something that incurred a cost, especially when it is caused by someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing. The total of your damages is the worth of your car accident claim. Our team is always careful to tally damages accurately, including those related to non-economic damages and future damages.

Damages available in your car accident case could include:

• Medical treatments
• Lost or reduced wages
• Vehicle repairs
• Pain and suffering

It's impossible to estimate the exact value of your personal injury claim without knowing the details of your accident and the severity of your injuries. In general, the more serious your injuries are, the higher your settlement will be. The average car accident settlement with minor injuries can range anywhere from $10,000-$15,000; while accidents resulting in long-term disability or injuries can sometimes result in settlements in the hundred-thousand range.

California uses a pure comparative negligence rule when determining liability in car accident cases. This rule essentially allows you to seek damages from any other party involved in your accident, as long as they are at least 1% liable for it. The higher a party’s liability, the more damages they might pay you through a settlement offer or a court award. Given this system, presenting a compelling argument supported by irrefutable evidence becomes paramount. We employ meticulous investigative techniques and engage with accident reconstruction experts when required to establish liability beyond doubt.

Due to the fact that practically anyone can pursue compensation after a car accident in California, it becomes vitally important to prove liability convincingly. Let our personal injury attorneys help you find and utilize different types of evidence to build your case. We can anticipate that the other side might blame you for what happened, but they’ll have a much more difficult time if they encounter a solid case constructed by our attorneys.

Evidence often used to prove liability in a car accident includes:

• Eyewitness statements
• Police, firefighter, and EMT reports
• Dashcam footage
• Medical records

While you may not always need to hire a car accident lawyer for a minor accident, there are certain situations in which hiring an attorney may be in your best interest:

• If it isn't clear who was at fault
• If your insurance company is refusing to offer you fair compensation
• If you are being blamed for the accident when you were only partially or not at all at fault
• You were injured in the auto accident
• You were forced to miss work because of your injuries
• You are unfamiliar with the legal process and going to court
• You are suffering from PTSD or other emotional damages as a result of your accident