Dyer, AR Personal Injury Lawyer

The phrase “accidents happen” is not one that personal injury lawyers usually agree with.  Accidents often happen only because someone made a mistake, and that mistake might have cost you dearly by causing a serious injury, taking your livelihood away, or even taking a loved one from you.

Our attorneys work to hold accountable the various parties that might have caused your accident, from trucking companies to negligent doctors to dangerous product manufacturers.  We can even look to hold dangerous drivers and property owners accountable for two of the most common accidents we see: car accidents and slip and falls.

Call our Fort Smith, AR personal injury lawyers today at (479) 316-0438 for a free review of your injury case.

Types of Personal Injury Cases in Dyer, AR

Our personal injury attorneys can represent you and your family in many types of injury cases.  Some of the most common cases we see are car accidents – including truck, motorcycle, or pedestrian accidents.  The severity of these cases can range from mild injuries to serious, long-term injuries and even death.  We also often help with slip and fall accidents, where injuries often involve things like broken bones, bad back injuries, head injuries, and more.

Aside from these common cases, we also handle cases you might not think of as “accidents”: medical malpractice claims.  When a doctor messes up, your health and safety could be at risk.  From surgical errors to misdiagnosis, our lawyers work to hold negligent doctors and hospitals accountable.

Slip and falls are not the only accidents that can occur on someone’s property.  Dog bite injuries, drownings, electrocution, fires, and deck collapses are also some of the cases we can help our clients seek compensation for.

As mentioned, defective product injuries are also important claims.  Depending on what the product is, the injuries you faced might be different, but we can seek compensation for lost wages, medical bills, and pain and suffering for defective auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and everyday products.

Many accidents happen at work, and our lawyers can represent you in these cases, too.  Not only do we help victims with claims against their employers, we also work to help them sue equipment manufacturers, drivers, and others who might have caused their accident, potentially opening higher damages than what you can get through an insurance claim with your employer.

Another incredibly important area we practice in is wrongful death.  These are the cases that help your family move forward after someone dies in an accident.  Our attorneys can help your family seek justice for what happened and obtain damages for lost income and other harms your family now faces.

How Our Attorneys Can Help

Our injury lawyers handle all aspects of your case from beginning to end, providing important support to you in the following ways:

Collecting Evidence

It can be difficult to know what you need to win your case, but our lawyers can guide you through evidence collection.  We can help you take pictures of an accident scene or find them in police reports.  We can also collect camera footage from near the scene, talk to witnesses, collect your medical records, and seek out other evidence, like property records showing who owns the property where you were injured.

During your case, the “discovery” stage will be when we take depositions, subpoena evidence in the other parties’ possession, and get all of the facts out there so we can build a strong case for you.

Building a Case

You may not understand the legal grounds for your lawsuit, but that is okay; we build the case for you.  You can provide us with the facts you know, and we can research additional evidence and facts and put all of that together into two important pieces.

First, we will build the legal arguments as to how the accident happened and why that makes the defendant at fault.  This will be needed to clear the legal hurdles of making your case stand up to the defense’s scrutiny in court, and we will need evidence to back up these legal building blocks.

Second, we will come up with a compelling theory of the case – the story we tell the jury about how the defendant failed to protect you and what harm you and your family now face because of the accident.  This story will be how we convince the jury that you are the victim and that you need them to rule in your favor to make things right.  The evidence in your case will support this story and help you win the damages you need.

Calculating Damages

Our lawyers know what damages to include in your claim, and we can go over your situation to help route out any costs that you might be able to claim that you did not know about.  We can definitely include medical bills, but we can also project future lost earnings related to the injury, as well as evidence about other expenses the accident caused you.  We can also help calculate pain and suffering in a fair way that allows us to present this claim to the jury and back it up to get you the non-economic damages you need.  If punitive damages are available, we can also help you seek these additional payments that are meant to punish a dangerous defendant rather than reimburse you.

Knowing what your case is truly worth can also help us guide you in your decision of when (or if) to settle the case and how much you should accept for your injuries.

Enforcing Collection

When you enter into a settlement or win damages in court, our lawyers can help enforce the agreement or judgment, taking the steps needed to ultimately get you the payment you are owed.

Call Our Personal Injury Attorneys in Dyer, AR Today

After an accident, call our personal injury lawyers at (479) 316-0438 for a free review of your potential injury claim.