Lubbock Personal Injury Attorney

After You've Suffered a Personal Injury due to Negligence, Discuss Your Case With Our Lubbock Attorneys

Michael Grossman and the personal injury attorneys of the Grossman Law Office want to be sure that if you were injured in a car accident that you are fairly compensated for the injuries, damages and losses you have suffered as a result of the accident in which you were involved.

As the plaintiff you will be expertly represented by the personal injury attorneys of the Grossman Law Office in Lubbock. We have over twenty years of experience in successful litigation or settlement of personal injury claims.

Who are the players in a personal injury lawsuit?

You the Plaintiff
The person who is initiating the personal injury lawsuit is the plaintiff. The plaintiff is you, the client to the lawyer that is representing you in your personal injury claim. When you are bringing the lawsuit against the person party or entity that has injured you, the burden of proof is upon you to prove that the person, parties or entities were the one that injured you. As the Plaintiff in a personal injury case you must put forth the best legal case you can that accuses accurately the responsible parties and all of the possible responsible parties have been identified, as they may in fact share a yet to be determined part of the accident in which you suffered a personal injury. Grossman Law Offices in Lubbock has over twenty years of experience in litigating or settling personal injury claims in Lubbock.

The Defendants
The person party or entity that caused your injuries damages and losses would be called the Defendant. The defendant is also one of the responsible parties in your lawsuit. In your lawsuit there are many responsible parties. In fact in addition to person that injured you the other responsible parties can be identified by a skilled and experienced injury attorney. Identifying many defendants or many responsible parties is key in a successful personal injury claim. There are no do-overs in court and it is vital that all of the possible responsible parties are identified so the cause of the accident may be determined either in whole or in part. You Grossman Law Office personal injury attorney will take charge of your case and make the defendants or the responsible parties pay your damages, losses and for the healing of your injuries.

A personal injury is a physical injury with financial damages and personal losses that is experienced or sustained at the hands of, due the negligence of, action or inaction of another person party or entity. So for instance, if you were injured in a car wreck, that has its own set of contexts and circumstances. Or perhaps you were hurt when the fryer at your job was mishandled or if a tool you used to do your job failed. You may have sustained a personal injury when a piece of cargo flew off the back of an 18 wheeler causing a big rig accident. Perhaps you were a pedestrian and a piece of furniture flew out of the back of a pick up and hit you. Maybe you were sipping coffee and ended up with third degree burns. It happens. If you were injured by a product defect, if you were diagnosed with a disease as the result of the proper use of a product that when used properly gave you mesothelioma or caused you to lose a limb. Were you or a loved one hurt or overdosed by a negligent pharmacist or a doctor that you feel committed medical malpractice? Were you injured in a boating accident and RV, ATV or SUV accident? Did you get hurt on the ship you were on or on the oil rig where you work? These are all examples of a possible personal injury scenario. When you are hurt due to the negligence, action or inaction or another person, party or entity, then you have the very first element of deciding of whether or not you have a recoverable personal injury claim in Lubbock. The first element being, were you injured? Do you have or did you sustain or experience physical trauma or soft tissue injuries as in an auto accident? You can judge if you have a personal injury claim in the first instance by evaluating: Am I hurt? Did I see my own blood? Did I fear for my life? Was it a traumatic event? Then you may have a personal injury claim for which you may want to hire a personal injury lawyer so you may be able to receive compensation.

What is a personal injury?

A personal injury claim is a claim against the most financially solvent responsible person, party or entity based on the percentage of responsibility assigned by a court of law or by a settlement or mediation mediator. In many cases, it is a lawsuit brought about by a Lubbock personal injury lawyer or the threat of a lawsuit that will legally compel the insurance company of the person, party or entity that harmed you to reimburse you for the injuries, financial damages and personal losses that you have experienced as the result of their negligence or of the negligence, action or inaction of the person, party or entity that the insurance company insures. It is the most common legal exercise in the United States court system. It is not a big deal to file a claim and receive compensation for injuries, losses and damages in a personal injury lawsuit where you need a personal injury lawyer. If you feel that you were injured enough to pursue the insurance company for a payout a settlement or to r recover compensation , and you think you will be successful without a personal injury attorney you will be badly surprised. Where in a personal injury claim on a car accident, the property damages are easily determined for it is based on set guidelines of value and time. These property claims are easily handled by the cars owner and in fact will often times not be settled or negotiated by personal injury attorneys. When it comes to a personal injury, the more you have been hurt, the more medical and personal bills you are incurring, the more work you are losing, the more income you are losing the more you must retain an experience and skilled Lubbock personal injury lawyers like Grossman Law Office.

In a personal injury claim there are several element s that go into a successful claim with a favorable outcome. It is essential that these items be acknowledged as part of your Lubbock Personal Injury claim. If you were hurt in an accident of any type, either on the job, work related, be it on an oil rig or on a ship or a commercial marine vessel, you can trust that the Lubbock personal injury attorneys at Grossman Law office will have your back, looking for evidence, interviewing witnesses that will support the version of the story that you tell. As skilled and professional Lubbock personal injury lawyers, we have the skills to discern the responsible parties from the accident whether it be at sea or on land at a residence or at the hospital. Grossman Personal injury lawyers know who can be identified as a witness, a material witness or an eye witness.

Identifying responsible parties

The responsible parties in your personal injury claim for which you have hired a Lubbock personal injury lawyer are the persons, parties or entities that have caused the accident, participated in the cause of the accident, allowed the cause of the accident or were in charge when the accident occurred. Being identified as a responsible party will mean that that person party or entity will have to answer to your charge that they were in some way negligent through their action or inaction and therefore were at causation for the accident. Responsible parties will ultimately share in a percentage of the blame or responsibility for the accident. While a single defendant may have full responsibility multiple defendants can share different percentages of responsibility for the accident. Often times when there are multiple responsible parties the likelihood of greater compensation comes into play as the cause of the accident may be due to several extenuating circumstances. If all of the possible defendants or responsible parties are not named, then your case could be lost because you did not include in your claim the one sole proximate cause of the accident. That is why it is vital that all of the possible responsible parties are named in your Lubbock personal injury claim.

The defendant is the person you are suing to recover lost monies due to injuries, damages and losses incurred from the accident. It may be your boss or the corporation that owns the company for which you work. It could be another driver. It could be a truck driver that may be the defendant in your Lubbock personal injury case. Another possible defendant may be a pedestrian who ran into traffic and caused an accident. The defendant may be a truck driver or a truck scheduler. The defendant may be a truck cargo loader. The defendant may be a trucking company or a pharmaceutical company. It may be a doctor that committed malpractice. It may be the owner of a building that caused thee mesothelioma that you contracted after a construction job. It may be a forklift driver that ran over your foot. It may be a garage door opener company that the product malfunctioned and crashed down on you and your car. The defendant may be the hotel where there was an accidental drowning. Or maybe it was the city truck that backed over your cars front end. The defendant is the person party or entity that injured you and caused you medical bills, rehabilitation bills and recovery bills. The defendant may have also caused you personal losses as in lost income or potential lost income. If the city has been negligent in repairing or maintaining their streets they city could be named as a responsible party in your accident in which you suffered personal injury. Lubbock is full of possible defendants in your personal injury case. The skilled and experienced attorneys at the Grossman Law Office can identify the defendant with skill and ease and can bring to you a favorable outcome your personal injury case.

Multiple Defendants

Multiple defendants are named when there are multiple potential causes for the accident. Was it the machinery that you were working on that was what caused your injuries? Then the multiple defendants in that case may be the owner of the machinery, the manufacturer of the machinery, it could be the machinery's maintenance personnel. It could be the person that maintains the schedule of usage of the machinery. In any case, there may be more than one defendant in a personal injury claim. As it is vital to identify all of the potentially responsible parties in your accident so that you may receive the most compensation possible from your personal injury claim.

Where your accident happens makes a difference. If your accident happened on city property there are different rules and regulations because of the municipalities' inherent immunities and exceptions to the general word of law. If you attempt to litigate or settle a claim against a city or municipality without a skilled and experienced personal injury lawyer, you may be sorely disappointed as the process to attempt to claim recompense is different than in any other type of personal injury case. The circumstances and the context of the accident make a difference in how much compensation you may be able to expect from your Lubbock personal injury lawsuit. If your case occurred in a business, that changes the way your case may be handled. If you retain a personal injury attorney from Grossman Law Office you will find that they are head and shoulders above the other Lubbock personal injury lawyers you may talk to about representation of you in your Lubbock personal injury case. Our personal injury lawyers have litigated or settled personal injury claims thousands of times to favorable outcomes for our clients. We know how to read a jury and we know without questions the best way to present your case to the best understanding of the members of the jury. Understanding by the jury makes a favorable outcome easier. Do you need a lawyer in Lubbock to assist you to a favorable outcome in your personal injury claim? Then you would do well to call on the Grossman Law Office in your quest to be made whole from the accident in which you were involved. Grossman Law Offices' personal injury lawyers have the skills and knowledge to be able to help you seek compensation for your Lubbock personal injury claim.

When you retain an attorney is another essential part of your claim for compensation from the wreck in which you were involved. Ideally it is best to call an attorney that you deal with before you even get out of the car or immediately when you have been hurt on the job or injured in a trucking accident. When you wait to contact an attorney, valuable evidence may be lost or left uncollected. Grossman Law Office personal injury lawyers will be on the scene as soon as possible taking pictures and making measurements. They will be interviewing witnesses, asking questions, reviewing security tapes and other vital and important evidence gathering. You can be the insurance company for the person party or entity that harmed you will have their insurance company looking for evidence and talking to witnesses all in an effort to prove that you were the cause of the accident. The insurance companies will be working hard to prove their insured is not a t fault regardless of the circumstances. Within a few minutes the insurance company investigators and adjusters will be on the scene looking at everything, combing over the accident site asking questions of everyone, including your family , your spouse and your kids, looking for them to say anything that they can use to prove you were at fault . In a Lubbock personal injury accident you must retain a lawyer or an attorney that knows the circumstances of the accident in which you were involved. If you were injured in an oil rig or oil well accident, then do not hire a corporate attorney. If you were involved in a malpractice action, then call on attorneys that do malpractice cases. If you were involved in a trucking accident then you should call a lawyer that has experience in trucking accident cases. Gross man Law Office lawyers have so many years of experience there is not a personal injury type case that they are not familiar with. Grossman Law Office attorneys know what the circumstances are in any case regardless of the vocation, location or circumstances of the accident. Do not let one of the most important decisions that you may make in your life be at the hands of an inexperienced or junior attorney. Chose only a lawyer that has many years of experience in litigating or settling the type of personal injury claim in which you are seeking compensation for your injuries, damages and losses. At Gross man Law Office in Lubbock, personal injury lawyers are what we are. We can successfully handle any personal injury case that you may need a lawyer to represent you. It is always wise to retain a lawyer t hat has a provable track record. At Grossman Law Office in Lubbock our personal injury attorneys are proud of our track record and will be happy to show you or connect you with any of our happy and satisfied clients. In fact, some of the cases that Grossman Law Office attorneys in Lubbock have achieved favorable outcomes have been cases that other attorneys turned down saying the case was unwinnable or a long shot. We are proud not only that we were able to achieve a favorable outcome, bu that we were able to achieve that outcome when other personal injury lawyers had turned down. We are very proud of that!

How does the process work?

When you are contemplating a Lubbock personal injury claim, you must first understand the elements that any lawyer will consider when choosing to represent you and your personal injury case. The first one of these elements is Injury. Did you suffer injuries as a result of the accident in which you were involved? Did you incur contusions and lacerations? Cuts and bruises? Were any bones broken? Did you suffer the less obvious soft tissue injuries such as whiplash or back pain? Were you thrown around the car compartment? Were you injured at work? Were you cut or hurt in the line of performing your job? Did you suffer any bodily injury as the result of the accident in which you were involved? An injury sustained is the basis of a personal injury claim and you cannot have personal injury claim without a personal injury. So a personal injury to your body is essential to a Lubbock personal injury claim for which you now seek an attorney.

Element two in your personal injury claim is Damages

Did you have to pay for medical treatment? Did you have to buy bandages or pay out of pocket for a caregiver? Did your doctor recommend a physical therapist for your recovery or did he prescribe a rehabilitation center? Do you wonder how you will pay for them? Then you have incurred damages as part of your personal injury claim. Damages are the non injury related bills, so it's not the cuts and bruises, damages are the costs inherent to caring for the cuts and bruises as well as your overall recovery. Losses are another part of your damages, although losses may be ascribed at the time of settlement or at court. Losses include lost wages, loss of earning potential, loss of comfort or loss of consortium, loss of possible promotions at work, there are many losses that you may have suffered or may yet suffer as a result of the accident in which you were involved. Damages and losses are the second element that is a deciding factor in whether a personal injury lawyer or attorney may or may not pick up your case.

Third element: a financially solvent defendant or responsible party

As we say without a financially solvent responsible party there is no recovery of the damages losses and injuries that you have sustained as a result of the accident in which you were involved. It may be the driver of the car, the truck driver or the trucking company. It may be their insurance company. The responsible party person or entity is going to be the source of the funds from which you gain your compensation. Without a financially solvent responsible party there can be no recovery and subsequent payment of your desired compensation. So be sure that if you are hurt with a personal injury that there is a financially solvent responsible party. Most times the financially solvent responsible party is the insurance company that insured the company, the truck or the driver that caused your injuries. A wise choice in the filing off your Lubbock personal injury claims the retention of Grossman Law Office as your attorney. Grossman Law Office lawyers have successfully litigated or settled Lubbock personal injury claims favorable for our clients against some of the largest insurance companies in the United States. In fact most insurance companies will negotiate a settlement when they know they will be up against Grossman Law Office attorneys in court. Our reputation precedes us in court and in legal circles. Since you will be paying what ever attorney or lawyer you retain the same amount, does it not just make sense that you would retain the attorney with a track record for favorable outcomes that you can possibly find? It makes sense to give yourself the greatest advantage that you possibly can anytime you are going to court. You would not hire an inexperienced or unskilled attorney to fight for you in a divorce; it is certainly not a good idea to retain an inexperienced or unskilled attorney in your personal injury case. Do not set yourself up for failure in your Lubbock personal injury case. Call Grossman Law Office today.

Now that we have established that you have a basis for a Lubbock personal injury claim, it is beneficial for you to know how the process works and how in a nutshell your Lubbock personal injury lawyer will move forward to establish that you are owed recompense from the accident in winch you were hurt. There are four basic parts of the claim that your Lubbock personal injury attorney will peruse as they peruse compensation for your injuries, losses and damages. Following you will find a list of the elements that will make a difference in the outcome of your Lubbock personal injury claim. Follow along and see what you can remember from the accident in which you were injured and suffered damages and losses.

The first element of a personal injury claim that your personal injury attorneys will peruse is: did the person that harmed you assume that proper duty of care in their operation or participation in the activity where you were harmed or injured and suffered damages and losses. Were they careful in the operation and execution of the activity in which you were injured? Any person as they go about their day assumes a certain amount of duty of care to behave in a safe manner as they go about their day. That is they are responsible for their actions not to hurt or injure another person. If you were hurt because of the negligence, action or inaction of another person, then it would be safe to say that the person that harmed you did so as a breach of their duty of care to keep all the people around them safe from the results of their actions.

Proving Breach of Duty of Care

The other person party or entity that harmed you may have breached their duty of care in keeping you and the other people in the area safe from the result of their actions, be it from negligence, action or inaction. If that person swung a golf club in a space that was too small to swing safely, then it could be said theta they breached their duty of care by behaving recklessly and carelessly. If you were injured in a car accident, when the driver lost control over their vehicle, you could recognize that they breached their duty of care when they hit your car. If you were hurt in a work related accident or an on the job injury, then you can consider that the person that was responsible for the event that injured you and caused your damages, injuries and losses then you can consider that person in breach of their duty of care. A skilled and experienced personal injury attorney as Grossman Law Office has can in an instant discover exactly who breached their duty of care and exactly when it happened. Do not leave on of the most important decisions of your life to an unskilled or junior attorney. Let Grossman Law Offices assist you in recovering the expenses you are out as the result of the personal injury accident in which you were involved. At Grossman Law Office in Lubbock we excel at winning cases that other personal injury lawyers have turned down. We know special techniques and tactics that we can employ to show the jury who was actually at fault. Grossman Law Office personal injury attorneys have special visual aids that can accurately indicate to a jury what happened in the sequence of events that caused the injuries you suffered as a result of the accident in which you were involved. In fact Grossman Law Office in Lubbock personal injury attorneys have won thousands of cases for our plaintiffs. We are very proud of our track record. Other attorneys do not have the experienced gleaned from over twenty years in courts of law on many levels. Only Grossman Law Office personal injury attorneys have the knowledge to be able to bring in a favorable outcome without going to a court of law. Grossman Law Office personal injury attorneys in Lubbock have litigated or settled with favorable outcomes for their clients against almost all of the major insurance companies in the United States. In fact our plaintiffs become like family when we spend the amount of time that we do working on a plaintiff's case. We become intimately aware of the financial implications after a Lubbock personal injury accident. Many of them right here in Lubbock. Personal Injury lawyers are everywhere. How do you make a certain decision as to who to retain to represent you legally in your Lubbock personal injury case. Look at the other personal injury lawyers' cases; do they have skills that mat the skills that you require in your case? Look at the other personal injury attorneys' track record.

Another element in pursuit of a favorable outcome in your personal injury case against the person parties or entities that harmed you by causing you bodily injury, losses and financial damages; is proving that you actually suffered injuries, losses and damages. How does one prove that you have suffered injuries, losses and financial damages? Simple. The medical records that were generated when you went to the doctor are proof. The injuries as bandaged wounds or broken bones are evident that you suffered injuries to your body. Further, the receipts you have of the medical attention and medical supplies that were required because of the injuries that you suffered from the accident in which you were involved. When you have a personal injury it is always helpful to your attorney to have saved all of the receipts incurred as a result of being involved in a personal injury accident. These receipts are actual financial damages that you may be able to be compensated for in the recovery of compensation.

The x-rays and MRIs, all of those individual bills and invoices are financial damages that you may well recover in your personal injury accident case if you get a skilled and experienced Lubbock personal injury lawyer.

Grossman Law office in Lubbock has litigated or settled literally thousands of personal injury cases with many of them settling out of court when the insurance company finds out they will be going up against the Gross man Law Office personal injury lawyers in a court of law. They usually will offer a settlement before we even walk into court. And it will be over before the trial even begins. Much as you would hope it would.

We are right and true and correct when we say to you that when you call on Grossman Law Office , your desire for the most qualified legal representation you can get combined with our many years of being in just this place for many other plaintiffs just like you. You know you will be successful because you have selected the only real choice if you want to be successful in your quest to receive the compensation you so richly deserve. We know when you have bills to pay and people to see and kids, family and dogs to feed it seems like it may be a daunting task to even consider that there may be an end in sight. We know that your hope begins to dilute and you remain in the nonplussed reaction wondering if any of the hopes you had were in fact real. We are here to tell you that they are. All of them.

You are entitled to be made whole and receive all you are entitled to receive. When you call on Gross man Law Office personal injury lawyers you have called on the supreme authority in the personal injury lawyer game. We will bring home the bacon for you. We will do it faster and with better success than any other law firm possibly can. We know how. We have know how. We can pressure insurance companies to the terms we set forth. We can do things that you may think not possible and for lesser personal injury attorneys. But we can accomplish many surprising things. We have the skills the experience and the knowledge to help you make a full and total recovery. Do not leave one of the most important decisions in your life to a junior lawyer or an inexperienced personal injury attorney. Call Grossman Law Office to recover the full amount of compensation that you may be entitled to receive from the accident in which you were injured.

Another element in a successful Lubbock personal injury accident case is a through identification of all of the potentially responsible parties in the personal injury claim. It may not only be the person who injured you; but if they injured you while they were art work, then you may also name the company that the person that injured you worked for. Also, if you were injured by an employee at work and they accidentally injured you when a piece of the gear they were using or perhaps ewer transporting came loose and flew into your lane or into your body. In a case like that you would also want to name the cargo loader or the defective equipment manufacturer. In a personal injury claim there is rarely just a single defendant or a single or sole proximate cause of the accident. There is always some type of extenuating circumstance or other person, parties or entities involved in the Lubbock personal injury claim for which you now seek a lawyer. It is also important that you identify all of the possible responsible parties in your Lubbock personal injury lawsuit. Your Grossman Law Office attorney will look in depth at the accident and determine without question who the responsible parties are and who the responsible parties the court of law may see as the responsible parties in your Lubbock personal injury claim. It is vital to a successful Lubbock personal injury accident that all of the possible responsible parties, persons or entities are named because the courts may find that in fact the one person that you did not name as a possible responsible party may in their eyes be the sole proximate cause of the accident in which you were injured. If you did not name that person then you would be out of luck and would therefore not receive the recovery of the compensation that you are out from the debt of the medical bills, rehabilitation bills, and other necessary recovery items such as bandages or crutches. Identification of all of the possible responsible parties must be done by a Lubbock personal injury attorney that knows who to pinpoint without a scatter shot of naming everybody in town. So in sum of the point is that it is important to identify all of the possible responsible parties on your accident. The more the possible responsible parties involved in the accident in which you were injured, can often times end up in a greater amount of compensation for you the plaintiff. That is another essential reason why you would want to insure that you had a skilled and experienced personal injury attorney to represent your legal interests in a court of law and in opposition to the insurance company.

Another important and vital element to a successful Lubbock personal injury accident claim is the element of causation. Was the other driver that hit you drunk or high on drugs? Were they on the phone or testing? Was the other driver looking down at the radio or otherwise not paying attention? These are all considered causation in the accident. Did a pedestrian run crazily into traffic just when the guy that hit you looked down to change the radio station? Did a little dog run into the street after the crazy person? These are both considered causation in the accident. Did the other drivers tire blow out? If you were injured at work did the equipment you were working on malfunction? Were the conditions under which you were working inhospitable? Were there scheduling pressures or performance pressures that lead to the accident in which you were injured? When you were at work and suffered injuries was the equipment poorly maintained? Were all of the people working on the event where you were injured rested and in sound mind themselves? All of these items are considered causation in the accident in which you were injured be it at work or in your car. Proving causation is a vital and important element in a successful outcome of the Lubbock personal injury case in which you were involved. Get up and pick up the phone for your situation will not improve until you pick up the phone and set the wheels in motion to receive the fair and just compensation you seek to recovery your expenses inured as the result of being injured in the accident in which you were involved. Only a skilled and experienced Lubbock personal injury attorney can actually discern the causation of the accident in which you were involved. Grossman Law Office lawyers know how to evaluate the information and put the pieces together with the evidence and recreate the events that lead up to and during the accident in which you were involved. Grossman Law Office in Lubbock has litigated or settled literally thousands of personal injury accident cases in Lubbock and other major Texas cities. In fact we have been the personal injury attorneys in many high profile personal injury cases where a person's life and survival was on the line. We are proud of the work we have done and we are proud of the track record that we have consistently maintained over the twenty plus years that we have been litigating or settling personal injury claims in Lubbock. Being able to prove the causation of the accident is vital to a successful outcome.

At Grossman Law Office we have twenty plus years of skills and experience in settling and litigating both high profile and regular person personal injury cases. We have a high success rate in Lubbock and would be happy to consult with you in a face to face situation. Grossman Law Office offers a free evaluation of your case with its particular contexts and circumstances. We can evaluate whether you have a case that ill offer you the compensation that you deserve for your pain, suffering, injuries, financial damages and personal losses. You do no have to be a victim of the insurance companies. Chose wisely the Lubbock personal injury attorney you have represent your legal interests in a court of law. Be confident in the Lubbock personal Injury lawyer you choose. Contact Grossman Law Offices toll-free at 1-855-405-0045 today for a free evaluation of your case.