You have the right to financial support after a personal injury accident. Lynn attorneys have years of experience helping people like you hold negligent parties accountable for car accidents, truck accidents, dog bites, and other kinds of negligence. Let us step in and fight for your right to a fair accident settlement before your right to a personal injury case expires.
DiBella Law Offices continually advocates for Massachusetts residents in need of legal support. You can reach out to our team today to book a FREE case evaluation with our experienced personal injury lawyers.
Understanding Today’s Personal Injury Cases
The term “personal injury” serves as a catch-all for a broader category of accidents and injuries that may entitle survivors like you to compensation. DiBella Law Firm strives to bridge that category for survivors by offering services addressing several different kinds of accidents, including the following:
- Bicycle accidents
- Boat accidents
- Brain injuries
- Burn injuries
- Car accidents
- Dog bites
- Drunk driving accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Premises liability
- Pedestrian accidents
- Rideshare accidents
- Slip and fall accidents
- Truck accidents
- Wrongful deaths
Do you have questions about your most recent accident, or do you want to learn more about your right to personal injury compensation? You can bring information about your most recent accident to a FREE case evaluation with our personal injury lawyers in Lynn. We can sit down with you to discuss your right to legal action.
Give us a call today to discover how we can assist you.
When Can You File a Personal Injury Claim in Lynn, MA?
If you decide that you want to explore your post-accident legal options, you need first to prove that you have the right to bring a party or parties to civil court. This process can prove easier when you have an experienced personal injury lawyer on your side.
We can break your right to compensation down by highlighting three key elements of your case: duty, negligence, and your economic losses.
Duty of Care
People have an obligation, under certain circumstances, to protect you from predictable and reasonable harm. Massachusetts courts refer to this responsibility as a person’s “duty of care.” Several parties may owe you a duty when you step out into the world, including corporations, manufacturers, and other individuals.
If you get into an accident, there’s a chance that it occurred because some party around you violated the duty of care owed to you. You must bring that violation to the attention of a civil judge to fight for loss-based compensation.
Negligence
There are times when someone may deliberately violate the duty of care owed to you. It’s far more common, though, for someone to violate their duty of care out of negligence. Negligence in a personal injury accident can take a variety of forms, all of which may be individual to your circumstances and the type of accident you get into.
No matter how many forms negligence can take, you must prove that negligence led to the violation of another party’s duty of care. You can work with an experienced personal injury attorney in Lynn to bring forward evidence of that negligence in the form of a personal injury complaint.
Evidence of negligence after an accident can include the following:
- Bystander testimony about your accident
- Expert witnesses’ input
- Debris from the scene of the accident
- Video footage of the accident
- Photos from the accident
- Accident recreations
- A liable party’s cell phone or online data
You do not have to bring this information forward on your own time. Our legal team can step up and lead an investigation into your losses. In the meantime, you can seek out the medical attention you need to recover from any accident-related injuries, or you can go back to work.
Economic Losses
Last but not least, you must prove that the negligence that led someone to violate their duty of care resulted in your economic losses. What’s more, you can argue that you’re owed non-economic damages like pain and suffering on top of the damages compensating for your economic losses.
These losses are individual to your case. That said, you can refer to case precedent to determine which common losses you may have the right to integrate into a broader complaint. Some of the most common losses to appear in a personal injury claim can include the following:
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Lost wages
- Lost opportunities to return to work
- Emergency medical bills
- Long-term medical expenses
- Property damage
- Property restoration and rentals
Our attorneys continually advocate for your right to compensation that meets and even exceeds the value of your accident’s losses. You can count on us to keep the process of calculating your case’s value as transparent as possible.
Stay on Top of Your Case’s Statute of Limitations
You have a limited amount of time to act after a personal injury accident. If you want to take legal action against a liable party, you need to do so within the statute of limitations established in Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 260 Section 2A.
Massachusetts gives you no more than three years to gather all of the information relevant to your case. You cannot miss this filing deadline if you want to bring a liable party before a civil judge.
We've offered crucial support and guidance to individuals who have suffered injuries, ensuring their financial and emotional well-being.
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Don’t let the statute of limitations capping your right to legal action expire. If you’re dealing with the consequences of someone else’s negligence, DiBella Law Offices is here to help. We can use our years of courtroom experience to help you fight for the accident compensation you need to get back on your feet.
Our team doesn’t back down from complicated cases. You can trust us to take your losses seriously without ever pressuring you into a particular course of action. Ready to learn more? Contact us online or by phone to book a FREE case evaluation with our Lynn personal injury lawyers.
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