Get help claiming financial compensation after any number of different kinds of injuries in the Fort Smith area from local Northwest Arkansas personal injury lawyers Mullins and Blake.
From spectacular and grisly pile-ups on Interstate 40 or 49 to an older woman’s head injury in the aisle of a store, injuries can take on many different forms in Fort Smith. Short of never leaving your house, they are a risk you have to live with, as even those who take every conceivable precaution can end up injured in an accident through no fault of their own.
Worse still, these injuries come with a heavy financial burden, not just for you, but for your loved ones and families as well. Between medical costs (always on the rise) and any inability to work, earn money, or help around the house, the cost of each injury can be staggering.
Fortunately for some Fort Smith injury victims, personal injury attorneys like Bradley Mullins and Roxanne Blake fight to make sure only those responsible for the injuries pay for the harm they have caused. You might not realize it yet, but chances are, they can help you get financial compensation after an accident or injury with a personal injury claim.
Negligence is a core concept in personal injury law and is often the difference between a successful and unsuccessful claim. This is because, in order for your injury to be eligible for financial compensation, it must have been caused by someone acting recklessly, carelessly, or even criminally, in disregard for your health, safety, and the consequences of their actions on, well, you.
That is what negligence means. Personal injury claims are about making those who have behaved in such a way bear the cost of the consequences of their actions, rather than leaving that cost entirely on you, the injured victim of their carelessness.
In practice, however, they are not the ones who will end up paying. That burden will be taken on by their insurance. Unfortunately, insurance companies are notoriously tight-fisted and will not part with the money you need unless the law forces them to, and that is where personal injury claims, lawyers, and proving negligence come into play.
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Negligence can take many forms, and when it leads to serious injuries, it is time to get a personal injury lawyer involved. As personal injury attorneys serving Fort Smith and all of northwestern Arkansas, Bradley Mullins and Roxanne Blake have seen virtually every kind of injury possible and imaginable, and have fought insurance companies (sometimes aggressively) for the right to financial compensation of all eligible injury victims. Most of these claims, however, can be divided into one of the following broad types:
Cars, trucks, and motorcycles move fast. When they hit each other, or pedestrians, or cyclists, the results are often dangerous or deadly. Accidents are by far the most common cause of personal injury claims in Fort Smith, but not all of them have to be as spectacular as a pileup on the interstate.
Vehicles basically never collide on purpose, but it is usually clear who caused an accident. In these cases, negligence could be anything from improperly changing lanes to drinking at the wheel. Sometimes, the blame and negligence do not lie with either driver but with a third party, such as a trucking company that failed to do proper maintenance.
Even at low speeds, an accident that someone else might walk away from unscathed might have caused your head to strike the window or made your neck snap back and give you whiplash. These injuries might not be as spectacular, but they can be serious and worth serious financial compensation, especially if you are dealing with any ongoing pain or are having trouble going back to work.
While less severe for most of us, a simple fall can be a real danger if you are unlucky, elderly, or fragile. Hitting your head or breaking a bone can lead to you missing work or being unable to work for some time, and head injuries, in particular, have a way of causing unexpected but debilitating consequences.
When a fall is caused by some hazard in an environment, and maintaining a safe environment was someone else’s responsibility, they could be liable under a personal injury claim. This principle is called premises liability, and means that the people who are in charge of a space can be held responsible for some accidents caused by hazards they should have dealt with or warned people about.
Falls are not the only type of injury caused by premises liability negligence, though they are the most common. Others include burns, electrocutions, machinery injuries, and more. If you have been hurt on someone else’s property, there is a good chance they may be held financially responsible by a personal injury lawyer.
Fortunately, quite rare in the Fort Smith area, sometimes injuries are caused by the people who are supposed to treat and protect us. When doctors, nurses, dentists, and other medical professionals are negligent and fail to live up to the duties of care they owe you as their patient, it can very easily lead to injuries.
From bed sores on nursing home patients to dental surgery disasters that leave patients disfigured or in permanent pain, such negligence can cause truly horrific injuries. These are covered under a specific type of personal injury law, called medical malpractice, which has additional rules and rights for those seeking financial compensation.
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Mullins & Blake Attorneys | Tough lawyers for tough injuries.
When life decides to send a curveball your way, and that strike leaves you injured through little fault of your own, it is time to call a personal injury lawyer. We make sure the insurance company responsible for paying your financial compensation does so fairly and fully, and that you are not cheated and further harmed when you have already endured so much.
Arkansas natives with deep ties to the communities in Fort Smith and across the northwestern corner of the state, Mullins and Blake have been fighting for decades to make sure that injury victims like you get the funds you need.
All you have to do to get their help after any type of injury is call (479) 337-7077 or reach out online.
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(479) 337-7077