Get Compensated After A Car Accident Injury In Fairfield County
Car accident injuries can be brutal and debilitating, but personal injury lawyer Jack O’Donnell can help you recover vital compensation to cover the costs, losses, and harm.
Car accidents happen fast and are over in a flash, but the aftermath, especially when you are injured, can last years…or the rest of your life. Whether you were stuck in traffic commuting into the city, enjoying the scenic Gold Coast routes, or just driving out to get groceries, a car accident can leave you injured and knock your life off course.
A car accident’s impact can be felt on multiple levels. From the physical damage done to your body, to the financial cost of the injury, and the emotional harm done to the quality of your life. Too few accident victims realize this, however, and end up accepting far lower financial settlements than they deserve from insurers.
In Fairfield County, personal injury attorney Jack O’Donnell fights to protect car accident victims and helps them claim the full compensation they deserve across all three levels of harm. With his help, you will be able to stand up to the insurance companies and demand what you need and deserve.
Who Is Eligible For Personal Injury Compensation After A Car Accident?
No two accidents are the same, and each one needs to be treated on a case-by-case basis to determine who and how much compensation is available. That said, many accidents will qualify for personal injury compensation:
- The car accident must have caused an injury. If only your car or vehicle were damaged, you do not need a personal injury claim.
- The car accident must not have been, at least predominantly, your fault. You can be partially responsible, but it will affect how much compensation you are able to get.
- The car accident must have been caused by someone acting negligently, recklessly, or criminally. This could be someone speeding, burning a light, merging dangerously, operating a vehicle not fit for the road, driving drunk, or any number of other possible sources of negligence.
- If the other driver was not responsible, someone else’s negligence must have been, such as a road that Fairfield County left damaged.
Most car accidents are indeed caused by one or more parties’ negligence; after all, if everyone is doing what they are supposed to, road traffic is smooth and accidents are rare. Tragically, accidents are far too common, and nearly one-third of them result in at least one injury or death.
Each one of those accidents is not a statistic; however, it is a life thrown off course, someone who cannot care for their kids as they could before, who may not be able to provide for their family, and someone suffering through pain or disability. It might even be you.
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What Compensation Can Fairfield County Car Accident Victims Claim?
Personal injury claims are meant to allow those injured by the negligence of others to claim financial compensation for the various harms, costs, and losses they have endured from those who hurt them, including reckless drivers who cause car accidents. As we mentioned at the start, however, these losses and costs operate on multiple levels, and you need to be aware of each if you want to recover everything you need and deserve after a car accident injury.
- Medical Bills And Costs
At the most obvious level are all the medical bills and costs you will have to pay just to get your injury treated if you want to have any hope of recovering from it. From the ambulance that took you to the hospital, to the final physical therapy appointment, passing through diagnostic tests and surgeries, a personal injury claim will make sure all these costs will be paid by those who caused them.
Given the ever-growing cost of medical care in the country, if you want to be treated in Connecticut's excellent hospitals, you can expect a hefty bill, and are unlikely to be able to afford it without a personal injury lawyer to make sure each cent is accounted for in your claim.
- Lost Income And Other Economic Damages
While you might not realize it immediately, there will be no missing the second type of costs as they build up over time. Each day, week, month, or year you are unable to go back to work, or unable to work as hard, represents income you should have been earning but are now unable to. This lost income, whether from a temporary injury or permanent disability, is a cost connected to your injury that you should not have to pay alone.
An experienced lawyer like Fairfield County’s Jack O’Donnell will make sure your personal injury claim includes all economic damages like lost income, an inability to help around the house, missed wages, and lost future wages. Any cost or loss that can be measured in dollars deserves to be paid by those who caused the injury, as do the costs that cannot.
- Emotional Costs And Losses In Your Quality Of Life
Much of a car accident’s damage, unfortunately, will often fly under the radar. No X-ray has yet been invented to measure emotional trauma, nor is it easy to express, in dollars, how much being unable to play your favorite sport is worth. But these losses that affect your quality of life are still real, and you deserve to be compensated for them.
A skilled personal injury lawyer will be able to get them included in your final settlement or jury verdict. With the help of experts, witnesses, and your own compelling testimony, they will be able to show a jury just how much the accident has cost you, not just on the surface, but deep beneath it too.
Insurance companies know this, and the vast majority of cases will never see a courtroom as they will make a reasonable settlement offer to compensate you for the car accident injury; they know what we will win from them in court if they do not.
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The longer you wait after a car accident to begin the personal injury process, the more difficult it can become to prove all these damages and claim the compensation you need and deserve. If you or a loved one has been hurt in a car accident in Fairfield County, you should contact a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible.
Jack O’Donnell has decades of experience fighting for the injured in Connecticut and will proudly take on your case to help you claim all the financial compensation you are entitled to, not just what some insurance company will toss you.
To get his help after a car accident, all you have to do is call (203) 787-8603 or reach out to his personal injury team online and tell us about your injury, and we will start working right away toward the compensation you deserve!