While no person wants to suffer personal injuries, the reality is that they are sometimes unavoidable. That does not mean you have to live with the consequences if another person injures you in Fort Lee.
Our skilled attorneys have several decades of experience in a wide range of personal injury lawsuits and can help you get compensation from those responsible. Most injury victims suffer severe financial setbacks from their accident, like medical expenses and lost income. Many also have significant pain and suffering that the other side might not be willing to compensate without the advocacy of an experienced legal team. Fortunately, our team can get the evidence you need to prove your damages and help you move on with your life, no matter how you were injured.
Call (201) 777-1111 and get a free case review from our personal injury attorneys at Agrapidis & Maroules, P.C.
Cases Our Personal Injury Lawyers Commonly Handle in Fort Lee, NJ
One of the benefits of having over a century of collective experience is that our firm has handled virtually every type of case in personal injury law. We have won countless cases for victims in Fort Lee and throughout New Jersey, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for our clients. Our personal injury attorneys can use this experience and skill in your case regardless of the accident or the severity of your injuries. The following is just a sampling of some of the lawsuits we can help you with in Fort Lee:
Car Accidents
Many lawsuits are filed because of injuries caused by vehicle accidents. However, these claims can be the most challenging for clients to handle on their own since recovering compensation can be confusing. No-fault insurance is used in New Jersey, and it works in different ways depending on the type of insurance the victim has and the injuries they sustained. While no-fault insurance will cover some basic economic damages no matter who was responsible, it will not allow car accident victims to sue for “pain and suffering,” or non-economic damages, unless they suffered “serious injuries” or their insurance policy has an unlimited right to sue option, according to N.J.S.A. § 39:6A-8(a) and § 39:6A-8(b).
Our team can also help you recover compensation if you were a pedestrian victim in a car accident. The no-fault insurance rules governing car accident claims will also apply to pedestrian accidents. This means that pedestrians can use their car insurance to get coverage for their medical bills and lost wages quickly, but they might not be able to file a lawsuit unless one of the two exceptions above applies.
If you do not have car insurance, the rules require that you use the car insurance of a household family member for coverage. Again, the household member’s insurance would need to be analyzed to determine its limits on lawsuits. Fortunately, you can immediately file a lawsuit if you have no access to insurance whatsoever.
In either of these cases, a victim claiming serious injuries as a basis for their car accident lawsuit will need to provide the other driver with “certification.” This typically requires submitting your medical records and expert statements to show the court you have met the necessary threshold.
Truck Accidents
Insurance rules are only one of the complex issues in lawsuits for truck accidents. Most truck accidents result in serious injuries, so meeting the threshold is usually not an issue. The challenge is often determining how the accident was caused and who can be sued.
Truck accidents happen for many reasons. Arguably, the most common cause is fatigued truckers. However, it will likely not be apparent that the driver was dozing off when they crashed into you. When our team investigates your case, we can obtain driver’s logs and trucking company records to determine if they were violating trucking industry rules regarding times of operation or any other violations.
Determining the defendants in your lawsuit can also be challenging. In most cases, we can sue the truck driver and trucking company even if the trucker was solely negligent under the legal doctrine of “respondeat superior.” However, we might only be able to sue the trucker if they were an independent contractor. These cases can be even more difficult if a part or system on the truck contributed to the accident. In such situations, we might need to add the truck’s designer or manufacturer as defendants in your case.
Premises Liability Accidents
Premises liability claims make up another large portion of personal injury claims filed. Most victims file claims for slip and fall accidents against businesses and property owners. Owners, managers, tenants, and even some contractors have a duty to maintain a safe premise. If they fail to fix or warn people of a dangerous condition and victims injure themselves, they can be held liable.
These cases can be extremely challenging when the accident happens on government property. Many slip and fall accidents happen at bus stations and NJ Transit stations, which are owned and operated by local and state government agencies. Other injuries occur because people trip over uneven sidewalks that the city never repairs or are injured at a public park.
However, if a government worker was responsible for your accident, you cannot sue them directly for your injuries because of “sovereign immunity.” Instead, our team would file your lawsuit against the agency the employee worked for or the agency that manages the premises if no employee was involved, according to § 59:2-2.
We will also help you prepare your claim so it is filed before the more strict deadline passes. According to § 59:8-8, you must notify the agency of your lawsuit within 90 days of the accident. Following that, you will typically need to wait six months for them to investigate your claim. They will either agree to pay the damages you are seeking or deny the claim. If you are denied, you can move forward with filing your lawsuit but will only have two total years to complete this process, as per § 59:8-8(b).
Construction Site Accidents
Fort Lee has many construction sites that can be the cause of an accident. If you were injured while working on one or just passing by, we can help you determine who was responsible. In most cases, we will sue the property owner and general contractor since they are ultimately responsible for the safety of the site. However, we can also file a claim against a subcontractor if their negligence caused the accident.
Our Fort Lee, NJ Personal Injury Lawyers Are Ready to Fight to Get You the Compensation You Deserve
To get your free case review today with our personal injury attorneys, call Agrapidis & Maroules, P.C., at (201) 777-1111.