After your car accident, your vehicle may not be ready to drive and may have some major damage. You may be wondering how you’re going to get to work, run errands and live your everyday life without a car.

Personal injury cases involve a great deal of law that needs to be understood by your attorney if you’re looking to move forward in a lawsuit against another person.

There are some things you may not know that can be a bit shocking. Such as, in the states of Virginia and North Carolina there is law called contributory negligence that affects both drivers in a car accident very much.

Whether you’ve been involved in an automobile accident, truck accident, personal injury accident, or even a wrongful death suit, we have to be able to prove that someone else was at fault for the injuries you and your family suffered.

To prove your case in court we must do several things that show you were not at fault for your accident and that the other party needs to compensation you for your damages.

With automobile accidents, you have a lot to worry about. You need to think about how to pay your medical bills, if your injuries may be permanent, how to fix your car, and how to recover from all this by insurance companies.

But what happens when the other driver doesn’t have insurance? That lack of insurance can mean that your medical bills, doctor visits, prescriptions and lost wages are now all on you.

Within a personal injury case, you are trying to receive compensation from the party who causes you injury and harm in a car accident.

Damages can come as compensatory or, in some cases, punitive. Compensatory damages recover money for you for your lost wages, pain, suffering, medical bills and doctor visits. Punitive damages are quite different. These damages are placed on the offending party for doing something usually morally irresponsible.

As we go to work, we may understand how the dangers that surround us on an everyday basis that we have to protect ourselves from. But no one can predict catastrophic events that come out of nowhere.

Such is the case of one young woman, a client of ours that worked at a motel as a housekeeper. She had no idea that while she was folding laundry one day that a propane truck would cause an explosion and leave her severely burned.

Few things are scarier than an automobile accident in which you and your loved ones can be injured. Being involved in a hit and run accident is one of those scarier things.

With a hit and run accident, the other driver has fled the scene leaving you hurt and alone. It also leaves you with a lot of questions as you don’t know how to get compensated if you have no idea who the other driver was.