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Types of Personal Injury

Personal injury refers to physical, mental and emotional injuries caused by someone else’s negligence. If a negligent third party has caused your injury, you may want to seek compensation to help you manage the cost of medical bills, as well as lost wages and emotional anguish.

Author: Sara Goldstein

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Personal injuries not only occur at jobsites but in our homes, hospitals, and on our roads as well. The products we use and the buildings we work in may cause us harm if someone else has been negligent.

Types of Personal Injury
There are many ways that somebody else can be negligent and cause your personal injury, including:
• Motor vehicle accidents
• Medical malpractice
• Premises liability
• Work-related accidents
• Product liability
• Nursing home abuse

Personal injuries caused by car accidents are not as easy to prove as you might think. It is always a good idea to take photos of the accident scene if you can. You may also want to take notes regarding what happened. The sooner you act after a car accident, the better chance you have of getting compensation for your resulting injuries.

Premises liability includes many different personal injury claims, such as slip and fall accidents, construction site accidents and daycare accidents. Injuries at construction sites are especially common. After a work injury, you may want to consider pursuing both workers’ compensation and a personal injury claim.
Premises liability also includes personal injuries that result from inadequately secured premises; for example, rape cases can involve a personal injury claim if the site of the rape was not reasonably safe.

How to Know if You Have a Personal Injury Claim
If you have are suffering physically or emotionally, and if someone else has caused your injury, then you may have a personal injury claim. Personal injuries can arise from many situations, including at work, from a motor vehicle accident, or by using a defective product.

When a personal injury lawyer represents your case, the lawyer will have to prove that:

• You were injured (can be physical, emotional and mental)
• Financial and emotional damages
• A third party caused the personal injury

You will need to identify who is responsible for your personal injury. In some cases, multiple people may be at fault. For instance, a manufacturer and distributor are often responsible in defective product cases.

About Author

If you have been injured in an auto accident, medical malpractice, premises liability, or wrongful death case, contact the personal injury attorneys of Silberstein, Awad & Miklos in New York.

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