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Being injured in an accident can leave you with serious consequences to deal with. It’s more than the initial pain, as bad as that is in its own right. There’s the recovery, and there are the financial costs. When that injury was caused by someone else, you have the right to be compensated. However, whether you get that compensation—and whether the final amount is truly just and fair—may come down to the quality of your personal injury lawyer.

The attorneys in our Towson office have been fighting for injured plaintiffs since 2004. We understand what it takes to win these cases and know the best strategies for achieving a fair settlement.

We routinely work with clients on cases like these:

Call Alex and LaFleur Attorneys at Law LLC at (410) 755-5801 or contact us online today to set up a free consultation. We can meet virtually if that’s more convenient for you.

The Elements of Negligence in Personal Injury Cases

Getting to a fair settlement involves painstaking work. The injured plaintiff is obligated to show that the defendant was negligent. The legal system has a precise definition of negligence, and it consists of four elements—all of which must be present:

Duty of Care

The defendant must have had some level of obligation to the plaintiff. In many cases, this duty will be self-evident. For example, as drivers, we all have a duty of care to everyone else on the road. In other cases, however, the duty of care may be more nuanced. To what extent does a dog owner owe a duty to an uninvited person on their property? That’s one example of a case where your lawyer must know how to demonstrate this basic precondition of negligence. Our team knows how to do that.

Breach of Duty

Once the duty has been established, our next task is to demonstrate that the defendant failed to live up to their responsibilities. The mere fact of the accident and your injuries are not sufficient in themselves to establish a breach. Some accidents really are just bad luck. What makes a person’s action a breach of duty is when they fail to act as a reasonable person would have given the circumstances.

Car accident cases offer a prime example of this. Let’s say you’re involved in a fender-bender on the I-495 Beltway during a rainy morning drive to work. The driver behind you skidded, and that’s what caused the collision. It’s possible that this was simply a bad luck accident caused by the rain. However, what if the driver was going too fast, given the rain and the traffic? These are circumstances that open up the possibility of breach, as it would be considered prudent to adjust your driving speed for conditions.

Causation

With the breach of an accepted duty of care established, we now have to move on to show that the accident was actually the cause of your injuries. Here again, there will be cases where this will be self-evident. If you were thrown from your motorcycle by a car driving 90mph, it will be readily apparent that your serious neck and back injuries were caused by the accident. Again, however, not every case is this transparent.

Let’s return to our car accident example on the Baltimore Beltway. Maybe the fender-bender came at thankfully low speeds, but the jarring still left you with neck and back problems. What happens if you have pre-existing conditions in these areas? The defendant’s lawyer—or, to be more precise, the lawyers for the defendant’s insurance company—will almost certainly find out about these conditions in the legal discovery process. It then becomes incumbent upon the plaintiff to show that the accident—not the pre-existing condition—was the true cause of their injury.

It's possible that causation issues may need to be settled by expert witness testimony. With over two decades of experience serving Towson and the surrounding areas, our personal injury lawyers are networked with experts who can help.

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Damages in Personal Injury Cases

If you have sustained losses as a result of your personal injury case, you may be eligible to recover compensation in the form of damages. An attorney can help you determine the extent of your losses and what amount constitutes fair compensation based on the facts of your specific case.

The possible damages in Maryland personal injury cases are:

Economic: This refers to the direct financial losses you suffered through hospital bills and lost wages. Depending on the severity of the injuries, it may also involve forecasting lost opportunities for career advancement and ongoing rehabilitation.
Pain and suffering: What if your injuries mean you can no longer go cycling? What if PTDS is preventing you from sleeping? These are just two examples of lost joy that might not have a strict dollar value that can be assigned to them, but still deserve compensation.
Punitive: These damages are directed to punish the defendant. In the state of Maryland, it must be proven that the defendant had true malice—not just negligence—in acting as they did.

Contributory Negligence in Maryland

What happens if the defense alleges that you were at least partially at fault for the accident? Unfortunately, the state of Maryland is one of the few left that still use the defendant-friendly concept of contributory negligence. This means that if the plaintiff is found in any way at all to be responsible for their own injuries, the defendant is not obligated to pay a settlement.

The existence of contributory negligence makes having a competent and experienced lawyer even more important—we have to be ready to contest the defense at every turn, always seeking to protect you and your best interests.

Competence, experience, and diligence. You get all that and more when you come to Alex and LaFleur Attorneys at Law LLC. We work on a contingency fee schedule, which means that unless you get a settlement, you don’t pay us.

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