People often wonder why injury attorneys will not accept their case. After someone has been injured they may believe they have a case but cannot find an attorney who will accept the case. In order to help you understand why, we list below some of the things that may be helpful for your consideration.
One of the earliest considerations by a personal injury attorney is how the accident actually happened. In order to hold someone financially accountable, they had to breach a legal duty or in layman's terms do something wrong that caused the injury. It is not enough that the injury happened on a premises or that the injuries are severe.
An example would be that in a car accident you were supposed to yield the right-of-way but the other driver impacted your vehicle.
In order to have a viable personal injury claim the injured person must be able to prove that the other party was at fault. If you may have been partly at fault, an attorney may decline your case because the monetary award will be reduced or eliminated depending on the extent of your fault.
Attorneys hear all the time "I could have been killed", that is not an element of legal damages.