Hey Philly! Do You Know What Constitutes Personal Injury?

Personal injury occurs when a person is hurt due to someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing.
Personal injury law (also known as tort law) covers a person’s physical and emotional damage due to this carelessness. It can also include wrongful death. But what really constitutes personal injury? How do you know for sure if you’ve been the victim of personal injury and if you should proceed with any legal reciprocation from it?

If you were involved in an accident and you were hurt, chances are you deserve to be rewarded for damages incurred to your person.
If the accident occurred through no fault of your own, you are the plaintiff in this situation. You have to determine who or what caused the accident and if their negligence deems compensation. The person, business or entity at fault is known as the defendant. The defendant can be another individual that caused a car accident, for example. It could be a company or store in which you had a slip and fall. It could be an injury due to a hazardous material in which a company or other entity is at fault.

Once you figure out who or what caused your injury, you need to decide what you want to do in order to receive restitution for damages that were caused through no fault of your own.
Personal injury can occur in a multitude of ways: auto accident, slip and fall, consumer product liability and injuries caused by animals, such as a dog bite. All of these (and there are still others), if serious enough, can cause undue physical and emotional injury to you. You have the right to receive compensation for that.

After you have received medical attention, you should focus on the next step: finding a personal injury lawyer to help with your case.
Personal injury law focuses on injuries caused to an individual. It may involve property damage; the most important focus is on the injured person or people. Property comes second. A personal injury attorney can help you figure out if you have a solid case or not and what your next steps should be. The negligence of another party should not be ignored if an innocent person becomes a victim.

If you are the victim of personal injury and are looking for a Philadelphia personal injury attorney, the team at Martins Mill Legal Center has been practicing personal injury law for a long time. As a matter of fact, it is their specialty. They focus mainly on personal injury law. This means they are quite experienced with Pennsylvania laws and will be able to fight for you better than most of their competitors.

Editor’s Note:
Anytime we talk about anything in Philadelpia, we get cravings for a Philly soft pretzel, as there’s nothing like them in the world! We research topics from dozens of sources to see what we can find when creating articles. While researching this topic,  just for kicks we searched on “philadelphia soft pretzel injury” thinking this was probably a very silly idea. Much to our surprise we found a personal injury case not too far from home involving a woman who’s hand got stuck in a dough conveyor belt at the Philly Pretzel Factory. You can read the story here.

Contact Leo Flynn or one of his associates at Martins Mill Legal Center today. Leo and his team will be able to steer you in the right direction and help you with your case. You don’t need to do this alone and in fact you shouldn’t. Let the Legal Center help.

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