Greenville County Personal Injury Lawyer

A personal injury or accident can derail your plans for the rest of the day. You may even find yourself exchanging your surfboard for a backboard. While you are dealing with agonizing injuries, you also have medical bills piling up around you. If you have sustained serious or long-term injuries, you may be unable to work, having no way to pay back these bills. The fallout can place you in a depression and cause you to isolate yourself from friends and family.

At Bradley Law, we understand the uphill battle you are facing. Thankfully, our Greenville County personal injury attorney utilizes a personalized approach to obtain fair compensation on your behalf. If you or a loved one has recently fallen victim to a personal injury, our firm is only a call or click away.

Types of Cases We Handle

Several intersections in Greenville County, including Pleasantburg Drive and Rutherford Road and Pleasantburg Drive and Haywood Road, have been identified as high-accident zones with frequent angle crashes and left-turn collisions. Busy roads like Laurens Road and Haywood Road see regular crashes when drivers ignore traffic signals, often resulting in serious T-bone and side-impact collisions.

Personal injury claims in Greenville County move through the Court of Common Pleas in Greenville, and local knowledge of these roads and court procedures directly affects how a claim is built. Our firm has assisted clients in recovering compensation after many types of accidents, including:

Car accidents
Truck accidents
Slip and falls
Motorcycle accidents
Work injuries and workers’ compensation
Dog bites
Medical malpractice
Nursing home abuse
Premises liability
Wrongful death

Insurance Delay Tactics

When you file an insurance claim, the claims adjuster will conduct an investigation into your matter. SC Code §38-59-20 requires that insurance companies work in good faith to settle claims promptly and equitably. In addition to gathering evidence and information, a claims adjuster may conduct an in-person physical inspection of your vehicle if you are filing a car insurance claim.

Sadly, the claims adjuster has the insurer’s profits in mind, not your well-being. Insurance companies are known to use delay tactics to avoid paying on your claim. This is often done in the hopes that you will take a low settlement, allowing them to maximize their profits. This can apply even if the extent of damages is readily apparent, with the insurance company denying liability. This is especially true when you are filing a third-party claim, which involves filing a claim through the other driver’s insurance.

Prompt Investigation into Your Claim

At Bradley Law, our Greenville County personal injury attorney will conduct an independent investigation to determine liability. This will include gathering photos, video footage, and testimony from any eyewitnesses present at the time of the incident. If we run into a reluctant witness, we may need to subpoena their testimony. If we discover video evidence that could support your claim, we will submit a spoliation letter to the appropriate party to ensure that the evidence remains intact. These processes are best left to the skills of our Greenville County personal injury attorney.

Determining Which Party is At-Fault

A successful personal injury case hinges on proving the other party’s liability, which involves establishing the following:

Duty of care: The at-fault party owed you a legal duty to keep you safe.
Breach of duty: Through either an act or omission, the at-fault party violated the duty of care owed to you.
Causation: The at-fault party’s actions are the actual and proximate cause of your injuries. Actual cause is established by using the “but for” test; “but for the defendant running the red light, the plaintiff would not have suffered a concussion.” Proximate cause, or legal cause, involves showing that your injuries were a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the defendant’s conduct. Given numerous factors at play, causation is the element most often disputed in personal injury claims.
Damages: Due to the accident or personal injury, you suffered measurable losses. These may be physical, emotional, or financial in nature. Common personal injury damages include medical bills, lost wages, and property damage.

Compensation for Your Losses

When someone else is to blame for the harm you suffered, you should be compensated fully for any and all accident-incurred expenses. In a personal injury case, this may involve compensation for the following:

Ambulatory services
Hospitalizations
Surgeries and/or treatments
Prescription costs
Mobility aids (i.e., crutches, wheelchairs, walkers, canes)
Home modifications
Pain and suffering
Loss of consortium
Disfigurement and/or scarring
Damage to reputation

It is not your responsibility to know what damages may apply in your situation. Our personal injury attorney at Bradley Law is happy to assess your case to determine which damages should be sought and what evidence is needed to do so.

Contact Our Greenville County Personal Injury Attorney

We each have a legal responsibility to use appropriate care based on the activity we are performing. Given the rush of today’s world, oversight and carelessness are placing us all at greater risk of harm. If you have been injured due to another’s negligence, do not hesitate to contact our Greenville County personal injury lawyer. To arrange your free consultation, contact Bradley Law online or by phone.

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