What is Personal Injury Law?
Personal injury law is used when someone has suffered either a physical or psychological injury as the result of an accident.

Personal injury lawyers cover a broad area of law encompassing many distinct types of cases: Auto accidents; truck accidents; trip/slip and fall cases; boat accidents; product liability; animal bites; theme park injuries; wrongful death; aviation accidents; negligent security cases; medical malpractice; and workers compensation, and others.

How do I choose a personal injury attorney that is best suited to my case?
While most personal injury firms handle all types of personal injury cases, as a practical matter, some firms are better suited to handle certain types of cases better than other firms.

For example:
Cases such as product liability, aviation accidents and medical malpractice, require significant financial wherewithal to compete with very deep pocketed defendants. In such cases, expert witnesses are crucial to proving negligence, or establishing a causal relationship between the injuries alleged and the negligence on the part of the defendant. Therefore, another important factor that separates many personal injury law firms is their relationships with expert witnesses.

Additionally, personal injury law firms that are most successful in the automobile and truck accident arena have established a strong rapport with the insurance adjusters and insurance defense attorneys. As close to 90% of such cases are settled prior to the filing of a lawsuit, it is imperative that your personal injury attorney and their firm have developed a good working relationship with the insurance adjusters who are responsible for paying out settlements. The same goes for cases in which a lawsuit is filed. Since 90% of those cases never make it to a jury, those personal injury firms that have the respect of the insurance defense attorneys are likely to obtain a better settlement than those that do not.

In all cases, access to the right expertise can make all the difference between both the size of your settlement and the ease of the process to get there.