This area of law typically involves cases where one or more parties harm another party, either through negligent or intentional acts. Generally, these are fact-intensive cases that cover a wide variety of difference scenarios. At their core, they are situations where someone is injured and another is at fault. This also can involve dealing with not just the other party, or parties, but their insurance carriers.
The sorts of available damages will vary. Generally, injured parties have the potential to recover special and general damages. Special damages, or economic damages, are out-of-pocket expenses like lost wages, medical bills, or other explicitly quantifiable losses. General damages, or noneconomic damages, are meant to compensate individual for paint and suffering, loss of quality of life, or other damages where a dollar value isn't exactly attributable. Recovering any of these damages requires both proving them and that the accident caused those damages.
Our attorneys practicing in this field can assist in reviewing potential claims and discussing them with you in greater detail.