If you or a family member has been the victim of a personal injury you will want to seek the advice of a good Atlanta personal injury attorney. While not all injuries warrant lawsuits it is important that you get the legal advise of an expert. Generally in order to bring a lawsuit you must be able to prove that there was negligence. Your attorney will work with you to help make a determination. There are various types of personal injury that may lead to a lawsuit. These include auto or truck ...
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Most personal injury lawyers work on a contingency fee basis. That means they take a part of whatever monetary damages are awarded to the plaintiff. This can range from 25% to 45%, but most lawyers take 33% of the payout on average. Many people ask themselves if they can fight their own case and cut out the middle man. Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at the south-Florida based Flaxman Law Group, has been fighting personal injury cases for over 37 years, we asked him to weigh in on representing ...
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In a personal injury lawsuit, a defendant is not only responsible for paying medical bills, but also for pain and suffering, lost wages and the loss of one's ability to enjoy life. While this seems like it can be arbitrary numbers, personal injury lawyer Charles Flaxman who is with Flaxman Law Group based in south Florida, explains how one attaches a monetary amount to something so seemingly esoteric. It seems that medical bills are rather easy to quantify as they usually have a dollar amount ...
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Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at Flaxman Law Group, has worked as an insurance claims adjuster and has been fighting personal injury lawsuits for over 37 years. In this article, he defines what a personal injury lawsuit is and why the advice of a lawyer is so important.A personal injury lawsuit is a type of legal claim made in the court system that attempts to obtain compensation for any type of injury that a person sustains to their body or mind. This compensation can apply to any medical bills ...
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In a personal injury lawsuit, the plaintiff seeks damages from the defendant for medical bills, pain and suffering, loss of ability to enjoy life and lost wages into the future. Depending on the job and type of injury, the amount of money rewarded for lost wages can vary vastly. Personal injury lawyer, Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at Flaxman Law Group based in south Florida, sheds some light on how to calculate lost wages. Lost wages in the past and, even more so, in the future, are sometimes ...
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Charles Flaxman, who is with Flaxman Law Group, is a personal injury lawyer who has been practicing in Florida for over 37 years. Find out much it costs to hire a personal injury lawyer to fight your case and what a contingency fee is. Doesn't it cost money just to talk to a lawyer?Most personal injury lawyers will start you off with a free initial consultation. In this meeting, the lawyer will sit down with you and ask you all sorts of specific questions about the incident to find out if your ...
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Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at Flaxman Law Group, has been fighting personal injury cases for over 37 years. While he admits that putting a price tag on an accident is certainly more of an art than a science, in this article he tries to explain how lawyers figure out exactly how much to sue for. How much should we sue for?When it comes to determining the value of a case, the numbers are not as hard and fast as we might like to think. For this reason, in addition to many others, it is important to ...
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Charles Flaxman, a personal injury lawyer with Flaxman Law Group, has been in practice for over 37 years and was an insurance claims adjuster before that. He has fought countless personal injury cases and knows the ins and outs of the law. In this article, he shares some tips to consider before you step in front of a jury. In this country, we have a major problem with frivolous lawsuits. People often sue over truly ridiculous things and sometimes have even won. I refuse to take any case that I ...
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A personal injury lawyer is an attorney who represents an individual who claims to have been injured physically and/or emotionally as the result of trauma caused by the negligence of another person, group, or government agency. A personal injury law firm in Minneapolis MN has experience with law in regards to damages to a person, their property, and other civil wrongs. They deal with tort law. This is a body of law that addresses civil wrong doings that are not contract related. Instead of ...
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If you have been hurt in an accident then you may be eligible to make a personal injury claim. Unfortunately, filing a claim on your own can be complicated and if you don't complete your claim correctly you could either end up with less than you really deserved or worse, have your claim declined. Another factor to consider is that you may need to take time off work to recover from your injury. Too many people find that it's financially impossible for them to take enough time off work and so ...
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There's no denying that accidents happen, but that doesn't mean that you should have to pay for it when an accident is another person or entity's fault. Whether it's a car crash that someone else caused, a faulty product designed by a company, or some other tragic accident that caused your injury, you may be entitled to personal injury compensation. How can you know whether or not you have a legitimate personal injury case? The short answer to that question is that anytime that another person ...
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Personal injury cases are a type of legal case wherein one person or entity is held liable for injuring another person. This liability usually takes the form of the liable party having to pay for medical and other expenses, lost wages, and sometimes additional money for ruining the injured party's 'quality of life.' Personal injury cases are quite common - many people would say they are too common. A lot of people have legitimate claim, but others are out just to make money at someone else's ...
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People often have a negative stereotype about personal injury attorneys, thinking of them as 'ambulance chasers' that are just out to profit from the pain of others. While some personal injury attorneys may fit this stereotype, the majority do not. Rather than hoping to profit off of the pain of others, the goal of most personal injury attorneys is to get their clients the proper and deserved compensation for the pain and suffering they've had to endure. Reasons to Hire an Attorney People ...
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Personal injuries cause more than physical pain to an injured person. Financially, serious injuries could be devastating. Victims of accidents may get bedridden and forced to stay home for longer period. Victim also gets crippled by the whopping medical bills. More often insurance companies take advantage and deprive you of just claim if you put up compensation claim without hiring services of personal injury attorney to fight your case. After meeting a serious accident it is difficult for ...
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In our everyday lives at work many people will occasionally suffer minor accidents, anything from paper cuts to shutting our fingers in a drawer; it is a common occurrence and in most cases it is likely to be our own fault.  These accidents can generally be avoided with a bit more care and attention while we work. However there are instances in the workplace where other types of accidents can occur such as slips, trips and potentially more serious accidents where injured parties are taken to ...
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