Bronx Personal Injury Lawyer

How Our Bronx Personal Injury Attorneys Can Help You

At The Barnes Firm, our focus is on helping our clients obtain the compensation they are entitles to and that they need to regain their health and well-being. With this in mind, you can expect us to help you in a range of critical ways.

Helping You Avoid Common Pitfalls

The fact is that while the insurance company is paid to cover claims like yours, it is often not on your side. Rather, it is focused on keeping its profits high and its settlements low. In other words, the insurance company is not above distracting you from your own best interests. With our focused legal guidance on your side, you’ll be well-positioned to avoid the insurance company’s many techniques that are designed to trip you up, including:

• Making early settlement offers that don’t come close to fairly addressing total losses.
• Denying claims early on in the hope of discouraging clients.
• Prolonging and overcomplicating the process as a means of scaring claimants off.
• Denying the liability of their at-fault policyholders.
• Denying the extent of claimants’ damages.

The insurance company will also attempt to obtain an official statement about the accident from you, and this is an opportunity for them to elicit comments that do you and your claim no good. You are not required to make a statement, and it’s in your best interest to avoid doing so. Your dedicated personal injury attorney at The Barnes Firm will provide the insurance company with all the information they need.

Building Your Strongest Claim

Working with our team at The Barnes Firm also means you’ll bring your strongest claim – in support of a favorable resolution. We will leave no stone unturned in our evidence gathering, which includes obtaining the testimony we need to back everything up. With strong evidence and a well-constructed claim, the insurance company will have a difficult time denying your assessment of the accident and your related losses.

Skillfully Negotiating with the Insurance Company

Once your claim is solid, it’s time for skilled negotiations. At The Barnes Firm, we have a wealth of experience negotiating fair settlements that cover our clients’ losses in their entirety. We won’t stop until every category of loss you experience is addressed fairly.

Taking the Matter to Court

If the insurance company refuses to engage in fair negotiations and your claim stalls, we’re more than prepared to take the matter up in court. Your rights and recovery are far too important to leave to the discretion of the insurance company. Ultimately, the law and not the insurance company has the final say on the matter.

Compensation Available in a Bronx Personal Injury Claim

The compensation you can seek in a Bronx personal injury claim includes your medical expenses, your lost earnings, and your pain and suffering. Let’s take a closer look.

Your Medical Bills

You’ve been injured, which means you can expect considerable medical expenses. If any of the following apply, however, you can expect the costs to be even more significant:

• Your injuries are serious.
• You develop health complications.
• You experience a secondary health concern.

Accepting a personal injury settlement before you have a thorough understanding of how serious your injuries are and how extensive your related medical costs will be can leave you facing insurmountable financial losses.

Lost Income

If your injuries keep you off the job or affect your ability to do your job, you can also expect lost earnings. If your career itself is affected, this category of loss can be immense. It’s important to note that losses related to your work can also lead to emotional consequences that relate to the sense of purpose many of us derive from our jobs.

Types of Personal Injury Claims in Bronx, NY

No two personal injury claims are ever carbon copies of one another, but they all fall into basic categories.

Traffic Collisions

As mentioned, traffic crashes are the most common form of personal injury claim, and they come in all the following forms:

• Car accidents
• Motorcycle accidents
• E-scooter accidents
• Truck accidents
• Pedestrian accidents
• Bike accidents
• Rideshare accidents
• Public transport accidents, including bus, subway, and train accidents

Premises Liability Claims

Another common form of personal injury claim is a slip and fall accident, which is classified as premises liability. Commercial property owners have a considerable duty of care toward the customers, visitors, and guests that frequent their premises, and failure to adequately maintain their premises and to take the necessary safety precautions can lead to dangerous accidents.

Some of the most common premises liability claims stem from negligence including the following:

• Inadequate lighting
• Inadequate maintenance
• Inadequate security
• Inadequate safety measures

Some of the most common types of premises liability claims include the following:

• Slip and fall and trip and fall accidents
• Fires
• Accidents on stairs
• Elevator and escalator accidents

Ultimately, commercial property owners are responsible for implementing the same degree of care that other property owners employ in similar situations.

Recent Personal Injury Settlements We Have Won For Our Clients

Our focus, legal skill, and client-centered approach allow us to provide the legal counsel necessary to prevail with optimal claim settlements and court awards, including all the following recent examples:

• Motorcycle accident settlements and awards of $7 million, $1.1 million, $500,000, and $250,000
• Car accident settlements and awards of $3.25 million, $2.7 million, $1.7 million, $1.5 million, $1.3 million, $1.25 million, $900,000, $850,000, $875,000, $825,000, $750,000, $650,000, $600,000, $585,000, and $575,000
• Workplace accident settlements and awards of $2.2 million, $750,000, $600,000, $500,000, and $375,000, including construction accident settlements and awards of $1.4 million and $450,000
• Bike accident settlements and awards of $1.5 million, $600 000, and $425,000
• Truck accident settlements and awards of $1.5 million, $1.25 million, $1 million, $910,000, $900,000, $750,000, and $350,000
• Pedestrian accident settlements and awards of $1.3 million, $1.2 million, $550,000, $525,000, $489,000, $385,000, and $300,000
• Sip and fall and trip and fall accident settlements and awards of $875,000, $825,000, $650,000, $587,000, $400,000, and $300,000
• Rideshare accident settlements and awards of $850,000 and $700,000

This is in addition to settlements and awards like the following:

• $2 million for a farming accident
• $1 million for a wrongful death case
• $600,000 for an asbestos case
• $550,00 for a commercial vehicle accident
• $440,000 for a ceiling collapse