Do You Have a Personal Injury Case?

Have you or a loved one been hurt or damaged by another person's negligence? How would you know if you should contact a personal injury lawyer or law firm and tell them you have a case? Many law firms will work with you directly and help you to understand if you have a case. However, if you want to be sure that you do have a case, you should be sure to have these three requirements in tact:

1. Your Injury must have been caused by someone else's conduct.

If the injury is caused by the negligence of another person, company or organization, then you stand a good chance at having a personal injury case. There must be somebody on the other side accountable for your injury. Obviously, if there wasn't, who could you take to court?

2. Someone has to be liable.

That person cannot be yourself. You must not be accountable in any form or fashion for the cause of the injury. As stated earlier, somebody other than you must be at fault for making the injury occur.

3. The money has to come from somewhere.

When you sue or take someone to court for a personal injury case, you have to be able to collect the money from somewhere. Most often, this requirement will be fulfilled by insurance.

After those three basic requirements are met, you have a good possibility of having a personal injury case. There are, of course, other specific requirements to certain types of cases, such as medical accidents and malpractice and automobile accidents. You should discuss these with your law firm and they will give you instruction that is specific to your situation.

How much is your case worth?

This question takes into account many more details. It is not near as easy to decide how much a case is worth than deciding if you have a case or not. For example, deciding how much your case is worth depends on very specific things and things you probably didn't realize.

Your case's worth may be determined by things such as:

* Who you are.
* What your career is.
* Severity of Injuries.
* What you do for recreation.
* Permanency of injuries.
* Whether or not you have suffered a loss of earning capacity.
* If your injuries are visible.

You and your law firm must look at the individual, at his or her injuries and the amount of money that has already been spent to try and treat the injury. You must also look at how much they are going to cost to treat on an ongoing basis.

There are still many other factors that go in to deciding how much your case is worth. As stated before, it is much more difficult to decide this, then to decide if you even had a case in the first place.

Jason is a writer for Boston Personal Injury Lawyer Guide.