What is Personal Injury?
- When someone is physically or emotionally injured, it is considered in law to be a personal injury.
- The laws covering personal injury allow the injured party to receive compensation for damages caused by someone else's:
- Carelessness
- Negligence
- Recklessness
- Intentional acts
- Damages in a Maryland personal injury case generally consist of four primary categories:
- Medical Bills
- Lost Wages
- Pain and Suffering
- Actual Expenses (e.g. rental cars, property damage, prescription costs)
You Need an Attorney
The person or company that caused your injury is usually represented by an insurance company who employs highly trained and salaried adjusters, political lobbyists, and lawyers to protect the insurance company’s profits by paying as little as possible on claims.
You need to have someone to look out for your best interests. Our job is to level the playing field for victims of all kinds of personal injuries: motor vehicle accidents, boating accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall, dog bites, medical malpractice, and toxic exposure.
A Maryland personal injury lawyer knows that in the case of personal injury, a judge or jury may find the defendant liable for several types of damages. The personal injury lawyers at Staiti & DiBlasio work to get the most compensation possible for your injury. In representing you, we consider the types and permanency of the injuries you have sustained, and how those injuries have and will affect your quality of life and future ability to earn a living.
You need a lawyer to obtain fair and reasonable compensation, more than you can get on your own, even after attorney fees are deducted.
Insurance Companies are Not on Your Side
The insurance companies will generally feed raw information into a computer program (more than half of insurance adjusters use a computer system called Colossus) which provides the adjusters with a dollar range for settlement purposes. Recently, insurance adjusters have been dictating what kind of medical care is appropriate for injuries and how much of it will be covered by the insurance company. Last time we checked, the qualifications for being an insurance adjuster did not include medical school.
Call Staiti & DiBlasio, LLP for assistance - (410) 787-1123