Determining Legal Liability For an Accident Or Personal Injury

Have you recently been hurt or injured because of another person or company's failure to exercise reasonable care? If so, it is a smart decision to seem legal counsel from a Seattle injury attorney. Experienced attorneys advise on all legal matters regarding the circumstances of your accident, the extent of your injuries, and its long term effects on your life.

A Seattle personal injury attorney can help you determine whether or not you are entitled to financial compensation for damages. This typically includes medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, property damage, permanent disability, and damage to your earning potential.

A Seattle injury lawyer is adept at helping to accurately judge legal responsibility for an accident or injury. The rules for this are often complicated. It's easy to say someone is guilty of causing the accident and must pay for your injuries but determining who was legally at fault is a little more difficult.

Most injuries caused from accidents occur because of the carelessness of another person. The basic rule most attorneys follow is "if one person in an accident was less careful than another, the less careful one is responsible for paying for at least a portion of the damages suffered by the more careful one."

Legal responsibility is determined by this rule of carelessness, as well as one or more of the following simple circumstances:

- If the injured party was where they were not supposed to be, or somewhere they should have expected the kind of activity which caused the accident, the party who caused the accident might not be liable since they had no legal duty to be careful.
- If the person injured was also careless or reckless, their financial compensation may be reduced by the extent that they were also responsible for the accident.
- If the negligent party causes the accident while working for someone else, the employer may also be legally liable for the accident.
- If the accident is caused on a dangerous, poorly built or maintained property, the owner of such property is liable, regardless of whether they actually created the dangerous conditions.
- If a defective product caused the accident, then both the manufacturer and seller of the product are liable.

If you have suffered a serious personal injury from accident, don't sacrifice your future or what you are owed. A Seattle personal injury attorney can help you receive what you deserve.