A massive, vibrant and constantly moving metropolis, Los Angeles has much more than its share of collisions, accidents and personal injury cases. The radio stations report every five to six minutes about just the freeway accidents by themselves. With hundreds of miles of freeway and thousands of miles of roads and so much else in the great urban heartland of Southern California, personal injuries are a constant concern and worry. Los Angeles personal injury lawyers are here to help provide assistance for those suffering the aftermath of severe accident injuries.

Personal Injury Accidents

Personal Injury incidents, occurring in Los Angeles or anywhere else, require determining legal responsibility for the accident or injury. Often called "liability", the process can be complicated, but often rests on whether someone was careless or "negligent." It's easy enough to say that the person or business that caused an accident must pay for your injuries. But before you get to that point, you must determine who was legally at fault.

Determining Legal Liability in Los Angeles personal injury accidents

Most accidents happen because someone was careless. Was that person you or someone else? The basic rule is: If one person involved in an accident was less careful than another, the less careful one must pay for at least a portion of the damages suffered by the more careful one.

Legal liability for almost all Los Angeles personal injury accidents are determined by this rule of carelessness, and by one or more of the following simple propositions:

• If the injured person was where he or she was not supposed to be, or somewhere he or she should have expected the kind of activity which caused the accident, the person who caused the accident might not be liable because that person had no "duty" to be careful toward the injured person.
• If the injured person was also careless, his or her compensation may be reduced by the extent such carelessness was also responsible for the accident. This is known as comparative negligence.
• If a negligent person causes an accident while working for someone else, the employer may also be legally responsible for the accident.
• If an accident is caused on property that is dangerous because it is poorly built or maintained, the owner of the property is liable for being careless in maintaining the property, regardless of whether he or she actually created the dangerous condition.
• If an accident is caused by a defective product, the manufacturer and seller of the product are both liable even if the injured person doesn't know which one was careless in creating or allowing the defect, or exactly how the defect happened
• When More Than One Person Is at Fault

Sound confusing? Handling such issues yourself could result in losing all your claims, or worse, being victimized by other parties blaming you.

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