Maison Law represents Ridgecrest residents who become victims in personal injury accidents. We represent the victims of dog bites, car accidents, slip-and-falls, and other accidents to get the support they need in recovery. If you are hurt due to someone’s negligence, contact a skilled Ridgecrest Personal Injury Lawyer and schedule a free consultation. It’s a no-risk way to determine what your injury is worth and how to hold a negligent driver or business owner responsible.
Do I Need a Lawyer After My Ridgecrest Personal Injury Accident?
If you are hurt due to an individual’s or a business owner’s mistake, you may need a skilled attorney on your side to make sure you receive fair support during your recovery.
For accidents involving only minor injuries and property damage, you may be able to handle your case yourself. But if the diagnosis for your injuries is serious, such as a broken bone or head trauma, talking to a Ridgecrest personal injury lawyer is a wise idea.
When the medical bills for your injury will go beyond a quick trip to the emergency room, insurance adjusters begin to get nervous about how much support they’ll have to provide and for how long. They can even attempt to pin the blame on you for an accident that wasn’t your fault in any way. Your lawyer fights back against these tactics and holds insurance companies fully accountable on your behalf.
What Our Clients Say
Types of Accident Cases We Are Involved In
Our team of personal injury lawyers knows what it’s like to be seriously injured as a result of the carelessness and negligence of some other person or entity. We represent men, women and children in and around Ridgecrest in the following types of personal injury cases:
- Auto Accidents: These are the leading cause of personal injuries in Kern County.
- Truck Accidents: A crash between a tractor-trailer that’s 70 foot long and weighs 80,000 pounds is likely to result in severe to catastrophic injuries or fatalities.
- Motorcycle Crashes: Motorcyclists are virtually unprotected and exposed to severe injuries. They’re 26 times more likely to die in a crash than drivers or occupants of passenger vehicles.
- Pedestrian Accidents: A careless driver can cause life-threatening harm to those on foot.
- Bicycle Accidents: Motorists must share Ridgecrest roads with cyclists. When drivers don’t share caution, riders can suffer devastating injuries.
- Bus Crashes: Bus passengers rarely have seat belts to use. Manufacturers rely on passengers to slam into the seat in front of them in the event of a crash. We represent injured people in school, Ridgerunner, private and shuttle bus accidents.
- Premises Liability. Visitors are injured every day at homes or businesses that are owned and occupied by others. These accidents could involve slip-and-falls, trip-and-falls or merchandise crashing down from high above onto unsuspecting customers at big box warehouse stores such as Walmart.
- Dog Bites and Animal Attacks: State and municipal laws in California operate to protect victims of attacks by dogs and other animals.
Defective Products – The purchases you bring into your home and those that are installed can malfunction and harm you or a family member. Our defective products lawyers can hold manufacturers, retailers, and contractors responsible for the harm caused by tools and appliances that cause injuries.
- Wrongful Death: Damages can be sought in a civil case by the family of a person who died as a result of the negligence of somebody else.
Hardships that May Earn Compensation After a Ridgecrest Accident
Your Ridgecrest personal injury lawyer fully investigates what happened to you and identifies every at-fault party that may have been responsible for your injury. Your lawyer then files an accident claim with all appropriate insurance providers.
A list of all the damages you and your family have endured since the accident is included. It’s a critical step because anything left off will remain a cost you’d have to cover out of your own savings.
These and other factors should all go into determining the total on your personal injury settlement check:
- Past medical bills and medical bills reasonably expected to be incurred in the future.
- Any permanent disfigurement or disability.
- Travel costs to see doctors and specialists.
- Compensation for the pain you endure.
- Compensation for the emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression you suffer.
- Loss of enjoyment of life and the hobbies you can no longer participate in.
- Past earnings lost or diminished loss of earnings in the future.
- Property damage compensation such as money for car repairs or replacement.
- Wrongful death benefits. Families who lose a loved one in tragic personal injury accidents can sue an at-fault party. They would demand help with all funeral and remaining medical costs. Close relatives should also get help in replacing the income the deceased can’t earn to support the family in the future.
Don’t Harm Your Case:
After being injured in an accident that was caused by somebody else, California law gives you the right to seek compensation for your injuries and damages from whoever caused them. Exercising that right isn’t something that you want to try on your own your own. That’s exactly what the opposing insurance company will want you to do though. Its adjuster might even tell you that you don’t need a lawyer for your claim. If you believe that, you’ll make mistakes that are likely to permanently harm your case. By the time that you finally get to a lawyer’s office, you’re arriving with damaged goods. Rather than harming your case, preserve and protect it by arranging for a free consultation and case review with us.
We Customize and Personalize.
We handle every case in our offices with the utmost care while customizing our legal strategies to fit the facts of your case. Clients don’t need to chase us down to learn about the status of their cases either. We keep them continually advised on the status of their cases by email, regular mail and phone calls. As a client, you’ll have questions that are going to arise from time to time. If you phone or email our offices, and your attorney isn’t available, he or she will return your call or respond to your email at their earliest opportunity. That’s all part of the personalized legal services that we provide.
Ridgecrest’s Personal Injury Lawyer
Ridgecrest is a community that prides itself on hard work and family life. Those qualities must sometimes be protected when property owners, careless drivers, or negligent employers put others at risk and end up getting them hurt.
If you or a loved one are seriously injured due to the carelessness of someone else, contact a Ridgecrest Personal Injury Lawyer with the experience to demand what’s fair from national corporations, local employers, and anyone else who may be liable for your suffering.
Discuss your case with an attorney from Maison Law in a free consultation that comes with no obligation. We believe that every client should work directly with their lawyer, get honest advice, and the personalized attention to detail their case deserves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Comparative negligence means the defendant and plaintiff could share a portion of the blame in their accident. In Ridgecrest, plaintiffs can recover damages from defendants even if they face 99 percent of the blame. There’s no need to worry about proving a certain percentage of blame to receive damages in California.
Lawyers can request the defendant’s cell phone data to prove whether they were texting while driving. Responding officers may also review a driver’s phone and record issues in their official statement.
Two years. But you shouldn’t wait years to look into your options. Give your lawyer a head start on securing fresh evidence and locating witnesses. This will help build a strong case for you.
