California Personal Injury Lawyer

How a Personal Injury Team Approaches Your California Case

The Goldwater Law Firm, in conjunction with our law firm partners, has been helping injury victims for more than two decades. We are an award-winning firm with a widely recognized name and a reputation for getting results. We put victims first and ensure they have the necessary resources to win their cases. Many accident victims are scared, angry, or frustrated. It can be challenging to know where to turn and who to trust after someone else causes you to suffer life-altering injuries. Our partners understand and treat each client with empathy and respect. We know your payout and getting justice are important to you, and we want to ensure you can meet those goals. We believe individuals should not have to carry the financial and emotional burden of an injury accident while also dealing with the physical injuries they suffered. We want you to hold the negligent party responsible and secure the maximum compensation.

Understanding How We Work

The Goldwater Law Firm refers victims to co-counsels in their area to proceed with their case. This allows us to help victims in all 50 states, including California. We refer clients for personal injury cases and mass torts, which usually involve dangerous or defective products. Our co-counsels come from strategic partnerships we built with some of the most successful and highly recommended law firms nationwide. We also have agreements with experts on various topics, from doctors to economists to accident reconstruction specialists. Our partner law firms’ work is based on contingency. They never ask you to pay for their advocacy or legal services upfront. You only pay after they secure compensation for you in your case. If they don’t win, you don’t pay.

Your California Lawyer Will Know How Personal Injury Cases Work

When you work with a law firm partner to understand your rights and build a compelling case, they can explain your case and what to expect as it progresses. Our co-counsels handle a wide range of personal injuries and mass torts. Our team will assess your initial eligibility to determine how negligence caused your injuries. Your referral will come once we see how someone else’s carelessness caused your accident and injuries. Some common accidents and incidents that support a personal injury case include:

• Car Accidents: California has fault-based car accident laws. When a driver’s negligence causes a collision, the victim can hold that driver accountable and recover money through the driver’s auto liability insurance policy.
• Truck Accidents: Liability in truck accidents often falls on the trucking company instead of the truck driver. This can lead to challenges, but victims should be able to recover compensation for their injuries and damages.
• Motorcycle Accidents: Motorcyclists may suffer serious injuries when other drivers act carelessly. Recovering compensation for current and future care costs is imperative.
• Medical Malpractice: When doctors and other health care practitioners act negligently, patients get hurt. California’s medical malpractice laws allow victims to hold doctors and hospitals accountable.
• Nursing Home Injuries: When nursing home residents experience abuse or neglect, it can cause significant physical and emotional harm.
• Workplace Injuries: We can assess your case and explain your options following an on-the-job injury or other workers’ compensation claim issues.
• Wrongful Death: If your loved one died from their accident injuries, your family may be able to recover damages based on the related expenses and losses.

Our co-counsels also manage dangerous drugs and defective product cases nationwide. We can review your case and refer you to one of our law firm partners, who serve clients in all 50 states in a wide range of active lawsuits and mass torts. If you were hurt and believe someone else’s negligence is to blame, contact us as soon as your injuries allow you to make the call. We will assess your case and explain how you might be able to recover a fair payout with help from one of our partner law firms.

How a California Injury Lawyer Documents Damages in a Personal Injury Case

To recover maximum compensation after an injury accident, your attorney must carefully identify and document your related expenses and losses. They will know how to navigate this process and can often find recoverable damages that victims had overlooked. This requires your lawyer to gather a lot of paperwork, consult experts, and use their experience with similar cases to understand better how much yours might be worth. During this process, they may request that you provide medical bills, income statements, previous paystubs, receipts, and other documents. The recoverable damages they might be working to recover include:

• Medical care costs
• Future and ongoing care and support needs
• Lost income
• Future income lost due to diminished earning ability
• Repair or replacement of damaged property
• Related costs
• Pain and suffering damages

The recoverable damages may be somewhat different in wrongful death cases. However, the process is the same. The attorney will still need to gather evidence to show how the loss of your loved one affected your family financially and emotionally.

Your California Personal Injury Attorney Will Build a Compelling Case to Fight for Justice

In theory, an insurance company should offer fair compensation when they learn that their policyholder caused an accident and injuries. However, this is not how this claims process typically works. Instead, the insurance company will try to pay as little as possible to close the case. Your attorney, meanwhile, will fight to maximize your financial recovery. The best way to get you the money you may qualify to recover is to develop a robust case that compels the insurance adjuster or jury to pay a fair amount. This requires:

• Preserving, analyzing, and presenting robust and convincing evidence
• Documenting a wide range of damages
• Showing you understand the insurance coverage available
• Standing your ground when they make low-ball offers
• Convincing the insurance company they will likely lose the case if it goes to trial

When you work with a California personal injury lawyer, they will take care of all aspects of your claim or lawsuit. This includes managing these tasks and demanding that:

• The insurance company compensates you fairly or
• They will take the case to court to win a jury verdict and payout on your behalf

You Only Have a Limited Time to Hire a Personal Injury Attorney for Your California Case

Every state has a statute of limitations for personal injury cases. This statute limits how long you can wait to file a lawsuit. In California, there are separate deadlines for personal injuries, wrongful deaths, and medical malpractice cases. Generally, they include:

• Personal Injury: Under CCP § 335.1, the personal injury deadline is usually two years from the injury date
• Wrongful Death: Also set by CCP § 335.1, the wrongful death deadline is two years from the date of death in most cases.
• Medical Malpractice: You generally have up to three years to sue for medical malpractice under CCP § 340.5.

Other deadlines could apply, which is one reason you should consider discussing your case with our team as soon as possible. Ideally, our law firm partners would take over your case as soon as your injuries heal enough to call us. Getting an early start on your case can be advantageous in developing a solid case and protecting your right to seek fair compensation. Having an attorney handling your case removes the weight of talking to the insurance company and wondering what you should do next. You do not have to endure the stress of not knowing how this process works and must recover compensation. When you work with a personal injury lawyer, all you need to worry about is your treatment and rehabilitation.