Personal injury generally refers to an injury to a person’s body, mind or emotions as a result of the negligence or intentional conduct of another. Personal injury law is born out of tort law, which is a much broader area of law covering a lot of different conduct that causes injury, suffering or harm to another person.
Examples of the most common types of personal injury cases include premises liability and slip or trip and fall accidents, automobile accidents, construction accidents, professional malpractice, and product liability claims based on injuries caused by defective products.
In personal injury law, injured victims take legal action through the court system in order to seek redress for their injuries. With rare exception, the goal or objective of personal injury litigation seek compensation in the form of money for any and all economic and noneconomic (i.e. pain and suffering) losses. Such monetary awards are referred to as compensatory damages, since they designed to compensate the victim of personal injury for the injuries he or she suffered.
There are several types of compensatory damages that may be recoverable, including but not limited to medical expenses (i.e. hospital bills, provider bills, medications, medical equipment, etc), lost wages (i.e. income lost because the injured person has missed work due to his or her injuries), property damage (i.e. damage to one’s vehicle in a car accident) and certain other hedonistic damages generally referred to as pain and suffering, emotional and mental distress, loss of consortium (i.e. companionship) and the loss of one’s enjoyment of life.
Compensatory damages may be further classified into two different categories: general and special damages. General damages are those which may be awarded for injuries and/or losses that are not easily calculated, such as defamation. On the other hand, special damages are easily calculated, such as medical expenses and other quantifiable losses, and are awarded with the intent of restoring the injured party to the position they were in prior to the accident and their injury.
Another category of damages often pursued in personal injury litigation is the category of punitive damages. These damages are unique in that they have been expressly designed by leg for them. This also means that our firm – not our clients – will be responsible for advancing all out-of-pocket litigation expenses throughout the pendency of the case. In contrast to charging a fixed, hourly rate, the contingency-fee payment arrangement guarantees that our firm will only be compensated at the conclusion of the litigation, after an award has been obtained. Moreover, the only compensation the Law Office of Todd Drayton ever receives in connection with its representation of personal injury clients is a dollar-for-dollar reimbursement of the aforementioned litigation expenses and a one-third (33.33%) percentage or professional fee of the overall recovery. Our initial consultation, case evaluation and preliminary investigation is always free.
Have you been injured as a result of the wrongdoing of another? Are you looking for an exceptionally skilled and experienced trial attorney? Are you ready to move forward with your potential personal injury case? Are you interested in seeking the compensation and justice that you deserve for your injuries? Contact Mr. Drayton today and schedule a free, no-risk case evaluation. Our firm is wholly dedicated to helping those who have been injured through the misdeeds of others. With zeal, experience, commitment and a long tradition of excellence in providing top notch legal representation for the injured, the Law Office of Todd Drayton will fight to obtain justice for you, as well as the maximum recovery permitted by law isolators and courts to punish the wrongdoer in hopes of deterring others from engaging in the same unlawful behavior. In other words, punitive damages are usually imposed to make an example of the wrongdoer, such that the substantially punitive award deters others from behaving in the same fashion or committing the same wrongful behavior.
The Law Office of Todd Drayton is an exceptional personal injury law firm, which concentrates on medical malpractice, automobile accident, premises liability and slip or trip and fall accidents, construction accidents, product liability matters, including mass torts and other defective and dangerous products, and employment discrimination and harassment matters.
As a boutique personal injury firm, the Law Office of Todd Drayton is able to offer personalized attention to each of our clients. Other law firms with hundreds of members and overwhelming caseloads simply cannot offer the same level of care and attention that Mr. Drayton and this firm provides.
We represent serious accident victims. We have earned an exceptional reputation over the past two and one-half decades and have similarly gained the respect of our adversaries. Defendants and the insurance companies they serve understand what it means to have attorney Todd Drayton adverse to them.
They know, among other things, that the case will be meticulously vetted and thoroughly prepared for trial by a very successful and formidable trial attorney. They also know that we are not like other firms who are chiefly interested in churning their clients claims in hopes of netting a quick settlement. Indeed, they fully appreciate the difference between the Law Office of Todd Drayton and other firms, which have little or no trial experience, and certainly no desire to take insurance companies to trial. They realize our firm has both the resources and expertise, along with the tenacity and grit, to prosecute a matter through trial, if doing so ensures the absolute best recovery for our clients.
Furthermore, the Law Office of Todd Drayton is able to provide top notch legal services for all our personal injury clients on a contingency-fee basis. This means, our injured clients owe us no fee or repayment of litigation expenses unless and until we are successful in obtaining a recovery.
