We are pleased to provide you with the following general information about personal injury law and some answers to some frequently asked questions as well as some issues you may be interested in knowing about if you or a family member were injured in an accident.

What Is a Personal Injury?

In the legal sense, personal injury refers to a civil claim to obtain compensation for physical and/or financial injuries to you caused by a tort. A tort can be an intentional act, such as intentionally striking you with a baseball bat; a negligent act, such as a car accident caused by failing to see you crossing the street; or a strict liability tort, such as injuries from a dangerous product or a dog bite (in most states).

• The injuries could refer to physical injury, psychological injury, emotional-injury or financial-injury. Physical injury includes such injuries as brain-injury, spinal cord injury, broken bones, torn ligaments, herniated discs, whiplash, burns, amputations and other similar injuries. Psychological-injury and emotional-injury include psychological trauma following a traumatic event, such as witnessing a gruesome accident or intentional act of violence, or disfigurement from a physical injury. Financial injury could be caused by a civil tort, such as libel or slander. If you have been injured in an accident, such as automobile accidents, bus accidents, taxi collisions, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, slip and fall, animal bites or construction-site accidents and would like to discuss your personal injury claim with an experienced Manhattan Personal Injury Lawyer, please schedule a free, confidential consultation with attorneys at Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC by calling 1-800-585-4658 or fill out our intake form and we will contact you to schedule a consultation.

Types of Personal Injury Claims:

There are many different actions that can give rise to a personal injury claim. Those actions range from negligently performing one’s work to simply owning a pet. Of course, there must be a cause and effect relationship between your injuries and action in question, i.e., the action giving rise to a personal injury claim must have caused or contributed to the injuries in which you are seeking compensation.

The most common types of actions or accidents giving rise to personal injury claims include the following:

• Motor Vehicle Accidents
  • Car accidents
  • Truck accidents
  • Bus accidents
  • Pedestrian accidents
  • Bicycle accidents
  • Boating accident
  • Train accident
  • Airplane accident
  • Light rail or subway accident
• Construction Accidents
  • Scaffold and ladder accidents
  • Falling debris
  • Construction machinery accidents
  • Construction vehicle accidents
  • Holes, ditches and other construction hazards
  • Building collapse
• Premises Liability Accidents
  • Slip and fall
  • Trip and fall
  • Swimming pool accidents
  • Dog bites and dog attacks
  • Inadequate security
  • Failure to properly maintain property, including walkways, sidewalks and parking lots
  • Inadequate lighting, including stairwells
  • Elevator and escalator accidents
• Professional Malpractice
  • Attorney or legal malpractice
  • Accounting malpractice
  • Architect and design malpractice
  • Dental malpractice
• Medical Malpractice
  • Emergency room error
  • Surgical mistakes
  • Medication errors
  • Misdiagnosis
  • Failure to diagnose or treat a medical condition
  • Medical chart errors
  • Birth injury
• Products Liability / Defective and Dangerous Products
  • Defective products, including children’s toys, drugs, car parts, electrical appliances, power tools, machinery, and other defective products
  • Dangerous conditions, including lack of or failure of safety precautions, including guard rails, and failure to warn about a dangerous condition such as ditch, trench, swimming pool, and other dangerous conditions
  • Defective designs, including SUV rollovers, highway design, building design, and other defective designs
• Workers’ Compensation
  • Workplace accidents
  • Lifting injury (back injury)
  • Repetitive stress injury
  • Amputations
  • Burns
  • Toxic chemical exposure
• Nursing Home Abuse
  • Bed sores
  • Dehydration and starvation
  • Sexual or physical abuse
• Defamation
  • Libel
  • Slander

If you have been injured in an accident, such as a car accident, truck accident, bus accident, pedestrian accident, bicycle accident, boating accident or train accident and would like to discuss your personal injury claim with an experienced Manhattan Personal Injury Lawyer, please schedule a free, confidential consultation with Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC by calling 1-800-585-4658 or fill out our intake form and we will contact you to schedule a consultation.