Of Car Wrecks and Compensation
As an O.C. car accident lawyer you may imagine I’ve seen my share of car wrecks and victims, and you’d be right. In the almost 30 years I’ve been practicing as a personal injury attorney in Orange County I’ve represented hundreds of injury victims who have been involved in car accidents.
An Orange County car accident lawyer can help injury victims
If you live in Southern California you have no doubt been bombarded by personal injury attorney or car accident lawyer ads which trumpet the eye-popping awards some car crash victims have received while being represented by these firms. While such awards do occur, in all likelihood—depending on the amount and severity of your injuries—your compensation will probably be somewhat less than the millions you see and hear quoted so often. Those mega-practices are going to tout their most lucrative cases to tease you into hiring them, but should you hire a car accident lawyer based on one large amount you see on television? Of course not.
To be honest, I too, sometimes promote the most sizeable verdicts I’ve won for my clients. I think I’m justifiably proud of these awards, but not for the amounts themselves. In the case of some multi-million dollar damages awards (like the $5.75 million I secured along with Keith Bruno for a client) I think it is a testament to my legal skills and serves to show potential clients that by hiring me they are making a solid decision and trusting me to secure the maximum amount of compensation they’re entitled to under the law.
For car accident victims with severe injuries, of course I will fight for full and fair compensation that will allow them to maintain the best quality of life should they have to live with injuries for years (or a lifetime) or require medical care for an extended period of time. And as I’ve written many times in these pages, this is exactly the reason personal injury lawyers exist. Left to their own devices, insurance companies (who have a vested interest in avoiding payments wherever possible to maximize their own bottom lines) would not remunerate accident victims to the extent that they should be. Personal injury attorneys such as myself are well-versed in this area of the law and can go to bat for an injured client. Those clients can be confident that insurance companies or other plaintiffs or law firms will not be able to ride roughshod over them. They (the clients) have a legal voice to speak for them and see that their rights under the law are not abridged.
Choosing a Tustin Car Accident Attorney
Experience, Results and Proximity.
California is never going to be free of accidents, although we strive to achieve increasing levels of safety, but the reality is Orange County will continue to have a certain amount of motor vehicle accidents. This leads me to my next point:
Another aspect of hiring a car accident attorney is location. While experience and expertise are paramount, it makes sense to find and hire an injury lawyer close to you. The attorney should be familiar with the local area (in my case Tustin and surrounding Orange County cities like Santa Ana or Anaheim) and the court system. As a Tustin lawyer most of my cases end up in Superior Court in Santa Ana. In sum it’s a combination of hiring the best accident lawyer in your town or county. If you have suffered a car wreck in the Tustin area (or anywhere in Orange County, California) I urge you (if you’ve happened upon this post or another page on my personal injury law website, to research my background, history and record of successful verdicts and settlements. I’m confident that I’m among the best personal injury lawyers in Orange County and that you’ll feel comfortable making that initial call. I’m also centrally located to all of Orange County and just a short distance from Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Irvine and most of O.C. If you’re searching for a car crash lawyer near you, I’m confident that’s me. Call my offices in Tustin for a free case evaluation. 714-544-1460.