What if Multiple Parties Are Responsible for Your Personal Injury?
Anyone who was to blame for your personal injury may have a legal obligation to pay you. The experienced Atlanta personal injury lawyers at Hall & Lampros, LLP can thoroughly look into the circumstances of your injury to determine who you may be able to sue.
All responsible parties would have an obligation to pay your full damages when you are able to prove that they were to blame for your accident. First, you must prove that they were negligent. You do not have to worry about proving who was to blame for how much of your injuries.
To begin the personal injury legal process, call Hall & Lampros today. Our team of personal injury lawyers in Atlanta will listen and learn before helping you go on the legal offensive against anyone who may have caused your injuries.
You Must Prove Negligence to Be Entitled to Financial Compensation
All it takes to qualify for financial compensation is to show that someone else was to blame for the accident that caused your injuries. Then, they would have a legal obligation to pay for all of the damages that they caused you, whether it is actual economic costs or more subjective non-economic damages. Your personal injury compensation can be significant. It may be helpful to have more than one party to pay for your damages. If more than one person or entity was to blame for your injuries, you can name everyone in a single lawsuit. In fact, that is exactly what is in your best interests to do in a personal injury case.
The first thing that you would do is hire an experienced personal injury attorney after you have suffered a personal injury. They would conduct an immediate and complete investigation of your accident to determine the responsible party or parties. They would gather evidence that establishes your legal right to compensation by showing that they were to blame for the accident.
Two or More Potential Defendants Could Be Obligated to Pay You
There are circumstances in which you may have two or more parties who may have had a role in your accident. For example, you may have been hurt in a slip and fall accident. Generally, you would sue the property owner for the accident because they are often the ones to blame. However, the property owner is not always the entity in control of the premises. Someone may have leased the property, and they are the ones who were in control of the condition. However, the property owner may have also played a role in what happened due to their oversight.
Your job is to be as expensive as possible in who you sue for the accident. The last thing that you want is to sue the wrong party, and it turns out they are not responsible. Then, you would lose your case and your right to seek financial compensation for your injuries. If you have evidence that shows that anyone was negligent, they must be named in the lawsuit.
The Jury Would Be the Ones to Assign Percentages of Blame
If your case went to trial, the jury would then figure out who bears what proportion of the blame for your accident. It is not your role to decide what percentage of your damages each party owes you. If your case reached a settlement agreement, the responsible parties and their insurance companies would need to fight it out amongst themselves to see who pays you what. That is not for you to worry about. If they need to sue each other in court because they cannot agree, then so be it. You just have to worry about getting full financial compensation for your injuries.
To be clear, suing multiple parties does not mean that you will get more financial compensation for your injuries. Your damages are your damages, and they do not change if more people were to blame. However, naming multiple parties means that there could be more assets and insurance coverage to pay for your injuries. For instance, one of the defendants could be a corporate entity that has the proverbial “deeper pockets.” Then, you would not need to worry as much that your damages may exceed one defendant’s insurance policy limits.
Contact an Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer Today
One of your first steps after you have suffered a personal injury is to get legal help, and the Atlanta personal injury attorneys at Hall & Lampros are ready to go to work for you. We will work to get to the bottom of your case before filing a claim or lawsuit on your behalf. To speak to one of our personal injury attorneys, you can send us a message online, or you can call us today at 404-876-8100.
Chris has successfully represented numerous clients in catastrophic personal injury, employment law matters, class action, consumer protection, business tort, and legislative matters involving multi-million-dollar damages.