Austin Personal Injury Lawyer: Liability

Determining Liability in a Personal Injury Claim

Determining liability in a personal injury claim is vital to having the case outcome be favorable when it goes to court. You will need an experienced and expert Austin personal injury attorney to assist you with this but there also some other important things you should make sure to do. First of all, if there any people who might be witnesses in court, ensure that you collect their contact information. This includes police officers who were on the scene. You should get a full police report, as well. Write down everything you can remember about how the accident occurred but do not make any statements, written or verbal, to anyone concerned with the accident before speaking with an Austin personal injury lawyer first.

Determining Negligence

Usually, according to Texas law, you must establish negligence on the part of the offending party. Negligence is when someone owed you a duty, such as driving safely or being sober while operating certain machines and vehicles and they failed in this duty, causing you injury. In Texas law there is what is known as comparative negligence which reduces the amount rewarded to you in proportion to the amount that you yourself are shown to have been negligent. You will not be able to collect damages from the other party if it is proven that you were more than fifty percent at fault. On the other hand, if the other party was more than fifty percent at fault, the laws allow compensation for all of your damages.

It is advised that you have a high quality attorney representing your interests that knows the laws well and has experience in winning these kinds of cases. The other party will, no doubt, have an attorney who will be trying to prove that you had some liability in the case so that what you are able to collect will get reduced or eliminated. At the law firm of Barry & Loewy LLP, we have over twenty years of experience in getting successful verdicts in difficult cases regarding personal injury and our client references will back this up.

Contact an Austin personal injury attorneynow to have an experienced trial advocate on your side.