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When you’ve been injured, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. You may have unexpected medical expenses. You might have missed work or been left unable to care for your family. All this, in addition to your injury itself, can make dealing with personal injury a daunting process.
However, if you have been injured, you are not alone! Barrock & Barrock’s team of highly experienced personal injury attorneys is here to fight for you! Our personal injury lawyers have the knowledge, skill and dedication necessary to provide you with the best legal representation available.
If you have been injured as a result of negligence or malpractice, you may be eligible to collect significant financial compensation. Since most personal injury cases have statutes of limitations (which dictate how much time you have to legally commence a lawsuit), time is of the essence when seeking legal representation for a personal injury claim. The sooner you contact us, the more likely it is that we will be able to represent you. It is essential that our lawyers get to review your case before the statute of limitations runs out.
Barrock & Barrock is one of America’s foremost personal injury / product liability law firms. We have achieved prominence thanks to our handling of many national litigations. Barrock & Barrock is eminently qualified to provide you with unsurpassed legal representation. For a free and confidential legal consultation, call (262) 783-7711, or e-mail us.
- Automobile Accidents
- Motorcycle / Marine Accidents
- Premises Liability
- Work-Related Injuries
- Medical / Professional Negligence
- Product Liability
- Wrongful Death
- Aviation Accidents
- Sexual Assault Civil Claims
Automobile Injury Law
Have you been injured in a car accident? Are you looking for a lawyer or attorney in Wisconsin? We specialize in personal injury law. We handle auto, motorcycle and marine accidents. Any personal injury (such as whiplash) can have serious consequences. If you have been in an accident, you need to contact the leaders in personal injury law. Call now – by law you only have a limited time to file a complaint. Why should you have to suffer financially and physically due to someone else’s mistake? You need an attorney who cares about you and your situation. We know that car accidents and other common causes of personal injury are serious business, which is why you need a serious attorney on your side! Talk to us and we’ll do everything we can to turn your bad break around.
Injured persons are often victimized by adjusters who contact them in the hospital or at their homes shortly after the accident and persuade them not to seek legal representation. Some companies have elaborate schemes that their claims adjusters use to discourage claimants from obtaining legal representation.
Insurance adjusters often play upon the public’s distrust of lawyers when encouraging injured persons not to obtain legal help. Claims adjusters will frequently appear to be genuinely concerned and sympathetic about your loss. Make no mistake, though, their true loyalties lie with their bosses. Their job is to “control” a claimant and prevent him from seeking out a lawyer. If you are injured in a car accident and your case is accepted by the attorneys of Barrock & Barrock, the insurance company is likely to end up paying a substantially greater settlement, and neither the insurance company nor its adjusters want that.
Motorcycle / Marine Accidents
As attorneys who specialize in motorcycle and marine accidents, we will follow appropriate measures to prove who was at fault, maximizing benefits for our clients for their immediate needs, as well as for those that may present themselves in the future as a direct result of the accident. Many victims are unaware that in a lawsuit involving personal injury, not only is it within their rights to recover for immediate damages they sustained, they are also entitled to adequate compensation for damages that affect their lives or the lives of their loved ones as far into the future as 20 years down the road.
Boating and water-sport activities may get the adrenaline pumping, but they are fraught with unique dangers. There is always the risk of drowning. When a water-related accident occurs, a thorough investigation and evaluation of its cause(s) by an experienced legal team is always the best way to proceed. Complex legal and safety issues may be involved. Like other types of accident cases, no one formula can be applied, but legal and factual issues should be thoroughly considered, investigated and resolved.
Our intimate knowledge of insurance coverages and practices is what helps our clients receive maximum benefits when they are injured. It doesn't matter what role you played if you were the unfortunate victim of a motorcycle or boating accident. What does matter is that you retain an attorney familiar with all provisions of insurance law.
Slip & Fall Injury Law
Immediately after being seriously injured in an accident, you may be thrown into an adversarial legal system. In other words, the insurance company representing the party at fault for the accident has in place a team of adjustors, investigators and attorneys who are working against you, seeking to pay as little as possible to settle your claim.
After an accident, while you are still receiving treatment for your injuries, the party at fault in your accident has notified their insurance company. The insurance company adjustors and investigators are experienced, and they recognize the importance of immediately investigating and “processing” accident sites. Insurance company adjustors are trained to take advantage of the fact that claimants have no knowledge or experience in determining the fair value of their claim. In fact, insurance companies can and frequently do make fraudulent statements regarding your rights without being subject to any legal or financial penalties.
Considering that attorney fees are 100% contingent upon your recovery, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by hiring a qualified personal injury attorney as soon as possible after being injured in an accident.
Using our considerable experience and knowledge of the law, we fight tooth and nail with insurance company attorneys to secure fair compensation for every one of our clients.
Injured on the Job?
Workers’ compensation is a statutory system that was first adopted in the 1930s by most states to promptly compensate injured workers by paying their medical bills and replacing their lost wages. The system is not based on fault, and therefore the same benefits are paid to an injured worker regardless of whether or not the injuries are caused by one’s own negligence or by a coworker's. The quid pro quo of the no-fault benefit is the giving up of the injured worker’s right to sue his employer or his employer’s agent (or fellow employee) for their negligence.
It is important to note that workers’ compensation does not compensate the worker for pain and suffering. However, if the injured worker is left with a permanent disability (either partial or total), he will receive a payment based on a statutory schedule for the specific injury. The disability payments in that case would be small compared to the compensation that would normally be recoverable if the case involved a negligence claim that entitled the injured person to compensation for pain and suffering.
Workers’ compensation claims and personal injury claims are not mutually exclusive. If a person is driving a vehicle while in the course of his business (e.g., delivering equipment from one place to another) and he is injured in an automobile accident caused by a negligent driver who is not a fellow coworker, then the injured person can make two claims. He would first be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits that would pay all of his medical bills and provide him with time loss for his lost wages. He would also be entitled to sue the negligent motorist for all his injuries, including pain and suffering.
In this circumstance, the Department of Labor and Industries, which is the agency that administers workers’ compensation benefits in the state of Washington, would be entitled to a lien on the third-party recovery from the negligent motorist or his insurance company.
However, by statute, the Department of Labor and Industries reduces the amount of the reimbursement for a proportionate share of the cost of procuring the recovery. In other words, the Department of Labor and Industries pays for a portion of the attorney’s fees and costs in obtaining the settlement from the negligent driver’s insurance company.
Unfortunately, many injured persons fail to realize that a workers’ compensation claim can be filed as the result of certain accidents, even if those accidents don't take place on their employer's property. Since the workers’ compensation statute requires that a claim be filed with the Department of Labor and Industries within one year, it is possible to lose the workers’ compensation claim by failing to act.
Therefore, it is important to ascertain whether or not a person is “on the job” when he sustains an injury. One does not have to be on the employer’s premises to receive compensation, as is often erroneously believed.
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