Personal Injury Attorneys in Pasadena CA

Pasadena Personal Injury Attorney

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College sports fans may recognize that Pasadena is the home of the annual Rose Bowl football game and the accompanying Tournament of Roses parade. Like other cities in Los Angeles County, however, Pasadena is home to a significant number of car wrecks and other personal injury accidents every year. In fact, according to 2014 statistics from the California Office of Traffic Safety, there were 1,387 individuals (a little less than one percent of Pasadena’s population) who were injured or killed in motor vehicle accidents alone. When one factors in the number of people injured or killed in other types of personal injury accidents, it is easy to conclude that living in Pasadena exposes you and your loved ones to a considerable risk of being a victim in a personal injury accident.

When you find yourself or a loved one injured in a Pasadena accident because another person failed to act in a reasonable and careful manner, you will likely incur a significant amount of expenses and losses due to medical expenses, lost wages, and other financial costs. You may also be able to recover most (if not all) of these expenses through a personal injury lawsuit. Your Pasadena personal injury recovery team at Harrison | Kristopher, LLP is ready to assist you in your quest for compensation.

Why Should I File a Personal Injury Lawsuit?

When another person causes you to suffer an injury (however slight or serious), it is normal to believe the accident was truly unavoidable and unintentional. Thus, it may seem like the “right” thing to do is simply let the matter slide and attempt to handle the matter yourself or informally with the other involved party. However well-intentioned such beliefs are, they are usually wrong: many personal injury accidents are not “unavoidable accidents” but are rather the result of the at-fault party behaving in a careless or reckless manner. When one person chooses to act in a way that puts your safety and the safety of your family in jeopardy, you should not bear the financial burdens of the results of this behavior.

While it is true that some at-fault parties will accept responsibility for their actions and offer a settlement to you in the aftermath of some Pasadena personal injury accidents, this does not always occur. Not only this, but even when a settlement is offered it may not be enough to fully compensate you for the injuries and losses you have already experienced as well as those losses you can reasonably be expected to experience in the future. Thus, in some situations, the only way to ensure you and your family will not suffer severe financial hardships because of your injuries is to pursue compensation through a personal injury lawsuit.

How Much Does Harrison | Kristopher Charge to Handle My Pasadena Personal Injury Lawsuit?

Harrison | Kristopher handles Pasadena personal injury cases on a contingency-fee basis as this offers personal injury victims a cost-effective way to obtain quality legal representation while still being able to focus on their physical recovery. Traditional law firms would charge potential clients an upfront retainer fee (which could, in some cases, be thousands of dollars) and then an hourly rate, billing clients for any activity performed on their case – even phone calls and e-mails.

With a contingency-fee arrangement, however, clients are not charged any upfront fees and are not responsible for paying an hourly rate while their case is ongoing. Instead, a client pays his or her attorneys’ fees from the monetary damages award Harrison | Kristopher obtains on his or her behalf. If Harrison | Kristopher is unable to obtain any compensation award on behalf of the client, then the client does not owe any attorneys’ fees (regardless of how many hours’ worth of work the attorney has put into the case). Therefore, there is no reason why a Pasadena personal injury victim should not contact Harrison | Kristopher to discuss his or her injury accident.

How Much Compensation Can I Recover for My Pasadena Injuries?

A general principle of personal injury law is that you are entitled to recover monetary compensation for your medical bills, lost wages, lost future earnings, therapy and continuing treatment costs, pain and suffering, and other similar injuries and losses that you experienced as a result of the other party’s behavior and resulting accident. So long as a loss can be adequately documented, quantified, and shown to have resulted from the injury incident, you will usually be entitled to recover compensation for that loss.

Accurately quantifying all of your past and anticipated future losses is not a simple exercise: it takes the knowledge, skill, and experience of a seasoned Pasadena personal injury law firm to help ensure you properly identify and demand the correct amount of compensation in your lawsuit. Failing to do so can result in a damages award that does not adequately address all of your expenses and leaves you having to bear some of the financial burden of your injuries.

What Should I Look for in a Pasadena Personal Injury Law Firm?

Choosing the right law firm to handle your personal injury law firm is no easy feat: there is no shortage of attorneys and firms clamoring for your attention and the opportunity to take your case. Before giving a law firm or attorney control over your case and your potential compensation award, ask yourself some questions:

• Am I going to have to pay this attorney if he or she doesn’t obtain any recovery for me?
• Does this attorney have a history of securing compensation awards for clients?
• How many different areas of the law does this attorney practice in?
• Does this attorney maintain proficiency in personal injury law and have connections and resources to quickly investigate and file my case?
• Do I trust this attorney or law firm to handle my case competently and efficiently?

When you consider the experience, knowledge, and resources of Harrison | Kristopher, your decision is clear: Contact Harrison | Kristopher today and enlist our help in recovering compensation for your injuries.