Liability in a Personal Injury Accident Ph: 845-709-8005 and 800-940-1799 Email: jeff@rocklandinjurylaw.com reuven@rocklandinjurylaw.com URL: www.rocklandinjurylaw.com

If you have been injured in an accident because of someone else’s negligence, determining who is legally responsible for your injuries can be challenging. The issue of liability often depends on whether someone was careless or negligent and whether that person’s carelessness or negligent act caused your injuries. To hold a person or entity liable, you must first determine who was legally at fault. Here are some general rules that may help you determine liability in a personal injury accident:

Determining Legal Liability If a person involved in an accident was less careful than the other individual involved in the accident, he or she must pay for some portion of the damages suffered by the injured party. For most personal injury accidents, legal liability is determined by this general concept of carelessness and by the following rules:

If the injured person at the time of the accident was where he or she was not supposed to be, the person who caused the accident might not be liable because they had no duty to be careful toward the injured party. If the person was injured because of his or her own carelessness, their compensation may be reduced by the extent of the carelessness. This is known as comparative negligence.

If your accident was caused by the negligent act of another person while you were working for someone else, your employer and the negligent person may be held liable. If the accident was due to poorly maintained or dangerous property conditions, the owner of the property is liable, regardless of whether he or she created the dangerous condition. If the accident was caused by a poorly made or defective product, the manufacturer and seller of the product are both liable.

The personal injury lawyers at Rockland Injury Lawyers have over 50 years of experience dealing with accident cases. Our lawyers are skilled and professional. We will do our best to get you or your loved one what he or she deserves as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

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