Rock Hill Personal Injury Lawyer: Hurt in an Accident in South Carolina?
If you were hurt in an accident in Rock Hill, York County, or somewhere else in South Carolina, Thompson Law Firm is here to help.
An unexpected injury can change your life fast. You may be dealing with pain, medical treatment, missed work, bills, insurance companies, and stress about what comes next.
If someone else caused your injury, you may be able to recover money for your injuries and other losses. A Rock Hill personal injury lawyer can investigate what happened, deal with the insurance companies, and help you pursue your claim.
Thompson Law Firm has an office in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and handles personal injury cases in York County and throughout South Carolina.
What Is a Personal Injury Case?
A personal injury case usually starts when someone is hurt because another person or company did something wrong or failed to act safely.
For example, a driver may cause a crash because they were texting. A trucking company may put an unsafe driver on the road. A property owner may fail to address a dangerous condition.
Every case is different. Our job is to investigate what happened, determine who may be responsible, find available insurance coverage, and help our client through the claims process.
What Types of Personal Injury Cases Do We Handle?
Car Accidents
Car accidents are one of the most common types of cases we handle. Crashes can happen because of speeding, distracted driving, drunk driving, following too closely, running a red light, failing to yield, or not paying attention.
Truck and 18-Wheeler Accidents
Truck accidents can be very serious and are often more complicated than regular car accidents. We may investigate the truck driver, trucking company, owner, maintenance companies, insurers, electronic driving records, truck data, driver files, and video.
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle riders can suffer serious injuries because they have much less protection than someone inside a car or truck. We can investigate the crash, gather evidence, and deal with the insurance companies.
Wrongful Death
Some accidents tragically result in death. When a person dies because of another person or company's wrongful conduct, South Carolina law may allow a wrongful death claim. These cases have special rules about who brings the case and what damages may be recovered.
Workplace and Third-Party Injuries
If you were hurt while working, workers' compensation may apply. In some situations, someone other than your employer may also be responsible, creating a separate third-party personal injury claim.
Injuries at Businesses and Other Properties
Property injury cases can involve slip and falls, trip and falls, dangerous stairs, poor lighting, unsafe walkways, poor maintenance, and other dangerous conditions. Being injured on someone's property does not automatically mean the owner is responsible, so the facts must be investigated.
Dangerous or Defective Products
Some injuries are caused by products that are defective or unsafe. These cases can involve how a product was designed, manufactured, labeled, or sold and may require experts and a detailed investigation.
Serious and Permanent Injuries
Serious cases may involve brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, paralysis, severe burns, amputations, broken bones, permanent disabilities, surgery, or long-term care. When an injury is permanent, we may need to consider future medical care, future income loss, permanent limitations, and how the injury affects the person's life.
What Should You Do After an Accident?
Your health should come first. Get medical treatment if you are hurt. Report the accident when appropriate. If you can, take pictures and videos and get witness information. Keep medical bills, records, insurance letters, accident reports, pay information, and other documents connected to the accident.
Be careful about giving detailed statements to an insurance company or signing a settlement before you understand your injuries and legal options.
How Do We Investigate a Personal Injury Case?
Depending on the case, we may look for police or incident reports, pictures, videos, witness statements, surveillance footage, vehicle information, medical records, insurance policies, employment records, maintenance records, company records, electronic data, and other evidence.
The goal is to find out what happened, determine who may be responsible, and preserve the evidence needed to prove the claim.
How Do Insurance Companies Handle Personal Injury Claims?
Insurance companies investigate claims and decide how much they are willing to offer. But the insurance company is not your lawyer. Before accepting a settlement, you should understand your injuries, medical bills, future treatment, lost wages, available insurance coverage, and what rights you may be giving up.
What Money Can You Recover?
Depending on the case, damages may include medical expenses, future medical treatment, lost wages, loss of future income, pain and suffering, permanent injuries, scarring, property damage, and other losses caused by the accident.
There is no simple formula that tells you exactly what a personal injury case is worth. Every case is different.
What If the Insurance Company Says You Were Partly at Fault?
South Carolina uses modified comparative negligence. In general, you may still recover damages if your share of fault is not greater than the defendant's, although your recovery can be reduced by your percentage of fault.
An insurance company saying you were partly at fault does not automatically make it true. We look at the evidence ourselves.
What If There Is Not Enough Insurance?
The person who caused your injury may not have enough insurance to cover your losses. Depending on the case, there may be other policies, companies, vehicle owners, property owners, employers, or other responsible parties to investigate.
How Much Does a Personal Injury Lawyer Cost?
You do not have to pay us money upfront to handle your personal injury case. At Thompson Law Firm, you pay nothing unless we win, subject to the terms of your representation agreement.
Why Choose Thompson Law Firm?
We focus on helping injured people. We investigate accidents, gather evidence, deal with insurance companies, document injuries and losses, negotiate claims, and file lawsuits when necessary. Our firm has recovered millions for injured clients.
Serving Rock Hill, York County, and South Carolina
Our Rock Hill office serves clients in Charleston, Clover, Columbia, Conway, Fort Mill, Goose Creek, Greenville, Moncks Corner, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Rock Hill, Tega Cay, York and all other cities in South Carolina.
You do not have to live in Rock Hill or York County to contact Thompson Law Firm about a South Carolina injury case.
Contact a Rock Hill Personal Injury Lawyer
If you were injured in Rock Hill, York County, or elsewhere in South Carolina, contact Thompson Law Firm. We can talk with you about what happened, explain your options, and help you decide what to do next.