What Are the Most Common Types of Personal Injury Claims?

There are lots of types of personal injury claims, and your Long Island personal injury lawyer will definitely have seen it all. There are certain claims that are more common than others, however. 

Car Accidents

Lots of personal injury claims arise from car accidents. Any kind of vehicular accident is likely to result in physical, emotional, and financial difficulties for the victims, and given the crowded streets and heavy traffic in Long Island, these are far more common than we all might wish.Car accidents are rarely just “accidents” in the truest sense of the word. Most of the time, accidents are caused by negligent behavior. Some of the most common reasons for accidents include distracted driving, impaired driving, speeding, failure to yield, and tailgating. At other times, accidents are caused by road conditions and weather issues.

Motorcycle Accidents

Motorcycle accidents usually result in much greater damage than car accidents because of the unprotected nature of motorcycles. Once again, these accidents are sometimes true accidents, but very often they are caused by negligent behavior on the part of a driver or a motorcyclist.

The most common causes of motorcycle accidents include left turn accidents, where drivers turn left in front of an oncoming motorcycle, lane change accidents, rear end collisions, or lane splitting by the motorcyclist.

Pedestrian and Bicyclist Accidents

When you have as much pedestrian and bicycle traffic as we have here in Long Island, accidents with bicycles and pedestrians are far too common. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable of all and easily injured by speeding scooters, vehicles, or even bikes.

Medical Malpractice

Unfortunately, New York remains one of the top states in the nation for medical malpractice. Malpractice occurs when any kind of healthcare professional fails to follow the standard of care, and this failure causes injury or harm to a patient.

Types of medical malpractice include misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis, surgical errors, errors in prescribing or dispensing medications, and birth injuries. These cases are particularly difficult to prosecute successfully and require an experienced lawyer.

Premises Liability

Premises liability cases are brought when a property owner or a tenant fails to make their property safe or fails to warn visitors of hazards they know about. People are injured all the time because property owners don’t fix stairs, don’t provide adequate lighting, don’t upkeep elevators, etc.

Animal Bites and Attacks

When a person is attacked by an animal in a personal injury situation, it’s most usually a dog. New York takes dangerous dogs quite seriously and holds owners liable for not controlling them. Unless there was no way to know that a dog was dangerous and the dog was not being allowed to run freely, or if the dog was being provoked or threatened on its owner’s property, the owner of a biting dog will usually be responsible for the injuries of a victim, even on a first bite.

Assault & Battery

Most of the time, personal injury involves negligence. In other words, the person who caused the injury was not acting with due care, but they did not intend to hurt anyone. Assault and battery are different. These are crimes, but when these crimes result in injury, the victim can also bring a civil action for personal injury. If you’ve been injured by someone ​else’s negligence or deliberate action, contact us Miller, Montiel & Strano in Long Island and through NYC.

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