Duluth Personal Injury Lawyers

Duluth continues to rise in prominence, with the population having tripled in the past 30 years. Home to Gas South Arena, Hudgens Center for the Arts, and Gwinnett Place Mall, Duluth sees thousands of additional visitors every day. With this much traffic, the number of accidents has also increased over the years.

Contact Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys if you were hurt in a Duluth accident. Our legal team is made up of experienced attorneys who have tackled all sorts of personal injury cases. It’s possible for injured victims to seek compensation from the person who hurt them, but you need the right lawyer on your legal team. Call our firm today. A Duluth, GA personal injury lawyer is standing by.

We Help with the Following Cases

Our broad personal injury experience includes helping people injured in the following types of accidents:

Car Accidents

Were you injured in a rear-end collision, rollover, or intersection accident? Our Duluth, GA personal injury lawyers can help with any type of motor vehicle accident if you call. Some of the most common reasons for these accidents include distraction, fatigue, and intoxication. The driver who struck you should have liability insurance. If not, we can negotiate a claim with your own insurer.

Truck Accidents

Heavier vehicles cause more damage and usually more serious injuries. Our lawyers can help anyone injured in a collision with a large truck, like an 18-wheeler or delivery truck. Some of the defendants we might sue include negligent truckers, the trucker’s employer, or mechanics. We can fight for full compensation for your injuries.

Premises Liability Accidents

Property owners must use reasonable care to keep their property safe, especially for visitors invited to enter. Unfortunately, property defects lead to falls, electrocution, drowning, and more. Call us to find out if you can hold the property owner accountable for failing to fix or warn of a defect.

Negligent Security

Many businesses owe a duty to provide reasonable security to protect against expected criminal activity. For example, they should have locks on doors and windows, but they might need to take additional measures, like installing security cameras or even hiring guards. When security is lax, then crime victims might sue a property owner for negligent security.

Dog Bites

Dog bites leave scars and pain. Any bite could cause additional complications, such as infection or scarring. A lawyer at Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys can review whether you can bring a claim against the dog owner for your attack. Helpfully, Georgia has a dog bite law which empowers victims to sue the owner or keeper of a vicious dog for failing to restrain the animal properly.

Sexual Assault

Thousands of people are sexually assaulted in Georgia every year. These assaults are an outrage. In addition to being criminal, they are also civil wrongs. A sexual assault victim can seek financial compensation from their assailant, as well as for negligent security if it contributed to the attack. Contact us for a confidential meeting.

Product Liability

Dangerous products fail to work as expected and cause injury to consumers and bystanders. Our legal team can help anyone hurt by a dangerous piece of furniture, defective batteries or toys, and other hazardous products. Contact us so we can review whether a product has a defect in design, materials, manufacture, or labeling.

Hair Relaxer Litigation

Scientists have linked the most popular hair relaxers to uterine and other cancers. Please contact us if you or a loved one used popular hair relaxers, such as Strength of Nature, Dabur Amla Hair Care, and L’Oreal USA products, among others. Litigation is ongoing, and you might qualify for compensation.

Wrongful Death

Some accident victims sadly perish from their injuries. Their surviving family members might have a legal right to seek compensation in a wrongful death claim. We can review your legal rights and, if hired, begin building a wrongful death claim.

How Personal Injury Cases Work

Our clients come to us after suffering terrible injuries. They aren’t sure about their legal rights, and they are usually experiencing pain and financial distress.

Our firm can analyze whether you have a valid legal claim against a defendant for your injuries. If so, we can try to obtain compensation by proving fault. Typically, a person is at fault when their negligence or reckless conduct ends up hurting you. A person who intentionally injures you is also at fault.

One way to obtain compensation is to negotiate with the defendant and/or their insurance company. Together, we review the evidence and try to assign fault for the accident, before valuing your injuries. This process often takes months as each side makes offers and counteroffers. We might even attend mediation to move the case along and achieve resolution.

In other situations, we might have to file a lawsuit against the defendant. A lawsuit can lengthen the personal injury claims process. But it is necessary when we remain far apart from the other side on critical issues, like liability or the value of your injuries. A jury will likely determine liability after a full trial on the evidence.

Personal Injury Damages

In Georgia, damages for personal injuries include specific and general damages. Our lawyers are focused on obtaining the maximum financial compensation for every loss suffered.

Specific damages include:

• Medical treatment for your injuries
• Rehabilitation and prescription drugs
• Car repair or other property damage
• Lost income or wages

These damages are specific because we typically have a receipt or other bill which helps establish the market value of your losses. They are fairly easy to calculate.

We will also financial compensation for general damages, like:

• Bodily pain
• Mental anguish
• Sleeplessness
• Depression or anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

General damages are harder to quantify in dollar terms. One person might value being pain-free much more than another person. Your choice of Duluth, GA personal injury lawyer makes a great deal of difference when it comes to general damages. Our legal team knows how to convincingly argue for the most compensation for all losses, including pain and suffering.

How We Strengthen Your Claim

If you hire our law firm, we will bring decades of combined experience in personal injury law. Our Duluth, Georgia clients benefit from the skills we possess. Our firm can:

• Investigate your accident to find evidence which proves who is at fault. We can talk to witnesses or even visit the scene of your wreck.
• Analyze the law to identify whether the defendant breached their duty of care to you. If so, then we have a legal basis for a personal injury claim.
• Estimate the value of your claim. People who try to negotiate without a lawyer’s help often underestimate what they can request.
• Engage in strategic negotiations with the other side. We always negotiate with a goal in mind: to get you the most compensation that we can under the law.
• Take other steps to protect your rights. We might attend mediation to discuss your case or file a lawsuit before a statutory deadline.

Find out more about the services we offer. Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys can explain in detail how we assist clients in a free consultation.

Laws that Impact Your Case

Personal injury law is complicated. Dozens of laws intersect, and the best lawyers are aware of each law.

Some of the most critical include:

• Statute of limitations. Georgia limits the timeframe accident victims have for filing a legal claim in court. Generally, you get only two years, but some people (like minors) will get more time. It is critical to contact a lawyer as soon as possible. You don’t want to go over the deadline because you will lose the ability to seek any compensation by waiting too long.
• Comparative negligence. Georgia law limits the ability of people to sue if they contributed to their accident. If you were 50% or more at fault, you will not receive any compensation. Even if you were under 50% to blame, your compensation is reduced by your share of fault for the accident. Someone 20% at fault will receive 20% less. This law negatively impacts many cases, and we always think carefully about whether our clients were negligent in any way.
• Uninsured motorist insurance. Georgia law requires that insurers offer UM coverage with liability policy. The state only requires liability insurance, so you might have rejected UM coverage. If not, then it could make a big difference in a hit and run or any accident where the at-fault driver lacks sufficient coverage.

We have extensive experience with these and other laws. Let us use them to your advantage in a claim for financial compensation.

Speak with a Duluth, GA Personal Injury Lawyer in a Private Consultation

Were you injured in an accident in Duluth? The upcoming weeks and months could be a blur. Many injured victims are unsure about their legal rights or if they can receive financial compensation. Contact Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys today. Our firm will offer timely advice about what steps to take and how we might help your claim. You can reach us by (404) 529-3476.