Helping You Get the Compensation You Deserve for your Injury in Williston, Williams County, and across North Dakota
When you or a family member suffer a serious injury in Williston or anywhere in North Dakota, a very stressful and complicated process begins. Insurance companies and lawyers representing the other side will immediately begin contacting you about your injury case in an attempt to pressure you and to get you to take a small settlement to go away. When your injury was caused by someone else’s negligence, you need equal representation on your side to ensure that you are protected and that your personal injury claim will be successful in covering all your damages, both current and future.
After a personal injury caused by the negligence of a motor vehicle driver, shopping center, apartment manager, or anyone else who had a duty to keep those around them safe, the best thing you can do is to hire an experienced Williston personal injury firm.
Common Personal Injury Cases in Williston, North Dakota
North Dakota, like every other state, protects its citizens with laws that hold negligent parties responsible for injuries they cause another person. Although an accident or injury can occur in literally hundreds of ways or situations, the most common types of personal injury cases tend to be:
- Car accidents
- Semi-truck accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Pedestrian or Bicycle accidents
- Oil rigs injuries
- Distracted driving injuries
- Dog bite or animal attack injuries
- Medical malpractice
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Wrongful deaths
After one of the common types of personal injury claims in Williston, contacting an experienced North Dakota personal injury firm can be your best chance at getting compensation to prevent your physical injuries from becoming financial nightmares.
Common Injuries Caused by Personal Injury Accidents
If you’ve been involved in a personal injury accident, such as a car accident or slip and fall, it’s likely that you suffered an injury of some kind. Injuries can vary greatly in range, from minor to severe and life-threatening. Severity levels may also vary depending on the type of injury that you’re involved in. For example, car accidents often result in minor to severe injuries, while construction injuries may lean more severe.
Common injuries that are caused by personal injury accidents include the following:
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Back and neck injuries
- Burns
- Amputations
- Crushing injuries
- Soft tissue damage
- Broken bones
- Fractures
- Facial injuries
- Death
Insurance Companies are Not on Your Side
Insurance companies always pretend like they are there for their customers in a helpful and meaningful way. But this is an extremely deceptive advertising practice.
In fact, insurance companies keep their profits high and costs low by diminishing, delaying, or denying their client’s claims so that they can keep as much of their trillions of dollars in premiums as profit.
To make sure that personal injury victims do not end up hiring an attorney who will help them get the right amount of compensation they need, insurance companies will often intervene early with phone calls and low-ball offers in an attempt to intimidate or entice their clients into dropping the case or taking a small fraction of the money they are owed.
The experienced personal injury lawyers at Sand Law PLLC have a strong reputation with insurance companies for having a bite behind our bark; in essence, they know we will take them to court if they try to give our clients less than you deserve.
The insurance companies have a team of lawyers working on their side, and so should you.
Common Damages in Injury and Accident Cases
Damages refer to monetary, physical, and psychological losses caused by a personal injury or negligence-based accident. The most common damages in a personal injury case include:
- Damage to property
- Medical and hospital bills
- Surgical fees
- Lost wages from missed work
- Future lost wages
- Emotional trauma costs, like therapy
- Pain and suffering
- Future medical expenses
- Rehab and physical therapy fees
Damages in a North Dakota personal injury case fall into two main categories: Special and General Damages.
What are General and Special Damages?
Special damages are damages that can easily have a monetary value placed on them, like medical bills. They are easier to prove: just show the medical bills. Other special damages include lost wages, repair or replacement of damaged property, and other out-of-pocket expenses.
General damages are damages that are harder to calculate into dollar amounts, like pain and suffering, loss of a spouse, and PTSD.
Common Types of Williston Accident Cases
Sand Law routinely handles personal injury cases involving the following situations in Williston and across North Dakota:
- Car accident
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Semi-truck accidents
- Oil field accidents
- Injuries caused at work
- Dog bite and animal attacks injuries
- Slip, trip, and fall injuries
- Medical malpractice
- Wrongful death lawsuits
North Dakota Personal Injury Statute of Limitations
The statute of limitations in North Dakota can be quite short on injuries and wrongful death claims, so do not hesitate to contact a team of personal injury lawyers you can trust.
North Dakota limitations laws set a time limit of 6 years for personal injury cases and 2 years for wrongful death cases. These time limits usually begin counting down as of the date the accident or injury occurred or was noticed.
Contacting an Experienced Williston Personal Injury Attorney
Sand Law protects clients in Williston, Williams County, and across North Dakota who have been injured due to another’s negligence. Our team of experienced and dedicated personal injury attorneys are passionate about representing North Dakotans in their time of need.
We have offices conveniently located across North Dakota in Watford City, Minot, Williston, and Bismarck.
Contact Sand Law today to schedule your free consultation by calling 701-609-1510 or by filling out our contact form.