Our Personal Injury Practice Areas in Birmingham, AL
Our Birmingham injury attorneys represent clients across the practice areas below.
Car Accidents
The physical pain, disability, mounting medical bills, and lost wages resulting from a car accident can have devastating and life-changing consequences for you and your family. While you focus on regaining your health, let the personal injury lawyer at BKM Injury Lawyer in Birmingham concentrate on your recovery, your insurance claim, and building the strongest possible case for maximum compensation.
Premises Liability
Many injuries that occur on someone else’s property result in severe harm to the victim. If you have been injured on another person’s property because they failed to repair safety hazards or give you reasonable warning of them, you have the right to seek compensation for your injuries.
Personal Injury
When you’ve been injured by the negligent actions of someone else, enforcing your legal rights can seem like an additional burden at the worst possible time. It’s not surprising that many victims accept an early settlement offer just so they can move on.
Wrongful Death
Losing a family member unexpectedly is even more heartbreaking when their death is caused by someone else’s reckless, negligent, or intentionally harmful actions. Coping with the loss of a loved one is always challenging, but it becomes even more complicated when you must address the legalities of filing a wrongful death lawsuit. Alabama is the only state that limits wrongful death recovery to punitive damages, meant to punish the at-fault party rather than reimburse specific losses like medical bills (Alabama Code section 6-5-410, source: law.justia.com/codes/alabama/title-6/chapter-5/article-23/section-6-5-410).
Nursing Home Abuse
Most nursing homes offer effective round-the-clock medical assistance in a compassionate, wholesome environment. When that care turns to abuse, however, the consequences can be devastating.
Medical Malpractice
Physicians and other healthcare providers owe their patients a duty to provide a professional standard of care, demonstrating the same level of skill that fellow practitioners generally exercise. Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider breaches that duty through a missed diagnosis, surgical error, medication mistake, or other departure from accepted medical standards. Alabama also requires an expert affidavit confirming a qualified expert believes the claim has merit before the case can proceed (Alabama Code section 6-5-551, source: law.justia.com/codes/alabama/title-6/chapter-5/article-29/section-6-5-551/).
We also represent clients in motorcycle accident and truck accident cases. Contact us today to learn more.