The Bradley Law Firm Blog

All accidents are not created equal. Whether car accidents or other types of personal injury accidents, they happen everywhere people live, work and play. Some are severe causing serious injury or death, while others result in only minor injuries.

One definition of an accident is an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance.

That definition emphasizes the fact that sometimes when an accident happens, someone else may have contributed to or caused it. When someone is responsible for injuring another person, they should be held responsible even if it was an accident.

Determining who is responsible for your injuries is not always easy. Often it requires an experienced accident investigator like those on the legal team at The Bradley Firm to determine the facts and identify responsibility.

Compounding the difficulty of identifying responsibility are concepts like contributory negligence and comparative negligence. Those two legal terms are used to identify the amount of responsibility that each party shares in an accident and can be used to limit or disallow compensation.

Sorting out the details of what happened and who is responsible for injuries suffered in an accident can be difficult. If it happens to you, it's not something you want to leave to chance or trust that an insurance company will adequately handle.

If you live in St. Louis or anywhere in Missouri and have been injured in an accident, please contact the experienced accident attorneys at The Bradley Law Firm to help sort out the details and get the compensation you deserve.