Devoted, Local Atlanta Personal Injury Attorneys Serving You
From a legal perspective, a personal injury occurs when a person suffers physical, emotional or mental harm due to another person or party’s negligence or their actions. Unlike a property damage claim, which focuses on your car or home, a personal injury claim focuses on you.
At Glenda Mitchell Law Firm, the job of our personal injury lawyers is to recover maximum compensation for your damages. They act as your legal shield and advocates. Our firm has hundreds of five-star reviews on Google, Avvo and elsewhere. Our team includes multiple attorneys selected to the Super Lawyers list. We level the playing field between our clients and the powerful insurance corporations.
How Do I Know If I Have A Personal Injury Claim?
If you were involved in an accident because of someone else’s negligent or reckless behavior, you can pursue a claim for your damages. A valid personal injury claim exists when another party owed you a duty to act reasonably, failed to meet that duty and caused your injuries.
This can happen in many situations, including:
- Car, motorcycle and bicycle crashes
- Commercial truck collisions
- Rideshare accidents
- Dog bites
- Medical malpractice
- Nursing home abuse or neglect
- Slip-and-fall accidents
A personal injury claim depends on whether you can show that someone else was at fault for your accident. For example, if a driver was speeding or drunk driving and caused a crash, that can strongly support a claim. If a property owner failed to fix a dangerous condition or warn visitors about it, that could also create liability. The key question is whether your accident would likely have been avoided if the other person or business had acted with reasonable care.
In Atlanta and throughout Georgia, personal injury cases are subject to strict deadlines, which means waiting too long to file a claim can affect your ability to recover compensation for your losses. Speaking with a skilled personal injury lawyer at our firm can help you understand whether the facts of your situation support a claim and your next steps forward.
Adding Up The Value Of An Atlanta Personal Injury Claim
Calculating the true value of a claim is more complex than adding up your hospital bills. In Georgia, the law allows victims to seek compensation for both economic and noneconomic damages. To determine what your claim is worth, we look at several factors, including:
- Hospital bills
- Surgery costs
- Medication
- Future physical therapy
- Lost wages
- Loss of earning potential
- Pain and suffering
You should not accept the first settlement offer from an insurance company. Insurers often try to offer you much less than the true value of your claim. Always consult a personal injury lawyer to ensure your offer is fair.
Free Consultation – We Come To You
Please call 678-721-0417 or send us an email to set up a free consultation with our Atlanta personal injury lawyers. No need to make a trip to our law office in person, because we will come to you. You have been through enough already. We make the process of enlisting an attorney and seeking compensation as convenient as possible. We do home and hospital visits and can also have meetings by phone or videoconference, as appropriate.
About Our Atlanta Personal Injury Law Office
Our firm’s Atlanta law office is located in the Buckhead neighborhood on Peachtree Road Northeast, between Lenox Road Northeast and T. Harvey Mathis Parkway/Georgia State Route 400. The address is:
3390 Peachtree Road N.E.
Suite 340
Atlanta, GA 30326
Our law office is on the third floor of Lenox Towers, which is situated between the Waldorf Astoria and The Whitley hotels, and directly across from Lenox Square. Lenox Towers has been a fixture of Buckhead’s historic financial district since 1966, and we are excited to serve our clients from this location.
Three Tips For Meeting With Your Atlanta Personal Injury Attorneys
1. First of all, know that we are here to help you get full compensation. We are on your side, and we will walk beside you through this difficult time. That means taking the burden off your shoulders by being the point of contact for the insurance company, so you do not have to deal with them directly. In fact, we always encourage people to contact us before they talk to an insurance agent.
2. When you call to schedule your free consultation with an Atlanta personal injury attorney, our staff will tell you if you need to bring anything to the meeting. With that said, we recommend that you create a folder to keep any documentation pertaining to your claim, from insurance documents to medical records. All of this documentation has the potential to become evidence in your case.
3. Lastly, keep in mind that this meeting is for you as much as it is for us. You have the right to ask questions about our long history handling personal injury cases for people in Fulton County and throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area and all of Georgia. You have the right to ask questions about the law and the legal process for getting full compensation. Feel free to take notes as the meeting progresses. We are here for you.