Injury Accidents Resulting from Negligence are Common
Injury accidents caused by someone's negligence or indifference to public safety are more common than you may think. In the New Orleans area, people deal with personal injury and maritime accidents too.
Offshore injuries, including those related to oil production, have led to many disabilities and continue to Accidents at sea are generally not covered by the traditional injury law that covers accidents on the road or in businesses on land. Regardless, anyone injured by a business owner's negligence still has legal means to recover medical costs, lost wages and compensation for pain and suffering. The Longshoreman & Harbor Workers Compensation Act, general maritime law, the Jones Act, and the Death on the High Seas Act all apply in different maritime accidents.
If you are one of thousands injured in a car accident in New Orleans each year, you may not be on your own dealing with the aftermath. Distracted driving and reckless driving contribute to a large percentage of accidents. In 2014 alone, distracted driving contributed to 431,000 injuries and 3,179 deaths on the road. Car accidents sometimes happen because of gross negligence in maintenance, repair or manufacturing. Air bags that go off at random are one example of how mechanical faults, not driver error, lead to accidents.
Truck accidents usually end badly when a truck hits a car. Thousands of these accidents happen each year in the New Orleans area, and at least some happen because the truck driver was negligence. Trucking is a vital part of our economy, but trucking companies do sometimes put their drivers or the public at needless risk, and serious accidents result.
If you were injured by someone else's negligence, don't hesitate to contact us to discuss your legal rights. The experienced attorneys at Herman, Herman & Katz have won hundreds of millions of Dollars for injured individuals or their surviving family members.
