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Personal Injury Lawsuits Explained

A personal injury action is a lawsuit brought by an individual who has suffered physical or mental harm as the result of the wrongful conduct of another. A wrongful death action is a lawsuit brought on behalf of a deceased person's family or beneficiaries that alleges the death was attributable to the willful or negligent act of another.
The laws of most states allow persons injured by the negligence of another to file a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit against those responsible for the accident. If the personal injury was caused by a defective product, such as a prescription drug recalled due to dangerous side effects, the injured person may be eligible to file a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the product.
Damages sought against negligent persons and manufacturers for producing and selling products with safety defects include general and compensatory damages for:
  • Past and future physical pain and suffering, mental anguish and physical impairment;
  • Past and future medical, incidental and hospital expenses;
  • Past and future loss of earnings and earning capacity; and
  • Wrongful death when the injured person was killed.
Lieff Cabraser Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, lawyers represent injured persons, and the families of loved ones who have died, in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits.
The Advantages Lieff Cabraser Offers Its Clients
Our firm consists of more than fifty lawyers and a large support staff in three offices nationwide. Since our founding in 1972, we have handled and resolved thousands of personal injury and wrongful death cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. We are widely regarded as one of the premier personal injury law firms in the country.
For the last five years, the National Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation. In compiling the list, the National Law Journal examined recent verdicts and settlements in addition to overall track records. Lieff Cabraser is one of only two plaintiffs' law firms in the United States to receive this honor for the last five consecutive years.
 
Lieff Cabraser represents persons across America injured by defective Guidant and Ancure heart devices. Our firm was one of the first law firms in the U.S. to file a Guidant defibrillator recall lawsuit.
We offer our clients the following advantages:
Attentive, Personal Service
We are committed to providing the very best representation and support possible for our clients, and to obtaining the highest compensation under law for their claims.
We work closely with our clients throughout the litigation. Each client is assigned an individual attorney who is responsible for prosecuting the case and regularly communicating with the client. At the same time, our attorneys work as a team, drawing upon their combined knowledge, training and skills to provide our clients with decades of litigation experience.
The Strength of a National Law Firm
Lieff Cabraser is among the largest law firms in the United States that represent only plaintiffs. Our legal skills, along with our ability to advance the costs in our clients’ cases, enable us to take on the most powerful corporations in the world and the large defense firms that represent them. Lieff Cabraser has successfully litigated against many of the country’s largest corporations, including companies in the pharmaceutical, automotive, and airplane industries.
Leaders Among Attorneys
Our firm enjoys a national reputation for professional integrity and for the efficient, aggressive and responsible prosecution of our clients’ claims. Our attorneys are routinely appointed by federal and state courts across America to serve as the leaders in national personal injury and wrongful death cases. For each of the last four years, the National Law Journal has ranked our firm among the top twenty plaintiffs’ law firms in the nation.
Many of our attorneys are directors and officers of various local and national bar associations. Many of the firm’s lawyers write articles, give speeches and teach law students concerning areas of the firm’s practice. And a number of our attorneys have received awards and honors for their distinguished skills and successes.
A Top-Notch Legal Team
Our attorneys include some of the country’s most distinguished legal practitioners, with expertise in investigating and filing personal injury lawsuits, prosecuting complex, time-consuming cases through trial, and negotiating and crafting settlements that achieve justice for our clients.
In addition to our more than fifty attorneys, we employ an impressive team of legal nurse consultants, scientific and medical analysts, investigators and legal assistants who have years of experience in personal injury lawsuits.
Our staff works with our attorneys in expeditiously obtaining and reviewing client medical records, tabulating medical and surgical expenses, and estimating the costs of anticipated future operations, treatments and ongoing therapies.
We also have relationships with the leading experts in the fields of accident and disaster reconstruction, automotive safety, product design, aviation, manufacturing, medicine and surgery, and pharmacology.
An Outstanding Track Record
Lieff Cabraser has obtained over $400 million in verdicts, judgments and settlements for our clients in individual personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits. Since 1995, and working with co-counsel, we have achieved verdicts, judgments and settlements in excess of $10 billion in product liability class action lawsuits.
Currently, we are prosecuting scores of lawsuits involving injuries and deaths resulting from all types of negligent conduct and design defects, including cases arising out of air disasters and vehicle rollover accidents. We are also representing patients who received defective medical devices, contaminated blood products, and prescription drugs with undisclosed, dangerous side effects.
 
Our Guidant defect lawyers have years of experience successfully representing patients with faulty or defective medical implants.
There is no charge or obligation
for our review of your case.
We are pleased to visit Guidant patients, or families of loved ones who died, at or near where you live and at no cost, to discuss your legal rights and answer your questions.
To assist our clients with their claims, we have on staff nurses with cardiac training and have retained physicians to provide expert advice.
     Additional Lieff Cabraser Information: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville, is one of the largest law firms in the United States that only represents plaintiffs. We have been nationally recognized for our representation of shareholders in cases alleging violations of federal securities laws by major corporations and their directors and officers.
    Our clients come from across America, including the states of Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming. Learn more about our firm.
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