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Your New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyers
If you’ve been hurt due to the fault and negligence of someone else, you are eligible to claim a personal injury in New Jersey. Nothing will ever take back the physical and emotional trauma of experiencing a personal injury, but with Stopper Lopez you can be sure that you’ll have two decades of professional experience working for you to make sure you receive the proper compensation that you deserve.
Our Experienced NJ Personal Injury Lawyers Have Helped Clients Throughout South Jersey
Our Personal Injury Lawyers Handle Cases Including:
- Car Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Slip and Fall
- Rideshare Accidents
Not sure if your personal injury qualifies? Getting quick and clear answers is just a phone call away.
How Do I Know if I Have a Personal Injury Claim in New Jersey?
Elements of a Personal Injury Claim
Negligence, recklessness, and intentional conduct can all be grounds for personal injury liability. However, the majority of personal injury cases are due to negligence.
How Do I Prove Negligence in NJ?
Negligence, in short, is a failure to be careful. The following elements must be considered when attempting to prove another party’s negligence in a New Jersey personal injury claim:
- The defending must have owed you a duty of care.
- This duty was violated or neglected.
- There was a cause in fact relationship between their actions and your injuries.
- Your injuries directly resulted from that party’s negligence
- You can prove the injuries you sustained.
No one knows more than you when you are injured due to negligence on the part of another party. It’s our job to help you prove that negligence in a court of law, and ensure you are properly compensated.
How Comparative Negligence Works in New Jersey
Comparative negligence arises most often in car accidents, when two drivers are both considered at fault for different reasons. In New Jersey, the NJ Comparative Negligence Act allows the jury in a personal injury case to apportion fault for a single injury to multiple parties and then to assign fault, as a percentage, to each party involved. New Jersey uses a form of comparative negligence, called modified comparative negligence, that only allows a plaintiff to recover damages if their percentage of fault falls below 50%.
Common Accidents Resulting in NJ Personal Injury Claims
- Automobile Accidents
- Medical Malpractice
- Work-Related Accidents
- Product Liability
Not sure if your personal injury qualifies? Getting quick and clear answers is just a phone call away.
I’ve Been Injured Due to Negligence, What Can I Get Compensation For?
Under NJ law, plaintiffs in a personal injury case can request several different types of damages that are related to the injury you or a loved one has suffered due to the negligence of another. Your experienced attorney can explain this complicated area of recovery and the evidence needed to prove your claims.
Medically related expenses past, present, and future, are in this category. This type of compensation aims to assure that your medical needs (and bills) are provided for.
If you are hurt and can’t work due to a personal injury or are unable to perform the work of your profession, these damages you can seek.
In general, pain and suffering refer to the compensable damages that result from physical or mental suffering that a victim experiences as a result of their personal injury. This is a complicated category but can include monies to compensate for disability, pain suffered, and loss of the ability to enjoy activities and lifestyle that you had before the injury. Compensation can be claimed for the past, present, and future. In NJ, there is no cap on the recovery of pain and suffering damages, unlike other states.
Punitive damages are compensation awarded to the plaintiff to punish the defendant if their conduct which resulted in the plaintiff’s injury, was of a willful, wanton, reckless, or intentional nature. Punitive damages in NJ are generally capped at five (5) times the compensatory damages award, but there are exceptions your experienced personal injury attorney can provide counsel to you on.
Call Us for Your Free NJ Personal Injury Case Review
If you are suffering from a personal injury in New Jersey, an experienced personal injury attorney is only a phone call away. At Stopper Lopez, our initial case review is free. During the initial consultation, we will listen to you explain the unique facts of your case and help guide you towards the crucial next steps on your path towards the compensation you deserve. Cases may be taken on a contingency basis, meaning there is no up-front cost to you, and we only get paid if you do.
With Stopper Lopez, you benefit from big firm experience with small firm attention and the power of over a quarter of a century of legal experience. Call us today to work with an experienced New Jersey personal injury attorney and begin your journey towards just compensation. We endeavor to help you put your life back together.
Our Experienced NJ Personal Injury Lawyers Have Helped Clients Throughout South Jersey
- Berlin
- Burlington
- Browns Mills
- Camden
- Cherry Hill
- Cinnaminson
- Collingswood
- Delran
- Deptford
- Glassboro
- Haddonfield
- Hainesport
- Lumberton
- Maple Shade
- Marlton
- Medford
- Mount Holly
- Mount Laurel
- Moorestown
- Palmyra
- Pemberton
- Pitman
- Pennsauken
- Southampton
- Springfield
- Shamong
- Swedesboro
- Tabernacle
- Westampton
- Willingboro