What You Need To Make A Child Injury Claim

An Arlington, Texas insurance claim arises when a child is entitled to reimbursement for their injuries and damages caused by an accident. Most of the time, a child will only have the right to recover compensation if the injuries were caused by another person's negligence. As an Arlington child injury lawyer I find that it is best to perform the three-legged stool test when debating whether to make an injury claim for your child. If any of the legs are missing, the stool falls. These three legs are liability, damages, and insurance.

With liability, it is important to look at your claim as how a jury will see it. It other words, the other party must primarily be at fault. There can only be a claim if there is someone else to blame. Liability is important, if there is someone to blame, make a claim.

Damages are the second part of the equation. As a general rule, if your child doesn't seek any medical treatment soon after the accident, then you probably don't have serious enough damages to hire an injury lawyer. Typically if your child's medical expenses are more than $5,000, you have sufficient damages to pursue an injury claim.

The last leg is insurance. It is hard to make claims against individuals who are not covered by liability insurance. If the situation is where the potential defendant is a corporate entity or the person at fault was working for a business entity at the time of the accident, the general rule of liability insurance does not apply. Claims in these instances are against the company or business directly.

So before you decide to pursue a child injury claim, make sure you have all three legs of the stool. I have been an Arlington Child Injury Attorney since 1991. If your child has been injured, contact me today at 817-294-1900. It is a free consultation, and if you don't get paid, I don't get paid.

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The Anderson Law Firm offers free no obligation consultations to people injured in accidents or who have suffered physical harm as a result of someone else's actions. We do not charge you to initially discuss your situation and establish whether you have a claim to pursue. You can call us and discuss your case over the phone, we can set up an appointment for you to come into our office, or we can visit you in your home anywhere in the metroplex.

If after meeting with us you decide that we are the best personal injury lawyer for you, then we will enter into a contingent fee agreement. This means that we only get paid when we win a settlement or jury verdict in your favor. You don't pay us anything up front. We will cover all expenses spent working on your case. Only when we win for you will you need to pay us. If we don't win, then you owe us nothing.

Contact us online now or call us 24 hours a day toll free on 1-800-354-MARK (1-800-345-6-275). You can also call us locally in Fort Worth on 817-294-1900 or in Dallas on 214-327-8000.