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Hello, this is Tahnya Ballard again, California and Nevada attorney. I am here for injury claims TV. Now, I wanted to talk to you about injuries and what types of injuries really fall within the law in terms of something that the law will handle versus something that the law doesn’t relate to.
For example, a few minutes before I went to tape this video, I bent down to get something on the floor and I whacked the side of my head on a vacuum cleaner right here. So this may be swelling actually during the course of the video. I don’t know. It’s really … it’s hot to the touch. I don’t know. I might have a black eye pretty soon. So I whacked it pretty hard. Thankfully it didn’t hit the eyeball. It just hit right here (the cheekbone).
Now, is that something that the law would govern? No, I don’t think so. That was something that was my fault, I guess in a way. And really, do you want vacuum cleaning companies responsible for people who wack themselves when they’re leaning down to pick up something? I don’t think so. So that wouldn’t be something unless you’re basically using the vacuum cleaner in the way that it was intended and all of the sudden something flies loose that shouldn’t be loose and hits you in the face. Well, then that might be because I think we all can agree vacuum cleaners should not have things flying off of them that aren’t supposed to be, and I don’t think anything is supposed to be flying off of a vacuum cleaner.
Other types of things that are, naturally the car accident type thing, but not if it’s your fault. Sometimes it requires an analysis to know whether it’s your fault. Sometimes the sheriff or the police will come out and they’ll make an assessment of whose fault it is, and sometimes that’s right and sometimes it isn’t because they have a limited amount of time to look at it. So those are the types of things where you typically hear about injuries. Auto accidents, car accidents, truck accidents.
There are also pedestrian accidents. Pedestrians can be hit by cars. That happens. Obviously that happens. We all know that. But if you’re not walking in a crosswalk, it might not be as much the other party’s fault as it is your fault. Now we practice in California and Nevada and each of those states have a different way to look at that, but let’s say something is only like 10% your fault. There’s still an injury there, and if the other side is 90% at fault, well then maybe they should pay 90% of the damages, and generally they do have insurance if it’s something that we’re handling.
Other types of injury claims are like if somebody intentionally harms you. If they intentionally hit you or stab you, those are compensable claims. Now the reason why they aren’t sued a lot is a lot of times those people who are doing those kind of thing, they don’t have any money. Generally there’s no insurance that’s gonna cover an intentional act like that. However, there are cases where let’s say you’re in a nightclub, and that’s typically a place where people can get kind of rowdy because nightclubs will have bouncers. Well, if they let somebody in that they know is violent, that could be a problem for the nightclub. So they do have a duty to you.
So basically, with injuries, you have to find where there’s a legal duty to the other person to protect them or to not hurt them at the very least. Those are the kind of injury claims that we handle. Now, we don’t handle every one that calls us because it may or may not be something that we feel like we can handle or get a good result from, and if it’s something like that, we’ll tell you no. But give us a call. We’d be interested in hearing what’s happened to you and how it happened, what kind of medical treatment that you’ve gotten. You can call us and I’ll talk to you. Our number, we have two numbers since we’re in Nevada and California. Our California number is 916-287-7157, and our Nevada number is 775-391-5131. Don’t ask for the fax number because I don’t remember what it is. That’s it for today’s segment of injury claims TV. Take care.