Automobile, Motorcycle & Trucking Accident Attorneys
BIREN/KATZMAN's Attorneys Successfully Handle Automobile, Trucking and Motorcycle Accidents
Motor vehicle accidents that cause serious / catastrophic personal injuries can present many complex issues. If you've been seriously injured in a car accident, trucking accident or motorcycle accident you should contact the law office of BIREN/KATZMAN for a free consultation.
Our auot accident attorneys have developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients' recoveries in motor vehicle accidents. For example:
- Liability Disputes - BIREN/KATZMAN has proven liability in cases where, on first blush, it appeared that our client rather than the defendant probably caused the accident. We accomplished this by extraordinarily thorough investigation, complex accident reconstructions with the best experts and high tech tools, such as computer modeling. Now, with computers being used in almost all vehicles, the “black boxes” can be electronically downloaded to provide valuable information.
- Products Liability - Sometimes the best claim is not against the other driver, but rather against the manufacturer of a defective vehicle. These claims can involve contentions that the vehicle is not crashworthy, that the vehicle is unstable resulting in a rollover, that the tires were defective causing a delamination or a blow-out or that the vehicle failed to function as warranted (brakes defective, cruise control jams on, etc.)
- Maximizing Insurance Recovery - Often times there is inadequate insurance to pay fair compensation to Plaintiffs who have been seriously injured. BIREN/KATZMAN has successfully utilized a number of strategies to maximize our clients' recoveries. In a number of cases these strategies have resulted in defendant's insurance companies paying our clients far more than the insurance limits that were available under the defendant's insurance policy.
- Dangerous Road Design - Sometimes it is a dangerous design of the road that causes the accident. BIREN/KATZMAN has successfully sued governmental entities for dangerous roads and achieved substantial recoveries for clients injured in vehicular accidents who otherwise might not have received any compensation.
- Big Rigs - Big rig accidents almost always result in serious / catastrophic injuries or death. BIREN/KATZMAN has a proven record of establishing liability of trucking companies, because they know from experience how trucking companies try to hide the truth about their dangerous conduct and shift the blame to innocent victims. Driver fatigue, unrealistic driving schedules, poor maintenance standards and performance all contribute to trucking accidents.
- Maximizing Damages - It isn't enough to establish liability, the outcome of a client's case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. BIREN/KATZMAN knows how to find the best medical experts who can not only diagnose and treat the most sophisticated injuries, but just as importantly can effectively communicate their findings. To maximize damages, it takes more than proving the injury. We work with economists (to establish the monetary losses of our clients), vocational rehabilitationists (to establish the impact of the injury on the client's earnings capacity), life care planners (to establish future care needs and the costs involved) and a host of other types of damage experts, all geared to maximizing our client's recoveries. Use of experts and creativity is especially important to demonstrate the full measure of damages in wrongful death cases.
- Team Approach / Principal Lawyer Handling - BIREN/KATZMAN is unique in that every case accepted by the firm is handled from start to finish by the firm's principals, Matthew B.F. Biren and Marc J. Katzman. Every case is approached on a team basis where every member of the firm works on the case. This team approach, employing hands-on involvement of the principal lawyers, is much different than how most firms work; where the handling is basically done by an associate and the senion lawyers only get involved, if at all, in the later stages of the case. Our clients profit from this approach because they not only get the benefit of our senior lawyers' extensive experience and knowledge, but they also get the input from many people, which substantially increases the creative ideas generated about handling, which translates to better results.
Our lawyers at BIREN/KATZMAN Trial Lawyers have achieved extraordinary recoveries for clients injured in products liability cases, including:
- In one of our most notable motor vehicle accident cases, Matthew B.F. Biren and an accident reconstruction engineer were able to convince a jury that, contrary to eyewitness accounts and first appearances at the accident scene, our client's pickup truck had not crossed into oncoming traffic, but rather the truck driven by the defendant had wandered into his lane, clipping his truck and starting the reaction that ultimately led to his tragic death. The jury awarded this 61 year old man's family (wife and adult children) $4,500,000.
- Serious motor vehicle accidents often lead to catastrophic injuries, such as traumatic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries like paraplegia, quadriplegia or damaged cervical or lumbar discs. Some injuries are severe and immediately apparent, while others are more subtle and can only be diagnosed by specialists who are experienced in diagnosing traumatic injuries. BIREN/KATZMAN understands traumatic injuries and knows the best medical specialists to help diagnose and treat our client's injuries, as well as maximize their recoveries. An example of an automobile accident case where the brain injury was difficult to diagnose and prove and where our client ultimately recovered far more than the insurance benefits available to the defendant is Saenz v. Garcia.
- Two missionaries were involved in a tragic automobile accident shortly before moving to India. The wife was killed. The husband, who sustained a head injury received a settlement of $2.7 million.
Contact the office of BIREN/KATZMAN to schedule a free initial consultation to review your motor vehicle accident injury case. Your consultation is free. Your recovery could begin today.
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