"A Personal Injury law firm must be able to react to the individual needs of its clients and their specific injuries. That means staffing lawyers across a broad practice range and having the in-house resources to support your case. It also means being able to draw upon the expertise of specialists across the nation in fields ranging from accident reconstruction to engineering and more. That's a commitment we have made in building our law firm.
If you have suffered a serious personal injury, call us. The call is always free and the consultation to review your case is always free."
- Attorney Timothy Lenahan.
Personal Injury Lawyers at Lenahan & Dempsey
Personal injury is an area of the law that encompasses a large number of other practice areas. Personal injuries, as defined by law, are those injuries that affect the body or the mind of an individual.
Why You Need a Personal Injury Attorney
A personal injury can occur in many different types of mishaps and tragedies, ranging from auto accidents to slip and fall cases to wrongful death actions.
When you need a lawyer to represent you in a personal injury case, you must choose a lawyer or a firm with a broad practice area that can handle your claim.
Since being founded over 60 years ago, the Personal Injury lawyers at Lenahan & Dempsey have been helping those who have been seriously injured. We offer home and hospital visits, and we maintain offices in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, and Berwick.
Types of Personal Injury Cases We Can Help You With
1. Car Accidents
This includes injuries sustained in collisions involving passenger vehicles, motorcycles, or bicycles. Such injuries commonly include whiplash, broken bones, head injuries, spinal cord injuries, and soft tissue damage.
Victims of a car accident may seek compensation for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and property damage.
2. Truck Accidents
Truck accidents involve large commercial trucks, such as 18-wheelers or delivery trucks.The size and weight of these vehicles often result in severe injuries. Driver fatigue, improper loading, mechanical failures, or trucking company negligence commonly cause truck accidents.
Cases may involve multiple parties, including the truck driver, trucking company, and manufacturers of defective parts.
3. Insurance Bad Faith
Bad faith insurance is when an insurance company fails to uphold its legal obligation to act in good faith and deal fairly with policyholders. Examples of this include denying valid claims, delaying payments, or offering unreasonably low settlements.
Victims can sue the insurance company to recover the compensation they are owed, and may also seek punitive damages.
4. Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice includes injuries caused by the negligence or incompetence of healthcare professionals, such as doctors, nurses, or hospitals. This can take the form of misdiagnosis, surgical errors, medication mistakes, or failure to provide proper treatment.
To gain compensation, victims must prove that the healthcare provider breached the standard of care, directly causing harm.
5. Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing home abuse includes physical, emotional, or financial abuse, as well as neglect, of elderly residents in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. This can take the form of bedsores, malnutrition, unexplained injuries, or emotional distress caused by mistreatment.
Families can pursue legal action against the facility or staff for failing to provide adequate care.
6. Slip & Fall
Slip and fall injuries occur when someone is injured after slipping, tripping, or falling on another person’s property. The fall itself must be caused by hazardous conditions such as wet floors, uneven surfaces, poor lighting, or lack of proper signage.
Property owners can be held liable if they failed to maintain safe premises or warn visitors of potential dangers.
7. Product Liability
Product liability injuries caused by defective or dangerous products, including design flaws, manufacturing defects, or inadequate warnings. This can take the form of faulty machinery, unsafe toys, contaminated food, or defective medical devices.
Manufacturers, distributors, or retailers can be held accountable for harm caused by their products.
Personal Injury FAQs
When someone with a personal injury case comes to our offices for help, they usually have a number of questions, such as:
- When should I file my claim?
- Who will pay my bills when I can't work?
- Can I recoup lost wages as well as receive compensation for pain and suffering?
- I am being pressured to undergo testing and to sign documents by an insurance company. Should I do so?
The lawyers at Lenahan & Dempsey can help you answer these questions, and more – and consultations are always free.
Don't Be Pressured By An Insurance Company
Have you seen our television commercials where a fast-talking insurance adjuster tries to get an injured man to sign away his rights?
It's a humorous look at a situation we take very seriously. Never sign any insurance document until the document has received a free case review by a Lenahan & Dempsey lawyer.
The same goes for medical testing being urged by an insurance company. Without realizing it, by cooperating with an insurance company, you may be waiving some very important legal rights.
