If You Are Injured

If you've been injured in an incident that may result in a lawsuit, you need to: 1) quickly protect the key evidence, and 2) find a lawyer who knows how to investigate and if necessary litigate your case. 

You need to move quickly to preserve evidence.  Evidence disappears quickly, and without certain evidence you may not be able to prove your case. Find the evidence you know of, protect it, and make sure that it stays in the same condition that it was in after the incident. If the product is in someone else's possession (such as a motor vehicle under police hold at a body shop) send a certified letter notifying everyone involved that the item is potential evidence and must not be destroyed. There is often other critical evidence that you may be unaware of, and you need a competent lawyer specialized in your kind of case to identify and preserve this evidence. 

You need to find a lawyer with the skills and expertise to investigate the incident and the injuries, and the potential causes.  Many times, victims or even lawyers without the requisite expertise may not recognize the true cause of the injuries.

For example, when someone dies in a car accident after being ejected, the police, family members, even lawyers assume that the seatbelt was not in use.  Sometimes, however, the seatbelt unlatched during the collision.  Certain seatbelts are vulnerable to unlatching when subjected to specific kinds of accident forces. To investigate this kind of incident, you need to find a lawyer who first of all knows to look, and second knows what to look for.  You need a lawyer who knows which seatbelts are vulnerable, how they're vulnerable, and what evidence is left behind when a seatbelt buckle unlatches.   

You should take great care in choosing a lawyer. Make sure your lawyer can handle this kind of case, and has had successful results.