Bicycle Accident Injury Claims
Bicycling in Connecticut is a healthy, energy-efficient transportation alternative. Unfortunately, your safety depends on traffic, vehicles, and the drivers with whom you share the road. When you’re injured in a bicycle accident due to someone else’s negligence, you have the right to seek financial compensation.
At Baber Law, we protect our clients’ legal rights and act on their behalf. We can investigate your accident, assess liability, and work to secure compensation from all responsible parties. Our bicycle accident lawyer is committed to helping bicycle accident victims recover the compensation they need to rebuild their lives.
Bicycle Accidents In Connecticut
Connecticut statutes require both bicyclists and motorists to follow the rules of the road. This “duty of care” dictates that everyone must take reasonable steps to prevent causing harm. As a cyclist, even if you do everything right, negligent drivers, pedestrians, construction crews, or landowners can still cause an accident.
If you believe a negligent party caused your bicycle accident injuries, our Connecticut bicycle accident attorney can determine if you have a legal right to recover compensation.
Protecting Your Rights
When we represent you, our legal team works to resolve essential legal issues on your behalf:
- Deal With Insurance Adjusters: While you’re in pain or on medication, liability adjusters may try to take advantage of you. They often seek to record your statement, look for inconsistencies, and focus on legal issues that could jeopardize your claim. We handle all adjuster communications, allowing you to focus on recovery without added stress.
- Manage Complex Liability Situations: Sometimes accidents involve more than one negligent person or legal issue. We identify all responsible parties and their roles in causing your accident. We notify them of our representation and request that they report the accident to their liability carriers.
- Work to Resolve Your Claim: We evaluate your case based on liability, injuries, medical bills, impairments, and recent legal precedents. When appropriate, our lawyer seeks opportunities for negotiation. If we can’t reach a fair settlement, we can file a lawsuit, conduct discovery, proceed to trial, or engage in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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Damages You Can Recover
Whether we negotiate or litigate a bicycle injury case, we seek recoverable damages based on these categories:
- Economic Damages: Typically, economic damages cover your total current and projected future out-of-pocket costs. This category often includes treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation, medical bills, lost income, and other injury-related expenses.
- Non-Economic Damages: These compensate you for the emotional and personal impact of your injuries on your life. We negotiate non-economic damages based on your pain, suffering, disfigurement, emotional issues, and permanent disabilities.
- Punitive Damages: In rare instances, a Connecticut jury may award punitive damages to punish a defendant who acted recklessly, intentionally, and maliciously.
Understanding Comparative Negligence
In Connecticut, we must consider Comparative Negligence when settling or trying a case. If the evidence shows you contributed to your accident, your percentage of negligence may reduce your recoverable damages. You still have the right to recover compensation as long as the evidence proves you were less than 51% negligent.
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We Work on a Contingency Fee Basis
In compliance with Connecticut statutes, our law firm handles injury claims on a contingency basis. We work diligently on your behalf, but we only charge legal fees after we settle your claim or win a judgment.
Filing Deadlines (Statute of Limitations)
Connecticut General Statutes §52-584 establishes a deadline for finalizing a personal injury claim. In most instances, this statute of limitations gives you two years to settle a claim or file a civil suit. If you don’t take action in time, you lose the right to make an injury claim.
If you need to know more a bout your specific statute of limitations, contact Baber Law. We identify and track our clients’ critical deadlines to ensure compliance with court requirements.
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Contact Baber Law
If someone injured you while you were riding your bicycle, contact us as soon as possible for a free consultation. Attorney Nate Baber and his team can review your case and determine if we can help you recover damages.
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