ST. PAUL MN ACCIDENT LAWYER – PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS
Our personal injury accident lawyers handle accident injury cases in St Paul and throughout Minnesota. The St. Paul accident cases our top lawyers handle include car accident cases, slip and fall cases, and dog bite and dog attack cases. Also, defective product cases, motorcycle injuries, and more. In other words, any type of injury accident in St. Paul. Our accident cases are almost always against an insurance company.
When you are injured in an accident, the law in MN requires your claim for medical bills and other compensation be technically brought against the person who caused the accident. In other words, you can’t sue the insurance company directly. However, the insurance company defends the case for the person who caused the accident. They will also pay the settlement, so the case is really against the insurance company. Our best MN accident lawyers have been dealing with insurance companies about St. Paul accident injury cases for more than 25 years.
INJURED IN ACCIDENT LAWYER ST. PAUL
There are three important parts to an accident insurance claim in St. Paul or anywhere in Minnesota: First, to have an injury claim, there must be someone other than you at fault. If you injure yourself in an accident and there is no fault on another party, you have no one to sue. Of course, you can still get your medical bills paid through your health insurance. You may also be entitled to No-Fault auto insurance if it was a car accident.
The other party in a MN accident claim can be a person or a business. For example, if you are injured because something slippery was left on the floor at a store, the accident claim is against the business. If you are injured because a homeowner did not properly salt their sidewalk, the accident claim is against a person. Similarly, if you are injured in a car accident by a truck being driven for a company, our Minnesota accident injury attorneys pursue the company.
SIGNIFICANT INJURY FROM ACCIDENT
The second requirement for an accident case in MN is that you have been injured. In a car accident case, the injury has to meet a threshold. In other Minnesota personal injury accidents, the injury has to at least be significant enough to make it worthwhile for the accident injury attorney to pursue the case. When you hire an accident lawyer from our office in a St. Paul personal injury accident case, we are paid based on a contingency. That means that we are paid a percentage of what we collect for the person injured in the accident.
Therefore, regardless of how at fault the other person was, our attorneys can only take cases if the injury from the accident is significant enough to make it worth our time and expenses. It is not always obvious at the time of the accident how significant your injury will be. Therefore, a lawyer from our office will meet with you after an accident in St. Paul and provide you with a free consultation.
INJURY COMPENSATION ST. PAUL ACCIDENT
The third requirement our personal injury lawyers look for in a St. Paul MN accident case is insurance. Unfortunately, it generally does not make sense to pursue cases where the person or business causing the accident does not have insurance. In most cases, people who don’t have insurance for accidents they cause also don’t have money to pay damages for their accidents.
It is illegal to own and drive a car in Minnesota without having insurance for accidents. Unfortunately we do see that happen sometimes in St. Paul. However, if you are injured in a car accident caused by an uninsured driver in St. Paul, an accident lawyer from our office will also help you get compensation from the uninsured motorist coverage of your own insurance.
PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS FOR ST. PAUL ACCIDENT
Pam Rochlin and David Rochlin are experienced lawyers with more than 25 years’ experience successfully representing hundreds of people injured in an accident in St. Paul and throughout the state. Pam Rochlin is a former partner at Meshbesher and Spence, offering small firm attention and personal service. Pam and David are married, and we treat our clients like they are a part of our family. We have offices in Woodbury (with easy parking) and Minneapolis. A top injury attorney will also meet personal injury accident clients at their homes in St. Paul, Chanhassen, Chaska, Maple Grove, Apple Valley, White Bear Lake, Brooklyn Park, and other cities throughout Minnesota. Call us for a free consultation.