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Personal Injury
If you believe you have a case, don't have any doubts.If you or a family member is suffering from a personal injury that clearly infringes on your long-term health, income or quality of life, your first step should be obvious. You should contact a personal injury attorney to determine if you have a legitimate case against the person or entity that caused your personal injury. But surprisingly, many Americans pass over this first critical step, choosing out of fear, ignorance, guilt or suspicion to endure their personal injury literally "lying down," without exploring any legal recourse.
At Nichols-Zauzig Litigation Group, we take every effort to make the often complex process of personal injury compensation simple for our clients. We are the personal injury law experts, and we know you aren't. Winning personal injury cases is hard work and we approach every case with the highest professional integrity. While we work with you every step of the way in the legal process, one thing we cannot do is overcome your reluctance to proceed with a case. As personal injury attorneys, it is often baffling to see obvious victims of medical malpractice; trucking accidents; motor vehicle accidents; acquired traumatic brain injuries; slip and fall accidents; cycle and pedestrian accidents; defective products; aviation disasters and some types of on-the-job injuries that decline to pursue an adequate legal settlement.
For example, several years ago, a 12-year-old boy was at a newly opened water park in Northern Virginia. Along with many other children there, the boy was having fun going down the water slides that had recently opened. The boy didn't know that the park owners had opened the water slides prematurely and without completing construction. Specifically, the grates on the bottom of the pool where the children coming off the waterslides landed were not secure. Instead of being welded to the bottom of the pool, the sharp and heavy grates were simply tied down with construction twine. The grates were to be welded down during the off-season, which would begin in a few weeks, after the park owners had made some initial profit off the hastily opened park.
But unfortunately for the 12-year-old boy, the welding didn't happen soon enough. With scores of children splash landing in the pool all afternoon, it was only a matter of time before one of the grates was exposed and became a serious hazard to the steady stream of onrushing children coming off the slides. On one of his last trips of the day down the waterslide, the grate did in fact loosen, and nearly severed the boy's right foot on impact.
Despite profuse bleeding and a laceration that left the bone exposed, park management did not call an ambulance for the boy. Instead, a friend of the boy's called the boy's father, who arrived 20 minutes later, loaded the injured boy in a station wagon, and carted him off to the hospital. The boy had 22 stitches across his right foot and was on crutches for four months, and to this day has no feeling in his right toes. The liability of the park and the park owners was clear, yet the father (who spent several thousand of his own dollars in medical bills) chose not to pursue any legal action. His reasons?
"There are too many people who try to take advantage of the legal system, and there are too many frivolous lawsuits in America today. Accidents happen, and I don't want to get involved in a legal fiasco that won't do anybody any good. He'll be all right," the father said, referring to his boy.
Accidents happen, but legal action can prevent someone else's personal injury
The father in the above case was right about one thing: accidents do happen, and they always will. But he was wrong about the idea that legal action through personal injury cases doesn't do anybody any good. Quite the contrary. Many of the thousands of safety laws and regulations in place today are there because of personal injury trials that have cost insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, physicians, hospitals, consumer product manufacturers, automobile makers, trucking concerns and other negligent businesses and organizations millions of dollars.
Without personal injury cases and lawyers to compel these entities to establish and enforce corrective safety measures and programs, the world would be a much more dangerous place. By not contacting a personal injury law firm and pursuing justice, the father allowed whoever was responsible for the slipshod construction measures at the water park to apply them somewhere else, putting others in harm's way.
The integrity of the Nichols-Zauzig group is based on the firm belief that, through helping you earn just compensation for your personal injury, we are also helping to make our communities and our own lives safer.
If we believe you, so will a jury
When the Nichols-Zauzig Litigation Group offers to take on personal injury cases for our clients, all the resources of our firm are behind that offer. An offer not only means that we believe you have an excellent case; it also means we have every confidence that we can convince a jury of the same. We devote significant amounts of time to evaluating every aspect of your case and go through extensive trial preparation to present an objective and truthful presentation of the facts. Our years of extensive trial work and professional recognition throughout Virginia's legal community attest to the reason so many turn to Nichols-Zauzig Litigation Group for personal injury law.
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