Personal Injury Lawyers Pensacola, Florida

 

 

Personal Injuries occur all the time. More often than not, a personal injury is caused as a result of negligence, be it on the part of the injured person or someone else. When a personal injury is caused by the negligence of someone else, the injured party may be eligible to receive compensation through the filing of a personal injury lawsuit.

A personal injury attorney specializes in litigation of personal injury lawsuits. Auto accidents are among the most common cause of serious personal injuries. A personal injury lawyer, such as those representing the law offices of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, can help the victims of serious personal injuries obtain compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and loss of income. Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz are especially adept at helping brain injury, burn injury and spinal cord injury victims to receive respectable personal injury settlements.

The law offices of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz boast some of the most experienced personal injury lawyers Florida has to offer. Their practice areas not only provide help for auto accident and other personal injury victims in Northwest and Pensacola, Florida; they also represent victims nationally for injuries caused by defective drugs, defective medical products (defective pacemakers / ICDs / CRTs) and consumer fraud. Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz's national client resume includes people injured by Vioxx side effects, people injured by defective Guidant / Medtronic pacemakers and people injured by diet drug side effects (Fen Phen).

Auto Accidents

Over-the-course of the last five years, more than one quarter (26%) of Americans have been involved in some type of auto accident. An auto accident is likely to occur every five seconds somewhere in the United States.

According to studies conducted by the US Department of Transportation, most auto accidents involve young/inexperienced or elderly drivers and are caused by irresponsible driving behaviors. The number one cause of death for people aged one to 37 is auto accident related. Negligent driving behaviors include (but are not limited to) driving under the influence (DUI), speeding and reckless driving.

There are approximately six and a half million auto accidents each year in the United States. Of these six and a half million, approximately three million result in injuries, two million of which are permanent injuries. There are nearly 40,000 deaths each year resulting from auto accidents; that's one death every 13 minutes.