Virginia Personal Injury Myth #6, All Injuries Must be Someone’s Fault
Just because there has been an accident and it wasn’t your fault, that doesn’t mean that there must be some insurance company that will pay for your bills, lost wages and injuries. It doesn’t work that way.
Just because your child got hurt in a store, or on someone else’s property doesn’t mean that someone owes you money.
In order to be entitled to compensation the following must be true.
1. Someone or some company must have been negligent (careless)
2. Their carelessness must be a direct cause of the injury.
3. In Virginia, you must not have caused your injury in any way.
4. You must not have assumed the risk of your injury (i.e. gotten into a car with a drunk driver, for example.)
This is no lottery. These cases are not windfalls. An experienced Virginia personal injury attorney can help you sort through your own, individual, situation.
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