What is a personal injury?
A Personal Injury is any physical or mental injury to a person as a result of someone's careless or harmful act. Sometimes personal injury may be referred to as bodily injury. If the only damage in your case is that your car got dented or scratched, then you don’t have a personal injury case –you may have a property damage case. Many people are able to resolve property damage claims without a lawyer. In most cases your own insurance company will resolve the property damage for you.
If you have been injured in a Missouri car wreck you have five years from the date of the accident to file a lawsuit or you will forever be barred from recovery. If someone else’s negligence caused the death of another, there is a “wrongful death” claim. In Missouri wrongful death claims must be filed within two years. Click here for more information about car accidents or Aaron A. Farmer.
