Do I Have a Case?

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Do I Have a Case?
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• Chances are that at some time in your life, maybe
  (but hopefully not) even a few occasions, you
  will experience something bad, some kind of harm
  that you didnt cause, that makes you ask this
  question. Do I have a case?
• You may not consider yourself to be a litigious
  person. Maybe youve tried to put the issue to
  rest in your mind. But something wont let you.
  Maybe its chronic pain. Maybe its piling
  medical bills. Or the inability to enjoy
  something you used to do. Whatever it is, youve
  been wronged, and it just feels like justice
  hasnt been done.
• Do you have a case?

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• Negligence
• Before the last decade or so, chances are youd
  never heard the word tort. Now its typically
  combined with reform and the subject of highly
  politicized wrangling and expensive
  lobbyist-funded PR campaigns. But a tort in the
  American justice system is a simply civil wrong
  that can be addressed by the awarding of damages.
• Some torts are obvious because they are
  intentional. Assault, battery, fraud, trespass,
  and intentional infliction of emotional distress
  are all examples.

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• Most torts, though, in the U.S. come down to
  some issue regarding a concept called negligence.
  Negligence is essentially a failure to act
  according to some prescribed or recognized level
  of care. The elements include
• a duty that is expected of a person to act in a
  certain way
• breach of, or failure to meet, that duty
• causation (and not remotely) of damages by the
  person breaching
• damages sustained by the other person, which can
  be ascertained

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• If youre asking the above questionwhether you
  have a caseyouve sustained damages. If you can
  identify and believe you can prove who caused the
  damages, youre halfway there.
• Duty is not as daunting a task more here to show
  as it might seem. All it means is how a
  reasonable person would be expected to act under
  the circumstances.
• Did the person who ran into you run a red light?
  We all have a duty to obey traffic signals. Did
  the restaurant where you slipped and fell have a
  wet floor with no sign to indicate that hazard?
  Businesses have a duty to prevent and warn of
  accidents caused by their actions or failures to
  act.

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• Was the truck that struck your car being operated
  by someone who had gone 36 hours without sleep,
  had been drinking alcohol, or was texting while
  driving? As you can see, duties abound in our
  civilized and regulated society.
• I Think I Have a CaseWhat Do I Do?
• If you have been hurt and you think you might
  have a case, dont wait. There are laws called
  statues of limitation that may severely limit the
  amount of time in which you can bring a lawsuit
  to recover damages.

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• Call Bill Hotz and Associates today. Our
  professional and experienced attorneys can help
  you determine if you do have a case and get you
  quickly on the road to realizing the justice you
  deserve.
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