Best Personal Injury Lawyers near Pittsfield, MA

Injury victims are entitled to be compensated for physical pain, mental anguish, disfigurement, impairment, loss of earnings and capacity to earn and medical expenses. In every personal injury claim we seek these damages in the past and in the future.

In the United States, and here in Massachusetts, lawyers who specialize in other areas of law typically act as solicitors to gather personal injury claims and refer them to personal injury trial lawyers who handle the litigation and trial. Just as you would want a doctor who specializes in any physical ailment to treat you, you would want an attorney who specializes in personal injury trial law to handle your injury claim. For over 4 decades, Scott has only represented injury victims. He has represented thousands of clients suing negligent parties in every imaginable situation and has never defended a negligent person or company or their insurance company.

Since graduating law school in 1982, Scott has devoted 100% of his law practice to advocating for injury victims in every type of circumstance imaginable. A short list of claim types is: auto, truck or pedestrian collisions; trip and slip and falls against retailers, restaurants and homeowners; industrial work accidents; dog bite cases; liquor liability claims for serving obviously intoxicated patrons; product defect claims; medical and legal negligence claims; claims against municipalities, towns, cities and states for injuries; and claims against police departments for excessive force. If you are injured as the result of negligence, Scott has had experience handling your type of claim.

Restaurants and bars charge five to ten times the cost of the alcohol they sell to customers. Therefore, the law recognizes that if employees of a bar or restaurant serve alcohol to a customer that is obviously intoxicated, they can be held responsible for the negligent acts of the customer. Whether that customer starts a bar fight or drives off and hurts himself or others, the entity that sold him the alcohol when that person already appeared drunk is responsible for all of the damages that were caused.

We trust hospitals, doctors and nurses to give our loved ones the appropriate standard of medical care that we are entitled to when we are their patient. If a medical provider fails to provide that recognized standard of care, then it is considered medical negligence and, if as a result you are injured, you can make a medical claim. In order to proceed, the law requires another doctor to attest that the care given to you was substandard. Another treating physician is in the best position to evaluate the care, but sometimes they are reluctant to testify against an associated doctor, hospital or nurse. Therefore, it is essential to contact a qualified personal injury lawyer so that they can hire an expert physician to review the records and let you know if the care was substandard. Medical negligence cases are typically very technical and challenging to prove, but it is necessary to hold medical providers responsible if they run a medical stop sign.