When it comes to personal injury, Nicholasville KY residents can trust our team to handle their most stressful legal situations. We are well-versed in personal injury litigation and have recovered millions for our clients in the Nicholasville area and across Kentucky. If you have recently suffered as a result of an accident, you may be entitled to compensation.
There are many types of accidents that might qualify you for compensation. One of the most common causes of personal injury in Jessamine County is a car accident.
We’ve taken on countless car accident cases for our clients to help them achieve the best outcome possible and can help you do the same. The results of a serious car accident may interrupt your daily life and cause serious issues for you and your family. We’re here to take on your case and give you the best chance at winning.
If you’ve been in a severe car accident in Jessamine County KY, you may still be working through the physical and emotional damages that resulted from it. Some of the most common damages that you may experience after an accident include:
If you’ve experienced any of these damages as a result of a recent car accident, we want you to know you aren’t alone. When you choose our team for your legal aid, our hardworking attorneys in Nicholasville will fight for you to be paid what you deserve for your injury.
To build your case, we will gather a number of documents that can be used as evidence for your claim. During the process, we may ask you to provide these documents or collect them from sources related to the accident. Some documentation that may be useful includes:
If you aren’t sure whether any documentation you have is relevant to your claim, our team will work with you to determine the status of the evidence. We will help you build your case with care, so you have the best chance at compensation
Car accidents may cause serious bodily harm. It is important to familiarize yourself with the different types of injuries that may result from your accident. Two of the most type of injuries include:
In the State of Kentucky, the statute of limitations for most personal injury claims is one year. However, motor vehicle accidents are typically governed by a two-year time limit. Typically, you must pursue this type of claim under the principle of negligence. There are some exceptions to this one-year rule. For example, if a victim was under 18 at the time of the accident, the deadline does not start to run until after they become a legal adult.
The primary contingency fee definition is a fee arrangement that allows you to avoid out-of-pocket costs entirely. It is a percentage of the settlement that you receive if you win your case.
That’s right; your lawyer only gets paid if you win your claim. It may seem oddly risky for an injury attorney to operate this way, but that is our guarantee to you.
This gives us an incentive to insure we devote full effort to your case and get the settlement that you deserve.
When you choose our team, you’ll have access to day and night legal advice and guidance. Our hardworking lawyers are committed to our clients fight their personal injury cases in Nicholasville. If you or someone you know has been injured in a recent auto accident, let us help you make it right. We’ll put together a strong case to get you the compensation you deserve and take the stress off your shoulders.
Located in the heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass country, not far from Lexington, Nicholasville is a vibrant, growing city rich in history, musical heritage, and scenic rural beauty. The city is the county seat for Jessamine County, with a population of just under 31,000 in the 2019 census estimate, making Nicholasville the 11th-largest city in the state. The city has been growing rapidly for decades, with the population increasing nearly 400% from 1970 to 2010. Many city residents commute to Lexington for work, but Nicholasville is also a job and shopping hub for the area. Founded in 1798 and named after a drafter of the Kentucky constitution, Nicholasville is home to recording studios, musicians, and songwriters. It also is the site of an important Civil War depot and training camp for the Union army, with much of that history on display at Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument.
Although impressive, none of the above factors make Nicholasville immune from personal injuries. When those injuries occur, victims should consult with one of our Nicholasville personal injury lawyers at Maze Law Offices to learn what the options are and receive a FREE case evaluation.
Collisions involving passenger vehicles and commercial trucks are generally pretty one-sided, and the people in the passenger vehicles are usually on the losing end. In 2018, there were roughly 531,000 commercial trucks, including tractor-trailers, involved in traffic accidents across the country. In those accidents, there were nearly 5,000 people killed, while an additional 151,000 people were injured. Of those who died or were hurt, almost three-quarters were in the passenger vehicles in the accident. More than 70% of those who died were occupants of passenger vehicles, and 72% of those suffering injuries were in the passenger vehicles in the accidents.
The disparity makes sense. A tractor-trailer rig legally is allowed to weigh up to 80,000 pounds of combined weight for the truck itself and the trailer. Passenger vehicles, on the other hand, weigh an average of 4,000 pounds. The smallest passenger vehicles weigh less than 2,500 pounds. The laws of physics favor the heavier vehicle, meaning that passenger cars and their occupants suffer more in collisions with tractor-trailers.
The problem is not limited to crashes involving 18-wheelers and passenger vehicles. Delivery trucks and vans are considered large commercial vehicles, as well, as are garbage and recycling trucks. Both kinds of vehicles are considerably larger than passenger vehicles. Delivery vehicles and refuse trucks both spend much of their time in residential neighborhoods. Recycling trucks and garbage trucks generally weigh at least 40,000 pounds and up to 64,000 pounds. Collisions involving passenger vehicles and refuse trucks usually end with more damage to the passenger vehicles. Those in the passenger vehicles also usually suffer more and more severe injuries than those in the refuse trucks. There were 107 fatalities in the U.S. in 2018 resulting from accidents that included garbage and recycling trucks, as well as 1,400 injuries. The majority of those fatalities and injuries occurred among the people in the passenger vehicles.
When it comes to accidents involving delivery vehicles and passenger vehicles, the trends run the same way. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery vans were seemingly everywhere. That presence on the roads has only grown in the last year as people find ways to order just about everything online. Unfortunately, those delivery vehicles pose a hazard for passenger vehicles. Those vehicles are bigger and heavier than passenger vehicles, and in traffic accidents those factors matter. Commercial vehicles that weigh more than 10,000 pounds, including delivery vans and trucks, were involved in almost 1,900 fatal crashes in 2017. Such vehicles also were involved in 22,000 accidents resulting in injuries. Delivery vehicles are the smallest vehicles considered to be “large commercial vehicles.” They are dramatically smaller than18-wheelers or garbage trucks, for instance. Nonetheless, they are a lot bigger than passenger vehicles. The most-used delivery van, for instance, is the Mercedes Sprinter, which weighs about 11,000 pounds. The Sprinter is used by Amazon, UPS, Purolator, and Federal Express, as well as many other smaller delivery services. The Sprinter weighs nearly three times more than the average passenger vehicle. It weighs about four times more than the lightest passenger vehicles. Once again, size and weight matter in traffic accidents. Passenger vehicles lose.
About 80% of the time, when a motorcycle and another vehicle are involved in an accident, the motorcyclist winds up dead or injured. Frequently, those in the other vehicles are not hurt or are not seriously injured. And while motorcyclist fatalities have been declining for several years, nearly 5,000 motorcyclists were killed on the road in 2018, with an additional 89,000 riders injured. Each year, the odds that a motorcyclist will die in a traffic accident are 28 times those of the occupants of passenger vehicles.
A report published in the 1980s, The Hurt Report, still is widely considered the most authoritative source regarding the causes of motorcycle accidents. The report did a multi-year examination of motorcycle accidents with results that continue to be borne out by current federal statistics. For instance, the report concluded that three-quarters of all motorcycle accidents are the result of a collision with another vehicle, usually a passenger vehicle. That conclusion continues to be supported by federal statistics today. Further, the Hurt Report’s conclusion that the top case of fatal two-vehicle motorcycle crashes is collisions at intersections that involve another vehicle turning left into the path of a motorcycle still is supported by federal statistics as well as a recent report by an industry media site listing the top causes of motorcycle accidents. The media report found that the leading causes of motorcycle accidents include:
Car wrecks are an everyday occurrence in big cities and small. All too often, car accidents end in wrongful death or serious injuries, or both. Every city is populated by people, and the federal government considers human error to be the cause of most traffic accidents, along with driver inattention, distracted driving, and paying insufficient attention to traffic and weather conditions. While other sources cite different leading causes of traffic accidents, the causes tend to stem from human error, as well, including:
Texting behind the wheel tends to get more attention than other kinds of distracted driving, which explains Kentucky’s law banning texting behind the wheel for drivers of all ages. Further, drivers who are younger than 18 years old cannot use cell phones at all while driving. Despite the attention, using cell phones while driving is just one among many causes of distracted driving, including any activity that draws the driver’s attention away from driving. This includes many activities that are quite common — eating and drinking, adjusting temperature controls, changing your navigation system settings, talking to passengers in your vehicle, of even just changing stations on your radio.
Americans love their pets. When it comes to pets, they especially love their dogs. Unlike fish, for instance — the most numerous of all pets – dogs are loyal, loving, and frequently cuddly. Fish are mostly just decorative, but it is easy to own a lot of fish. Most dog owners have only one or two dogs, and yet more than two-thirds of all households in the U.S. have at least one dog, including close to half of Kentucky households.
Nationwide, there are more than 78 million dogs living as pets. Not many of those dogs ever bite someone, but it happens often enough. In fact, about 4.7 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a dog each year. About 800,000 of those people require at least some medical attention. Not many people die as a result of dog bites, but 59 deaths occurred as a result of dog bites across the U.S. in 2019, with two of those fatalities in Kentucky. As for the hundreds of thousands of dog bite victims each year, those bites can result in injuries that are significant and frequently expensive to treat. In 2019, dog bites resulted in more than $797 million in insurance claims, an average of more than $44,000 per claim.
The kind of accident rarely determines the type of injury suffered. Whether the injury was caused by a fall, a workplace accident, a traffic accident, or some other kind of accident, the person injured likely faces a long and costly road to recovery. Common accidental injuries can include:
If you have suffered a personal injury in Jessamine County and believe another person might have been at fault, you should seek advice from a local attorney to help find out what options you may have. It is possible there are provisions within a liability insurance policy which may be able to pay for your injuries and other damages, depending upon the circumstances of how you were hurt. The Nicholasville personal injury lawyers can help you get the compensation you deserve for your injuries and other damages. The attorneys of Maze Law Offices can help you. Unlike many larger attorney offices you may see on TV, we live here and know this area, its people, and its laws. Contact us today to schedule a free, no obligation consultation. In an accident in Paris or Morehead? We got you covered.
