Pittston Personal Injury Lawyers

Call 911 and request medical assistance right away. Document the scene with photos of vehicle damage, road layout, and weather conditions. Get the other driver's insurance and contact information plus witness details. Avoid admitting fault and do not give any insurance company a recorded statement until you have spoken with a personal injury attorney.

When you purchased auto insurance, you chose either full tort or limited tort. Full tort lets you pursue all damages including pain and suffering. Limited tort restricts your ability to recover non-economic damages unless your injuries qualify as 'serious' under Pennsylvania law. Our attorneys assess your policy and injuries to determine the strongest legal strategy.

Depending on your case, you may recover medical expenses, lost wages, future medical costs, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of life enjoyment, and property damage. For cases involving egregious negligence such as drunk driving, punitive damages may also be available.

Pennsylvania allows two years from the date of injury for most personal injury claims. Evidence gathering should begin immediately because key proof like traffic camera footage, witness accounts, and physical evidence at the scene can be lost within weeks. Early legal representation protects your claim.

No. The other driver's insurance company works to minimize what they pay you. Their adjusters are trained negotiators who use your own words against you. Let our attorneys handle all communication with insurance companies so your rights stay protected and nothing you say can be used to reduce your claim.

Usually both. Workers' compensation is the claim against your employer — or the staffing agency, if you were placed — and it pays medical bills and partial wages without regard to fault, but nothing for pain and suffering. A personal injury lawsuit is the claim against anyone else whose negligence caused the injury: the company that operates the site if it is not your employer, a subcontractor, the maker of a defective forklift or conveyor, the property owner, or a trucking company at the dock. Report the injury to your employer within 120 days to protect the comp claim, and call us before you give anyone a recorded statement about how it happened.

About 10 miles — 220 S River St in Wilkes-Barre, by Route 315 or I-81 — and in the same city as the Luzerne County Courthouse where a Pittston case is filed. The first conversation is by phone; after that we meet at the office, by video, or at your home or hospital room in Pittston.

Two years from the date of the injury for nearly every claim (42 Pa.C.S. § 5524); for a wrongful death claim, two years from the date of death. Claims against a city, township, the county or the Commonwealth also require written notice within six months (42 Pa.C.S. § 5522). A minor's two years do not begin until age 18. Miss the deadline and the claim is gone regardless of its merits, which is why we file well inside it rather than at the edge.