El Monte Personal Injury Attorney | San Gabriel Valley
Something happened. A crash, a fall, a dog, a doctor. Maybe you lost someone.
Somebody else was careless, and now you are the one dealing with it. Bills you did not create. Work you cannot go back to yet. An insurance company that seems friendly right up until you ask for what you are owed.
You are probably comparing lawyers right now. So here is what you should know about this one.
Brad Hayes has practiced law for 17 years, and he has never practiced anything but personal injury. Not family law on the side. Not immigration when things are slow. Over a thousand injury cases, and nothing else. He works with other attorneys at the firm, so no case here is looked at by only one set of eyes.
Call and you will talk to a person, not a machine, and most of our staff speaks Spanish. The first conversation is a case assessment and it usually takes ten or fifteen minutes. Brad will call you back himself, from his cell phone, which means you end up with his number. Come to the office in El Monte, do it by phone, do it on Zoom. Whatever is easiest when you are hurt.
Here is the part most firms leave out: Brad turns cases down. If you waited nine months to see a doctor, or the deadline to file has already passed, he will tell you that instead of signing you up and letting it die quietly. You would rather hear that in the first ten minutes than in the eighth month.
And that is really the point of the call. Right now you are guessing. Do you have a case? Is the offer on the table any good? What is this actually worth? Ten minutes on the phone and you stop guessing, whichever way the answer goes.
Every kind of injury has its own traps, and the pages below go through them one at a time. Find the one that matches what happened to you.
Find What Happened to You
- Auto Accident - The adjuster wants to settle before your doctor knows how bad it is.
- Slip and Fall - Insist the store writes an incident report. Get a copy.
- Dog Bite - You are not suing your friend. Homeowner's insurance covers this.
- Uber and Lyft - Who pays depends on what the driver's app was doing.
- Bicycle - "I didn't see the bike." They say more than they realize.
- Motorcycle - Everyone assumes the rider was reckless. Insurance builds on that.
- Bus and Train - Suing a public agency? Your deadline is far shorter.
- Truck - Their investigators are on scene today. Nobody sent one for you.
- Pedestrian - The crosswalk is not the whole story. Drivers know that.
- Bed Bug - They knew about the infestation before you ever checked in.
- Mold Exposure - A landlord who ignored your complaints made the case for you.
- Brain and Spinal Injury - Symptoms surface weeks later. Settle now and it's over.
- Medical Malpractice - A bad outcome isn't malpractice. The deadline is short either way.
- Wrongful Death - Not every family member can file. That surprises people.
Honestly, a little fender bender where no one was hurt is not a case for any El Monte personal injury lawyer. But if you were actually injured and someone else caused it, the call costs nothing. Getting you paid for your lost work, your pain and suffering, and your property damage is how Brad Hayes Law earns its fee, paid out of the settlement if we win. But we can't win if you don't call.
Now that you know more about a personal injury than most,
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