How Do I Know If I Have a Personal Injury Case?

Talk to an experienced lawyer who will let you know if you have a case worth pursuing.  In short, imagine if someone was telling you the same story while you were sitting on a jury.  Would you feel compelled to provide them with compensation or would you simply say, “So what?”  I got a call from a client who bumped his head on a door at McDonalds.  I asked him if he had any significant injury.  He said he only got a slight bump on the head.  He wanted to know if he had a case. I told him to imagine a whole bunch of resentful jurors (who’d rather be doing anything other than jury duty) sitting for a week in trial for him to tell them about his little bump on the head.  I asked him, “Now do you think they’d want to give you anything for that?”  He said, “Probably not.”  I replied, “Then that is your answer.”  Some people think they have a case simply because something “happened.”  That alone does not mean you have a case.