Tamburro Law Offices
Personal Injury Law
“Turn your setbacks into comebacks.”
-Anonymous
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Tamburro Law Offices Can Help You
EXPERIENCED PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS
A serious accident or injury can permanently change your life in an instant. Medical Injuries
often involve multiple levels of problems in addition to pain and suffering including:
- Medical bills
- Lost wages
- Emotional Pain
The Personal Injury Attorneys at Tamburro Law are dedicated to helping you obtain
full and fair compensation for your injuries. From our offices in Marlton, New Jersey,
we represent clients throughout southern New Jersey.
Fair Results for All Types of Personal Injury Matters
Our Personal Injury Attorneys take pride in the fact that they can turn cases into money that most lawyers cannot. In many situations, our Personal Injury Lawyers are able to achieve very fair settlement offers. However, our Personal Injury Lawyers are not afraid to litigate when it is in our clients’ best interests.
Backed by decades of experience, our Personal Injury Attorneys work on a wide range of personal injury cases, including but not limited to:
- Motor vehicle accidents, including car accidents, truck accidents, bus accidents and motorcycle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Unsafe Premises, including public areas and workplaces. This can also lead to dog bites and other dangers.
- Survival claims
- Construction accidents that injure workers and passers-by alike. We also handle workers’ compensation claims for construction workers and employees across all sectors.
- Dram shop/liquor liability
- Defective products, intentional torts and other forms of consumer fraud
- Wrongful death and Catastrophic injuries, including spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injury, burn injuries, fractures, connective tissue injuries
The Personal Injury Claims Process
The business of obtaining compensation for your injuries involves a mutual understanding of the process. Every case is different and may include things like depositions, interrogatories, mediation, and arbitration as preferable ways to avoid going to trial. Tamburro Law Offices will be your guide through the entire process. We’ve spent decades handling complex claims for injured clients and on behalf of defendants and insurance companies, so we are familiar with the entire claims process. No matter what the situation, we will guide you through the process from start to finish. When you do have a direct role to play in your claim, as you would in a deposition, we’ll go over exactly what to expect and make the process as easy as possible.
While every case is different, every claim generally has three broad steps: Pre-litigation, litigation, and resolution.
Pre-Litigation
As soon as you reach out to us, we begin investigating your claim and gathering evidence. If necessary, we find experts in accident reconstruction, medicine, and other fields to support your case. We also help you make decisions about how to proceed with any injuries you have sustained so you can heal as quickly as possible.
We focus on preparing your case for trial from the outset. The most common path to resolution typically involves settlement, but we are always prepared for every outcome. Although every case is unique, the value of each case typically takes patience and time to develop as we work closely with your medical providers to understand the full nature of your injuries and allow you time to heal. Throughout this stage, we work diligently with your medical team to build your claim to be as strong as possible. In this stage of the personal injury process, we gather your investigation materials, your medical records and prepare a settlement demand letter. This initial document presents your case and formally initiates negotiations with the insurance company. In many cases we have been successful in resolving claims in this phase of the lawsuit.
Litigation
When your medical treatment is at an end, or your case is nearing the legal deadline, we start litigation, the process of filing a lawsuit. Though your case is progressing through the court system, we continue to work toward a settlement. In the event the negotiations are unsuccessful, we are fully prepared to take your case to court. By this point, we have presented all of your evidence to the defendant’s attorney and will attend depositions, arbitrations, mediations, pre-trial motions and a trial itself unless and until the matter is concluded.
Resolution
When we reach a fair settlement with your approval or win you a jury award, your case is nearly over, but there is still some work remaining. We collect the money you’re owed and help arrange payment for out of pocket expenses. Often times this involves negotiation compromises on any outstanding medical bills. Once the claim is resolved we arrange disbursement as soon as possible to allow you to begin the process of restoring your life to its pre-accident state.
Practice Areas:
- PERSONAL INJURY
- ACCIDENT INJURIES
- BICYCLE ACCIDENTS
- BOAT ACCIDENTS
- BUS ACCIDENTS
- CAR ACCIDENTS
- CHILD INJURIES
- CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS
- INSURANCE BAD FAITH
- MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS
- NURSING HOME ABUSE
- PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS
- PREMISES LIABILITY
- TRUCK ACCIDENTS
- WORKERS COMPENSATION
- WRONGFUL DEATH
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Additional Information
Personal Injury Statute Of Limitations In New Jersey
All states have placed limits on the amount of time you have to file a civil lawsuit after you’ve suffered some type of harm. There are different deadlines depending on the type of case you’re asking the court to hear. A law that sets this time limit is called a statute of limitations.
In New Jersey, the statute of limitations for personal injury cases gives an injured person two years to go to court and file a lawsuit against the person or entity responsible for the harm. The “clock” usually starts on the day of the accident that caused the injury.
If you fail to get your lawsuit filed before the two-year window closes, the New Jersey court system will likely refuse to hear your case, and your right to compensation will be lost, unless some exception applies to effectively extend the deadline.
The New Jersey statute of limitations for personal injury cases can be found at New Jersey Revised Statutes section 2A:14-2.
Note that if you’re filing an injury claim against the government (state or local) in New Jersey, you’ll need to play by a distinct set of rules, which includes a shorter filing period. Talk to an attorney for the details.
It’s important to remember that the statute of limitations we’ve discussed here applies to most, but not all, New Jersey personal injury cases. Like most states, New Jersey has a specific statute of limitations for lawsuits over injuries caused by medical malpractice, for example. Learn more about New Jersey medical malpractice laws.
New Jersey's Comparative Negligence Rule
In some personal injury cases, the party you’re trying to hold responsible for your injuries may claim that you’re actually to blame (at least partially). If you do share some amount of fault for the accident, it can end up affecting the total amount of compensation you can receive.
In shared fault injury cases, New Jersey follows a “modified comparative negligence rule.” This means that if your personal injury lawsuit goes to trial, the amount of compensation you’re entitled to receive will be reduced by an amount that is equal to your percentage of fault for the accident. But if you’re found to bear more than 50 percent of the legal blame, you can’t collect anything at all from other at-fault parties.
So, let’s say you’re rear-ended at a stoplight, but one of your three brake lights wasn’t working at the time. During a civil trial, the jury decides that you were 15 percent at fault for the accident, while the other driver was 85 percent to blame. Your damages add up to $10,000. How does your share of fault affect your compensation? Under New Jersey’s modified comparative negligence rule, your compensation will be reduced to $8,500 (or the $10,000 total minus the $1,500, or 15 percent, that represents your share of fault for the accident.)
New Jersey courts are obligated to follow this rule in an injury lawsuit that makes it to trial, and don’t be surprised if the adjuster raises the issue of New Jersey’s comparative negligence rule during injury settlement negotiations.
New Jersey's "Choice No-Fault" Car Insurance System
In car accident cases only, New Jersey follows a so-called “choice no-fault” system. While car insurance is required for anyone registering a vehicle for operation in the state, vehicle owners purchasing car insurance usually can choose between a “Basic” and “Standard” policy.
The “Basic” policy (and the “limited right to sue” option under “Standard” coverage) is a form of no-fault car insurance, which means any injury claim after a car accident must be made with the injured driver’s own “personal injury protection” (PIP) coverage, regardless of who caused the accident. A PIP claim won’t include compensation for non-economic damages like pain and suffering, but it expedites the payment of most covered out-of-pocket losses.
In New Jersey, an injured person can only step outside the no-fault/PIP system and file a lawsuit against the at-fault driver if the crash resulted in:
- loss of body part
- significant disfigurement
- significant scarring
- a displaced fracture
- loss of a fetus
- death
- permanent injury (the affected body part has not healed to allow normal function, and is not expected to so heal)
Learn more about how no-fault car insurance works.
"Strict" Liability For Dog Bites In New Jersey
In many states, dog owners are protected (to some degree) from injury liability the first time their dog injures someone, if they had no reason to believe the dog was dangerous. This is often called a “one bite” rule. But in New Jersey, a specific law (New Jersey Revised Statutes section 4:19-16) makes the owner “strictly liable” for bite-related injuries. The animal’s past behavior is irrelevant. The statute reads:
“The owner of any dog [that bites someone who is] in a public place, or lawfully on or in a private place, including the property of the owner of the dog, shall be liable for such damages as may be suffered by the person bitten, regardless of the former viciousness of such dog or the owner’s knowledge of such viciousness.”
This article offers an objective summary of New Jersey laws that could affect your personal injury case. For information tailored to your situation, and a full understanding of your options, talk to an experienced New Jersey attorney. Learn more about finding the right personal injury lawyer for you and your case.
“There is a point at which even justice does injury.”
-Sophocles