Like it or not, if you get into a serious car accident, you’re going to have to deal with an insurance company. In minor accidents where you might have dinged up your car in a mall parking lot, you would reach out to your insurance carrier, submit repair estimates, and hopefully get a check cut to cover the costs right away.

However, if the accident is more serious and caused by another driver, your dealings with an insurance company will become much more complicated.

One reason things can get more complicated is that Mississippi follows a pure comparative negligence model. That means that both parties in a car accident can share in the blame.

If you’re found to be partially at fault, you can still seek compensation, but it would be reduced. For an insurance company, it means they can pay out less if they can shift some of the blame onto you.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive medical imaging test that uses a strong magnetic field to generate detailed 3D or cross-sectional images of a patient’s organs, soft tissues, and bones. It is a device that has revolutionized medical diagnosis.

Since MRIs became readily available in the 1980s, they have helped doctors accurately diagnose patients and develop treatment plans.

MRIs also play a crucial role as medical evidence in personal injury claims.

Catastrophic injury classifications in Mississippi usually describe injuries that don’t just hurt; they change the entire shape of your life. We’re talking about the kinds of harm that affect how you move, think, work, and take care of yourself.

It’s the difference between needing a few follow-up appointments and needing a new long-term plan for almost everything.

In Jackson and across Mississippi, these cases also get heavy quickly. Not just emotionally, but financially too. Insurance companies don’t focus on what the ambulance ride costs. They focus on what your care might cost next year, and five years from now, and whether you’ll ever be able to work the same way again.

That’s why the “classification” matters; it influences how damages get calculated and argued.

If you’re searching for a Jackson personal injury lawyer or a Mississippi traumatic brain injury attorney, there’s a good chance you’re living under that pressure right now.

Appointments, missed paychecks, paperwork, family stress, and a ton of uncertainty. It’s exhausting.

You’re injured, and medical bills are starting to pile up. Maybe you’re also out of work or dealing with ongoing physical and mental pain. All you know is that you need help, and you need it now. So, what is a civil lawsuit, and can it help you address your damages and losses?

Whether you get hurt as a result of your involvement in an auto accident, a slip and fall, medical malpractice, while using a product, or in some other way, you’re likely to have significant incident-related expenses.

Recovering compensation to pay your outstanding medical bills and for any future health care you might need is important. So too, is seeking reimbursement of any lost wages that mounted while you were hospitalized or at home recovering from your injuries. These are just some of the reasons why injury victims file insurance claims after their accidents—because it’s one of the ways our legal system allows those who are hurt to hold those who cause them harm accountable.

Despite being “man’s best friend,” dogs are responsible for the majority of animal-related injuries in the United States. Every year, about 4.5 million individuals are attacked by dogs—most of them children. Statistically, it’s more likely that you’ll be bitten by a dog in your lifetime than suffer a heart attack, stroke, or cancer diagnosis.

Canine attacks can cause serious damage. Last year, about 750,000 people were treated for dog bites in U.S. hospitals. Dog bite victims are often left with severe mental trauma like PTSD, injury (and sometimes permanent disability), and steep financial damages for hospital bills, medical care costs, mental health counseling, lost wages, and more.

Who’s responsible for those losses when another person’s dog attacks you or a loved one?

When you have a personal injury accident, such as a car crash, here in Jackson, MS, you will often receive an overwhelming number of promotional materials in the mail with attorneys advertising their services. While that doesn’t generally happen after slips and falls, medical malpractice events, and other personal injury incidents, Jackson attorneys like ours at Pittman Roberts & Welsh, PLLC regularly represent fellow Mississippi residents like you who have suffered harm due to someone else’s negligence.

Today, over 70% of the country uses social media daily. In a world where social media has become a platform to share even the smallest everyday occurrences, it’s normal for the victim of a major accident to want to post their story online. But when you’re in the process of filing a personal injury claim, sharing your status on social media can seriously hurt your claim.

We’ve compiled a list of six important social media tips for personal injury claimants. If you have questions about a legal matter, please contact our Jackson, MS law firm. A qualified personal injury attorney from Pittman Roberts & Welsh, PLLC can walk you through everything you need to know about filing an injury claim in Mississippi.

In personal injury cases, “pre-existing condition” can be a heavy term. A pre-existing condition is, in short, a health condition the injured party already had prior to the accident that caused their most recent injury. A pre-existing condition is also one of the most common reasons insurance companies cite when denying or undervaluing a personal injury claim.

So how do pre-existing conditions affect personal injury claims? A falsehood many insurance companies lead injured victims to believe is that most people have a completely clean bill of health before an accident. That’s simply not true. Almost everyone who is involved in a personal injury accident—whether a car accident, slip and fall, or medical malpractice incident—has some kind of underlying health condition.

Many bicyclists who found it too bitterly cold here in Mississippi to take their bikes out for a ride during fall, winter, and leading into the early spring often do so as warmer months set in.

Memory lapses can sometimes set in anytime someone takes time off from doing something, and this same logic applies to safely operating a bicycle or sharing the road with bicyclists.