Mississippi Traffic Accident Attorneys
When you have been hurt in a traffic accident, you face mounting medical bills and you may not be able to work. As your expenses pile up and your income has stopped or reduced substantially due to your injuries, you need to know where to turn for help. You cannot rely on the insurance companies to treat your fairly. An experienced traffic accident lawyer can help you and your family recover the money that you need and deserve.
Getting Started Right Away
If you have been injured or lost a loved one in a traffic accident, you need to get started on your case right away. You only have a limited amount of time to take legal action. In Mississippi, the statute of limitations, which is your time limit for filing a motor vehicle accident lawsuit is three years. But, if you must sue a government entity you have even less time to take action because you are required to give notice of your intent to sue within one year of the date of the accident.
Your accident investigation should start right away. In addition to the statute of limitations, evidence can be lost or destroyed as time passes, sometimes on the day of the accident. Witnesses’ memories fade, and people can move away and become difficult to locate. Your lawyers need to determine if a government entity was responsible for your accident.
You do not pay money to get started. It is standard in Mississippi and throughout the US for personal injury lawyers to offer a free initial consultation and to represent accident victims on a contingency fee basis. In this type of arrangement, attorneys’ fees are only charged if and when money is recovered for you. If you do not receive compensation you do not pay attorneys’ fees.
Types of Accidents
The experienced lawyers profiled on this site represent victims of all types of traffic accidents throughout Mississippi including those involving:
- Cars
- Large commercial trucks
- Motorcycles
- Bicycles
- Pedestrians
- Buses and school buses
- Public transit
- Other government vehicles or vehicles operated by on-duty government employees
- Defective vehicles
- Defective roadways
- Rollover
- Multi-car pileup
- Hit and run
- Distracted drivers
- Drunk and drugged drivers
- Dram shop liability
- Work-related traffic accidents
- Catastrophic injuries
- Wrongful death
If you have been injured in a traffic accident or lost a loved one in a fatal crash in Mississippi, please browse our attorney directory to speak to one of the experienced Mississippi traffic accident lawyers profiled on this website.