Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer

Car Accidents

They happen every day, in dozens of different ways. You see them, and unfortunately you were probably involved in one. Not every car collision case is the same. There could be only two cars where one rear-ended the other, there could be several in a long chain on a highway, some involve impaired drivers (DUI, medical emergencies), yours could be at a four-way stop, or at an intersection with no traffic controls. You deserve a lawyer like James Lewis to prosecute your personal injury case who has nineteen years of handling and resolving thousands of car accident cases. The only way to know how to expertly handle a personal injury case from beginning (intake interview) to the end is to do the hard work, learn from other experts, and take cases to trial and arbitration. Each case that James has resolved by settlement, trial verdict or binding arbitration award has generated knowledge that has increased his expertise and proficiency. Knowing the wrinkles, the resources, and how to overcome obstacles is what leads to a successful outcome. Insurance companies are focused on saving money on claims and will do most anything to drive down the value of your case. They arm themselves with secret databases like ChoicePoint from Big Data to learn personal, and often irrelevant, private information about you to pressure and discourage the legitimately injured from making claims or to give up on a case. Knowing how to defeat or marginalize these threats is what James Lewis knows. This is a single example of how James Lewis’s experience with thousands of car accident cases can be put to work for you on your car accident case.

Bicycle Accidents

Besides pedestrians, bicyclists are the most vulnerable people on the road. Even if a cyclist is wearing a helmet and clothing covering their arms and legs, they suffer gruesome injuries, sometimes life-altering. Concussions and other traumatic brain injuries frequently come from a bicyclist being hit by a vehicle. Cyclists are often ignored, maligned, and sometimes targeted by motorists. The common result is they are overlooked by vehicle drivers. I have deposed dozens of drivers who have hit my bicyclist clients, most often because the driver claims they never saw the bicyclist, or that the bicyclist jumped in front of the car, or worst yet, the driver claims the bicyclist should never have been there anyway. Some of my bicyclist clients were riding on the sidewalk or in the bike lane/shoulder against the flow of traffic.  Motorists routinely never look both ways before starting to turn or they block the sidewalk at shopping center driveways which eliminates a safe path for cyclists and pedestrians. In comparison to bicyclists, vehicle operators have a heightened, superior duty of care toward bike riders and pedestrians because of the damage that is done by a car vs. bicyclist.  Using superior investigative and discovery skills I am successful in securing significant compensation, even for those clients who technically might have been violating the rules of the road.

Motorcycle Accidents

Every rider knows it is inevitable that he or she will be involved in a collision with a car. It is a risk inherent in riding. It is matter of when, not if, the collision will happen. Further compounding the risk is that some vehicle operators just do not bother to concern themselves with anyone on a motorcycle. There is a bias against riders: “they speed”, “they’re loud”, “they scare me”, “they’re reckless”. There is a long list of excuses, anything a vehicle driver can think of to escape responsibility for hitting a motorcyclist. My most recent case concerned my client on a Harley who exited at a freeway offramp with another vehicle parallel to his left. They were both turning the same direction. The vehicle driver never looked to her right, or did not look long enough, before she decided to cut across my client’s lane and into the driveway so she could get some tacos on her way home from work. She clobbered him with her car. Her defense: “I never saw him”. Her ignorance and recklessness resulted in fractures to my client’s body, and her insurance carrier paying out its policy limits. Only a lawyer like James Lewis, who has prosecuted hundreds of claims for riders, knows how to leverage the inherent biases and wrong-minded assumptions that vehicle drivers have about motorcycles and their riders. Call now to discuss your motorcycle case, and learn how Lewis Injury will help you.

Trucking Collisions

The damage that is done by negligent operation of a big-rig or tractor-trailer combination is catastrophic. They decimate entire families, eliminate basic functionality, and do not discriminate between adults and children. Most truck drivers are distracted by using headsets for hours-long cell phone conversations with dispatchers, family or other drivers. Because of the damage that these outsized trucks do when they are driven recklessly, there are significant regulations, standards, and restrictions that the drivers and their employers are required to follow. James Lewis knows these regulations and rules and uses them against negligent truck drivers. Unfortunately, of those drivers and their employers who do follow the rules, they do the absolute bare minimum without regard to the risk to others. Drivers frequently cheat on their logbooks (tracking their driving hours) or keep a second set to show the police, all so they can drive longer hours and earn bonuses for themselves and their employers. Even though the trucking industry is heavily regulated, truckdrivers operate unsafely every day by exceeding their hour limitations, driving while fatigued, driving trucks that are not properly maintained and are therefore unsafe for the road, or by recklessly exceeding the speed limit. James Lewis also has the experience to track down and secure compensation from those responsible for the truck driver and his company being on the road. He pursues shipping brokers, the middlemen, and the entities that contracted for their goods to be on the truck. They share responsibility for the damage done. If you or your family has been injured by a reckless truck driver, call for a free consultation.

James Lewis is an experienced personal injury trial lawyer, with an excellent track record, who serves his clients with integrity. Contact Lewis Injury for a free consultation by telephone, video conference or in-person. By telephone: (916) 378-8878 or by text message (916) 378-8868.