Personal Injury Lawyers

Personal injury lawyers in California deal in civil laws rather than criminal laws. Instead of crimes, civil laws have torts, which are acts of wrongdoing by one individual or entity against another. Crimes are punished as a means of social justice, usually through fines or imprisonment. Personal injury lawyers, on the other hand, deal with wrongdoings against individuals rather than society, which usually entail financial payments to counter any damages caused by a tort.

California law basically defines three different kinds of torts:

• Negligent torts, which involve careless acts which cause damage to the victim. Someone who causes a car crash because he was talking on the phone may be guilty of a negligent tort.
• Intentional torts, which are torts caused by deliberate acts instead of just carelessness. Many intentional torts involve criminal charges as well. For example, someone who commits assault may be guilty of a crime, but he may also be guilty of a tort, and a personal injury lawyer can sue for money to pay the victims' medical bills, which the criminal courts will not address.
• Strict liability torts, which often involve deficient products or other factors in which negligence doesn't apply. An accident caused by faulty brakes may be a strict liability tort in the eyes of California law.

Seek Personal Injury Lawyers Who Know California Tort Laws

The laws from Sacramento, CA change all the time. Regardless of whether it was a car crash or an accident from a defective product, the precise matter of the law determines whether damages are due. David Allen & Associates Law has personal injury lawyers in Sacramento, CA and elsewhere in California.