Need Help with a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Honolulu?

Get Legal Advice from Roy J. Bell, III Attorney at Law

Personal injury law office of Roy J. Bell, III in Honolulu explains how you can get legal for a personal injury or accident.

When do I need help?

A personal injury lawyer will establish who was at fault for your injury and establish damages in a Honolulu personal injury lawsuit.  Damages are compensation for your injuries. You need help in a personal injury case to help you recover damages for:

• Medical and hospital expenses
• Loss of present and future wages
• Property damage

A Common Type of Personal Injury

A slip and fall is one of the most common types of Honolulu personal injuries.  To help explain how important getting legal help for a personal injury case is, please read the following scenario.  It shows how your injury may seem like nothing at first, but can grow into a major problem affecting your quality of life and your ability to work.  An injury lawsuit in Honolulu may be a solution for your troubles. 

Slip and Fall Personal Injury Scenario

You’re in a grocery store, and you are so engrossed with what you are looking at that you don’t see the wet spot on the newly mopped floor.  You slip on the wet spot and fall on your right arm, twisting your wrist.  Brushing yourself off, you look around, embarrassed, hoping no one saw what happened.  However, your twelve year old son, thinking it hilarious, takes a few pictures of your fall with his cell phone.  Luckily for you, an employee rushes over, asks if you are okay, and if you have injured yourself.  You say you don’t think so.  However, the employee finds the store manager who records your contact information, and asks you to fill out an accident report. 

You leave the store.  Within a few hours, your right wrists starts to throb and during the night it begins to swell.  In the morning, you have difficulty getting dressed.  When you get to work, you can’t move your right thumb and your bruised wrist hurts more intensely than it did the previous night.  You can’t use your computer or do anything with your right hand.

You wisely call your doctor, who suggests you get an x-ray of your right wrist.  The x-ray shows a scaphoid fracture, which is a common fracture from a fall.  You require surgery, and are sent to an orthopedic surgeon.

Before you know it, you are scheduled for surgery to repair the bones in your wrist. Your doctor tells you it will take about eight to ten weeks for your wrist to heal.  You also will need physical therapy to regain the same range of motion you had before the fall.  Since you work with a computer, you are not able to type thus you are not able to do your job.

You have incurred medical expenses for the x-ray, your doctor, the surgeon, the surgery, anesthesia, physical therapist, and time out from work.  What seemed like an innocent slip and fall has now cost thousands of dollars. 

Speak With A Personal Injury Attorney in Honolulu

You decide to speak to a personal injury attorney.  The lawyer asks for every minute detail.  It’s been a few weeks but you try to relay the facts in as much detail as you can.  You remember your son took photos, and bring a printed copy of these to the lawyer, as well as a copy of all the expenses and medical bills you have incurred from the injury.  You also remember there was no Wet Floor sign, and the employee standing nearby didn’t tell you the floor was wet when you were approaching it.
 

Proving Negligence

It takes skill and experience proving liability in slip and fall cases.   Choosing the right law firm for a Honolulu personal injury lawsuit is critical.  First and foremost, select a personal injury lawyer who has success in achieving damages in cases like this one.

At the law offices of Roy J. Bell, III, our mission is to provide representation that won’t let you down.  We take our obligation very seriously, and our determination wins cases.  If you have been hurt because of someone’s negligence in an automobile accident, work-related incident, or slip and fall, email or call us at 808-533-1163. We are happy to offer a free initial consultation.