Who Is at Fault for My Sacramento Personal Injury?
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Who Is at Fault for My Sacramento Personal Injury?
No one anticipates suffering a personal injury in an accident, but it happens to many of us at some point or another. When an injury is the direct result of someone else’s negligence, you may be entitled to seek compensation for your damages and losses according to California tort law.
Compensation provides you with valuable financial support for everything from medical bills to lost wages and income. Even your pain and suffering can be compensated. Of course, receiving compensation requires knowing who was at fault for the injury. The at-fault party might seem obvious in many cases, but it’s often more nuanced than that, with multiple parties partially to blame.
What Does Negligence Mean?
Before you can determine exactly who is at fault for your Sacramento personal injury, you must first understand what negligence means. Not every accident involves negligence, although the overwhelming majority do. Negligence means that the party in question has either directly or indirectly taken an action that led to harm, loss, or damage of some kind.
Negligence can be direct, such as when a drunk driver hits you, or in