I Just Got Injured! What Are My Rights? I Don’t Want To Lose My Rights, So What Do I Do?

Bail Bond Cowboys wants the public to have answers to the myriad of questions that surround the civil legal system and your legal rights. We bring those answers to you in the form of video interviews by Attorneys.Media of legal experts in your area and across the country.

Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media

“You led me into my next question. As an injured individual, what are my rights? Is there a period of time, when I have to do something, or I lose my rights? So, what are my rights as an injured individual?”

Andrew Dósa – Personal Injury Attorney – Alameda County, CA

“Let’s go back and talk about context. In our culture, we have a really appropriate perspective about things. It’s based on a moral arc, which is…’that when we live our lives with the freedom that we have, we also have responsibility for how we act’.

So that means if we have the freedom to drive our vehicle, but we were negligent or careless or inattentive or distracted, and we caused injury to someone else, we, along with the privilege and liberty and freedom of driving, have the responsibility to account for how we conduct ourselves. Obviously, that result is applicable to the other driver who may have caused the accident. But the issue of who caused the accident may be in dispute…depends on the facts. But that’s where you start.

What are your rights? Your rights are to be treated reasonably by other people. So, when someone hasn’t treated you reasonably, which includes being negligent…being negligent or inattentive doesn’t mean you are obviously intending to harm somebody. It simply just means you were distracted. Then a ‘right’ arises for the person that you’ve harmed, and that’s where we go from there. What do you do if you have been harmed? What are the ways that you measure damages? How do you go about protecting your interests? Do you advocate for yourself? Do you advocate with an attorney? And so on…”