Proving Liability in Oklahoma
I hold here 12 of the most frequently asked questions I get as the head of personal injury litigation. Hi, my name is Mike Ashworth. I’m an attorney and as of October 6th of this year I will have been practicing law for 40 years. I have worked for some of the largest insurance companies in the country as an attorney for them. I’ve also served as a prosecutor throughout the state of Oklahoma and New Mexico. But now I do personal injury litigation for people who are hurt and need help. So here I’ve got the frequently asked questions that I get most often about Oklahoma law.
What happens to me when I get hurt? Here at the Wirth Law Office one of the things that we pride ourselves on is client contact. But let me go through the list and share with you some thoughts and we’re going to do this a little bit every day for a few days just to kind of keep things up to speed for both of us in terms of communication.
The Elements of Proving Negligence
Number one, what do I need to prove if I’m injured due to someone else’s carelessness in Oklahoma? Well, the word that is normally used is not carelessness. It’s what we call negligence. Negligence is the most common thing that comes to mind in personal injury law. It means there has to be a duty that someone has to someone else. There has to be a breach of that duty. In other words, a violation of the duty they had to someone else. There has to be damages of some kind. Not that, you know, I scraped my knee or I’m upset or I shouldn’t have to go through that. But real true measurable injuries.
And then the last element is we have to prove that the duty that was owed, the breach of that duty or violation of that duty, caused the damages that you suffered. That could be economic loss like lost wages. That could be hospital bills. It could be medical other types of medical bills. It could be, for example, if you have a dog that got damaged by somebody else’s dog who attacked him, it could be property damage. But you have to show that there’s some connection between the breach of that duty and damages.
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