Tort Law and Your Personal Injury Case

If you have been injured by someone else’s negligence, it is your legal right to seek financial compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Your personal injury case falls under tort law, the area of law that allows for the redressing of civil wrongs. In order to get financial compensation, you will need to prove that your case contains all four elements of a tort; without the four elements in place, you may not have a case.

If you or someone you love has been injured or worse in an accident caused by someone else’s negligence, the Coral Springs personal injury attorneys of the Law Offices of Eric G. Canter, P.A. may be able to help you get the compensation you deserve. Contact us today by calling 866-529-0022.

The Four Elements of a Tort

A tort is made up of four different elements, all of which must be in place for damages to be awarded. The elements are:

• The presence of a duty: Duty can be defined as a responsibility to act in a way that will not cause injury to others. People owe different levels of duty to different people; for example, a doctor-patient relationship carries more responsibility than the relationship between two co-workers.
• The breach of duty: The defendant must have breached his or her duty to behave in a way that would prevent others from being injured.
• An injury: You must have actually been injured.
• Proximate cause: Your injury must have been directly caused by the defendant’s breach of duty, although other factors may have also been present.

If all four of these criteria are present in your case, you stand a much better chance of winning the financial compensation you need.

Contact Us

If you or someone you love has been injured as the result of an accident caused by someone else, the Coral Springs personal injury lawyers of the Law Offices of Eric G. Canter, P.A. may be able to help. Contact us today by calling 866-529-0022.