Common Legal Personal Injury Questions

Billings, Montana

How do I know if I have a case?
How much will getting a lawyer cost me?
Why should I choose Skaggs Law Firm to represent me?
What is different about attorneys who have experience with serious injury cases?
How is negligence proven?
What compensation am I entitled to if I was wrongfully injured?

How do I know if I have a case?
The only way you can be sure you have a case is to run all the facts by a trained personal injury or medical malpractice lawyer. Billings Montana injury attorney Robert H. Skaggs will sit down with you free of charge to help you determine if you have a case. Once it is decided you are able to legally proceed, Mr. Skaggs will be assigned to your case to help you make the strongest argument in your favor.

How much will getting a lawyer cost me?
First of all, it won’t cost you anything to see if we can help. Your initial consultation with Skaggs Law Firm is free of charge, guaranteed. Once you decide to hire the Skaggs Law Firm to represent you, a contingency fee basis for payment will be discussed.

Why should I choose Skaggs Law Firm to represent me?
Robert H. Skaggs has 26 years of experience as a personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer here in the Billings, Montana area. He gives each client the personal attention and time necessary to ensure the best possible result.

What is different about attorneys who have experience with serious injury cases?
Attorneys who have experience litigating serious injury cases are far better prepared to deal with all the aspects of your case then attorneys who have handled few. If you choose an experienced injury or malpractice attorney, chances are you will get better results.

How is negligence proven?
Accidents are usually caused by someone’s carelessness or failure to act. Oftentimes it is a combination of negligent acts or a failure to act by one or more persons or entities that cause an accident to occur. The law requires that each person owes every other person a duty to act as a reasonably prudent person would act under the same or similar circumstances. When a person or entity does not act reasonably, then they have violated that duty and will be held responsible for any injury or damage that results. This duty is created from statutory laws or prior cases that have evolved over time.

What compensation am I entitled to if I was wrongfully injured?
Your legal rights to compensation may include:

Payment of medical bills
You may be entitled to have your medical expenses, past and future, paid:
- Hospitalization
- Surgical procedures
- Ongoing medical care
- Counseling
- Scar revision/Cosmetic surgery
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
Compensation for loss of income
You may be entitled to have your lost wages, past and future, paid.
Vocational rehabilitation (job retraining) You may be entitled to compensation to be re-trained into a new job or occupation.
Compensation for pain and suffering You may be entitled to compensation for the pain and suffering you have endured and may continue to endure as a result of your injury.
Loss of consortium The spouse of an injured person may be entitled to compensation when an injury is so severe that it interferes with the injured party's spousal relations. The effected family member may suffer a very real detriment. Many courts recognize the right of the injured party's spouse to recover in an appropriate case for a loss of support, services, love, companionship, society, affection, sexual relations and solace in the form of a loss of consortium action. Loss of consortium is a claim separate from the injury victim's claim. It is unique to the injured party's spouse and is compensable by a separate damages recovery.
Disfigurement
Any physical or mental impairment or disability

2812 - 1st Ave N, Suite 202
Billings, Montana 59101
NO FEE UNTIL RECOVERY
(406) 248-2491
(800) 497-1018

Billings Personal Injury Attorney Robert H. Skaggs represents clients in Billings and throughout Montana in lawsuits against insurance companies. This website does not create an attorney-client relationship and the cases this firm has successfully handed does not imply a guarantee of success with your potential case. His personal injury law firm handles car accident cases, truck accident lawsuits, motorcycle accident cases as well as medical malpractice and defective product law suits. Please contact our injury lawyer for more information about personal injury in Billings, Montana.

Billings, Montana

What compensation am I entitled to if I was wrongfully injured?
Your legal rights to compensation may include:

Payment of medical bills

You may be entitled to have your medical expenses, past and future, paid:

Hospitalization
Surgical procedures
Ongoing medical care
Counseling
Scar revision/Cosmetic surgery
Physical therapy
Occupational therapy

Compensation for loss of income

You may be entitled to have your lost wages, past and future, paid.

Vocational rehabilitation (job retraining) You may be entitled to compensation to be re-trained into a new job or occupation.

Compensation for pain and suffering You may be entitled to compensation for the pain and suffering you have endured and may continue to endure as a result of your injury.

Loss of consortium The spouse of an injured person may be entitled to compensation when an injury is so severe that it interferes with the injured party's spousal relations. The effected family member may suffer a very real detriment. Many courts recognize the right of the injured party's spouse to recover in an appropriate case for a loss of support, services, love, companionship, society, affection, sexual relations and solace in the form of a loss of consortium action. Loss of consortium is a claim separate from the injury victim's claim. It is unique to the injured party's spouse and is compensable by a separate damages recovery.

Disfigurement

Any physical or mental impairment or disability

2812 - 1st Ave N, Suite 202
Billings, Montana 59101
NO FEE UNTIL RECOVERY
(406) 248-2491
(800) 497-1018