Car Accidents & Personal Injury

Car accidents are the most frequent type of personal injury cases in Southern California, often leading to property damages, personal injuries and sadly, occasionally even death. Most car accidents occur because of the negligence of motor vehicle operators. Leading causes of car accidents are distracted driving, drunk driving, and speeding. Car accident victims can have substantial medical costs as well as emotional trauma. Victims have a right to sue the responsible parties for compensation.

After a car accident, you should only need to focus on your recovery. Contacting the Pourcho Law Group, PC is the most effective way to enable this recovery, since our experienced team can handle the legal aspects of your claim while you work on rehabilitation. It’s difficult to focus on healing when you’re facing a growing pile of medical bills, trying to meet your everyday obligations, and missing work because you’re injured.

It’s even more difficult when you were not at fault for the accident!

In this scenario,  Orange County car accident lawyer Ben Pourcho, Esq. and the legal team at the Pourcho Law Group, PC can help you seek financial compensation from those responsible and get your life back on track. In many cases, car accident victims are entitled to financial compensation that helps pay for medical bills, lost wages, and other accident-related expenses and damages.

Premises liability (a.k.a. a slip and fall injury) occurs at another’s property due to the owner’s negligence, for which you may be entitled to compensation for your pain and suffering, medical bills, and even time off work.

Proving liability is the most difficult aspect of a premises liability lawsuit, because there’s rarely an eyewitness and a business may claim that you caused the accident. That’s why it’s important to contact the experienced Orange County law team at the Pourcho Law Group, PC, because we’re committed to protecting your legal interests! Time is of the essence, so don’t delay and call now! Pictures will need to be taken, witnesses interviewed, and evidence preserved as quickly as possible. An investigation will also need to be conducted to determine all the factors that could have contributed to your accident (for example, a tear in the floor), whether or not the business knew about it, and if they did anything to prevent your accident. If we can prove that they knew there was a hazard and did nothing about it, you will have a strong case.

 Truck accidents typically involve major injuries and substantial property damage. Tractor-Trailer trucks are typically owned by business and share the roads, highways, and interstates with passenger vehicles. Due to their massively large size, Tractor-Trailer accidents often result in life-threatening or fatal injuries. While most people think of accidents involving cars and passenger vehicles, truck crashes involving Tractor-Trailers are actually quite common. If you or a loved one have sustained personal injuries from a truck-related accident or crash, it’s imperative to seek immediate medical and legal attention.

While exhilarating, bicyclists, motorcyclists and their passengers, are more at risk for sustaining a serious accident. Whether you or a loved one was injured in a bicycle or motorcycle accident, you may pursue legal action against a driver whenever the driver was wholly or partially responsible for causing the accident. In order to prevail in either a motorcycle or bicycle claim, the injured victim(s) must prove:

• The driver was negligent. Drivers have an obligation to be reasonably safe and when a motorist falls short of living up to that obligation; this can be considered a breach of legal duty.
• The breach of legal duty was the direct cause of a bicycle accident. You must show that the driver’s behavior directly caused the bike crash.

You sustained actual harm as a result of the bicycle accident. In other words, you’ll need to demonstrate that you sustained financial or physical loss or that you suffered harm because of the death of a loved one.

Spinal cord injuries are serious injuries to the spinal column that may restrict one’s mobility or loss of feeling. Frequently, spinal injury are the result caused by car accidents, construction site accidents, and machinery failure.

Spinal injury cases are complex, requiring a competent and knowledgeable legal team. They also require in-depth medical investigation from experts. The Pourcho Law Group, PC has the experience and the connections in the medical field to attain favorable results and help to protect individual rights of our clients.

What Causes Spinal Cord Injuries?

Spinal cord injuries are normally caused after a traumatic accident including: a car or truck accident, construction site accident, worksite accident falls, defective product accident or a machinery failure accident. Injuries to the neck and cervical spine, or to the back and lumbar spine, can result in serious damage to the spinal cord causing debilitating and sometimes, permanent injuries. In a spinal cord injury, the central carrier of signals throughout the body, may simply be bruised, partially or completely torn. A mild bruise may cause the temporary loss of some function below the location of the injury. Let’s be clear: spinal cord injuries are life changing events that affects impact the entire family. Contact the dedicated and compassionate legal team at the Pourcho Law Group, PC now to protect your legal interests and pursue compensation from all involved bad actors.

Construction sites may have dangerous equipment, poisonous chemicals and gases, uneven work surfaces and high voltage electricity. Construction accidents occur regularly at construction sites when property owners or contractors fail to provide safety to their workers. We represent clients in construction and workplace accident cases involving ladder and scaffold, electrocutions and burns, falls from heights and other accidents that result in injury. In the construction of new buildings, as well as the modernization or renovation of an existing buildings, workers who are injured due to negligence have the right to pursue compensation for their injuries, medical bills and lost wages.

In a world of personal injury litigation, there is nothing more sensitive and serious as death. If you have lost a loved one in an accident in California, it is clear that the emotional devastation of such a loss, and the financial burden of that loss, can be difficult for anyone to handle. If the accident that caused the loss was the result of negligence by another person or company, recovering compensation to pay for remaining medical bills, funeral expenses and other financial losses is absolutely critical.

At the Pourcho Law Group, our experienced wrongful death legal team can aid clients and families pursue wrongful death lawsuits following fatal accidents in California. We have the resources and legal knowledge to fully investigate accidents, identify who should be held responsible for those accidents and build personal injury claims to help clients recover compensation.

Spouses, children, parents and other surviving relatives may be able to file a wrongful death lawsuit following a tragic accident in California. Our legal team will work hard to help clients prove their claims and recover the benefits they deserve!

For years, dogs have been known as “man’s best friend.” You may have even heard the old dog joke that starts like this: Both your dog and wife are placed into the trunk of your car and after 10 minutes, you open the trunk….now who’s happy to see you?! All kidding aside, not all dogs are well-behaved and when they misbehave, they can go from protector to antagonist. It’s important for victims of dog bite accidents to know there is legal recourse.

In California, dog owners are strictly liable for the injuries caused to another, regardless of whether the dog had previously bit someone or was known to be otherwise be dangerous and aggressive. Dog owners are financially liable for all damages resulting from a dog bite, and depending upon the particular facts, you made be entitled to compensation for: medical bills, including surgeries (past, present and future), counseling and therapy costs, past and future loss of income, emotional pain and mental anguish and of course, physical pain and suffering.