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Was There Negligence? 🛑 | Arizona Injury Lawyer | Gerber Injury Law

00:00:00.240 this is ken gerber and you’re watching
00:00:01.839 law and gerber
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00:00:22.960 ah
00:00:33.200 welcome back to another episode of law
00:00:34.880 and gerber my wife megan and i are
00:00:36.880 co-owners of a thriving law practice in
00:00:39.040 arizona and we are here doing this for
00:00:41.040 one main reason and that is to show you
00:00:43.120 that lawyers are not what you may have
00:00:45.200 been led to believe we are constantly
00:00:47.520 fighting the negative narrative that has
00:00:49.280 been associated with attorneys and we
00:00:51.039 won’t stop doing whatever it takes to
00:00:52.879 help people in every way that we can and
00:00:55.600 show you that there are men and women of
00:00:58.160 integrity in our field we love
00:01:00.160 absolutely everything about the process
00:01:02.399 of what we do here one of our favorite
00:01:04.400 things is helping people that are being
00:01:06.320 taken advantage of by slimy companies
00:01:08.880 that capitalize on people’s ignorance
00:01:11.200 the reality is why would you need to
00:01:13.439 know how the law works with regard to
00:01:15.759 your injury if you’re not currently in
00:01:17.680 that situation it’s not like there’s a
00:01:19.680 class in high school that prepares you
00:01:21.680 for what the law has to say about a
00:01:23.520 possible future injury could you imagine
00:01:25.439 if there was
00:01:26.799 it’s not something we usually want to
00:01:28.479 think about or prepare for but we are
00:01:30.880 here to do just that we want you to be
00:01:33.680 prepared with some of this information
00:01:35.840 if anything unfortunate were to ever
00:01:37.680 happen to you
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00:01:42.000 now again we practice in the state of
00:01:43.920 arizona and so some of the things that
00:01:46.159 we share from time to time are going to
00:01:48.240 be specific to arizona but most of this
00:01:51.119 stuff is pretty basic information that
00:01:53.119 should be the same across the country
00:01:55.360 just know that if you find our videos
00:01:57.520 and you want us to represent you in your
00:01:59.680 case we can only work with cases in
00:02:02.079 arizona now that’s not to say that we
00:02:04.240 can’t help out at all if you are out of
00:02:06.719 state in fact we have a pretty great
00:02:08.080 network and can most likely get you
00:02:09.919 paired up with someone awesome in your
00:02:11.520 state if for whatever reason you are
00:02:13.520 outside the great state of arizona
00:02:16.000 okay now having said all of that let’s
00:02:18.959 get into some basic scenarios first of
00:02:21.520 all we are solely injury attorneys we
00:02:24.239 only get paid if we win your case
00:02:27.040 what this means is that you’re not
00:02:29.040 paying us anything up front no deposits
00:02:32.400 nothing
00:02:33.440 we review your case and if we decide to
00:02:35.360 represent you we get paid solely on what
00:02:38.160 we recover
00:02:39.360 so that begs the question what do we
00:02:41.280 look for in a case and how do we
00:02:42.879 determine we’re going to accept your
00:02:44.879 case first of all
00:02:46.800 the first thing we look for is was their
00:02:49.120 negligence
00:02:50.400 did somebody make a mistake
00:02:52.319 did they do something they should not
00:02:54.160 have done or did they not do something
00:02:56.319 they should have done
00:02:57.920 so let’s say they were negligent
00:03:00.400 and they did cause some type of injury
00:03:03.040 because if they were negligent and they
00:03:04.720 did cause an injury that’s something
00:03:06.800 they are personally liable for and now
00:03:09.440 we have the basis for a claim to try and
00:03:11.360 recover for the person who is injured
00:03:13.519 seeing as how we only handle negligence
00:03:15.440 cases let’s say you are in an accident
00:03:18.000 and you’re like i don’t want or need to
00:03:20.400 hire an attorney i’m not a mean or
00:03:22.640 vicious person and i’m not trying to
00:03:24.319 take advantage of anyone
00:03:26.480 if there was an accident
00:03:28.480 negligence was involved plain and simple
00:03:32.159 accidents by definition
00:03:34.239 are based on negligence it means
00:03:36.720 somebody made a mistake and because of
00:03:38.720 that mistake they caused an injury
00:03:41.440 i want to make something really clear
00:03:42.879 because this seems to get confused a lot
00:03:44.879 for those who don’t fully understand
00:03:46.400 injury attorneys
00:03:47.920 if it’s something that’s more than just
00:03:50.400 an accident
00:03:51.920 then the implication is that someone
00:03:54.560 caused an injury on purpose
00:03:57.040 and that’s not something for an injury
00:03:58.959 attorney to get involved with that’s
00:04:00.799 considered a crime and that’s when you
00:04:02.480 call the police
00:04:03.840 so let’s review
00:04:05.360 you just got into a car wreck crossing
00:04:07.200 an intersection with a green light and
00:04:08.799 you got t-boned by a car that decided to
00:04:11.280 blow through a red light because they
00:04:12.959 weren’t paying attention
00:04:14.400 you’ve survived the accident but you
00:04:16.079 have significant injuries is this an
00:04:18.160 example of negligence
00:04:20.160 yes it is great job
00:04:22.320 you’re a bunch of fast learners aren’t
00:04:23.680 you all right example number two
00:04:26.320 you’re parking your car at the grocery
00:04:27.840 store and someone’s competing for the
00:04:29.919 same spot as they zoom up and try and
00:04:32.160 steal it from you they’re flipping you
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00:04:34.479 when you pull into the spot they ram the
00:04:36.400 back of your car in anger
00:04:38.240 let’s just say in this scenario there
00:04:39.600 are plenty of witnesses to support this
00:04:41.759 is this an example of negligence
00:04:44.080 no it’s not this is road rage and you
00:04:46.960 need to get law enforcement involved
00:04:48.639 immediately so what happens in that
00:04:50.479 first situation what do you do first
00:04:52.960 which steps you take
00:04:54.800 i’m so glad you asked we’re gonna go
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00:04:58.000 i gotta take this first excuse me
00:05:01.600 this is ken
00:05:02.880 hey babe oh whoops i’m sorry
00:05:05.840 um i just came in to tell him guys that
00:05:07.680 there’s a woman on the phone who was
00:05:09.360 just in the ladies room on the eighth
00:05:11.520 floor of a building in downtown phoenix
00:05:14.000 evidently
00:05:15.360 as she sat on the porcelain throne
00:05:17.440 pressure building from inside the tank
00:05:20.000 caused a massive explosion that
00:05:22.400 literally centered flying out of the
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00:05:25.360 it sounds like we have another stinky
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00:05:34.240 okay everyone we gotta run i mean i have
00:05:36.720 the runs i mean we gotta run bye until
00:05:39.199 next time
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