Jack I. Hyatt has recovered millions of dollars for his clients since 1973. The amount of your recovery will depend upon the experience and skill of your lawyer. We provide aggressive representation and our objective is to maximze your recovery. We are always available to provide clear answers to your questions. Each case is different and past records are no assurance that the Lawyer will reach a favorable result in any future case.
"Our objective is to maximize your recovery."
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I am a personal injury attorney who handles Maryland auto accident cases every day.   I help clients just like you maximize recovery for
injuries they've suffered due to someone else's negligence
- from the most serious auto
accidents involving life-threatening and permanent injuries, to lesser, but still serious cases where your injury has caused neck or back pain, not to mention the mounting medical bills.
You have the right to be reimbursed and compensated for your medical expenses,
lost wages, permanent injuries, mental anguish, and for your pain and
suffering.
It's easy to make common mistakes which could be
very costly to you, to any potential
personal injury financial claim you have.
To learn the common accident case mistakes are, call 410 - 486 - 1800. Working together, we can avoid them.
I am aggressive and will maximize your recovery.   I am available to you 24/7 by calling 410-486-1800.   Call now, you will see!
Your insurance company and the other person's insurance company are dedicated to aggressively deny or minimze your recovery.   I know how they work.   I am familiar with how they operate.   They will attempt to get you to settle right away.
They may put a legal waiver and a cash settlement offer in front of you right away.   In cases like this, accepting an offer soon is a serious mistake.   They will attempt to get a prompt recorded statment that can destroy the value of your case.  Their offer most likely does not have your interest at heart.   In fact, you are probably due thousands more than you think you have coming.  A quick settlement offer is often a sign that they know you have a case, and they want to get rid of you as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
The insurance company's objective is to attempt to get you to sign a release for the least amunt of money. They are a business. Their objective is to make a profit from their insurance fees, and pay out as little as they can. If you ask them what a fair settlement should be, odds are you won't get a straight answer.
You will get a straight answer from me!
There is no substitute for experience.
Maximizing your recovery for your pain and
injuries after your accident is what I will do for you.
I will deal with
all the issues so you have as few hassles and frustrations as possible.
I know the all the steps to take and the kind of evidence to collect to obtain maxium recovery. Equally as important, I have many negotiating strategies to use with the negligent party, their attorneys, and their insurance company. I've done so successfully countless times since 1973.
So I know the system backwards and forwards, and I know exactly what's a fair offer and what is not.
In my years of experience working on these auto accident cases, I've created a system to use to make sure that your recovery will be maximized. If we determine that your case can not be settled, I am prepared to instiute suit and follow thourgh trial as many cases demand to achieve maxium recovery.
I'll handle all the paperwork. You won't have to
worry about a single medical bill.
Our office will go to work for you on all aspects of your case. All medical bills will be forwarded to me, and I'll make sure they get paid. I'll handle the negotiations with the insurance companies of course, but also with the doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and any other medical practitioners who are taking care of you.
Your only job will be to take care of yourself and your medical needs. Get yourself on
the road to recovery after your accident.
All aspects of your accident case will be handled for
you.
With my system I'm able to take your case, and thoroughly work through every
aspect - all the paperwork, evidence preparation, documentation, and more
- without you having to deal with the details of all these elements.
I'll build the strongest possible case for you. Which is extremely important because
you'll only get one chance to settle and receive your money damages.
Because I don't represent insurance companies I only look out for
your interests. If you have serious injuries from your auto accident, serious money may be at
stake.
I will firmly protect your
interests and fight, if necessary, to make sure you get the full money
damages to which you are entitled.
You'll not only learn how you'll be able to pay for your medical bills,
but I'll also talk to you about the other biggest mistakes are that injured
people most commonly make . . . and how to avoid them. I'll give you the benefit
of my experience, earned from working on Maryland auto accident injury
cases every day for years.
But perhaps most of all, I'll listen to you and I'll objectively and candidly
answer the many questions you must have. Many are in my MD
Auto Accident FAQ page, but clients often have questions unique to their
situation.
If you don't want to hire me, at least you will have learned what your
rights are, and you'll have picked up some helpful advice from a Maryland
attorney with lot of experience in auto accident injury cases. If I do take your case, it will be handled strictly on a contingency basis, which means that you'll only pay me a part of the
settlement you receive.Each case is different and past record is not assurance in reaching a favorable result in any future case.410-486-1800
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How Negligence is Established
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Auto AccidentPersonal InjuryWrongful DeathProduct Liability Negligence cases depend on one person being found negligent in dealing with the other. While the things that establish negligence might seem obvious at a glance, what establishes negligence in regards to liability in the case can be quite different. And without negligence being proven in a lawsuit, there really is no case and damages won’t be awarded.
Breach of Duty and Negligence
When you owe a duty to someone, it means that you are expected to exercise reasonable care when around that person. If someone is standing behind you, you owe a duty to them to not put them in harm’s way, for instance. So if you know someone is there and you swing your arm and hit, that’s a breach of duty, and that makes you negligent.
If someone walked up behind you and you did not know they were there, when you hit them it wasn’t technically breach of duty, because you can’t owe duty to someone you do not know is there. Another example would be that if you know someone is allergic to peanuts and you’ve made a dessert with peanuts in it, you owe them a duty to not put them in danger with the peanuts. If you did, it would be negligence. If you don’t know the person’s allergy, however, and you give them a piece, you’re not negligent because you owed them no duty.
Causes
Now it’s important to establish that the injury was caused by the breach of duty. If the person standing behind you would not have been injured if you hadn’t committed breach of duty and swung your arm, then cause in fact has been established.
Proximate cause is an extended type of cause for things that the plaintiff suffers as a direct result of the defendant’s negligence. It relates to the extent of responsibility placed on a defendant for damages. If you know someone is behind you and you swing your arm and hit them, you’ve committed breach of duty and are negligent. If the man behind you is wearing glasses and you break them, and then a week later when he is on his way to the optometrist to get new glasses he is injured in a car accident, you wouldn’t be considered liable for those damages even though the man wouldn’t have been going to the optometrist had he not been injured by you.
Because it’s unlikely you could have foreseen how your negligence could have indirectly caused more harm by the person getting into an accident to get the glasses fixed that you broke, then it’s not considered proximate cause and damages wouldn’t be awarded for it.
How Damages are Awarded
Negligence isn’t the deciding factor in these cases. A person can be so negligent that anyone could recognize it, but unless that negligence causes harm, no lawsuit can be brought against him. You must be able to prove that harm and injury resulted from the negligence, or damage to property, or both.
JACK I. HYATT
Maryland Accident and Injury Lawyer
Former Assistant State's Attorney
Admitted To Practice Before:
The United States Supreme Court
The Maryland Court of Appeals
The Maryland Special Court of Appeals
Federal District Court For Maryland
Maryland State Bar Association
Baltimore City Bar Association
Baltimore County Bar Association
University of Baltimore
A.A. B.S. M.Ed. J.D.
Honorable Discharge U.S. Army
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