SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY
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My name is Rex Bush. As a Salt Lake City, Utah accident lawyer for over 20 years I've been involved in over one thousand (1000) personal injury accident cases, including auto accidents, slip & fall cases and many other types of injury cases. I've created this site to share with you what I've learned about accident cases. You'll find it chock full of valuable information about injury cases in Salt Lake City and in other parts of Utah.
If you are looking for a Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury attorney to handle your auto accident or slip and fall case here are some of the advantages of utilizing my firm:
1. No upfront costs ( I only take accident cases I believe in so I advance the costs of the case myself and I don't ask my clients to pay for them until the case settles ).
2. If there is no recovery (i.e. settlement or verdict) from your accident/injury case you owe me nothing.
3. I have 23 years of personal injury experience in and around Salt Lake City and other parts of Utah.
4. I take a percentage of the settlement.
5. I try very hard to get accident cases settled without filing a lawsuit as I know that most of my clients hate to sue.
6. I guarantee that my fee will not exceed the amount of money you take home in your pocket after payment of all costs and fees and medical bills etc.
Note: I know of no other law firm who makes this guarantee.
7. I use a "Settlement Brochure" on every case. This is a booklet that I prepare and submit to the insurance company to increase the chances of settlement out of court. It contains all relevant information that an insurance adjuster needs to properly evaluate an auto accident or other type of injury case.
8. I have had many, many satisfied clients. To read a handful of the many, many favorable testimonials I have received click here.
9. I have personally experienced the devastating effects of a personal injury auto accident.
My first experience with a personal injury case came at age 12 when my father died in a car accident. My father was a passenger in the front seat of a Volkswagen beetle traveling east on I-80 near Wells, Nevada. The driver fell asleep crossing lanes of traffic and striking another car headon. My mother, who had not worked in years and did not have a driver’s license, was left with six children under the age of 14.
My mother hired a lawyer who brought a claim against the driver, a close family friend. The resulting settlement made news as it was one of the largest wrongful death personal injury settlements in the state at that time.
The settlement funds helped our small family to survive and they paid for my LDS mission to Rome and paid for my first year of college.
It may have been this experience which inspired me to become a personal injury lawyer.
Since that time, as a Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer, I have handled a number of personal injury wrongful death claims–-some high profile, some not.
In the 90's I sued AC/DC over a wrongful death accident at a rock concert at the Salt Palace in downtown Salt Lake City. That settlement was one of the highest ever settlements for a wrongful death claim of that kind in Utah.
I also represented four young Salt Lake City children whose father was killed in a car accident on the freeway in a rural area of Utah.
This site answers questions like:
Do I have a case?
How much is my case worth?
Do I really need a lawyer?
How do I maximize my recovery?
What are the time limitations applicable to my case?
What is the Utah personal injury "threshold" for automobile accidents?
To start out I'd like to share a story about one person's experience hiring a personal injury lawyer in Utah.
Early in my career as a Salt Lake City, Utah accident attorney, a young, Air National Guardsman came to me with a badly broken wrist. While he was watching a softball game near the Salt Lake City Airport, a gust of wind picked up a piece of plywood from land owned by the Federal Government. The wind carried that heavy plywood over a hundred feet and then dropped it on my young client.
Before coming to me he had visited a highly respected downtown Salt Lake City lawyer who told him the case was, at best, worth nuisance value of one thousand dollars. The lawyer was experienced but not in personal injury law.
In the law of "Torts", injuries caused by nature are known as "Acts of God". "Torts" defines our rights not to be injured by others. Was this an Act of God? Not if it could have been predicted, says Utah Tort legal authority.
Research obtained from the National Weather Service showed gusts of wind like this one were common near the Salt Lake City Airport. Therefore, the Federal Government should have taken precautions to keep the plywood tied down.
The result: a very successful settlement...a result contrary to that predicted by the downtown lawyer.
This story illustrates several things to keep in mind when hiring a lawyer:
- There are different kinds of lawyers. If you use your divorce lawyer for your personal injury case, the results might not be great. Sure, he/she is an outstanding divorce lawyer, but that's because it's his/her strength. It's where he/she spends his/her time. Choose a lawyer whose primary focus is personal injury and you'll benefit from his/her experience and enthusiasm for the subject matter.
- A lawyer can have a lot of experience but if it's not in personal injury it does you no good. If he/she spent 20 years drafting wills, that experience simply won't carry over into the personal injury field. I recommend you find a lawyer who has at least five years experience in personal injury work.
- If one lawyer doesn't like your accident case try another. Don't give up at the first rejection. We've all had the experience of turning down a case and having another lawyer take it and make money on it.
- Looking at a case from different angles to try to make it work can pay off big. Knowing the case thoroughly is invaluable as are research and creativity.
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