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Whether you’re driving into town on I-759 or cruising along Piedmont Highway, a car accident can change everything in a fraction of a second. The life you knew just moments before the crash seems so far out of reach, an alternate reality you and your family long to return to.
At Martinson & Beason, P.C., we understand the physical and emotional impact the accident has had on you and your family. Things we all take for granted may now be difficult, and making ends meet is a challenge (especially if you’ve been forced to miss work because of your injury).
Our team of experienced lawyers believes you need only focus one thing after a car accident injury in Gadsden—healing. Let our car accident attorneys take care of the legal details and insurance companies so you can rest with confidence.
Our Alabama personal injury attorneys have successfully handled numerous Gadsden, Alabama car accident cases. We handle all personal injury and car wreck cases on a contingency fee basis, which means we do not charge you a fee until and unless we make a recovery for you.
If you or a loved one has suffered a personal injury, contact our experienced and dedicated Alabama car accident lawyers. The evaluation is free and confidential.
Continue reading to learn how our attorneys at Martinson & Beason, P.C. fight for people throughout Gadsen, Alabama after their lives have been affected by a car accident, truck crash, dangerous drug, or other type of personal injury event.
It is in your best interest to contact an Alabama injury attorney immediately after you’ve been injured in a car accident. The sooner you reach out to our team, the more time our car accident attorneys will have to investigate your accident and analyze the details of your claim.
There are instances where symptoms of car accident injuries don’t appear for days or months after a crash. In Alabama, the statute of limitations for filing a personal injury claim is two years from the date of the crash.
If you have been hurt in a car accident in Gadsden, Alabama—be it yesterday or nearly two years ago—you deserve to be compensated fairly.
Reach out to our team of experienced Alabama personal injury lawyers to get the help you and your family need. We want to help you get back to the life you once knew in Gadsden, and can address any questions or concerns you may have.
Call our office, fill out the free consultation request box on this page, or speak with us via the Live Chat option in the bottom right-hand corner of this page.
Accidents and injuries are remarkably common. An accident could happen to you or any of Gadsden’s nearly 37,000 residents. In fact, the top causes of injuries in the U.S. in 2010 were various types of accidents, including motor vehicle accidents, slips or falls, burns, and bites. Thousands of injuries caused by accidents require visits to the hospital and emergency room every year.2 Unfortunately, many of these accidents could have been prevented because they were caused by a person’s failure to act with caution.
You are certainly not alone in suffering from an accident-related injury. The attorneys at Martinson & Beason, P.C. have represented numerous people in Gadsden, Etowah County, and other locations around Alabama who were the victims of someone’s negligence, whether they were injured in a car accident that was the other driver’s fault or were harmed in a fall from a defective ladder. We have assisted victims in recovering fair compensation for their injury from the guilty party.
With a Gadsden personal injury lawyer from Martinson & Beason, P.C., you can seek the compensation you need and deserve. We’ll help you receive monetary damages for the medical treatment that you have undergone and will undergo in the future, for the income that you have lost and will lose as a result of your injury preventing you from working, and for the suffering you have experienced.
If you or someone you know has been injured due to another person’s reckless actions, call or email us. We can let you know your legal options and advise you of the best route for your case. We offer consultations free of charge, and we do not charge you unless we get you compensation.
Wrongful death is when a family member has died due to the negligence of someone else.
With the abrupt, untimely death of your family member comes a heavy emotional and financial burden. The loss of your loved one and his or her companionship is invaluable, and the resulting bills from medical costs and funeral can be overwhelming. You and your family may not know where to turn or what to do next.
At Martinson & Beason, P.C., we can help. We have supported numerous families in Gadsden, Etowah County, and Alabama in similar circumstances during our years of practice. Like you, these families came to us in times of crisis, after their family member suffered a fatal injury in an accident or other situation caused by the recklessness of another person. With the aid of a Gadsden, AL wrongful death lawyer at Martinson & Beason, P.C., these families were able to get fair compensation for the irreplaceable loss of the loved one. Imposing penalties on the liable party also allowed them to feel that justice was served.
We would be glad to assist your family through understanding, detailed support and representation. We work to obtain compensation for you on a contingency fee basis, so you don’t pay unless and until you receive a recovery.
When you and your family are ready, contact a Gadsden, AL wrongful death lawyer at our firm.
A crippling, painful injury robs you of your enjoyment of daily activities and prevents you from returning to work and earning a living. Thousands of dollars in medical bills. Hassles with insurance companies. These are the difficulties you face following an injury from a motorcycle crash caused by the carelessness or negligence of another person, and these are the last things that you want to deal with when you’ve been injured.
You don’t have to face these challenges alone. Martinson & Beason, P.C. can help.
Our experienced Gadsden, AL motorcycle accident lawyers have successfully helped motorcyclists just like you obtain the compensation they are entitled to under the law. We have extensive knowledge in this area and the skill to assist you, as well. Our Gadsden personal injury attorneys will work tirelessly to make a recovery for you so that you can pay off the costs of your medical treatment, make up for lost income, and end your financial difficulties. With compensation, you can ensure a worry-free recovery, which is what our firm wants for you.
To learn how we can help you, contact us for a consultation. It’s completely free, with no strings attached. You don’t pay anything in legal fees unless we get you a recovery on your behalf, so there’s no risk to call. Our firm serves motorcyclists throughout the state of Alabama, including in Gadsden and Etowah County.
Email us or call (256) 533-1667 as soon as you are ready to get on the road to recovery.
Cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks are no match for a semi or large truck. When a smaller motor vehicle and a large truck are involved in a crash, the motor vehicle almost always ends up worse off than the truck. This is because of the increased size and weight of large trucks. The occupants of the motor vehicle are more likely to be injured or killed, and the injuries are often very grave. In 2011, the occupants of motor vehicles made up 72% of injuries from large truck accidents.1
If you have been in an accident with a large truck, it’s very likely that you’ve suffered injuries. Those injuries may have negatively impacted your health, your finances, and your daily life.
When you are suffering from an injury, the challenges are enormous. The financial difficulties alone—caused by costly medical bills and lost income—are enough to keep you up at night. Making your situation worse is the fact that even the smallest daily tasks can be more difficult than they were before.
During this trying time, you need someone in your corner to fight for your rights. At Martinson & Beason, P.C., we have extensive experience protecting the rights of truck accident victims in Gadsden, Etowah County, and Alabama. Let us do the same for you.
Contact our experienced Gadsden, AL truck accident lawyers today for a free consultation. We’ll discuss what your options are for a fair recovery as well as how we can help you.
Just like anywhere else in Alabama, Gadsden residents have a reasonable expectation of care for their health and welfare due them from the local, state, and federal governments. As citizens who participate in the many systems of keeping society safe, Gadsden trusts that mandatory infrastructure regulations have been adhered to. For instance, we expect the roads and highways we take to meet code specifications. Public and private schools have minimum standards for building safety, teacher qualifications, and instruction materials. Although there are only two major hospitals in Gadsden, the expectation of the highest medical care in treatment is reasonable and correct.
The previous examples show how regulations on a state or federal level affect everyday people on the local level. Just as Gadsden plays a vital role in the state’s economy, as it has done throughout its history, the state and federal legislation affects citizens of Gadsden. This includes food and drug regulations monitored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). When the FDA withholds or gives its approval for prescription drugs, the entire country is affected – for good or for ill.
When prescription drug manufacturers receive FDA approval for a drug, the public should feel confident that the drugs are safe.
But what happens to the public if the drug’s effects are not fully determined at the time of FDA approval?
Such is the situation where drugs are given FDA approval for one use but then are later prescribed “off label.” This was the case with the drug cocktail Fen-Phen, where two drugs were prescribed off label to create a more powerful effect of dramatic weight loss. While the impact of combining the two was indeed powerful, the effect on many patients’ hearts devastated their health. The drug manufacturers who created both drugs were held to task in courts, despite the lack of FDA approval for the combination. Simply having the drugs available to the open market jeopardized the public’s safety.
When the population receiving the drugs is considered especially vulnerable, such as pregnant women, the drug’s impact can have an even longer-lasting effect. In any place, including Gadsden, protecting the health and viability of a newborn baby is a top concern for any family. According to the latest statistics in2013 for Etowah County, over 10 percent of all women in the county had babies in that year. Although every family wishes for a healthy baby, not every person born in Gadsden, Alabama, is born without defect. Some of these defects are related to taking prescription drugs that may be unsafe during pregnancy, such as Zofran.
Some birth defects are, thankfully, not life threatening. A child who can continue to grow and flourish is always a blessing. Still, for children whose health is affected by any type of birth defect, the physical and emotional toll of their care can be felt for a lifetime. The family who loves that child will always be affected as well, not only in terms of care but emotionally and financially, too.
Anyone who has visited a medical professional during pregnancy knows that some prescription and over the counter drugs cause birth defects. Common examples include lithium, which treats depression, and Accutane, used to treat acne. Some drugs, however, like Zofran have not been unequivocally tied to causing birth defects.
The drug manufacturers have liability to patients for unsafe products, especially where the risk of taking the drug outweighs the benefits. For Zofran, however, the scales are still not completely tipped in one direction. Legal remedies do exist for women whose infants were born with birth defects after taking Zofran. The drug manufacturers are still liable for the safety of the drug, despite the fact that the FDA has not pulled Zofran off the market completely. Its benefit to other patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, is still strongly evident.
News reports about Zofran’s side effects on a fetus are mixed. Some reports suggest that taking Zofran can cause birth defects, like this widely circulated report from Canada. In it, a Canadian news outlet analyzed data from the FDA’s public database relating to drug side effects. The 2014 story focused on the Canadian women who reported their results on the database. The women reported taking Zofran and seeing babies born with side effects, including cleft-palate and “two infant deaths (plus) multiple cases of newborns with heart defects and kidney malformations.” Other possible birth defects may include:
The year prior to the Canadian news story in 2013, another news story discussed an entirely different result to using Zofran. The study, conducted in Denmark, looked at a group of 600,000 pregnant women. Researchers for the study used “nationwide health registries” to compare data on birth defects collectively, not only those resulting after taking Zofran.
Both studies reveal an underlying issue with the controversy surrounding Zofran, other prescription drugs, and even over-the-counter drugs ingested during pregnancy. Most importantly, no studies exist on the side effects of taking these drugs. The FDA and drug manufactures cannot take the risk of potentially damaging the health of the fetus or the mother during any drug trial. Nevertheless, Zofran has paid out millions in lawsuits alleging the drug causes birth defects.
If you or a loved one believe that birth defects may have resulted from taking Zofran, you may have legal rights against the drug manufacturer. Please reach out to one of our experienced attorneys for more information.
When life throws you a curveball, having a trusted legal team behind you can bring peace of mind to you and your family. The attorneys at Martinson & Beason, P.C. have proudly served the Huntsville community—and all of Alabama—since 1937. Our deep community roots, passion for people, and desire to help those who need it most allow us to provide clients with dedicated legal help.
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