Pomona Personal Injury Lawyer

The short answer is that it depends on three things: whether someone else’s carelessness caused the injury, what the medical record actually shows, and whether there is insurance that reaches the loss. Those are the questions the first conversation is for. It is free, it takes about half an hour, and if there is nothing worth pursuing you will be told that rather than signed up. Bring whatever you have: the collision or incident report if one exists, photographs, the name of anyone who treated you, and your own insurance policy. In Pomona it also matters exactly where it happened, because collisions on Interstate 10, State Route 60, State Route 57 and State Route 71 are normally California Highway Patrol matters while city streets are Pomona Police, and that decides who holds the report.

The first conversation costs nothing and creates no obligation. A Pomona injury case is taken on a contingency fee, so there is nothing to pay up front and the fee is paid out of what is recovered. If there is no recovery, no fee is owed. The fee agreement is put in writing and signed before any work starts, which is what California law requires, and the costs of running the case are explained in that same agreement rather than left to the end. Ask about it on the first call.

The East District, at Pomona Courthouse South, 400 Civic Center Plaza. Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A) requires an unlimited civil injury or wrongful death case to be filed in the judicial district where the incident arose, and for the East District the Court’s own filing locator returns Pomona Courthouse South. That is useful: the courthouse is in the city, so witnesses and treating doctors are not asked to travel across the county. Cases arising in El Monte are filed here as well, because the El Monte Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters and has no civil division, and the Court’s filing locator also returns Pomona Courthouse South for West Covina addresses.