Tulsa Personal Injury Lawyers
When a serious injury is caused by someone else’s negligence, the consequences can extend far beyond the initial accident. Medical treatment, lost income, ongoing pain, and uncertainty about the future can place enormous pressure on an injured person and their family.
Levinson Law, P.C. represents people who have suffered serious injuries in Greenwood, throughout Tulsa, and across Northeastern Oklahoma. Our personal injury attorneys have decades of litigation experience pursuing claims against insurance companies, corporations, trucking companies, healthcare providers, nursing homes, manufacturers, and other responsible parties.
We prepare serious injury cases with litigation in mind. When a fair resolution cannot be reached, our attorneys are prepared to take the case to court. If you or someone you love has been injured, call 918-492-4433 for a complimentary, no-obligation consultation.
Experienced Personal Injury Attorneys Serving Tulsa and Northeastern Oklahoma
Suffering a severe personal injury can be a traumatic and disruptive experience. You may be unable to work while facing medical bills, rehabilitation expenses, property damage, and other financial losses. Serious injuries can also cause physical pain, emotional distress, disability, and changes that affect both the injured person and the entire family.
If an accident results in the death of a loved one, the consequences are even greater. Families may be forced to cope with grief while simultaneously confronting lost income, funeral expenses, medical bills, and difficult legal questions.
Levinson Law, P.C. has represented injured people in Greenwood, throughout Tulsa, and across Northeastern Oklahoma for decades. Our attorneys handle claims ranging from motor vehicle collisions and dangerous property conditions to medical malpractice, catastrophic injuries, nursing home neglect, and wrongful death.
Our goal is not simply to process an insurance claim. We investigate what happened, identify the parties that may be legally responsible, document our client’s losses, and build a case designed to hold negligent parties accountable.
Personal Injury Cases We Handle
Personal injury law encompasses many different types of accidents and wrongful conduct. The evidence, defendants, insurance coverage, and legal issues can differ substantially depending on how an injury occurred.
Levinson Law represents clients in a broad range of serious injury matters, including the following.
Car Accidents
Car crashes can result from distracted driving, speeding, unsafe lane changes, failure to yield, impaired driving, following too closely, and other negligent behavior. Serious collisions can cause fractures, head injuries, spinal injuries, internal injuries, and other conditions requiring extensive treatment and time away from work.
Our Tulsa car accident lawyers help injured motorists and families investigate collisions and pursue compensation from responsible drivers and insurance companies.
Truck and Commercial Vehicle Accidents
Collisions involving tractor-trailers and other commercial vehicles can produce devastating injuries and complicated liability disputes. A truck accident may involve the driver, motor carrier, maintenance providers, cargo companies, manufacturers, or other businesses.
These cases may also involve driver records, vehicle maintenance information, electronic data, commercial insurance policies, and state and federal trucking requirements. Learn more about how our Tulsa truck accident lawyers investigate serious commercial vehicle crashes.
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcyclists have little physical protection when struck by a passenger vehicle or commercial truck. Even a collision that causes relatively modest damage to another vehicle can leave a rider with catastrophic injuries.
Our Tulsa motorcycle accident lawyers represent riders injured because of negligent drivers and help families pursue claims arising from fatal motorcycle crashes.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Accidents
Pedestrians and cyclists are particularly vulnerable when motorists fail to yield, drive while distracted, speed through intersections, or otherwise fail to safely share the road.
Levinson Law represents people injured in pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents throughout Tulsa and Northeastern Oklahoma.
Premises Liability and Slip-and-Fall Injuries
Property owners and businesses have legal responsibilities regarding dangerous conditions on their premises. Falls and other accidents can result from unsafe walkways, wet floors, inadequate lighting, dangerous stairs, poor maintenance, and other hazards.
Our Tulsa premises liability lawyers investigate whether a property owner or other responsible party failed to address a dangerous condition or provide an appropriate warning.
Medical Malpractice
Doctors, hospitals, nurses, and other healthcare providers can cause devastating harm when negligent medical care results in preventable injury. Medical malpractice cases can involve diagnostic errors, surgical mistakes, medication errors, delayed treatment, birth injuries, anesthesia errors, and other forms of medical negligence.
These claims frequently require detailed analysis of medical records and testimony from qualified medical experts. Our Tulsa medical malpractice lawyers have experience pursuing complex claims against healthcare providers.
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Nursing home residents depend on facilities and caregivers to provide appropriate supervision, nutrition, hydration, hygiene, medication, and medical attention. When facilities fail to provide appropriate care, vulnerable residents can suffer falls, fractures, pressure injuries, dehydration, medication errors, infections, and other serious harm.
Levinson Law has significant experience representing residents and families in nursing home abuse and neglect cases throughout Oklahoma.
Dog Bites and Dog-Related Injuries
Dog attacks can cause serious wounds, infections, scarring, nerve damage, and psychological trauma. Children can be especially vulnerable to severe facial and other injuries.
Our attorneys represent people injured in dog bite cases as well as other serious dog-related injuries.
Traumatic Brain Injuries
A traumatic brain injury can affect memory, concentration, behavior, mobility, employment, and the ability to perform ordinary daily activities. Some brain injuries require long-term rehabilitation and ongoing medical care.
Our Tulsa traumatic brain injury lawyers work to identify both the immediate and long-term consequences of serious head injuries when pursuing compensation.
Spinal Cord Injuries
Damage to the spinal cord can result in permanent physical limitations, paralysis, chronic pain, and the need for substantial future medical care, rehabilitation, assistive equipment, or personal assistance.
Learn more about legal representation for serious injuries from our Tulsa spinal cord injury lawyers.
Wrongful Death
When negligence or wrongful conduct causes a person’s death, surviving family members may have legal rights under Oklahoma law. A wrongful death can also create substantial financial losses in addition to the devastating personal loss experienced by the family.
Our Tulsa wrongful death lawyers represent families seeking accountability and compensation after fatal accidents and other wrongful acts.
What Is a Personal Injury Claim?
A personal injury claim generally arises when someone suffers an injury because of another person’s or entity’s negligence or wrongful conduct. Depending on the circumstances, the responsible party may be an individual driver, business, trucking company, property owner, healthcare provider, nursing home, manufacturer, insurer, or other entity.
Establishing a claim can require evidence showing that the defendant had a legal duty, breached that duty, caused the injury, and is legally responsible for the resulting damages.
The evidence necessary to establish those elements depends on the case. Police reports and vehicle data may be important after a traffic collision. Surveillance video may be critical in a premises liability case. Medical records and expert testimony can be central to a medical malpractice claim.
For a more detailed explanation of the claims process, evidence, insurance issues, and steps to consider after an accident, read our guide to Oklahoma personal injury claims.
What Compensation May Be Available After a Personal Injury?
Every personal injury case is different, and no attorney can responsibly determine the value of a claim without examining its specific facts. The nature of the injury, available evidence, insurance coverage, liability issues, medical treatment, long-term prognosis, and financial losses can all affect a claim.
Depending on the circumstances, recoverable damages may include:
- Past and future medical expenses
- Lost wages and income
- Loss of future earning capacity
- Rehabilitation and therapy expenses
- Property damage
- Physical pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Permanent impairment or disability
- Disfigurement and scarring
- Loss of enjoyment of life
Additional damages may be available in certain cases depending on the facts and applicable Oklahoma law. Wrongful death claims involve additional considerations and categories of loss.
For someone who has suffered a catastrophic injury, accurately evaluating future damages can be especially important. A settlement based only on current medical bills may fail to account for years of future treatment, reduced earning capacity, rehabilitation, personal care, or permanent limitations.
What If You Were Partially Responsible for the Accident?
Personal injury cases do not always involve one party who is entirely responsible and another who bears no responsibility. Oklahoma law allows fault to be allocated among the parties in appropriate cases, and an injured person’s own percentage of responsibility can affect the amount that may be recovered or whether recovery is available.
This makes a thorough investigation particularly important when liability is disputed. Insurance companies and defendants may attempt to place additional responsibility on an injured person in order to reduce what they must pay.
Evidence such as photographs, video, witness testimony, electronic records, physical evidence, accident reconstruction, medical records, and expert testimony may help establish what actually happened and who was responsible.
How Levinson Law Builds a Personal Injury Case
A serious personal injury case can involve much more than submitting medical bills to an insurance company.
At Levinson Law, our attorneys evaluate the circumstances surrounding the injury and determine what evidence may be necessary to establish liability and damages. Depending on the case, our work may include:
- Investigating the accident or incident
- Identifying potentially responsible parties
- Preserving photographs, video, documents, electronic information, and other evidence
- Interviewing witnesses
- Reviewing medical records and treatment
- Analyzing insurance coverage
- Retaining appropriate expert witnesses
- Documenting lost income and other financial damages
- Evaluating future medical and rehabilitation needs
- Negotiating with insurers and defense attorneys
- Filing and litigating a lawsuit when appropriate
- Preparing the case for trial when a fair resolution cannot be reached
Our attorneys regularly practice in federal, state, and local courts. We are prepared to stand up to insurance companies, corporations, healthcare providers, nursing homes, trucking companies, manufacturers, and other defendants when their conduct has caused serious harm.
Proven Results in Serious Personal Injury Litigation
Experience matters when an injury claim involves substantial damages, complicated evidence, or a defendant that is prepared to fight liability.
Partner John M. Thetford has tried more than 30 jury trials and has obtained multiple multi-million-dollar verdicts. His published judgments and settlements include results in personal injury, wrongful death, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, defective products, medical devices, nursing home neglect, and insurance bad faith matters.
Published results include:
- $4 million personal injury claim
- $1.5 million wrongful death claim
- $1.3 million trucking accident settlement
- $1.17 million trucking accident settlement
- $1.3 million medical malpractice matter
- $1 million medical malpractice matter
- $900,000 defective medical device verdict
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case. Every case depends on its individual facts and circumstances.
Tulsa Trial Lawyers Prepared to Fight for Injured Clients
Many personal injury cases are resolved through negotiated settlements, but the ability and willingness to litigate remains important. An insurance company should know that the attorney representing an injured person is prepared to develop the evidence, retain appropriate experts, litigate disputed issues, and take the case to trial when necessary.
John M. Thetford is a partner at Levinson Law and an experienced Tulsa trial attorney. The firm’s litigation team also includes attorneys such as Grant Thetford, whose practice includes personal injury, insurance and bad-faith litigation, nursing home neglect, and other litigation matters.
Our attorneys strive to tailor representation to the needs of each client. If a serious injury makes it difficult for you to come to our office, our lawyers can travel to meet with you when appropriate.
Dedicated Service to Greenwood, Tulsa, and Northeastern Oklahoma
Levinson Law has deep roots in Tulsa and a longstanding commitment to serving people in Greenwood and throughout the surrounding community. Our attorneys represent injured clients throughout Tulsa and Northeastern Oklahoma and understand that a serious accident affects much more than a legal claim. It can affect a person’s health, livelihood, family, and future.
We work to make legal representation accessible to people facing those circumstances. Complimentary consultations are available, and our attorneys can arrange to meet clients outside the office when serious injuries or medical limitations make travel difficult.
Frequently Asked Questions About Personal Injury Claims in Oklahoma
How much does it cost to speak with a Tulsa personal injury lawyer?
Levinson Law offers complimentary, no-obligation consultations for personal injury matters. During an initial consultation, an attorney can learn about what happened, discuss the circumstances of your injury, and explain potential legal options.
How much is my personal injury case worth?
There is no reliable formula that can determine the value of every personal injury case. Factors can include the severity and permanence of the injury, medical expenses, future treatment, lost income, diminished earning capacity, available insurance coverage, the strength of the liability evidence, and the effect the injury has had on the person’s life.
An attorney generally needs to understand the evidence and the extent of the damages before meaningfully evaluating a claim.
How long do I have to file a personal injury claim in Oklahoma?
Oklahoma personal injury claims are subject to statutes of limitations and other legal deadlines. The applicable deadline can depend on the type of claim, the parties involved, and the particular circumstances. Some claims may also involve special notice requirements or different time limits.
Because missing an applicable deadline can affect the ability to pursue compensation, it is important to determine the deadline that applies to your specific situation rather than assuming a general rule applies.
Should I give the insurance company a recorded statement?
Insurance companies frequently investigate accidents by requesting statements and other information. What you say may later become part of the insurer’s evaluation of liability and damages.
If you have suffered a serious injury or liability is disputed, consider speaking with an attorney before providing a detailed recorded statement or signing documents you do not fully understand.
Will my personal injury case go to trial?
Many personal injury claims are resolved without a trial. Whether a particular case settles depends on factors including liability, damages, available insurance coverage, the evidence, and whether the parties can agree on a fair resolution.
When a reasonable resolution cannot be reached, litigation and trial may become necessary. Levinson Law’s attorneys have extensive litigation experience and are prepared to pursue cases in court when appropriate.
What should I bring to my first meeting with an attorney?
If available, helpful information can include accident reports, photographs, insurance correspondence, medical information, witness contact information, employment or wage-loss documentation, and other records connected with the incident. Do not delay contacting an attorney simply because you do not yet have every document.
Talk With a Tulsa Personal Injury Lawyer
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured because of someone else’s negligence, recklessness, or wrongful conduct, Levinson Law, P.C. is ready to help you understand your legal options.
Our Tulsa personal injury attorneys represent clients in Greenwood, throughout Tulsa, and across Northeastern Oklahoma. We handle serious and complex injury cases and are prepared to investigate, negotiate, litigate, and take cases to trial when necessary.
Call 918-492-4433 today for a complimentary, no-obligation consultation, or contact Levinson Law, P.C. online.
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