Corporate Negligence

A fundamental truth when it comes to big corporations is that they are driven by profit. The bigger the corporation, the more powerful the profit motive. Most people understand that the profit motive, and sometimes greed, causes corporations to take shortcuts - shortcuts that sometimes cause catastrophic injury to human beings. When a big corporation either through negligence or willful misconduct causes injury to a human being, the personal injury attorneys at Rad Law Group make it their mission to ensure that that the corporation pays a price for its complacency, negligence and/or willful misconduct.

Of course, corporations come in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, limited liability companies owned by mom and pop who barely eke out a living. Others are large international conglomerates that make billions of dollars in annual profits. While Rad Law Group has no desire to ruin small struggling corporations, we also know that small corporations maintain general commercial liability insurance. In doing so, Mom and Pop, LLC protect themselves from devastating losses. In addition, by forming a formal business entity such as a corporation or limited liability company in the first place, Mom and Pop further protect their personal assets from being accessed by injured parties. Experienced personal injury lawyers understand that the real fight for their injured clients when it comes to smaller businesses is the fight with the insurance companies.

Rad Law Group has decades of experience fighting insurance companies in order to maximize the compensation its clients are entitled to when corporations act negligently. This is especially so where big corporations cross the line from negligence to willful misconduct or where their negligence is so gross that it exhibits a complete disregard for the safety of human beings. This article focuses on large corporations who have seemingly unlimited assets and are well insured.

Corporations, limited liability companies and other formal business entities are created when the founders of the business wish to create a new company that might attract investors to share in the risk of the new venture while simultaneously reducing the risk of each owner’s personal liability. California law affords the owners of formal business entities the ability to protect their personal assets so as long as they follow all of the rules, and they don’t intentionally do anything wrong. Instead, damages are limited to the corporation’s assets. For example, if Bill Gates were to invest $100,000.00 in a new corporation called ABC Corporation with numerous other investors, the most Bill Gates might lose (assuming he has not committed any intentional bad acts) if someone sues ABC Corporation for a catastrophic injury will be the $100,000.00 he invested. The injured party would not typically be able to go after Bill Gates’ other assets. This serves as a huge incentive for motivated entrepreneurs who want to ensure that their personal savings and real property are protected.

As one might imagine, taking on big corporations and their insurance companies requires the highest level of legal expertise. Big corporations don’t hire lawyers that just graduated from law school. Rather, big corporations are represented by large and even international law firms. These law firms have enormous staff and access to resources. More importantly, the big corporations that hire them have the resources to pay the extremely high fees and costs associated with hiring such firms. Between the big corporations, their high costs for legal representation and the insurance companies, seeking justice by a normal person seems insurmountable.

Fortunately, California (as well as every other state in the nation) allows law firms to represent their clients on a contingency basis. Representing injured persons on a contingency basis provides attorneys the ability to represent their clients without charging for their services unless and until they win. This is a good thing for the average person. The more lucrative personal injury law becomes, the more choices injured persons have when it comes to choosing the right personal injury attorney. More importantly, if it wasn’t lucrative, the average injured person would be priced out of seeking justice.

If you or someone you love has been injured and it is clear that a big corporation is responsible wholly or in part, it is important that you contact an experienced personal injury firm as soon as possible. Any time someone is injured, it is important to act quickly. Witnesses’ memories fade and/or the witnesses often disappear, important documentation is lost and/or purposefully destroyed and there are important deadlines called statutes of limitation that require injured persons to act within a certain time frame. When dealing with a big corporation, these concerns are even more important given the vast resources big corporations will throw at the problem at light speed. Don’t delay. Contact the experienced personal injury attorneys at San Jose’s Rad Law Group at (408) 241-5300 in order to protect your rights.

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