Ohio Electrocution Accident Lawyer: Best Electrocution Attorneys
An experienced electrocution accident lawyer who focuses his practice exclusively on litigating cases in this highly specialized area of law is essential for securing the full compensation and money damages you and your family will need after you have been injured or a loved one has been killed in an electrocution accident in Ohio.
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Electrocution and electric shock injury cases are unlike any other type of personal injury case. To make sure your case is handled properly, you need an attorney who has critical experience and battle-tested skill winning cases against the powerful utility and power companies. Did you know that the vast majority of personal injury attorneys and law firms in the Buckeye state advertise for electrocution cases have never handled even one? An Ohio electrocution accident lawyer has the ability to secure for you the best possible settlement.
You may be entitled to recover compensation and damages for the following:
- Physical pain and suffering
- Mental pain and suffering
- Past and future medical expenses
- Past and future lost wages, earnings and earning capacity.
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Punitive or exemplary damages
Electrocution cases are not like other personal injury cases. Inexperienced lawyers who treat them that way are hurting their clients. To handle these cases in Ohio properly and win a settlement that reflects the true value of the case, an electrocution accident lawyer with critical experience, specialized knowledge and sharpened litigation skills is needed.
It might surprise you to learn that nearly every personal injury lawyer and law firm in Ohio that markets and advertises as “electrocution lawyers” has never actually handled an electrocution accident case!
In stark contrast, an experienced electrocution accident lawyer who understands how to win these cases in Ohio can literally add millions to a settlement for you, allowing you the peace of mind to know you are securing the best possible settlement for you and your family.
The Most Experienced Electrocution Accident Lawyer For Your Ohio Case
Attorney Jeffrey Feldman has tried more electrocution and electric shock injury cases nationwide during his more than 35 years of practice than most other attorneys from across the country.
Jeff has won multi-million-dollar trial verdicts and settlements for the clients he has represented in many states throughout the nation. In the last two years alone, he won a nearly $15 million settlement for electrical injuries in an industrial workplace incident and a $13.5 million settlement for a wrongful death resulting from an electrical fire.
Although every case is different, Jeff’s track record of success is an important reason why Jeff Feldman has become the “go-to” attorney for electric shock injury and electric shock wrongful death case referrals from attorneys across the country.
Arguably, there is no attorney in America today with as much experience in this highly complex area of law as Jeff Feldman.
Jeff’s law practice specializes exclusively in helping people and families who have suffered injuries or lost loved ones in electrocution and electric shock incidents.
Jeff has litigated and consulted in multiple cases throughout the state. He is the electrocution accident lawyer you need for your case in Ohio.
Settlements And Verdicts
Attorney Jeffrey Feldman has won multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients across the country, including:
- Nearly $15 million settlement for electrical injuries caused by an industrial workplace incident, on a $0 initial offer from the defendant.
- $13.5 million wrongful death settlement where a family lost their loved one in an electrical fire.
- $6 million verdict on a $75,000 offer for injuries resulting from a utility’s negligent installation and maintenance of power lines.
- $4.55 million settlement for a fatal incident caused by an electrical utility company’s negligence
Common Causes Of Electrical Injuries
Electrocution deaths and injuries can be caused by the following:
- Faulty wiring or electrical appliances
- Workplace injuries or deaths from electricity, such as contact with power lines or faulty equipment
- Construction site mishaps involving exposed wires or inadequate safety measures
- Violations of safety protocols and regulations
- Lack of proper safety measures or training
- Negligence in maintaining electrical systems or infrastructure
- Negligent electrical installation
- Electrical injuries or deaths involving downed power lines during storms or other natural disasters
- Contact with overhead power lines via tools, machines, and metallic objects (which are conductors of electricity) such as ladders, poles, antennas, pole saw, or tree trimmer or pruner
- Contact with power lines that have fallen to the ground due to a negligently maintained electrical system and infrastructure
- Contact with sagging power lines or low-hanging power lines (i.e., wires that are still in the air, but that have become dangerously too close to the ground)
- Exposure to objects – such as ladders, conductive material and even growing vegetation – that touch an energized power line or other electricity source
- Construction site negligence involving exposed wires or inadequate safety measures
- Negligently installed or faulty pumps, lights, lamps and equipment in swimming pools, hot tubs and spas
- The absence of GFCI (ground-fault circuit interrupters) safety outlets
- Damaged, frayed, exposed or faulty wiring in home appliances including power cords, power strips, extension cords, and portable heaters
- Defective electrical products and equipment
Because Jeff has helped clients in many states across the country, these settlements and verdicts are representative of his results in cases he has handled. These recoveries listed above were not obtained in Ohio.
- Loretta Balotta, Former Client
- Rick Arcaro, Attorney
- Leonard Koltonow, Attorney
Who Can I Sue?
In Ohio, you can hire a lawyer to sue any and all of the parties whose negligence caused the electrocution accident that injured you or took the life of your loved one.
Depending on the circumstances, you may have a claim for Workers’ Compensation benefits or compensation and damages under Ohio’s premises liability and product liability laws.
The factors that affect the dangerousness of an electric shock include: (1) the electric current’s amperage, (2) the path that electricity took as it passed through a person’s body; and (3) the amount of time that a person is exposed to or made contact with the source of electricity.
Types Of Electrical Injuries
Workers’ Compensation
When an electrocution or electric shock accident occurs in the workplace in Ohio, you can file a claim with an Ohio workers’ comp lawyer to get benefits that will help you pay for your medical bills and reimburse a portion of the wages you were unable to earn because your injuries prevented you from working.
If the electrical shock injury was the result of your employer, alone, then state’s “immunity of employer” law limits your recovery against your employer to only medical expenses and lost wages. The law in Ohio prohibits you from hiring a lawyer and suing your employer for pain and suffering compensation for electrocution accident injuries suffered.
However, you may be able to recover compensation for pain and suffering for a workplace electrocution if the negligent party or parties was a third-party who was neither your employer nor a co-worker.
Land Owners
A lawyer may be able to legally hold Ohio property owners and landowners such as businesses and stores liable if your electrocution accident occurs while you’re a customer on their property. They have a duty to make their premises safe and if they fail to do so, they may be liable for the resulting injuries.
Under state law, property owners and land owners owe customers – who are also known as “invitees” – a duty of care to maintain their premises in a reasonably safe condition so that the customers are not unnecessarily and unreasonably exposed to danger. This means that owners must not create dangerous conditions on the property and they must warn customers about latent or concealed dangers.
Ohio Companies Making Defective Products causing Electric Shock Injury or Death
When an electrocution or electric shock injury is caused by a defective product, you may be able to hire an electrocution accident lawyer to sue the manufacturer for pain and suffering compensation, economic damages, and punitive or exemplary damages under Ohio’s product liability laws.
To establish liability against the company that made the defective product that caused your electrical-injury, you must show that the product was defective for one or more of the following reasons:
- The product was defective in manufacture or construction
- The product was defective in design or formulation
- The product was defective due to inadequate warning or instruction
- The product was defective because it did not conform – at the time that it left the manufacturer’s control – to a representation made by that manufacturer
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How Do I Prove Negligence?
To prove that the responsible parties in your electrocution accident case were negligent, Ohio law requires that a lawyer establish the following:
- The responsible parties owed you a legal duty to care to protect you from harm
- The responsible parties breached their duty by failing to protect you from being injured
- The responsible parties’ breach of their duty to you caused your injuries
Ohio law states that a duty of care exists if a reasonably prudent person in the responsible parties’ position would have anticipated that an injury was likely to result from their actions – or from their failure to act.
Types Of Compensation For Electrical Injuries
The types of compensation and economic damages that a lawyer may be able to successfully recover after being injured in an electrocution accident in Ohio include:
- Physical pain and suffering
- Mental pain and suffering
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium
- Loss of society
- Medical bills (past and future)
- Lost wages (past and future)
- Lost earnings or profits (past and future)
- Loss of earning capacity
- Home and vehicle modifications
- Punitive or exemplary damages
Ohio’s Wrongful Death Claims
In Ohio, when your loved one has lost his or her life in a fatal electrocution or electric shock accident, you and your family may be able to hire a lawyer to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the negligence parties. The lawsuit must be filed by the personal representative of your loved one’s estate, who will be appointed by a probate court judge.
Under state law, the wrongful death compensation and damages that are recoverable after electrical injuries or death include:
- Lost wages, income and compensation
- Medical expenses for care, treatment, rehabilitation services, products or accommodations
- Loss of support from the reasonably expected earning capacity of the decedent
- Loss of services of the decedent;
- Loss of the society of the decedent, including loss of companionship, consortium, care, assistance, attention, protection, advice, guidance, counsel, instruction, training, and education, suffered by the surviving spouse, dependent children, parents, or next of kin of the decedent
- Loss of prospective inheritance to the decedent’s heirs at law at the time of the decedent’s death
- The mental anguish incurred by the surviving spouse, dependent children, parents, or next of kin of the decedent
- Funeral and burial expenses
Get help from an experienced electrocution accident lawyer for you case in Ohio
If you or someone you love is a victim of serious personal injury or death caused by electricity in Ohio, you can call and speak with Jeff Feldman, arguably the nation’s most experienced electrocution accident and electric shock injury lawyer. Jeff has litigated cases involving low hanging power lines and against utility companies in multiple states and consults with attorneys throughout the country on electric shock injury and wrongful death cases involving electricity. You can call Jeff toll free at (947) 282-4269 for a free consultation.
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Ohio Electrocution Accident Lawyer FAQs
Below are our answers to the questions that electrocution victims and their families most frequently ask us. We hope this information is helpful to you.
However, if you have questions that we haven’t answered yet, that’s no problem. We can help. And we’re glad to do so.
Reach out to us now on our contact page to schedule your free, no-cost, no-obligation consultation with an experienced Ohio electrocution accident lawyer.
Why Do I Need An Electrocution Accident Lawyer For My Case In Ohio?
You need an experienced Ohio electrocution accident lawyer because the electric utility and power company that is responsible for your injury – or the death of your loved one – is going to initially defend the case very aggressively. They will engage in a “shock and awe” strategy where they try to intimidate, harass and overwhelm you and your attorney, especially if he or she doesn’t have any real experience with electrocution litigation. Their goal is to make litigating your case so painful, long and costly that your attorney – who is only dabbling in this area of the law – will “give up” and convince you to accept a settlement for much less than your case is worth.
But that won’t happen if you’re represented in Ohio by an experienced electrocution accident lawyer who specializes exclusively in the electric shock injury cases.
The most important thing for you and your family after a tragic electrical incident is that you recover full and fair compensation for your pain and suffering and money damages to pay your bills and reimburse you for lost wages and future lost earnings.
The best and only way to get the settlement you deserve in your case is with an experienced Ohio electrocution accident lawyer on your side.
Here are some of the things your electrocution accident lawyer will do for you to help you get the best possible outcome in your Ohio case:
- Determine all of the people, entities, businesses, companies and corporations who are liable for your injuries or family members death
- Determine the amount of insurance coverage that is available to pay what’s owed to you
- Determine the amount of financial assets that the responsible parties have available to contribute to you settlement
- Identify violations of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) and the National Electrical Code (NEC)
- Recruit the nation’s top experts in fields such as: (1) power infrastructure, (2) electrical engineering, (3) mechanical engineering, (4) reliability engineer, (7) the National Electric Safety Code and the National Electrical Code, (8) an economist, and (9) medicine and rehabilitation to address injuries, surgeries, and present and future medical needs
- Negotiate with the insurance companies
- Try your case to a jury if the insurance company refuses to settle for the full value of your claim
How Do I Choose The Best Electrocution Accident Lawyer For My Case In Ohio?
When determining who is the best Ohio electrocution accident lawyer for your case, look for these qualities in any of the lawyers you’re considering:
- Real experience with electrocution cases – The electrocution accident lawyer you choose to represent you and your family in Ohio must have real experience litigating electrocution cases. Some attorneys misleadingly claim to be electric shock attorneys” in their commercials and advertisements, but they’ve never actually taken an electric shock injury cases to trial, argued it to a jury, or successfully negotiated a multi-million-dollar settlement. There’s too much at stake for you and your family to entrust your case to someone who is only pretending to be what you need. Make sure your hire has real experience. You need it and you deserve it. Don’t settle for anything less.
- Specialization in electrocution and electric shock cases – Specialization is a “must” in the Ohio electrocution accident lawyer you hire. You want an attorney who specializes exclusively in helping people like you who have been injured or lost a loved one in an electrocution or electric shock incident. His or her specialized knowledge and skill will enable him or her to find the hard-to-find statutes, rules, and regulations that will prove the responsible parties are liable. Knowing the unique “ins and out” of electric shock cases will help you avoid the traps and easy-to-miss requirements that can destroy your case. Before you hire an attorney for your case, ask the attorney: “Are electrocution cases all that you do?” If the answer is anything but “yes,” then that’s not the best attorney for you and your case.
- Track record of success with electrocution cases – Ask about the attorney’s winning verdicts and settlements. Find out the amounts and the facts of the cases. If you want him or her to win for you, make sure that he or she has won for other clients.
- Reputation for results in electrocution cases – Your lawyer’s reputation for getting winning results in electrocution accident cases will determine how the power or electric utility company chooses to defend your case in Ohio. Attorneys with a reputation for taking cases to trial and for securing multi-million-dollar trial verdicts and settlements are able to settle cases for significantly more money and often much faster than attorneys who have little or no experience with electrocution cases. Attorneys who only dabble in electric shock injury cases will face a very aggressive defense from the utility or power company, where they will harass, intimidate and overwhelm the attorney. They will drag the case out as long as possible, making it so costly that the victim’s attorney will eventually “give in” and persuade his or her client to accept a settlement that is nowhere the full compensation that the client deserves in his or her case.
How Much Does An Electrocution Accident Lawyer Cost In Ohio?
In Ohio, it costs you nothing to hire an electrocution accident lawyer for your case. There are no up-front costs and no payments that you need to make while the case is pending. In fact, you will not have to pay anything out-of-pocket to get the help of an experienced attorney who specializes exclusively in electrocution shock cases.
You don’t pay unless and until we recover a winning settlement or verdict for you. You only pay after your case is done. And what you pay is only a percentage of the money we win for you.
We work on a contingency fee basis, which means that we get paid our fee and we get reimbursed for our litigation and case costs ONLY if we win for you and only after there is a recovery for you.
Bottom line: You only pay if we win for you.
How long does a settlement take?
It could take a few months or a year or more for an electrocution accident lawyer to settle your Ohio case. Generally, it may only take a matter of months to reach a settlement if no lawsuit has been filed. But once a lawsuit has been started, the time it takes to negotiate a fair settlement that fully compensates you for your injuries will likely be one to two years. Other factors that affect the timeline for a settlement include:- The injuries involved
- The prognosis and recommended treatment for recovery
- Medical care and treatment that will be needed
- Work disability (both present and future)
- The track record of success and reputation of your attorney
- The responsible parties’ insurance policy limits
- The insurance companies involved
- The defense attorney
- The court where the lawsuit is filed
- The judge who is assigned to hear the case
- Time to file and serve the complaint
- Any delays in serving the responsible parties with the complaint
- Depositions of the parties, witnesses and experts
- Dispute resolution processes such as mediation and facilitation
- Settlement negotiations
