Practice Areas
The attorneys at Swartz & Swartz, P.C. handle many types of personal injury cases for our catastrophically injured clients. To learn more about each specific practice area, please follow the links below.
Aircraft Accidents
We handle cases involving catastrophic injury or death arising from aircraft accidents caused by pilot error and airplane defects, for both commercial and private planes. Learn more about our experience in these complex cases.
Automotive Defects
Catastrophic injuries and deaths on roadways can occur due to an automobile defect. Automobile and motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors and dealerships have a responsibility to ensure that their vehicles are safe.
Brain Injuries
When a sudden head impact or trauma occurs, brain injury can result. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have be chronic, and have a significant impact on one’s life.
Burn Injuries
Catastrophic burn injuries can be among the most painful and debilitating for victims. Such horrific outcomes can result from gas or chemical explosions, car and other motor vehicle accidents, and defective heating or other combustible equipment, among other causes.
Car Accidents
Automobile and other motor vehicle accidents are among the most common causes of death and injury in our country. Remedies are readily available with the right attorney protecting your rights.
Catastrophic Injuries
A catastrophic injury typically has long-lasting affects over the course of a lifetime. Such injuries include brain injuries, paralysis, burn injuries, and other conditions that affect daily living, with permanent disabilities requiring ongoing medical care.
Construction Site, Home & Workplace Accidents
The construction industry, which employs millions of people across the country, has a duty to properly train and supervise its workers. Such training and supervision is critical in work conditions utilizing industrial machinery, tools, and scaffolding.
Contract and Business Litigation
There are many intricate laws and codes protecting individuals against unjust breaches of contracts. Navigating through the legalities of the contract language itself, as well as applicable court decisions and statutes, is important in order to achieve a full measure of contract damages.
Employment Litigation
Employment litigation can involve a variety of disputes between an employer and its employee, including wrongful termination and discrimination.
False Claims Act, Qui Tam, Whistle Blower Claims
Qui Tam or “whistleblower” lawsuits are brought by individuals on behalf of the government to protect the general public from fraud and abuse by private entities. An employee might discover such wrongdoing during the course of employment, and laws are in place to protect such workers who decide to come forward and reveal fraudulent activity engaged in by supervisors or management.
Inadequate Security & Premises Liability Litigation
Security failures can involve inadequate protections for workers or customers relating to preventable negligent or even criminal activity, such as assault and battery or sexual assault. Security failures may result from lack of training or supervision, and failure to provide or implement necessary alarms, locks, and other security devices in settings such as retail stores, apartment and condominium buildings, schools, and nursing homes.
Insurance Disputes
Insurance companies may deny legitimate claims made by policyholders due to sometimes catastrophic property and personal injury losses, and there are specific laws in place to protect consumers whose claims have been wrongfully denied, including the potential to seek double or treble damages. Policies involved may include disability, health, life, property, and automobile.
Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice is professional negligence by a health care provider when the services provided deviate from the applicable standard of care, causing sometimes severe injuries to a patient, or even death.
Nursing Home and Elderly Abuse Litigation
Nursing home cases include unfathomable abuse and neglect of one of the most defenseless segments of our society, whose lives and well-being have been entrusted to professionals. These victims often cannot speak out against the people who harm them, resulting in serious and sometimes fatal consequences.
Nursery Schools & Daycare Abuse and Neglect
Children may be neglected or even physically abused by staff members who are inadequately trained or screened. These innocent victims are unable to protect themselves or advocate for their own safety.
Product Liability
Manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and retailers are responsible for harm caused by their defective products. The focus must be on “safety first”, rather than a “bottom line” mentality that puts profits before people.
Railroad Accidents
If you have suffered serious injuries during a railroad or trolley accident, you may be entitled to a recovery of damages as a result of negligent conduct. The law provides remedies for individuals who have been harmed due to negligent operation, improper maintenance, or defective train parts.
Recreational Vehicle, ATV & Boating Accidents
Manufacturers of defective recreational products may claim that related accidents involving swimming pools, ATV’s, personal watercraft, or boats are the sole result of “human/operator error”, however improperly designed, tested and manufactured products have been the cause of innumerable incidents leading to catastrophic injury or death.
Sexual Abuse Litigation
Tragically, over the years we have become aware of many incidents of sexual abuse in our society. Sexual predators and pedophiles often take advantage of their power of position, ruining the lives of countless victims in settings once believed to be safe havens – clergy and places of religious worship, schools, youth organizations, and workplaces. The psychological and sometimes physical repercussions of sexual abuse are permanent.
Wrongful Death
Wrongful death actions are lawsuits brought on behalf of a deceased person's beneficiaries, alleging that death was attributable to the willful or negligent act of another person or entity. Such tragic consequences may be caused by defective products, negligent medical procedures or treatment, and negligent operation of motor vehicles, or other acts of negligence and gross negligence.