West Virginia Mining Accident Lawyers Handling All of Your Personal Injury Needs
If you have been in an accident, your personal injury lawyers should be experienced and professional, and they should care enough to know your name.
As your Charleston accident injury attorneys, we have more than 55 years of combined experience between the two of us. At Freeman & Chiartas, we focus on client-oriented service. When you hire one of us as your attorney, you work with us as your main point of contact, not with an associate or a paralegal. We handle your needs ourselves.
Helping You Get the Money You Need to Recover From Your Injuries
When you have been hurt or a loved one has been killed due to someone else's negligence, we can help you get a good settlement or verdict so that you can get back on your feet.
Vehicle Accidents
We have experience handling all types of vehicle accidents, including:
Injuries Involving Work Sites
When you are injured on a work site, we can help you get the money you deserve:
- Workplace injuries: deliberate intent cases, when the employer knew or should have known that there was a dangerous on-the-job condition that caused the injuries
- Mining accidents
- Timber/logging accidents
- Industrial accidents
Major Debilitating Injuries
We have experience with catastrophic injuries, including:
- Amputations
- Paralysis
- Brain and spinal cord injuries
Claims Against Insurance Companies
We handle insurance coverage disputes involving failure, delay or refusal to pay on a claim and unfair treatment by insurance companies. We litigate against insurance companies who engage in unfair insurance practices arising from personal injury, property damage, fire loss or other insured claims.
Professional Malpractice and Negligence
We represent clients for medical malpractice cases involving:
- Routine procedures
- Failure to diagnose
- Incorrect pathology report
- Incorrect X-ray reading
- Overmedication and undermedication
- Failure to provide appropriate treatment
- Failure to properly refer you to another doctor when your doctor lacks the adequate expertise to handle your medical procedures
We also handle legal malpractice for situations involving:
- Missing the statute of limitations
- Missing court deadlines
- Improper or inadequate preparation of a case
- Cases dismissed
- Failure to follow court rules
Slip and Fall/Dangerous Premises
If you have been hurt on someone's property, you might have a premises liability claim:
- Slip and fall in a grocery store
- Dangerous municipal curbs, parks and manholes
- Swimming pool accidents
Products Liability
When a product you have bought ends up causing you a serious injury, we can represent you:
- Power tools
- Household appliances
- Consumer products
- Medical products
- Industrial products
- Automobile rollovers
- Airbag or seat belt failure
Aviation Cases
We handle:
- Commercial airline disasters and private plane crashes
- Pilot error
- Inadequate maintenance
- Helicopter crashes
Injuries to Children
We also focus on cases involving children and injuries:
- Accident prevention
- School, sports and playground injuries
- Negligent supervision injuries
- Defective toys and children's products
- Poisoning injuries
- Child abuse
- Medical mistakes/birth injuries
- Dog bites/animal attacks
- Motor vehicle injuries to children
Free Initial Consultations
Either call our office or contact us online to discuss your case. We work efficiently, always trying to avoid unnecessary costs for our clients. We also offer a free initial consultation so that you can talk with an attorney about your case without charge or obligation to you.
