Have You Been Injured in Oxnard?

Accomplished Trial Lawyers Fighting for the Full Compensation You Deserve

Oxnard offers residents and visitors alike a slice of paradise. Tourists from all over the country flock to our beautiful beaches: Hollywood Beach, Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Mandalay State Beach, and Oxnard Beach, to name just a few. But if you’ve been seriously injured, you’re not going to have much fun in the sun. Besides the pain and incapacity, you face huge financial losses from medical bills and being unable to work.

If someone’s negligence, recklessness, or deliberate act has caused you harm, our Oxnard personal injury lawyers are prepared to fight for your full compensation. We have more than 50 years of combined experience and have recovered tens of millions of dollars for our injured clients. Let us put our knowledge and determination to work for you.

Proving Negligence in a Personal Injury Lawsuit

If you’ve been injured in an accident that was the fault of another party, you may need to file a personal injury lawsuit to get compensated for pain and suffering, lost wages, medical bills and other expenses.

To be successful in an injury claim, you must prove several elements of negligence. A lawyer can help you provide evidence of:

• Duty of care: In certain situations, individuals owe others a duty of care. For example, a storeowner’s duty of care is to ensure that customers are reasonably safe on the premises.
• Breach of duty: Once it is proven that a duty of care was owed to a plaintiff, it is necessary to prove that the defendant breached that duty by certain actions or inaction.
• Causation: In any personal injury claim, it must be relatively clear that the defendant’s negligence actually caused the plaintiff’s injury. It is somewhat common for the defense to argue that the injury occurred in a separate incident or somehow pre-existed the subject incident.
• Damages: The plaintiff must demonstrate that the incident resulted in actual injuries and that those injuries caused the medical expenses, loss of income, and pain and suffering for which compensation is being sought.

If you can prove these elements of negligence, you have a good chance of success in a personal injury claim. To discuss your case, speak with an experienced Oxnard personal injury attorney from Crane Flores, LLP.

Common Causes of Injuries

In an active city of more than 200,000 people, there are numerous opportunities to suffer injury. Oxnard’s major roadways, US 101, State Route 1, and Highway 232 are heavily trafficked. Oxnard Airport serves more than 12,000 passengers a year, and many more travelers use the Metro-link and Amtrak rail services running to and from Los Angeles, as well as the Gold Coast Transit District buses.

As the Gateway to the Channel Islands, our harbor is constantly busy with tourist excursions and commercial fishing vessels sailing in and out. And, even if our strawberry fields seem to go on forever, much of Oxnard’s economy relies on heavy industry. Companies such as Waterway Plastics, Haas Automation, Aluminum Precision Products, Raypak, Boss Audio Systems, and Procter & Gamble fuel the local economy, making Oxnard a key manufacturing center in the greater Los Angeles area. We are also home to St. John’s Regional Medical Center, a 230-bed facility offering 24-hour emergency care.

All of this activity inevitably leads to negligent behavior that causes serious harm. At Crane Flores, LLP, we assist clients injured as a result of:

If you have been injured, it’s important to seek experienced legal help; studies show that parties who retain professional counsel recover three times more compensation on average than parties who attempt to represent themselves. Professional representation is even more important if you’ve suffered a catastrophic injury, such as damage to your spine or a traumatic brain injury, for which you will likely need ongoing medical care and lifetime assistance.

Contact Our Firm Today

If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident, it’s important that you act quickly. The statute of limitations, or time that you have to file a claim for personal injury in California, is two years. The statute of limitations for a wrongful death claim is also two years. If you wait beyond this period of time, you will not be able to file a claim or recover the damages you are owed. The sooner you reach out to our Oxnard personal injury attorneys, the sooner we can start building a case on your behalf.