If you’ve been hurt in a car accident in Hawaii, don’t hesitate to explore your legal options with the award-winning legal team at Singleton Schreiber. You have rights as a car accident victim, which can include the ability to recover compensation for disability, costly medical bills, and harder-to-value trauma. Our Hawaii car accident lawyers are here to help you fight for a maximum financial recovery.
At Singleton Schreiber, we’re nationally recognized trial attorneys with decades of experience helping injury victims navigate challenging legal disputes. As local lawyers with national resources, we have helped clients secure over $2.5 Billion in monetary awards from insurance companies, vehicle manufacturers, government agencies, and other powerful defendants.
Contact our Wailuku, Hawaii, law office to discuss your case and discover how our law firm can help you get back on track after a wreck. Your first consultation with our team is free.
Why Crash Victims in Hawaii Trust Singleton Schreiber
Whether you’re filing a claim with your insurance company or taking legal action against a negligent driver, you’ll have just one opportunity to get compensation after a car accident in Hawaii. This isn’t something you need to handle on your own.
In fact, hiring an experienced Hawaii personal injury lawyer to advocate for you significantly increases the chances that you’ll win your case and maximize your recovery.
Here’s why car accident victims and families across Hawaii consistently choose Singleton Schreiber to represent them after a wreck:
- Our law firm has successfully recovered over $2.5 Billion in settlement agreements and jury verdicts
- We’re recognized for excellence in personal injury litigation by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, the National Law Journal, and other respected organization
- Clients work with local lawyers and benefit from our law firm’s national resources
- Our contingency fee representation means we don’t get paid unless we win compensation for you
We offer a complimentary case evaluation to all prospective clients. This way, you have the opportunity to assess your legal rights and understand why you’ll want our award-winning litigators in your corner.
We represent clients in Honolulu, Maui, Lanai, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and other cities across the state, so reach out to our Wailuku law office to get started. Members of our team are standing by to help 24 hours a day.
Representing Clients in All Types of Car Accidents Across the State of Hawaii
The insurance company has a lot of experience navigating claims like yours. They’ll have playbooks full of strategies to deny your claim, limit your payout, and make the process difficult for you.
You need to level the playing field by hiring an attorney with extensive experience litigating car accident cases like yours too.
At Singleton Schreiber, we help clients who’ve been injured or lost close family members as a result of:
- Rollover accidents
- Rear-end collisions
- Head-on collisions
- Sideswipe
- T-bone accident
- Hit-and-run car accidents
- Speeding accidents
- Distracted driving accidents
- Drunk driving accidents
- Low impact collisions
- Weather-related car accidents
- Highway accidents
- Accidents with uninsured drivers
- Fatal car accidents
Our car accident attorneys in Hawaii have forced insurance providers and other parties to pay billions in monetary awards. When you ask for our help, we’ll do everything in our power to make things right for you, too.
How Do I Get Compensation After a Hawaii Car Accident?
Insurance will be the primary source of compensation after a car accident in Hawaii. The state follows a no-fault system, which requires all motorists to carry minimum amounts of insurance coverage.
Hawaii’s car insurance minimums include:
- Personal Injury Protection (PIP): $10,000
- Bodily Injury Liability: $20,000 per person and $40,000 per accident
- Property Damage Liability: $10,000 per accident
When you get hurt in a car accident, you’re required to submit a claim with your insurance carrier, regardless of why the accident happened or who’s at fault. You can recover benefits up to your policy limits.
If your injuries are severe, you may reserve the right to seek additional compensation through a civil car accident lawsuit.
Compensation awarded through an insurance claim or personal injury lawsuit can include economic and non-economic damages for:
- Current and future medical bills
- Lost wages and disability
- Rehabilitation and therapy
- Nursing assistance
- Property damage
- Funeral expenses
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of consortium
- Reduced quality of life
- Inconvenience
- Disfigurement and physical scarring
- Chronic physical pain
- Emotional distress
If you file a car accident lawsuit and it goes to trial, you may also be able to recover punitive damages. In Hawaii, a jury can award punitive damages if the defendant’s conduct was clearly malicious or grossly negligent.
Can I Recover Damages If I’m Partly to Blame For a Hawaii Car Crash?
It’s possible. It will depend on how much liability you share for the wreck. Hawaii follows a modified comparative negligence system with a 51 percent bar to recovery.
Under the system, you can recover a reduced monetary award when your shared fault is equal to or less than 50 percent. A financial recovery from a third party is prohibited when your liability is equal to or greater than 51 percent.
It’s common for insurance adjusters and defense attorneys to point fingers and cast blame. If they can shift liability to you, they’ll limit how much (if anything) they have to pay for your damages. Our Hawaii car accident attorneys will anticipate these tactics and work to protect you at every turn.
Call Singleton Schreiber for Help After a Car Accident in Hawaii Today
Whether you’ve suffered broken bones, a spinal cord injury, trauma to the brain, whiplash, nerve damage, or the wrongful death of a family member in a Hawaii car accident, it’s important to take action.
You have the right to compensation, but this opportunity isn’t without limitation. Hawaii applies a two-year statute of limitations to most car accident claims. This means you have until the second anniversary of your car accident to seek compensation from an insurance company or another liable party.
Don’t hesitate to contact Singleton Schreiber for help after a life-changing wreck. Our Hawaii car accident lawyers have decades of experience and a proven track record of winning top results for crash victims like you.
Our case results exceed $2.5 Billion in damages. Now, we’re here to help you demand accountability for your car-related damages, too.
Your first consultation is free, so call our Hawaii law office in Wailuku today.
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