San Diego, California Personal Injury Lawyer

Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen, APC

1550 Hotel Circle, N.
San Diego, California 92103
USA

(619) 297-5100

(619) 297-0028

www.sandiego-injurylawyer.com

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The Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen, APC, based in San Diego, California, has 90 years of combined experience. We’ve recovered millions for our clients. We pride ourselves on advocating for you. When you’ve been injured as a result of someone’s negligence, you want justice. We want to help you get it.

Whether you’ve suffered from a slip and fall accident, a dog bite, a car accident, a work injury or a plethora of other personal injury scenarios, we want to help. Don’t settle. Let us help you get the recovery you deserve.

While we represent clients in all of these areas, one of our firm’s specialties is Workers’ Compensation. If you’ve been injured on the job in El Cajon, La Mesa or elsewhere in the greater San Diego area, we can help you get a recovery for your medical bills and get back on your feet.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Fatal Accidents; Distracted Driving Accidents; Drunk Driving Accidents; Sexual Molestation; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Practice Areas Description

The Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen, APC provides legal representation on the following areas of practice:

- Personal Injury

If you’ve been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, you may have a personal injury case. Personal injury accidents can cause a broad range of financial repercussions, from medical bills to lost wages to even losing a job. Injuries may be permanent and result in long-term loss of enjoyment or other non-monetary damages. If you’ve been injured in an accident and suffered any damages as a result, you may need to enlist the aid of a personal injury lawyer.

- Workers Compensation

On-the-job injuries happen every day. Construction sites are hazardous, but workers may also be exposed to repetitive motion disease, asbestos exposure, unsafe work environments or even car accidents during the course of employment. When you suffer an injury on the job as a result of someone’s negligence, your employer is responsible for paying your medical bills, lost wages and other costs associated with the injury. The Workers’ Compensation insurer doesn’t always want to pay, though. Don’t miss out on your chance to litigate your Workers’ Compensation case.

- Slip & Fall Accidents

Slip and fall accidents are always unexpected. They can strike anywhere, at any time. Sometimes, slip & fall accidents are just accidents. They couldn’t be foreseen and there’s no legal ground to make a recovery. Sometimes, though, slip and fall accidents could be prevented. If you’ve slipped on a wet floor, tripped in a hole in the sidewalk or suffered an injury as a result of some other preventable cause, you may have a slip and fall personal injury case.

- Dog Bite Injuries

Dog bite incidents affect millions of people every year. Nearly five million people report injuries from dog bites every year, and many more incidents go unreported. Hundreds of thousands of people require emergency room treatment for dog bites; and the most severely injured are often children. Unfortunately, because children’s faces are typically dog-height, many children suffer lasting facial scarring and injuries. The most severe dog bites may require extensive surgery and may cause lasting consequences.

- Pedestrian Accidents

Because the pedestrians are completely exposed in these types of accidents, they often suffer from severe, incapacitating injuries. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports that over 14,000 pedestrian accidents every year are incapacitating, serious injuries. The greater San Diego area is prone to its own share of pedestrian accidents. Persons walking to work, walking to lunch or even walking from the car to a business are injured frequently in El Cajon, La Mesa and the rest of the greater San Diego area. If you’ve been injured in a pedestrian accident, you may need to talk to an attorney to help resolve your case.

- Car Accidents

Car crash injuries run the gamut from minor to severe. You and your family members may incur scrapes and bruises, broken bones, soft tissue damage or whiplash, or more severe injuries. In serious collisions or accidents with truck drivers, you could suffer a spinal injury, a brain injury or even fatality. If you’re having trouble collecting what is owed to you from the insurance company, the Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C. can help. We’ve got 90 years of combined experience, and we know how to deal with insurers.

- Bicycle Accidents

Riding a bicycle may seem like an enjoyable pastime or a simple method of communication, but bicycles can be deceptively dangerous. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports that over 50,000 people are injured or killed every year in bicycle accidents. The mild weather in the greater San Diego area means that many people commute locally on bicycles, and California has more than its share of bicycle accidents. Over 10,000 injury accidents and 100 bicycle fatalities occur in California every year; many of them in the San Diego areas of El Cajon, La Mesa and the neighboring locales.

- Work Injuries

Work injuries often occur without warning, but they’re not always dramatic events that lead to an immediate emergency room visit. A work injury can be a sudden, specific event, such as a construction site accident, fall from scaffolding or other event that causes an injury. But work injuries can also be cumulative injuries that occur over years of doing the same type of activity over and over again. These injuries often occur gradually and without dramatic warning.

- Motorcycle Accidents

The most common cause of motorcycle accidents is other drivers reporting: “I didn’t see him!” Not seeing you is no excuse for a driver’s negligence that causes you substantial property damage and potentially serious injuries. Left turns and turns out of parking lots into motorcyclists are two of the most dangerous types of motorcycle accidents, but drivers find any ways to collide with motorcyclists. An experienced San Diego motorcycle accident law firm like the Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C. can help you get the recovery you deserve.

- Truck Accident

The types of injuries you’re likely to incur in a truck accident are severe or even catastrophic, and often have long-term implications. You may suffer brain injury, spinal injury and permanent disability, or you may have even lost a loved one as a result of a negligent truck driver’s actions. When you’re dealing with tractor trailer accidents that have long-term repercussions, you need someone who can help you look at the big picture. We can help estimate future medical expenses, lost wages over your lifetime, loss of enjoyment or loss of consortium and other long-term damages that include not only your current state, but your future.

- Wrongful Death

Here at the Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C., we understand that nothing will ever bring your lost family member back. But losing a beloved family member can result in financial hardship; especially when that person was the primary earner in your family. In a wrongful death lawsuit, you may be entitled to recover lost wages, costs for medical bills, funeral expenses and other financial losses caused by the death of your loved one. You may also be eligible for a financial recovery for survivor’s pain, suffering and mental anguish caused by the death of your family member, as well as loss of companionship, care or protection. In some cases, you may be able to claim punitive damages.

- Fatal Accidents

Here at the Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C., we understand that the last thing you want to think about when you’re coping with the death of a loved one is money or a legal case. We’ll get the relevant details from you and take care of everything for you. We’ll calculate your damages, contact the liable party’s insurer and negotiate an appropriate settlement. If they won’t settle, we’ll file the lawsuit. Our aim is to make the process as easy as possible for you, so you can focus on your family in this time of tragedy.

- Sexual Abuse

Sexual abuse is a serious crime that has recently garnered a lot of attention. The public outcry against sexual abuse is well-warranted, and the negative attention that the Catholic Church has received has raised awareness of sexual abuse situations. However, sexual abuse still affects many children and teens every year. California has some great resources to help victims of sexual abuse, but a civil sexual abuse lawsuit can help provide the financial recovery to pay for psychological treatment, medical care and any other damages associated with sexual abuse. If your child has been the victim of San Diego sexual abuse in the greater San Diego area, we can help.

- Sexual Molestation

Sexual molestation is something that no child should be subject to, but affects thousands of children every year. Sexual molestation leads to serious, lasting consequences in childhood, adolescence and even into adulthood. These experiences make it difficult for children to interact normally with other people, may lead children to act out behaviorally, and can lead to long-term problems with intimacy that can haunt a sexual molestation victim well into adulthood.

- Defective Products

Big businesses are so eager to make money these days that they often rush products out the door without sufficient testing. Sometimes the products are fine, but in other cases, the products break or don’t perform as expected and cause injuries to the unwitting consumers who purchase them. If you or a family member has been injured by a defective product, you do have recourse. With the aid of an experienced product defect attorney, like the attorneys here at Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C., you can pursue a product defect claim against the manufacturer.

- Brain Injuries

Brain injuries are serious injuries that often leave survivors with lasting effects. A brain injury may be permanent and may change your quality of life forever, or it may be short-term and have a decent prognosis for recovery. Many people incur brain injuries without even realizing it; a car accident, sports injury, slip and fall or other type of accident can lead to a brain injury even if the event itself doesn’t seem particularly severe. Brain injuries can occur without a loss of consciousness, and may still cause lasting changes to behavior, brain function, memory, headaches or other long-term consequences.

- Spinal Injuries

Thousands of people every year suffer spinal cord injuries as a result of car accidents, sports injuries, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents, work injuries and other unexpected accidents. Many people in the greater San Diego area are struggling with the long-term effects of spinal cord injuries, including paralysis, diminished quality of life, expensive medical bills, job loss, loss of enjoyment, loss of consortium and other life-altering consequences. If you’ve suffered a spinal cord injury in El Cajon, La Mesa or elsewhere in the greater San Diego area, we’re here to help.

- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Your San Diego car accident or workplace injury can lead to more long-term consequences than you expect. Beyond the immediate medical bills, these types of accidents can lead to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy – a long-term disease that can have serious consequences. If you’ve developed RSD after a San Diego personal injury accident, you need to enlist the aid of an experienced San Diego Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy attorney.