Ehline Law Firm specializes in car accident cases in and around Costa Mesa, California.

• We will promptly provide clients with status reports, keeping them in the loop.
• If you have been involved in a car accident in Costa Mesa, call (833) LETS-SUE.
• Were you injured in a rear-end collision or another traffic wreck?

Why Choose Ehline Law Firm?

At Ehline Law Firm, our Costa Mesa car accident attorneys help injured auto accident survivors and their loved ones cope with hospital expenses, rentals, lost wages, repair bills, and painful, steep debt stress. A road traffic collision from an unsafe lane change, swerving, a speeding vehicle, distracted driving (eating, chatting on the phone, texting), or minor fender-benders can cause crash victims physical injuries or death.

How Our Car Crash Lawyers Help?

Our Southern California auto collision attorneys remain 100% committed to lowering client tension throughout the personal injury legal claims process. These award-winning lawyers have been acknowledged for their years of experience. Since 2005 we have helped injury victims win their traffic collision cases. Our attorneys aggressively handle the car accident victims’ claims for damages. Our legal services include attending meetings, filing lawsuits, and fighting for favorable jury decisions. California drivers in a vehicle crash who follow our personal injury law firm’s lead reduce their risks of receiving a lower money damages recovery from the at-fault party defendants.

Claims for Permanent Injuries

Our Greater Costa Mesa area car accident attorneys have the legal expertise to help people with:

• Open fracture femur breaks, broken ankles, skull or pelvis cracks
• Mild and major post-traumatic stress disorder (‘PTSD’)
• Wrongful death
• Missing digit: nose, ear, fingertip, or foot amputation
• Deflation injury/collapsed lung
• Open cuts, scars, and wounds
• Facet Joint Syndrome
• Edema swelling joints
• hairline fractures
• Whiplash/cervical lordosis
• Migraines
• Friction Burns
• Scrapes or cuts
• Cracked ribs
• Aching Joints
• Slipped disk
• Bruising
• Scratches
• Bleeding
• Head Injuries, including traumatic brain injuries.

You Must Seek Medical Attention

You must never self-diagnose your injuries, even if you think you received only minor whiplash injuries caused by your car crash. You must talk to our best car accident lawyers in Costa Mesa. Our team will stress the importance of you receiving medical treatment right away.

Now you will have medical documentary evidence of the crash. You will never recover maximum compensation when you wait multiple weeks before visiting a physician or medical professional for symptom treatment. Hence, proving your whiplash injuries that arose during the collision will be greatly hindered.

Also, you could make your injury far worse, turning whiplash into severe spine injuries, nerve damage, or paralysis. So it is in your best interest to hire a lawyer involved in your case every step of the way.

Types of Traffic Accidents We Handle

Vehicle Rollover

Single Car Accident

Rear-end Collision

• Side-impact Collision

Head-on Collision

Road Traffic Accidents

T-bone

• Sideswipe accident

Survivor Guilt And Auto Collisions?

By hiring a turbo-charged car accident legal representative, your depression can be countered after suffering your motor vehicle accident injuries. Our car accident lawyers have a keen grip on the survivor’s guilt many victims face. Our skilled lawyer and staff will create a guilt-free trajectory, guiding you and your loved one’s car accident cases to greater compensation. Following your doctor’s advice without money after an accident can ruin your life. Parties in a serious collision will need rehabilitation costs for their chronic pain, neck injuries, etc.

Requirements And Fault

California is an at-fault state. Negligence laws require the survivor to prove the other driver must pay fair victim’s fair compensation. The state rules of pure comparative negligence reduce the plaintiff’s financial recovery by their partial percentage of fault. Even if the survivor caused 98% of the vehicle crash, they could collect 2% of the award. An attorney from our firm can help you stave off comparative negligence defenses. For example, poor road conditions or defective red lights may have played a role, making the public agencies and officials liable to pay compensation for your government claim. This means multiple defendants could end up involved in court proceedings.

General Rules Of The Road

First of all, distracted driving and driver fatigue are major causes of severe injuries and wrongful death auto accident cases. Costa Mesa remains the road rage capital of the year, seeing many hit and run crash cases and pedestrian accidents.

• All drivers must be licensed, minimally insured, operate a registered vehicle, and obey all posted speed limits.
• During darkness or bad weather, you must drive safely for the conditions present.
• You must yield to oncoming vehicles because the law preempts people from disrupting the traffic’s flow.
• Drivers must not hit the rear end of vehicles by following too closely. 
• Sudden stops by the lead vehicle will require rear vehicles to maintain a safer cushion of space.
• Drivers must stay away from handheld devices or distractions while behind the wheel. 

California Motoring Laws

California’s complex car accident laws are hard to grasp as a survivor. This is why you must contact a Costa Mesa car accident lawyer immediately. We can confidentially discuss information about your accident. We can help clients appraise their case during a free initial consultation at one of our California law offices.

Auto Accident Reporting Rules

Although police aren’t always obligated to create police reports for every crash, you have a legal duty to report your collision. After colliding, drivers must stop, render aid, and provide papers, including their insurance information, when road conditions are safe for validation purposes.

Reports To DMV

You must file cases of death, injuries, or damage worth over 0 within 10 days according to California Vehicle Code (CVC) §16000. The best lawyers will handle these items for their clients suffering from injuries.

Reports to Law Enforcement?

CVC §20008 requires vehicle operators in crashes, including hit and run accidents, to make a written police report about the crash to the Highway Patrol or local precinct. Any injuries or fatalities must be reported within 24 hours of the crash. Our Costa Mesa firm offers this service free of charge to retained clients.

Seat belt defense

Not wearing your safety belt during a road accident can wipe out your pain and suffering damages. All passengers 16 years of age must wear a safety belt.

Statute of limitations

Your bodily injury deadline time requires you and survivors to sue someone within two years from the crash date, but exceptions may apply to shorten or lengthen this time. Car wreck survivors have three years to file a lawsuit for damaged property. But suing the government shortens the period. (usually 6 months).

We heavily litigate car accident law claims due to these cases’ frequency and severity. In 2017 alone, the California Office Of Traffic Safety (‘OTS’) reported 92,020 ‘Fatal and Injury’ traffic collisions within the County of Costa Mesa.

The City of LA ranked the highest, or “worst,” with a 1/15 OTS rating. (Recent year data is 36,037 fatal and injury accidents in LA). The medical costs alone for car accident cases have severely devastated many car accident victims. Costa Mesa traffic accidents affect every kith and kin, especially when they inflict catastrophic injuries or wrongful death.

Leadership And Convenience

Our Best Costa Mesa Car Accident Attorneys

We explain everything to car accident victims step by step before offering you legal representation. You will know you have strong, diligent legal representation by your side. We maintain multiple fully-staffed offices throughout the United States, including California, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego, with full shuttle service. We also help injured victims of Greater Costa Mesa recover damages at Orange County locations.

 Our private eye and team members will travel to Bakersfield or 29 Palms. We have the trial know-how and money to meet any challenge 24/7. Our free consultation will tell you whether you want to hire us for legal representation or not.

How Else Can Your Costa Mesa Auto Accident Lawyers Help With My Case?

The best car accident attorneys in Costa Mesa tend to be veterans with experience handling many types of injury cases from top to bottom. Every car accident is novel, calling for help from a finely tuned legal negotiator and strategist. If you were seriously injured or a person you love has died from a motoring crash with seemingly minor injuries, your financial situation may be dicey. Being paid your fair share means facing brutal car accident settlement talks with a hapless insurance adjuster.

We will do a great job navigating these barriers. Attorneys with less training may be tempted to accept the first offer or settle for less. A non-attorney survivor who accepts an amount less than true value will be on the hook to pay back past due bills and fees out of their pocket. 

Calling an injury attorney in Costa Mesa

A Costa Mesa car accident lawyer can provide guidance and skill, avoiding important slip-ups that would lead to disputes and delays. Whether your crash was a major or minor impact accident, our trustworthy legal professionals are prepared. We want to help make positive changes in your life. Did you suffer a Costa Mesa car accident, leaving you stuck with expensive medical care?

The top-gun Ehline Law Firm will protect your family member and your financial welfare and security. Our highly trained mavericks will fight for the full list of damages you deserve for your car accident case.

California Auto Insurance Laws

Important State Of California Auto Insurance Laws

You are not required to give anyone a recorded statement or admit distracted driving, etc. All you have to do is provide personal information at the crash site. California’s insurance law system is tort-based, meaning if you cause a road accident and the insurer refuses liability on your behalf, a lawsuit can be lodged against you.

If you did not buy enough insurance protection, you must pay out of pocket. Those car drivers who caused your car accident injuries must be held legally liable to pay their portion of the fault.

What is 15/3/5?

Mandatory law requires that vehicle operators have $15,000 for an injury or death to one person, $30,000 for injury or death to more than one victim. California requires $5,000 minimum property damage coverage. A company like Uber, Lyft, or FedEx must cover hired drivers by buying a higher commercial insurance policy. Our aggressive legal team will trace these coverages to maximize your compensation.

Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist

The insurance code law requires the insurance company to present customers the option to buy or reject/waive uninsured motorist (‘UM’) bodily injury and underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage at the time of purchase.

When the at-fault driver fails to carry insurance, your UM coverage kicks in. UIM motorist coverage helps cover the difference between the driver’s smaller policy and the victim’s actual damages. Another smart option is Underinsured Motorist Property Damage (UMPD). UMPD helps pay for your items when a person with low coverage strikes your car.

When an unidentified driver flees the crash scene illegally, UM, UIM, UMPD can be tendered as our firm’s Costa Mesa auto accident attorney argues with your insurance provider.

• *Property Damage coverage means you can pay another person’s property damages up to your policy limits. *Your vehicle damage won’t be covered.
• Purchasing Other Forms of Car Insurance. California state insurance laws represent a floor when it comes to buying insurance.

You can amend your policy to secure medical payments coverage (Med-Pay), liability insurance, comprehensive coverage (Comp), and to add theft protection. UMPD or collision insurance may help you pay for dents, etc. A Costa Mesa auto accident attorney from our firm can help negotiate a fair and reasonable victim’s recovery after suffering serious injuries.

Third Party Payment Options

When the government created a dangerous condition like a dangerous roadway, a trained car accident lawyer can explain whether the City of Costa Mesa faces roadway hazard liability. If a car part manufacturer’s faulty or recalled product was the problem (defective airbag, etc.), you can seek money from third parties. Our Costa Mesa car accident attorney reviews the evidence, explaining potential financial outlets providing payments.

• Special Problem: Not having basic auto insurance can prevent you from securing pain and suffering damage payments.

How Much Are Car Accidents Worth?

Getting Automobile Accident Victims Paid!

A payment must compensate for the injured victim’s losses from a road crash caused by the other party’s negligent actions. After serving their car accident claim, injured parties will file a settlement demand package with the at-fault party’s insurance company reporting your damages and amounts due.

We will negotiate your unique case through the whole process. Our Costa Mesa car accident lawyers will seek an appropriate amount by calculating the evidence using experts and complex legal formulas after car accidents. That’s how a Costa Mesa car accident attorney can inspect your case and prepare it for success as their top priority, acting in your best interests.

Special Damages

An educated attorney can help estimate your total losses so you can recover payments you made by adding up bills, receipts, pay stubs, proof of self-employment income, surgery, and car repairs.

Medical Expenses

Your doctor’s advice may send you to visit another physician and other medical professionals. We represent injured clients who seek reimbursement from the other driver or at-fault party. Out superior advocates seek payments for reasonable care and damages by using the legal system to their advantage.

We help clients obtain money to pay for medical bills like:

• prescription drugs,
• surgery, hospitals,
• rehab, mental health,
• chiropractors,
• massage therapy,
• physical therapy, or
• helpful items like neck braces, walkers, crutches, or wheelchairs.

Lost Wages from Car Crash

Be prepared to suffer a huge loss in past and future lost wages in all minor and major collision cases. Lost income, especially future earnings can bankrupt families. So we get started doing an amazing job on your accident case immediately.

We can also help you file claims for unemployment and even SSI for an extended period.

Property damage

Property damage insurance claims include vehicle damage money to replace or repair vehicle collisions.

• Sometimes you can seek punitive damages for personal injury cases.

Pain and Anguish from Crashes

We help clients recover general damages like:

• • Mental anguish or emotional distress
  • Pain and suffering
  • Loss of enjoyment of life
  • Disfigurement
  • Bother

If you or a loved one suffered an ongoing catastrophic injury or someone passed away from wrongful death, you need legal counsel’s help dealing with the other driver, their employer, or government agency. Don’t say anything about your case until you retain legal counsel at Ehline Law.

At the helpful Ehline Law Firm Personal Injury Attorneys, APLC, we help accident victims in Costa Mesa, CA receive the most financial compensation. We help prevent clients in car accidents from taking less than the true value of their auto collision cases. We are also Costa Mesa motorcycle accident attorneys and bicycle crash lawyers. Hiring our first-rate law firm in Costa Mesa will give you the faith you went with the best.

If you lost a loved one in a smash-up, we’ll help determine fault. We will guide you through the scary insurance claims process for most car accidents. Our very best personal injury attorney won’t let insurance companies ignore your serious car accident claim.

5 Smart Steps After A Car Costa Mesa Accident

1. 1. If you or someone was injured in a collision, call the LAPD or 9-1-1.
   2. If the at-fault party fled the scene, you must wait for emergency services.
   3. You must try to recall the license plates, vehicle description, and the identifying traits of the at-fault driver for the police. The police can investigate the crash scene and try and hunt down the at-fault driver. (Learn more about evidence-gathering here).
   4. Normal Case. If the parties complied with the law, the next step would be filing a claim with the insurer for the defendant.
   5. Hit and Run Crash. If the police fail to identify the at-fault driver and buy the right coverage, insurance companies will generally pay you within your policy limits. Your policy will contain a best efforts provision forcing you to reach out when you are stable, etc.

One of the best steps is speaking with an auto accident attorney in Costa Mesa who is well versed in contracts, car accidents, and civil tort remedies. Together, we can phone your insurer to report your car accident right away. 

And we can press your insurance agent to accept the risk of your car accident case. We would seek ‘first-party,’ ‘additional’ payments covering your hit and run accident damages. (Read about more car accident tips here).

Clients also seek our highly experienced car accident attorney’s proven track record because we have a deep knowledge of California car accident laws. Our work lobbying congress for traffic safety and litigating tort claims lets us push for better solutions. Our volunteerism advocacy helps us and stay up with the latest statutory law changes. Where Ehline is, you’ll find the cutting edge of transportation and safety laws in the U.S. Our best car accident lawyer aims to improve the justice system by firmly protecting the auto accident victims’ rights.

Follow Your Lawyers Advice!

If your goal is a decent recovery, it’s best to follow your lawyer’s advice. You can proceed by filing a written claim for damages with the at-fault person’s insurance provider.

Some half-cocked plaintiffs wish to file lawsuits in court instead of negotiating insurance claims. But some first-party insurers will require binding arbitration of your claim.

Contact a Costa Mesa Lawyer

We Proudly Serve Costa Mesa Personal Injury Clients

Proudly serving the following Costa Mesa zip codes: 92626 / 92707 / 92627 / 92628 / 92646

Free Consultation From A Car Accident Attorney in Costa Mesa, CA

You mustn’t recover compensation from the insurance claims adjuster without receiving a free consultation and learning about the entire legal process. Whether you suffered a head-on collision, were sideswiped, T-boned, or were on foot and need a pedestrian accident attorney, our firm works 24-7.

Would you like to receive a free initial consultation for injuries caused by another’s negligent actions? You can also use our online contact form to report your motor vehicle accidents by adding detailed information about your case.

We will meet you at the crash site, negotiate with insurance carriers and make you our top priority. All you must do is transmit your contact information. The compassionate team at our personal injury firm stands ready to offer you legal assistance and a free consultation from a dedicated attorney at (833) LETS-SUE.