Personal injury accidents in the Milwaukee area can happen at anytime. However, some types of accidents are more common than others. It is important to understand the most common types of personal injury and car accidents so that you can seek the assistance of a Milwaukee personal injury lawyer if you've been involved in an injury accident. Most personal injury accidents happen when another party acts negligently. In order to prove negligence, the injured victim must be able to establish that the defendant: Owed the plaintiff a duty of care: The definition of a “duty of care” varies among the states. Some states look only to whether a personal injury was a foreseeable consequence of the defendant’s actions while other states look to the forseeability, the possible magnitude of the harm, the cost of avoiding the harm and other … [Read more...]