Attorneys in our general liability litigation practice group have extensive experience with legal and business issues including personal injury, property damage, premises liability and economic loss. Representing insurance companies, private businesses, and governmental entities, our years of experience gained through a defense-directed practice allow us to quickly and correctly analyze issues, risks, and exposures for litigation. We anticipate and vigorously defend claims for damages, including class actions and multi-party, multi-jurisdictional matters. Whether in discovery, deposition, or trial, we aggressively protect our clients' interests by putting in the necessary preparation, asking hard questions, and revealing the weaknesses in our opponent's position.
Personal Injury
Bowman and Brooke is known for defending all types of personal injury matters and our experienced trial lawyers can handle any size of personal injury case, large or small. We have experience with high-exposure cases in which the plaintiffs are seeking large damage awards.
Our attorneys have defended several high-profile large corporations, health care providers, professional services firms, property owners and managers, insurance companies, small businesses, and individual professionals in disputes involving injury to the plaintiff. Our personal injury experience includes claims involving defective products, engineering and design failure, exposure to chemicals and toxic materials, industrial accidents, motor-vehicle accidents, unsafe premises and medical malpractice.
A number of our lawyers have prior work experience and/or formal education in non-legal fields, such as scientific disciplines and engineering, that may be relevant to particular personal injury claims.
Motor Vehicle Accidents/Commercial Transportation
Our corporate clients are able to leverage our extensive automotive experience in defending personal injury and property damage claims involving a wide range of commercial and corporate vehicles. From delivery and waste removal trucks, to company cars, rental vehicles and passenger buses, we have defended claims from coast to coast. We have defended trucking and bus companies in major crash cases, including serious injuries and death. Accident reconstruction issues such as driver error and mechanical failure claims are familiar to us, as are damage evaluations and dealing with insurance companies. Additionally, we have helped our corporate clients defend personal injury claims involving their employees and corporate leased vehicles from fender benders to wrongful death.
Property Damage
Our attorneys are experienced in representing property damage claims, containing the necessary skills to defend complex cases. Bowman and Brooke represents a variety of commercial clients in claims ranging from fire and water damages to loss of use of property and loss of value of property. Our attorneys are experienced in handling many types of dangerous or defective condition of property. Our lawyers have handled issues of notice and condition, and have worked closely with insurance appraisers, providing comprehensive representation throughout all aspects of property damage claims.
Premises Liability
Bowman and Brooke has defended a multitude of premises liability cases and we have experience with clients ranging from retail chains to small business owners. Our attorneys have a great deal of experience representing health care providers, hospitals, nursing homes and businesses in premises liability matters. We have defended clients in lawsuits ranging from slip-and-fall injuries to injuries resulting from exposure to alleged dangerous or other hazardous conditions. Our attorneys work quickly to investigate the scene of the alleged incident in order to preserve evidence. We involve experts at the earliest possible stage to position the best defense for our clients. Our premises experience includes defending national and regional retailers, service stations and convenience stores, as well as on-site company claims.
Economic Loss
Bowman and Brooke attorneys are committed to working to quantify economic damages and lost profits in a variety of business disputes. It is an integral part of our work experience at Bowman and Brooke to defend economic loss in business settings, catastrophic events such as floods or fire and patent infringement. Our attorneys thrive on experience with economic research and industry analysis to prepare economic loss calculations and have tried cases ranging from breach of contract, construction disputes and employment disputes to securities litigation, business and insurance disputes, merger and acquisition, job discrimination, wrongful termination and wrongful death. Bowman and Brooke attorneys have highly adequate experience researching in the areas of economic and statistical analysis.
Medical Malpractice Litigation
Bowman and Brooke attorneys defend multiple types of healthcare clients, including physicians, nurses, hospitals, chiropractors, nursing homes and allied health professionals. We have extensive experience and knowledge resolving medical malpractice claims and lawsuits. And, for those cases that are simply irresolvable, such as when the medical professional was without fault, our trial attorneys are willing and able to take a case all the way to a jury.
Long-term Care and Assisted Living Litigation
Our team of attorneys and nurses have represented long-term care facilities and senior citizen residence owners or managers faced with allegations of neglect, abuse (sexual or physical), negligent care and inadequate security.