Win Your Motor Vehicle Accident Case
Motor vehicle accidents shatter lives in an instant, leaving victims with severe injuries, mounting medical bills, and uncertain futures. When another driver’s negligence causes a collision, you deserve an attorney who fights aggressively for maximum compensation while you focus on recovery.
At Jae Lee Law, our personal injury attorneys have spent nearly 30 years representing accident victims throughout Bergen County and surrounding areas. With over 100 years of combined legal experience, we have secured millions of dollars for clients injured in car crashes, truck accidents, motorcycle collisions, and pedestrian knockdowns.
Our multilingual team speaks English, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and Ukrainian to serve New Jersey’s diverse communities. We take a proactive, trial-ready approach that puts insurance companies on notice we will fight for every dollar you deserve.
Understanding New Jersey Motor Vehicle Accident Laws
New Jersey operates under a modified comparative negligence system that affects your ability to recover compensation after a motor vehicle accident. You can pursue damages even if you share some responsibility for the crash, provided your fault does not exceed 50%. However, your compensation decreases proportionally to your percentage of fault.
The state’s serious injury threshold creates an additional hurdle for accident victims seeking non-economic damages. New Jersey law requires you to demonstrate permanent injury, significant disfigurement, significant scarring, displaced fractures, loss of a fetus, or permanent loss of use of a body organ or limb to recover compensation for pain and suffering. Our attorneys work with medical professionals to document how your injuries meet these statutory requirements, ensuring insurance companies cannot use the threshold to deny valid claims.
Types of Motor Vehicle Accidents We Handle
Our firm represents victims of all collision types across Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Middlesex counties. Each accident category presents unique legal challenges that require focused investigation and case preparation.
Car Accidents
Passenger vehicle collisions remain the most common motor vehicle accidents on New Jersey roads. Distracted driving, speeding, aggressive driving, and impaired operation cause thousands of crashes annually in Bergen County alone. The George Washington Bridge area experiences particularly high accident rates due to heavy traffic volume and complex interchange patterns. We handle rear-end collisions, intersection crashes, head-on impacts, and multi-vehicle pileups.
Truck and Commercial Vehicle Accidents
Large truck accidents often result in catastrophic injuries or wrongful death due to the size and weight disparity between commercial vehicles and passenger cars. Federal and state regulations govern truck operations, driver qualifications, cargo loading, and maintenance requirements. Our attorneys investigate trucking company practices, driver logbooks, vehicle maintenance records, and electronic logging device data. We identify liable parties including truck drivers, trucking companies, cargo loaders, and vehicle maintenance providers.
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcyclists face disproportionate injury risks in traffic accidents. Cars and trucks turning left across motorcycle paths, vehicles changing lanes without checking blind spots, and drivers following too closely cause many preventable motorcycle crashes. We counter insurance company arguments that motorcyclists assumed risk or contributed to accidents through reckless driving. Our investigation demonstrates other drivers’ failures to maintain proper lookout or yield right-of-way.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrians struck by vehicles typically suffer severe injuries requiring extensive medical treatment and long-term rehabilitation. Crosswalk accidents, parking lot collisions, and incidents involving pedestrians walking along roadways all fall within our practice. New Jersey law provides specific protections for pedestrians, recognizing drivers’ heightened duty of care toward vulnerable road users. We establish driver negligence through investigation of traffic violations, distracted driving, and failure to yield.
Common Causes of Motor Vehicle Accidents
Driver negligence takes many forms on New Jersey roads. Cell phone use, navigation system adjustments, eating while driving, and other distractions cause thousands of preventable accidents annually. Alcohol and drug impairment severely compromises drivers’ reaction times, judgment, and vehicle control. Excessive speed reduces drivers’ ability to stop or avoid collisions and increases crash severity.
Poor road conditions including potholes, inadequate signage, missing guardrails, and dangerous intersections contribute to motor vehicle accidents throughout New Jersey. When government entities or contractors create hazardous road conditions, we pursue claims against these responsible parties. We reconstruct accidents using physical evidence, witness statements, and accident scene analysis to demonstrate how negligence caused your injuries.
Compensation Available in Motor Vehicle Accident Cases
New Jersey law provides multiple categories of compensation for motor vehicle accident victims. Economic damages compensate for medical expenses, future medical care costs, lost wages, lost earning capacity, property damage, and out-of-pocket expenses. We work with medical professionals, financial analysts, and vocational experts to calculate the full value of your economic losses.
Non-economic damages address the physical pain, emotional trauma, and life changes caused by serious injuries. These damages compensate for pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, and loss of consortium. New Jersey’s serious injury threshold restricts non-economic damages to cases involving permanent or significant injuries. Our attorneys gather medical evidence and testimony from treating physicians to demonstrate you meet the threshold requirements.
How Our Investigation Builds Stronger Cases
Thorough accident investigation separates successful claims from denied or undervalued settlements. We begin investigating immediately to preserve critical evidence before it disappears. Our team photographs accident scenes, documents road conditions and traffic control devices, and identifies surveillance cameras that may have captured the collision.
We obtain police reports, interview witnesses, and preserve physical evidence including vehicle damage and skid marks. When fault disputes arise, we retain accident reconstruction professionals who analyze evidence and provide court testimony supporting your version of events. Insurance company adjusters conduct their own investigations aimed at minimizing payouts. Our proactive approach ensures we control the narrative with objective evidence rather than allowing insurers to shape case facts in their favor.
The Claims Process After a Motor Vehicle Accident
New Jersey requires drivers to carry Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage that pays initial medical expenses and lost wages regardless of fault. Standard policies provide $15,000 in PIP benefits, though higher limits may apply. We handle all PIP paperwork and communications with your insurance company to ensure you receive benefits promptly.
Once you exhaust PIP benefits or when your injuries meet the serious injury threshold, we pursue additional compensation through third-party liability claims against the at-fault driver. Liability claims require proving the other driver breached their duty of care and directly caused your injuries. Insurance companies defending these claims dispute fault, minimize injury severity, and argue accident victims contributed to collisions. Our trial-ready approach puts pressure on insurers to offer fair settlements. We prepare every case as if it will go to trial, demonstrating our willingness to fight for maximum compensation in court when insurance companies refuse reasonable settlements.
Contact Jae Lee Law for Your Motor Vehicle Accident Case
Jae Lee Law brings nearly 30 years of personal injury experience to every motor vehicle accident case. Our founder is one of only 3% of New Jersey attorneys certified by the state Supreme Court. We have secured millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for injured clients throughout Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Middlesex counties through our proactive, trial-ready approach.
Our investment in your case includes advancing costs for investigation, medical records, accident reconstruction, and qualified witnesses. We work on a contingency fee basis, collecting fees only when we recover compensation for you. This arrangement ensures you receive quality legal representation regardless of your financial situation. Contact us today for a free consultation about your motor vehicle accident claim.
