Bernalillo Personal Injury Lawyers — Free Case Review

Get treated, document everything, and say nothing recorded to the other side's adjuster. Photograph the scene and your injuries, keep every bill and appointment note in one folder, and write down what happened while you still remember the sequence. Then get the free review — it takes about a minute to start and there is no obligation.

We also serve Corrales, NM and the rest of central New Mexico. Everything starts at the Albuquerque Personal Injury Lawyers homepage.

Albuquerque Personal Injury Lawyers covers the same range of work in Bernalillo that we do in Albuquerque — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• Bus Accidents — Crashes involving ABQ Ride buses, school buses and charter coaches sit outside the usual coverage problem. A public agency is self-insured rather than uninsured, which sounds better and is not simpler.
• Car Accidents — Liability is often the easy part of an Albuquerque crash. The hard part comes later, when the driver who hit you turns out to carry no insurance at all, or a minimum policy that runs out before your first hospital bill is settled.
• Truck & 18-Wheeler Accidents — A collision with a commercial truck near the I-25 and I-40 interchange is one of the few Albuquerque crashes where the at-fault side almost certainly has real coverage sitting behind it. That changes the work.
• Motorcycle Accidents — Riders on Tramway, in the East Mountains and on the interstates take the worst of a crash they did not cause, and the driver who pulled out in front of them is frequently the least insured person on the road. A motorcycle injury climbs past a minimum policy quickly.
• Pedestrian Accidents — People walking on Central Avenue and the wide arterials east of downtown get hit at speeds that cause hospital-level injuries, and the drivers who hit them are not always insured. If the driver leaves, or is found and has nothing, your own auto policy can often still respond even though you were on foot when it happened.
• Bicycle Accidents — Cyclists using the bosque path crossings and the painted lanes on Lead and Coal are exposed twice over. The impact does the obvious damage, and then the driver turns out to be carrying nothing.

See the full list of Albuquerque practice areas, or call (888) 920-4745.

Bernalillo sits in Sandoval County with a population of roughly 9,000, close enough to Albuquerque that cases move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Coronado Historic Site, Rio Grande.

Those details matter more than they sound like they should. Where a crash happened in Bernalillo decides which police agency wrote the report, which court would hear a suit, and sometimes whether a government entity is involved — which shortens the filing deadline dramatically. An attorney who works Sandoval County already knows all three.