Every Personal Injury Case Type We Handle in Albuquerque, NM

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. At that point the claim turns inward.

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• rear-end collision
• hit and run accident
• uninsured motorist
• intersection accident

Car Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

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. Instead of hunting for a policy that will pay, you are up against a carrier and a safety department that begin building their file the same day, using logs and electronic data that do not stay available forever.

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• 18-wheeler accident
• semi truck crash
• commercial vehicle accident
• trucking company liability

Truck & 18-Wheeler Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

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. When it does, the question stops being who was at fault and becomes what your own policy carries, including coverage you may hold on a second vehicle.

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• biker injury claim
• lane splitting accident
• helmet injury claim

Motorcycle Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

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. Household members are sometimes covered under a policy they never thought applied to them.

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• crosswalk accident
• hit by a car
• pedestrian injury claim
• wrongful death pedestrian

Pedestrian Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

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. Bicycle claims are where uninsured motorist coverage surprises people most.

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• cyclist injury claim
• bike vs car accident
• doored cyclist
• bike lane accident

Bicycle Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

Property owners have to keep a store, an apartment landing or a parking lot in reasonably safe condition. Whether that becomes a claim worth bringing depends less on the hazard than on the treatment you actually needed. Here is the honest version.

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• premises liability
• trip and fall injury
• store fall accident
• unsafe property claim

Slip & Fall / Premises in Albuquerque, NM

Whether an Uber or Lyft crash reaches the platform's coverage depends on what the app was doing at that moment. Off, waiting for a request, or carrying a passenger are three different answers. When the app was off, you are back to a personal auto policy that often excludes driving for hire and may be written at state minimums anyway.

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• rideshare injury claim
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• passenger injury claim

Rideshare (Uber/Lyft) Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

A dog bite claim is only as good as the policy behind the dog. Most are paid through a homeowner or renter policy, which is why the first question is usually whose house the animal lives at. In Albuquerque a large share of bites involve loose or stray animals with no household behind them, and no policy means no realistic payer no matter how clear the fault is.

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• animal bite claim
• dog owner liability
• dog bite scars

Dog Bites in Albuquerque, NM

Losing someone in a crash caused by another driver puts a family in the hardest version of the coverage problem. The loss is total and the policy that caused it may be the smallest one on the road. Families are often told the at-fault limits are all there is.

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• loss of a loved one
• surviving family claim

Wrongful Death in Albuquerque, NM

A head injury is the point where a minimum policy stops being an abstraction. Treatment, imaging and time away from work can pass those limits within weeks, and nobody warns you while it is happening. That is why serious brain injury claims here so often become underinsured motorist claims.

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• traumatic brain injury
• concussion claim
• head injury accident
• TBI compensation

Brain & Head Injuries in Albuquerque, NM

Spinal injuries produce the widest gap between what a case is worth and what is actually collectible. Surgery, rehabilitation and permanent limits on what you can lift do not shrink to fit the at-fault driver's limits. The search then moves to everything else within reach: your own underinsured coverage, an employer policy if you were working, a commercial policy if the other vehicle was being used for business.

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• back injury claim
• paralysis lawsuit
• herniated disc accident
• catastrophic injury claim

Spinal Cord Injuries in Albuquerque, NM

An impaired driver is rarely a well-insured driver. Fault is usually not in dispute after an arrest, which is exactly why families are caught off guard when the payable coverage turns out to be almost nothing. New Mexico has fought impaired driving for a long time, and the civil side of these cases often reaches past the driver, to a bar or venue that kept serving, and to your own underinsured coverage.

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• dram shop claim
• drunk driver settlement

Drunk Driving Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

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. Claims against a government body follow their own notice procedure, and the window for it is shorter than people expect.

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• ABQ Ride accident
• public transit injury
• school bus accident
• shuttle crash claim

Bus Accidents in Albuquerque, NM

All of the case types listed on this page, from car accidents through wrongful death claims. Albuquerque Personal Injury Lawyers is not a law firm — we are the front door. We take the details of what happened in Albuquerque, NM and route them to a personal injury attorney licensed in New Mexico who handles that specific kind of claim.

Send it anyway. The list covers the claims we see most often around Albuquerque, not the limits of what an attorney can take. Unusual injuries, premises cases and multi-vehicle wrecks all get reviewed the same way, and the review costs nothing.

No. The review is free and injury attorneys work on contingency, so their fee comes out of a recovery and there is no fee if there is none. You are never obligated to hire anyone you speak with.