Practice Areas Overview

San Francisco Bay Area Accidental Injury Lawyers

Contact a San Mateo lawyer from our firm to schedule a consultation regarding any of the following legal issues:

Car Accident Injuries: Whether your car accident injury was alcohol related, or caused by overcrowded freeway conditions, weather conditions, a defective auto part, or careless / inattentive driving, you are strongly advised to consult with an attorney as soon as possible.

Motorcycle, Pedestrian, & Bicycle Accidents: Even though bicycles, motorcycles, and scooters can legally travel on city streets, drivers of cars and trucks are often "not looking" for them. Collisions at bike lane-roadway intersections are an infrequent but sad fact of life for some unfortunate victims.

Truck Accidents: The San Francisco Bay Area has an abundance of trucking activity, including local deliveries, north-south cargo load movement, and out-of-town trucks bringing and picking up loads of internationally traded containerized goods. When trucks are part of the equation in freeway accidents, injuries are often very serious.

Nursing Home Injuries: Call us to discuss how we can help when a nursing home resident has demonstrated signs of distress such as the following:

• Malnutrition
• Dehydration
• Bedsores
• Fractures
• Unexplained infections

Such injuries, illnesses, and conditions may have resulted from many different forms of elder neglect or nursing home abuse, including improper restraint, overmedication, or failure to turn or monitor the condition of a bedridden patient.

Dog / Animal Bite Injuries; Regardless of how or why the dog bite occurred, if a victim has significant expenses, compensation is warranted. Initial medical treatment including prevention and monitoring for infection may be followed by reconstructive surgery and psychological counseling.

Construction Site Accidents: Construction zones are typically places where accidents are waiting to happen. Strewn debris, malfunctioning safety devices, and the challenges associated with coordination of efforts of numerous subcontractors and delivery services contribute to hazardous working conditions.

Head Injuries / Broken Bones: Not long after a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a victim may appear to casual observers to be functioning normally. However, family members, and coworkers may note personality changes, loss of memory, loss of coordination, loss of ability to concentrate, and / or difficulty carrying on a normal conversation.

Neck & Back Injuries: Even more "minor" neck and back injury cases often make it difficult to impossible for victims to continue even sedentary office jobs, when it becomes too painful for the injured person to sit in a chair, stand at a customer service counter, or drive a service vehicle all day.

Wrongful Death: Fatal accidents are emotional experiences for all concerned: law enforcement, rescue workers, witnesses, accident survivors, and surviving family members. Wrongful death lawyers are no exception. We take to heart the devastation of the loss of life, as well as the pain and suffering experienced by surviving family members. Let us do our part to help you through this painful time.

Product Liability: Manufacturers, vendors, marketers, installers, or subcontractors may share blame in an accident caused by a defective tool, machine, or auto part.

Workers' Compensation: As career injury attorneys, we at Galine, Frye & Fitting are aggressive about identifying all sources of compensation for people who have suffered back injury, head injury, or repetitive stress disorder on the job.

Life, Health, & Disability Insurance: Please contact Galine, Frye & Fitting if you are engaged in an insurance dispute regarding your life insurance, health insurance, long-term care or your disability insurance.

Other Insurance Claims: If your homeowner's, renter's, or car insurance company has refused to pay in a timely manner when you submitted a legitimate claim, could it be that they are trying to hold onto your money — benefits that should be yours — for their own gain?

Sexual Harassment: Sexual assault and sexual harassment are more than insulting or frightening experiences. Sexual assault is a crime. Sexual harassment on the job is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Professional Malpractice: There are nationally accepted standards that practicing accountants, attorneys, doctors, engineers, architects, and dentists are expected to meet. When a client suffers serious harm because a professional failed to meet those accepted expectations and standards, it is time to talk to a litigation attorney who has experience handling professional malpractice cases.

Initial consultations at the San Mateo law firm of Galine, Frye & Fitting are free of charge. Our attorneys work on a contingency basis. This means that attorneys' fees are not owed unless or until a final verdict or settlement is paid out. Ask a lawyer at Galine, Frye & Fitting to evaluate your accident and injury case. Contact us by phone or through this Web site.