Injuries to Foreign Visitors
International Personal Injury Lawyers Helping Visitors Injured in the United States
- Are you an injured Tourist or Visitor?
- Has an accident or injury ruined your U.S. holiday?
- Having problems with American hospital bills, travel or medical insurance?
- Do you need repatriation to your own country from The United States?
- Don't speak English or have poor English?
At the San Francisco, California law firm of Baum & Blake, we take special interest in representing foreign business visitors and tourists who were injured on holiday. While we are located in California, we represent business travelers, tourists and visitors from all over the world with personal injury and wrongful death claims. To fully meet our clients' needs, we speak or have access to foreign language translators and foreign document translators.
We can assist with appropriate medical referrals and medical investigation and we can gather the evidence needed to present your case from your doctors, employers and friends. When preparing and presenting your case, we know how to minimize the travel burdens on you and your witnesses while accomplishing your legal objectives.
We handle cases in California and with associate counsel across the United States. Our clients have come have from many countries including the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales) and Ireland; Europe including France, Germany, Holland and Czechoslovakia; Canada, Australia, South Africa, Israel and Mexico.
Membership in Leading International Personal Injury Associations
We are members of The Pan European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL), The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL - United Kingdom) and The Australian Personal Injury Lawyers (APLA) and helped sponsor The South African Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (SAAPIL). Our international personal injury lawyers are trusted in the legal community throughout the United States and abroad.
Our attorneys have been invited to speak on international personal injury law in England, Australia, South Africa and Europe.
Holiday Injuries and Tourist Accidents in the United States
Representative cases on behalf of foreign clients
- In 1989, two tourists from Tonga were traveling over the Oakland Bay Bridge when a major earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area. As a result of the earthquake a section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge collapsed. In the confusion that ensued, the Tongan tourists were directed by State Officials to proceed on the upper deck. The collapsed section was difficult to see because of the curvature of the road surface. The tourists vehicle drove into the collapsed section causing the death of the female front seat passenger and severe leg fractures to the driver. Baum & Blake secured television footage of the accident in order to rebut the defense that the driver was responsible for driving onto the collapsed section. The case settled for over $1 million.
English visitors to California's wine country were seriously injured when a truck illegally overtook their vehicle on a narrow road through the vineyards. Baum & Blake established the negligence of the driver and the defective nature of the truck brakes in order to achieve a winning result.
Injured on Holiday? Baum & Blake Can Help.
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