Slip & Fall in Mobile, AL

Start with the agency that responded. The Mobile Police Department covers the city, the Mobile County Sheriff's Office covers county roads, and crashes in the Wallace Tunnel or out on the Bayway are frequently state trooper calls. Alabama crash reports are generally released through a state portal a few days after the wreck, for a fee. The report number from the scene saves you a lot of phone time.

Mobile County Circuit Court. If a port truck or a commercial carrier was involved, the insurer on the other side operates very differently from a personal auto carrier, and the questions about who to file against get more tangled. That is attorney territory. We are not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. We match you with an independent, licensed Alabama attorney and step out of the way.

Often yes, in who is involved rather than in what the law says. Commercial carriers usually keep their own investigators, and those people can be working the scene before you have finished at the doctor. Alabama's contributory-negligence rule makes that head start more valuable to them than it would be in Georgia or Florida, because they only need to establish that some of the fault was yours.

In Alabama, the deadline is generally 2 years from the date of the accident. 2 years personal injury; wrongful death 2 years (measured from death). Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.