A garage door is very heavy and the spring is under a lot of pressure. The garage door is often the most complex and heavy piece of machinery in your home. If the garage door is defective, you might become injured by the door itself or the spring. If the garage door installation company was negligent and this caused the garage door to fail, you will need to turn to a personal injury attorney for help when seeking compensation for your injuries.

Garage Door Repairs

Garage springs become defective over time as they deteriorate. However, you should never repair your garage door yourself and should always hire a garage door repair technician. However, garage door repair technicians have the responsibility to show a duty of care when repairing a garage door.

Unfortunately, thousands of individuals are injured by garage doors every year and some of these injuries are even fatal. If your garage door was recently repaired and you were injured by a falling garage door weighing hundreds of pounds, you might be entitled to compensation for your injuries.

How Garage Door Injuries Occur

A garage door might fall on your head and cause a traumatic brain injury or it might cause broken bones. Fingers might be pinched, injured, and even amputated by the falling garage door. The door might also have windows that shatter and you might be injured by the broken glass. 

How to Take Legal Action

The job of your personal injury attorney will be to investigate how the accident occurred and help you determine who was at fault. For example, if the accident resulted from the garage door being inherently defective, you might have a case against the garage door manufacturer. If the door was not defective but was not serviced properly, the garage door repair technician would be at fault.

Typically, you will want to try to settle out of court because a lawsuit is very expensive and time-consuming. Your personal injury attorney will likely contact the garage door company and negotiate a settlement. This will likely be a back-and-forth process with each side making offers and counter-offers.

Suing a Garage Door Company

If you are not able to successfully reach a settlement, the next step is to file a lawsuit against the company. Oftentimes, this will encourage the garage door company to settle to avoid a trial. However, if this doesn't happen, your personal injury attorney will represent you in court.

For more information, contact a law firm like Cardone Law Firm.