Milford Personal Injury Lawyer for 2 Counties: Kent and Sussex

A Milford personal injury lawyer is a Delaware attorney who represents people injured in and around Milford, a city split between Kent and Sussex Counties, and who brings their claims against insurers or in the Superior Court of the county where the case belongs.

Milford's position on the county line is what makes the job different here. A crash on the north side of the Mispillion River and a crash a mile south of it both happen in Milford, yet they fall in different counties. A Milford personal injury lawyer tracks that detail from the first phone call, along with the police agency that responded, the hospital records and every insurance policy involved.

The practice covers motor vehicle crashes, workplace injuries, dog bites, wrongful death and civil sexual abuse claims. Aman Sharma, Esq., Delaware Bar ID No. 5706, is the responsible attorney for the Milford office. How Milford's highways move traffic across that county line is the local condition behind most of our cases.

A Milford personal injury lawyer sees the same few roads in case after case. US-113, known as DuPont Boulevard, runs through Milford past our office and continues south to Georgetown. DE-1 passes east of the city and carries traffic toward Lewes, Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach. DE-14, the Milford Harrington Highway, runs west from DE-1 through Milford toward Harrington and the Maryland line.

Those corridors put fast through traffic, heavy trucks and summer visitors on the same stretch of Delaware. On beach weekends, drivers who left DE-1 for gas or food merge back into traffic moving at highway speed. Poultry and grain trucks use US-113 all year. In July, the Delaware State Fair in Harrington draws crowds onto US-13 and DE-14.

The county line has three practical effects on a claim:

• The police report may come from Milford Police, who patrol the city on both sides of the river, or from Delaware State Police outside city limits.
• A lawsuit is filed in Superior Court in either Kent County or Sussex County.
• Medical records may come from Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus on Wellness Way in south Milford, or from Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus in Dover.

The Delaware statutes that decide these claims apply the same way on both banks of the Mispillion.

A Milford personal injury lawyer applies the same Delaware statutes whether the crash happened in the Kent County part of the city or the Sussex County part.

PIP comes first. Delaware's no-fault statute, 21 Del. C. § 2118, requires PIP coverage of no less than $15,000 for each person and $30,000 for each accident on Delaware vehicles. Your PIP carrier pays reasonable medical expenses and lost net earnings without deciding fault. You still hold the right to pursue the careless driver for losses PIP leaves behind, such as pain and suffering and wages above the limit.

Fault is shared, up to a point. Delaware's modified comparative negligence rule, 10 Del. C. § 8132, cuts damages by the injured person's percentage of fault and blocks recovery entirely above 50%. In Milford, this argument comes up often in merging and turning crashes along DuPont Boulevard.

Your own coverage fills gaps. Some drivers on US-113 and DE-1 carry only Delaware's minimum bodily injury limits of $25,000 per person. Uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage on your own policy pays when the at-fault driver has none or too little.

Time limits. Delaware's general deadline for personal injury claims is two years (10 Del. C. § 8119), but deadlines vary by claim and some notice requirements are much shorter. Talk to us before assuming you have time.

Kent or Sussex: where a Milford lawsuit goes. A Milford case is typically filed at the Kent County Courthouse, 38 The Green, Dover, or at the Sussex County Courthouse, 1 The Circle, Georgetown, depending on where the crash happened and where the parties live. We confirm the proper county before filing. With the law and the courthouse settled, the question becomes what kind of case you have.

These are the case types a Milford personal injury lawyer at our North Dupont Boulevard office takes on, with links to practice pages that cover each one in more depth.

A Milford personal injury lawyer at The Sharma Law Firm is paid only through a contingency fee. Our contingency fee is 33.33% of the recovery. No attorney's fee unless we recover, and we advance case costs. If we don't win, you owe nothing. On a successful case, the costs we advanced come back to the firm from the settlement or recovery.

Our Milford office is open 24/7, and every meeting is by appointment only. Call (302) 248-1756 to set a time. Hablamos español. Our paralegals Santiago Araujo, Humberto Buitrago and Isaac Durango Figueroa speak Spanish with clients from the first call through the end of the case.

The steps of a Milford claim:

1. We confirm which county the incident happened in and which police agency responded.
2. We notify the insurers and send preservation requests for video, vehicle data and trucking records.
3. You continue medical care at Bayhealth or with your own doctors while we gather records.
4. We track PIP payments and open any UM/UIM claim.
5. We present a demand to the liable insurer once your treatment picture is clear.
6. If talks stall, we file in Superior Court in Kent County or Sussex County.
7. The case ends in a settlement or verdict, and advanced costs and medical liens are paid from the recovery.

Most Milford clients then meet with us at the office on North Dupont Boulevard.

The Milford personal injury lawyer's office is at 686 N Dupont Blvd, Suite 100, Milford, DE 19963, on the US-113 corridor. Drivers coming from Georgetown head north on US-113 into Milford, and drivers from Dover or Frederica come south into the city.

Coming from Lewes or the beaches on DE-1, exit toward Milford and make your way to DuPont Boulevard. Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus is on Wellness Way in south Milford, so clients coming straight from a hospital visit have a short drive north.

Meetings are by appointment only. Call (302) 248-1756 before you come in so the right person is available, including a Spanish-speaking paralegal if you need one. Many Milford-area clients live outside the city limits, in the towns listed next.

A Milford personal injury lawyer at this office serves both halves of Milford: the Kent County neighborhoods north of the Mispillion River, the Sussex County side to the south, and the downtown blocks along the Mispillion Riverwalk.

North toward Dover, we serve Frederica, Little Heaven, Canterbury and Thompsonville. West along DE-14 and US-13, clients come from Houston, Harrington, Farmington and Greenwood, plus Williamsville and Staytonville in the farm country between them. South and east of the city, we serve Lincoln, Ellendale, Argos Corner, Milton and Broadkill Beach. Along the Delaware Bay, we serve Slaughter Beach, Big Stone Beach and the Cedar Creek area.

Towns farther north, such as Felton and Magnolia, are closer to our Dover personal injury office. Bridgeville is closer to our Seaford office, and Prime Hook Beach to our Lewes office. Which office is closest is only part of deciding whether a local lawyer makes sense.

A Milford personal injury lawyer is a sensible fit when the crash happened in Milford or the farm towns around it, because a Milford case can belong in either county's Superior Court and a local office checks that first. Clients who live near Lincoln, Houston or Slaughter Beach also skip the drive to Dover or Georgetown for meetings.

Once a case is in suit, the office location makes less difference, since Delaware law is the same statewide and one responsible attorney, Aman Sharma, Esq., oversees the cases at all eight Sharma Law offices. The most common Milford questions are answered below.