If you are hit by a drunk driver your Oregon injury attorney can help compensate you not only from the person who drove drunk but, if they were intoxicated as a result of public imbibing, by the person or firm that sold them the alcohol.
This might be the liquor store or convenience store if they were underage that sold the alcohol, but also the bar or restaurant that continued to sell them the alcohol when their impairment became clear. The latter is culpable no matter what the drunk driver's age at the time of the incident.
The drunk drivers would do well to seek an Oregon attorney as well, as their impairment will be treated by the courts as a form of impairment, and if there is a victim hit by the drunk, she or he will be in a great deal of trouble.
Gross negligence, wantonness and other more serious consequences to the driver and the person and establishment that served the alcohol may be forthcoming and often are. This is where a person hit by a drunk driver needs a good Oregon personal injury attorney.
The drunk driver can be made to pay not only the cost of recovery but exemplary or punitive damages as well. The latter damages go well beyond the compensation to the victim for the cost and pain of the injuries, or in the case of fatality, the loss to the victim's family members.
Punitive damages are designed to punish the drunk driver and make and example out of him or her, hopefully helping to deter others from future impaired driving incidents.
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