Learn more about Alabama personal injury laws, accident rates, and legal funding.
Pre-settlement funding in Alabama can be used for any purpose without worrying about having your credit or job status checked. Please be advised that you should use your lawsuit advance only for emergency matters – you may decide to pay clear your bills, do groceries, pay electricity, or pay for rent. The following information will give you an in-depth understanding of your case, Alabama laws, and lawsuit funding.
Plaintiffs with settled cases
A lot of plaintiffs still struggle with finances even after their case settles. Why? The payment of the settlement can take a long time. Sometimes, the defendant or insurer may be slow in paying up, depending on the agreement reached on how they will pay the settlement proceeds.
After the award is paid in full, plaintiffs may need instant cash to attend to pressing issues. Instead of sitting idly and letting bills pile up, you can apply for a post-settlement advance.
To cushion financial pressure, Baker Street Funding offers up to 50% of your settlement value as a cash advance. All you have to do is apply online. We will take it up from there, and once approved, you will get your loan credited to your account — usually within 24 hours.
Attorneys with settled cases
Post settlement funding is also available to attorneys who work on a contingency basis or otherwise. Working on contingency means the attorney only gets paid if they win their client’s case. While a plaintiff awaits the settlement or award payment, an attorney can apply for Alabama legal funding as fee advances to grow their practice and more.
If you are still not sure, our litigation funding team is available 24/7 for a free consultation. You are welcome to call us anytime at (888) 711-3599. It will be a pleasure to discuss your case and any other questions you may have.
Learn more about attorney loans here.
Personal injury and crime statistics
Between 2016 and 2017, the population of Alabama was recorded to have grown by 2.3 million. Today, the population of Alabama is north of 4 million.
The FBI Uniform Crime Report Statistics show that both the violent crime rate and property crime rates stand at 5.29 and 28.17 per 1,000 of the population in 2020. While these figures are relatively low, one still has to be security conscious at all times.
Violent crime rates included the number of reported cases of murder, rape, assault, and robbery, among other crimes. All of the offenses mentioned above maim their victims and leave them with both emotional and physical scars – not the mention the pain and suffering both victims and their families go through.
Seeking legal redress for crimes can drag on for weeks, months, and even years. While the litigation is ongoing, the victims or plaintiffs are left to shoulder the responsibility of catering to their medical bills in cases of personal injury and medical malpractice.
Also, plaintiffs are faced with a mountain of bills to pay, and this is even more painful for victims of wrongful termination of a contract, and employment discrimination (including harassment and retaliation).
These are some of the challenges plaintiffs face all over the United States, and Alabama is no different.
How long do you have to file your case in Alabama?
It’s almost impossible to talk about litigation and not mention the essence of time in pursuing legal redress and getting justice.
In every state, there is a stipulated time within which plaintiffs are expected to file their claims. If you exceed this time limit, your case will be dismissed, and every chance of getting compensation will be lost. This time limit is known as the Statute of Limitations, and it varies from case to case and the circumstances surrounding each case. You should check with your attorney before filing your case.
The law and the statute of limitations.
In Alabama, personal injury victims have up to two (2) years to file their claims against the responsible party. Filing a case against a municipal and county in Alabama should be done within six (6) months and one (1) year of the incident, respectively.
However, filing claims against the federal government can only be done after filing notice within two years. If your notice is denied, you can then file your lawsuit within six (6) months.
Other statutes of limitations in Alabama are as follows:
- Libel/slander, Fraud, and medical malpractice all carry two (2) years.
- Injury to personal property such as Negligence and Trespass takes two years and six years, respectively.
- Other cases, including the collection of rents, collection of debts carry up to six (6) years.
- Lawsuits of written contracts should be filed within ten years (10) years and twenty (20) years for judgments.
The insurance company
If you are a victim of an injury caused by the negligence of someone else, you have every right to sue for damages and get reasonable compensation. However, these cases usually don’t settle quickly. In addition to the delay in getting a judgment and potential settlement for your case, victims of injuries are also faced with medical bills, and of course, other responsibilities, including rent and utility bills, won’t stop coming.
When they sense your financial distress, defense attorneys or defendants’ insurers won’t hesitate to approach you with ridiculous offers. They will attempt to make you settle for less than you deserve and drop the case. If you are ever in this position, you should pass on their offer – they don’t care about you. All they want is to make you settle early and evade paying the entire settlement if the case goes its full course.
There is legal funding for most claims in Alabama.
Our legal funding services in Alabama are provided to plaintiffs with the following cases, not limited to:
- Assault and battery
- Agricultural and farming accidents
- Beach accidents
- Asbestos
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Chemical fire accidents
- Cruise ship accidents
- Dram shop
- Electrical accidents
- Expected/intended harm
- Gym accidents
- Hospital negligence
- Libel and defamation suits
- Nursing home negligence
- Negligent security
- Medical malpractice
- Mesothelioma
- Misdiagnosis
- Product liability
- Premises liability
- Roundup lawsuits
- School bullying
- School negligence
- Slip and fall
- Sports Injuries
- Subway accidents
- Sexual abuse of any kind
- Surgical error
- Supermarket accidents
- Swimming pool accidents
- Toxic mold
- Veteran Affairs Military Lawsuits
- Wet pavements
- Work related accidents
- Wrongful death
Motor vehicle and car accident loans
- Ambulance accidents
- Aviation accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Boating accidents
- Bus accidents
- Commercial vehicle accidents
- Farm tractor
- Firetruck accidents
- Forklift accidents
- Golf cart accidents
- Hit and Runs
- Head-on accidents
- Helicopter accidents
- Limousine accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Multiple-vehicle Accidents
- Pedestrian accident
- Police car accidents
- Parking lot accidents
- Racing car accidents
- Rear-end accident claims
- RV accidents
- Scooter and moped accidents
- Semi-truck 18 wheeler accidents
- Side-impacts
- Taxicab accidents
- Uber, Lyft accidents
- Train accidents
Employment and labor lawsuit funding
- Construction accidents
- Employment discrimination
- FELA
- Jones Act
- Sexual harassment
- Wage law violation
- Wrongful termination
- Patent Litigation Funding
- Securities and Shareholder
- Qui Tam Whistle Blower
- International Arbitration
- Commercial Litigation
- Monetization
- Competition and Anti Trust
- DIP Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Veteran Affairs Settlements
- All settled mass torts
Lawsuit loans near you
Some of the cities we mostly fund in Alabama:
- Rainbow City
- Southside
- Mountain Brook
- Margaret
- Helena
- Vestavia Hills
- Daleville
- Birmingham
- Montgomery
- Mobile
- Huntsville
- Pleasant Grove
- Bessemer
- Opp
- Prichard
- Anniston
- Talladega
- Tarrant
- Clanton
- Atmore
- Hoover
- Dothan
- Auburn
- Decatur
- Madison
- Florence
- Phenix City
Some of the counties we typically fund in (AL):
- Jefferson County
- Mobile
- Madison
- Montgomery
- Baldwin County
- Shelby County
- Tuscaloosa County
- Lee County
- Morgan County
- Calhoun County
- Houston County
- Etowah County
- Limestone County
- Marshall County
- Lauderdale County
- St. Clair County
- Cullman County