Nashville Tennessee Personal Injury
Assault & Battery

You Deserve Superior Personal Injury Representation!

A ttorneys at the Kevin Moore Personal Injury Law Firm help victims of Tennessee injuries receive just compensation for their losses. We're not just another law firm. We're not just any lawyers. We are highly experienced personal injury attorneys - that is what we do. We serve clients throughout Tennessee from our office Nashville.

If your injury is serious enough and your case is important enough to you then contact a lawyer. It is critical that you do the research to find a reputable, capable attorney. We believe our success in recovering large awards and settlements speaks for itself about the quality of our representation, quality that we refer to as the "Advantage of Experience."

This Website discusses our PI legal practice and our credentials, and it provides some general information on Nashville Tennessee Personal Injury Law. Every case is unique and deserves to be evaluated on its own merits. Please contact us for a free consultation before making a decision about representation. You will speak with Kevin Moore directly not a staff member.

Our Firm welcomes the challenges offered by difficult cases involving serious injuries and complex issues. We know how to fight opposing lawyers and the insurance companies and win. If you have been injured in an assault & battery incidents due to the negligence of any other party, do not hesitate to call and talk to us. You should know that we often collect damages well beyond what the insurance companies offer. You deserve to know your valuable Legal Rights.

You Need An Attorney Who Specializes In Personal Injury (PI) Law

What you don't need is a lawyer who "also" practices PI cases. More and more, laws are being written that are only fully understood by those few lawyers who are highly competent in specific areas. Finding the "right lawyer", means a lawyer with substantial personal injury (PI, Workers Comp & SSD) knowledge and experience, is what you want when you need competent help. Lawyers should be selected for their expertise and experience in specific specialties of law. The "right lawyer" for your Personal Injury case is the person who has substantial experience handling a case very similar to yours, who can and will take action at once.

Kevin Moore and his Nashville Tennessee Personal Injury law firm is who you want and what you need!

Nashville & Tennessee Assault & Battery

Violent crime is a very real possibility in today's world, and nothing can truly prepare you for the shock of being physically assaulted by another person.

Nashville based Tennessee Personal Injury Attorney Kevin Moore has the knowledge and experience necessary to represent you or a family member in the wake of a physical assault or other violent crime that occurs in the State of Tennessee. We will aggressively pursue justice on your behalf, fight to assure you obtain the rightful financial compensation you deserve, and work with you and the authorities to ensure investigation and prosecution of the offender.

Many people think that assault and battery mean the same thing, but there are legal distinctions. Assault refers to the threat or intent to inflict physical harm on a person whereas battery refers to the actual physical act of inflicting harm. However, over time, both have come to mean the same thing and most states, including Tennessee, when referring to assault and battery, and define it as some form of physical harm or offensive contact. Assault and battery in Tennessee is punishable based on the following factors:

• how much bodily harm was inflicted
• the use of a weapon to inflict injury or with the intent to inflict injury
• the victim was vulnerable and had no means to defend themselves
• the victim was an officer of the law
• the offense committed or intended was a hate crime

What Are The Different Levels Of Assault & Battery?

When injuries sustained from an assault and battery are perceived to be minimal, it is considered a simple assault and battery case, whereas injuries of a serious and severe nature, including those sustained from a deadly weapon, are considered aggravated assault. Aggravated assault is defined as the unlawful act of violence against another with the intent to cause severe physical harm or death, and most often involves a gun, motor vehicle or other weapon being used by the offender. Assaults of either type can be in the form of road rage, fights in restaurants, bars or clubs, domestic violence, disorderly conduct, and others. Sometimes, even people defending themselves are charged with assault. It is in these circumstances that you want the best Tennessee Personal Injury Attorney at your side! You can call Kevin at any time or Contact him through this website.

How Are Assault & Battery Cases Prosecuted?

Because laws of assault and battery developed out of common law, a person charged with assault and battery may face both criminal and civil charges. In addition to being fined, convicted or jailed (criminal charges), a person may have to pay compensatory damages to the victim as well (civil charges).

The law office of Kevin Moore addresses the civil (Personal Injury) aspects of Assault & Battery. The prosecution of the criminal cases is under the jurisdiction of the District Attorneys and the criminal defenses are handled by Criminal Defense Attorneys. Kevin can refer you to a criminal defense attorney if you have the need. Kevin and his firm are ready to represent you in the civil cases.

Examples of Assault & Battery

Assault can best be described as an attempt or perceived intention by one person to inflict physical harm upon another person. An assault can take place by the mere threat of causing physical harm. If the driver of a vehicle approaches a pedestrian in an overtly aggressive manner and acts as if he is intentionally going to strike the person on foot, an assault has taken place. The actual battery occurs when they are successful in making physical contact without consent.

Many assault and battery victims feel that their only recourse in an attack is the successful criminal prosecution of the offender. However, the victim retains the right to sue the offender under Tennessee civil law, in order to attempt to recover damages for his injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma and even future income lost due to his inability to return to work after the incident.

Additionally, Kevin, as your civil attorney, can assist you in ensuring that you are doing what is necessary to be awarded restitution or other victim's assistance available through the criminal court system.

Who Can Receive Damages?

There are several variables that dictate who may be eligible to recover financial damages as a result of an assault. These include determining if the assault was simply perceived, or in fact was imminent, and it relates to the timing of when the assault actually occurred. Another key element whether the assault and resulting battery were considered to be "reasonable," in other words, that a reasonable person would find it inevitable that there was an assault about to take place.

To qualify as an assault, there needs to be proof that the offender intended to inflict harm on the victim, as opposed to the event simply being an accident. However, if a person who had intended to inflict physical harm to another person inadvertently struck or otherwise assaulted you and causes injury, you, as an innocent bystander, would have a strong case against the offender.

In apartment complexes, a tenant or victim of attack may be entitled to compensation from the apartment management company or property owner in situations where a history of attacks has been ignored or where negligent security, poor lighting or other contributing factors, such as a lack or door security or inadequate locks, contributed to assault or other injury.

Kevin Can Assist You Now!

Your Tennessee personal injury attorney, Kevin Moore, represent victims of assault and other violent crimes. He and his firm will thoroughly investigate your case and determine those responsible for your injuries, which in some cases can include the owner, operator or staff of the premises on which the assault occurred. If you are assaulted in a nightclub and it can be determined that the lack of security, or perhaps a parking lot with inadequate lighting, was a factor resulting in your attack, you may have a case against both the offender and the establishment. Contact Kevin so that he can review the specifics of your case!

You Need An Attorney Who Knows Tennessee Personal Injury Cases related to Assault & Battery

Do Not Sign Any Insurance Release Claim Without a Legal Review

If you have already signed a release, all is not lost!  We can and have successfully handled cases and had such releases nullified when it has been in our clients' interests. Release forms are not written to protect you - they are written to protect the insurance company and, when their clients are at fault, they are written to protect them. Call us and let us review your case and any release form before you sign it. Kevin offers free consultations to look over the facts of your case!

Your Insurance Agent Does Not Really Work For You!

You may be good friends with your insurance agent, we are with ours, but unlike attorneys who do have legal (fiduciary) responsibilities to their clients, most insurance agents are employees of their respective companies and they keep their employers' interests in mind for all cases. We do believe that the vast majority of insurance agents act with integrity but in Personal Injury circumstances you really do want your legal advocate to protect all of your interests.

Claims Are Not Limited To Insurance Coverage

Even though the party that injured you may have insurance there are many cases where the injuries and long term impacts go beyond their insurance coverage. There may also be second and third parties involved who share the legal and financial responsibilities. As your advocate Kevin investigates all avenues in getting you as much compensation for your personal injury as possible. Kevin has the knowledge and the resources to get you the compensation that you deserve.

Reasonable Expectations: 

If your accident resulted from the negligence of another party, you should rightfully expect quality care, covering all of your injury related expenses, compensation for property loss or damage, and possibly entitled to compensation including monetary damages for pain and suffering, lost wages, loss of enjoyment of life and loss of earning capacity. These are reasonable expectations but all too often you end up having to fight individuals & insurance companies for your rightful compensation! You don't have to settle for what the Insurance Company proposes.

You may need a fighter by your side!

You may need a fighter by your side! Just when you are at your weakest you may have to fight! Insurance companies are notorious for denying claims, stalling appeals, and denying rightful or quality care and services. The insurance company's goal is to save money - not to assure you your rightful care and compensation. There are thousands and thousands of cases where, with the right lawyer representing amputations cases, that the insurance companies have their denials of services and claims denied by a Judge. The injured parties can win if they have the right attorney taking on the fight for them - not a firm that is distracted by other practices and is willing to settle for less!

At the Nashville Tennessee Personal Injury Law Firm of Kevin A. Moore, you can be assured that our Personal Injury legal team will listen to you with compassion and understanding. Attorney Kevin More is well qualified to have your medical records evaluated, communicate with your doctors and therapists and encourage you to follow the prescribed recommended therapies to make sure that you are getting everything you are entitled to under Tennessee PI law. If you are not getting what you are entitled to, Kevin is ready to fight the insurance companies for you at Mediations and, if necessary, at trial. With Kevin Moore as your attorney, you will have the best Nashville Tennessee PI lawyer in the State representing you!

Kevin Moore's Experience: 

Kevin Moore has been aggressively practicing law and guiding and protecting his clients' interests since 1992. Kevin and his Firm have handled over 4,500 Personal Injury cases and a significant number of cases involving assault & battery incidents. No Nashville Tennessee attorney will do a better job in seeing that you get justice and compensation for your loss and injuries. Call us or contact us now. Our consultations are always free and you never pay a fee unless we win your case. In Nashville or State Wide the Nashville Tennessee PI Law Firm of Kevin A. Moore will be on your side and by your side.

We Are Here To Serve You, Not Ourselves

Our main marketing tool is taking care of the clients we have. We know that when we do a good job for you that the word will go out and our business will grow. Our culture revolves around client services. Our primary focus is to do excellent work for each and every client; to go all out and win the case. Building solid relationships with our clients and producing great results will translate into referrals helping our business grow.