Personal Injury

Our firm provides expert representation in a variety of personal injury areas, including:

• Automobile Accidents:  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have a tremendous amount of experience in representing clients in automobile personal injury accidents.  While most Tennesseans attempt to drive safely and act defensively on the road, collisions do occur.  When they do, accidents have a dramatic impact on the lives of drivers, passengers, and their loved ones.  Such tragedies are sometimes purely accidental, but they are frequently caused by the careless behavior of others.  Drugs and alcohol, speeding, cell-phone use and reckless driving contribute to many injuries and fatalities, often leaving victims unable to work or provide for their families. Those who escape serious injury often face difficulties with insurance companies and complex legal battles.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have the experience necessary to handle your automobile injury case and get the maximum recovery to which you are entitled.
• Trucking Accidents:  Unfortunately, statistics show that in our country today, trucking accidents are on the rise.  If you are involved in an accident with a truck, you will need an expert attorney capable of navigating through a complex legal system to obtain recovery for you.  Trucking accidents are far more complex than typical automobile accidents.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have the expertise and court room experience that you will need to maximize your recovery.
• Products Liability:  Each day, thousands of defective consumer products are sold in our country.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys provide expert representation for clients seeking to recover for damages sustained from the sale of faulty and defective consumer products.  We represent clients in numerous consumer products areas, including appliances, power tools, automobiles and automobile components, and many other areas involving the sale of defective consumer products. 
• Workers' Compensation:  Tennessee workers' compensation laws provide benefits to workers injured while on the job.  Tennessee law mandates that workers injured on the job are entitled to medical benefits for emergency medical care, doctors, hospitals, and in the case of death, funeral benefits.  In order to get the highest recovery to which you are entitled, you must seek out competent attorneys who have the expertise required to properly represent you in a workers' compensation action.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have many years of experience in and out of the court room in successfully representing clients in workers' compensation cases.
• Wrongful Death:  At Cornelius & Collins, we handle a wide variety of wrongful death cases, including, but not limited to, explosions, drownings, vehicle accidents, among others.  When a person suffers a wrongful death due to the negligence, recklessness, or intentional act of another, a wrongful death action can be pursued.  The survivors of the deceased can also pursue a wrongful death or survival action.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have the necessary experience and resources to successfully represent you in wrongful death actions. 
• Premises Liability:  Premises liability is a term identifying many types of property accidents including those involving structural design flaws, unsafe conditions, negligent maintenance, environmental hazards, improper traffic patterns, faulty security and other conditions on the property of another that result in personal injury.  Premise liability covers private residences, public spaces, and commercial establishments such as the grocery store or restaurants in which a slip and fall or other damaging incident has left you injured.  Cornelius & Collins attorneys have a vast amount of experience in successfully representing clients in premises liability actions against land owners, businesses, and corporations that have maintained a negligent condition on their property.

Representative Cases

Listed below are a few of the cases in which Cornelius & Collins attorneys were successful.  If you would like further information about the background and subject matter of any of these cases, please feel free to contact us. 

Cornelius & Collins obtains a $7.8 million recovery for its client against a trucking company.