Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Tenacious, successful personal injury attorneys in Rhode Island
The personal injury lawyers at Decof & Decof are relentless advocates for injury victims and their families throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts. We have a proven record of success, including the largest personal injury jury verdict in Rhode Island. Through our 35 years of practice and countless personal injury cases, we have amassed extensive knowledge and trial experience, which benefits every client.
We handle a wide range of injury claims, including the following:
Alcohol-related injuries
Our firm helps hold drunk drivers and the people providing their alcohol responsible when their illegal conduct causes injury or death. Our knowledge of personal injury, motor vehicle, and dram shop law puts us at a distinct advantage when litigating auto accident cases involving alcohol. We also pursue injury cases involving intoxication-related assaults.
Boating accidents/injuries to seamen
We apply our extensive knowledge of boating laws as we vigorously protect the rights of people injured or killed by negligent boaters. Our experience extends to protecting the rights of dock workers and seamen injured or killed while working aboard vessels. We understand how to pursue claims under the Jones Act, Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and general maritime law.
Burn injuries
Decof & Decof obtains compensation from the parties responsible for fires, car crashes, heat, explosions, chemicals, hot liquids, and electrical accidents that burn innocent victims. We handle claims involving first-, second-, and third-degree burns, disfigurement, nerve damage, and death.
Electrocutions
Electrical accidents occur at constructions sites, in the workplace, homes and businesses. They cause a variety of damage, including burns, nerve damage, muscle injuries, and death. We help protect the rights of electrocution victims.
Explosions
Decof & Decof helps obtain compensation for explosion victims and their families, whether the explosion took place at work, in a public place, or in a home.
Fires
Injuries from fires can be severe and require extensive hospital stays, skin grafts, plastic surgery, and long-term care. Our firm ensures fire victims receive full compensation for their injuries.
Gas and electricity injuries
Utility companies are responsible for the safety of their gas and electrical lines. When their failure to maintain their utility lines results in injury, Decof & Decof will help hold them accountable for their negligence.
Hunting accidents
When hunting accidents occur, Decof & Decof conducts a thorough investigation to determine who is responsible. We obtain compensation from the responsible hunter, and even from the victim’s homeowner’s insurance, when applicable.
Inadequate security
Building and business owners are responsible for providing adequate lighting and security to protect tenants and visitors. We are experienced in pursuing premises liability claims when their failure to do so causes an injury or death.
School/university/child care negligence
Children spend the majority of their day in school or under someone else’s care. Parents expect that their children will be kept safe. When a school, college, or day care center’s negligence causes a child’s injury or death, our firm does not hesitate to pursue the responsible party in court.
Slip and fall injuries
Decof & Decof helps hold Rhode Island and Massachusetts property owners and tenants liable when they fail to keep their commercial, residential or public property in a reasonably safe condition as required by law.
Swimming pool accidents
Swimming pool accidents range from drowning and near-drowning to diving accidents and other injuries. Pool owners are required to ensure their swimming area is inaccessible to small children, that swimmers are supervised, and that their pool presents no hazardous conditions. Our firm represents victims of a wide range of swimming pool injuries.
Decof & Decof’s significant personal injury cases
- Confidential settlement, believed to be the largest personal injury settlement in Rhode Island, on behalf of a 13-year-old child, and her family, who suffered catastrophic injuries when she was struck by a motor vehicle operated by an intoxicated driver and owned by a leasing company
- Multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of the family of a man who was electrocuted and killed as a result of a utility company’s negligent placement and maintenance of high-voltage electrical wires
Please see Our Record of Success for additional personal injury verdicts and settlements.
Let us help
Please contact our Providence, RI personal injury attorneys 24 hours a day for a free consultation. We offer clients a contingency fee arrangement, which means you pay no legal fees unless we obtain a verdict or settlement on your behalf.
