Assisting People with Serious Injuries Throughout the Nation
The Albert Wheeler Law Firm in Oklahoma City, OK, helps people get the personal injury settlements and workers' compensation settlements they are owed. An experienced trial lawyer can make the difference between a small recover, a large recovery, or no recovery at all. With an MBA in Finance, as well as Juris Doctor degree, Albert Wheeler is a highly capable professional who will aggressively represent your legal interests. Our law firm will fight hard against the companies who put profits ahead of safety. Our client base extends throughout the United States and all of Oklahoma.
Broad Scope of Representation Experience
In addition to helping people get their personal injury settlements, Albert Wheeler is a lawyer who will defends clients charged with a crime, property owners who have experienced contamination damage, employees who have been a victim of employer misconduct and patients with medical malpractice claims or nursing home negligence lawsuits. Often an individual feels small or helpless when battling a large employer or insurance company. The Albert Wheeler Law Firm can help even those odds and protect your life long interests.
Workers’ Compensation
Our law firm offers legal representation for the full range of workers' comp injuries. On the job injuries range from single events such as a broken leg or chemical burn, to catastrophic injuries from explosions, to injuries that occur gradually over time and are known as “repetitive stress injuries” or “cumulative trauma.” Some of the main industries in Oklahoma and throughout the nation involve dangerous work. We have represented thousands of clients nationwide who have been injured in workplace accidents including oilfield accidents, construction site accidents, industrial accidents, and even those resulting in accidental death. Injuries may develop over a period of time, without the injured workers being aware of the danger. Some of our client's have been injured while working in a high volume office, creating carpal tunnel, or cubital tunnel cumulative trauma injuries. Or in a manufacturing facility on a high volume assembly line, or from exposure to toxic chemicals, inhaled particulates or chemical vapors; or even absorption through the skin, referred to as transdermal migration, causing delayed and serious internal injuries.
Personal Injury
A common type of personal injury is one that occurs due to a semi-truck accident, car crash, motorcycle accident, bus accident or train crossing accident. As a personal injury lawyer, Albert Wheeler also represent clients who have been hurt by someone else's negligence, such as a slip and fall injury on someone’s property or food poisoning from a restaurant. Other types of personal injury cases we have handled include chemical burns, head injuries and spinal cord injuries.
Employment Law – Employee
The government has laws that employers must follow. When employers do not follow these laws, an employee can take the employer to court to correct the situation, or to make a payment (settlement) to the employee. The areas of employment law we in which we represent clients include wrongful termination, Affirmative Action, enforcement of ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) laws, contract issues, harassment and discrimination.
Environmental Law
If you are a property owner, you have the right to protect your property’s air, water and land from pollution, toxic spills, hazardous waste and other damage. Environmental damage includes such things as oil tank spills, hydrocarbon pollution, leaking storage tanks, groundwater contamination or soil contamination. Our law firm helps property owners force the polluters to either fix the problem, through money damages awards, or restore your property back to its undamaged condition.
Environmental Contamination
People and their property can be harmed by a wide variety of chemicals, poisons, pollutants and other contaminants. Our law firm represents clients injuries or property damage from oil field contamination including leaking pipelines, asbestos, chemicals, cosmetics, hazardous waste, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, radiation and electromagnetic energy.
Wrongful Death
Whether caused by intentional conduct, negligence, on the job injury, or personal injury from a car or semi-truck accident or other serious personal injury can result in death. If that happens, an experienced attorney is needed to represent the family members of the deceased. If you have lost a loved one due to personal injury our law firm can help you get compensation for your loss.
Medical Malpractice
If you have been harmed in a hospital or clinic, you may have a medical malpractice case if the harm you suffered was due to medication errors, birth injuries, surgical or diagnosis errors.
Criminal Law
Our law firm regularly represents individuals who have been charged with felonies and misdemeanors. The types of criminal defense cases in which we represent clients include fraud, DUI / DWI, drug crimes, felonies, juvenile crimes, probation, probation violation, sexual offenses, assault, white collar crimes and RICO (organized crime) cases.
Nursing Home Negligence
Vulnerable adults and the elderly in nursing homes can be victims of abuse or neglect. If a loved one has experienced Dehydration, falls and fractures, Malnutrition or any type of physical, mental, and emotional deterioration or neglect, then there is the potential for a nursing home negligence case.
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