Practice Areas

My practice is devoted to personal injury law in all its forms. Personal injury law covers damage to your body, mind, and emotions, but not your property. These injuries are caused accidentally through another party’s failure to use reasonable care. This means that through negligent or reckless action – or inaction, in some cases – you were harmed.

My job, as your personal injury attorney, is to prove that your injuries were caused by, and were a foreseeable result of, someone else’s action.

Personal injury sometimes has an irreversible impact on those who experience it. At best, it’s inconvenient and painful; at worst, personal injury can take away your ability to function, the ability to earn an income, limbs, and even life. While I realize that no amount of money is enough to replace these losses, the justice system strives to bring as much wholeness as possible to those who suffer. When you call Gary A. Peterson, you’re calling an attorney with over twenty years of experience in this arena. My focus is on helping you heal and return to as much wholeness as possible. I do this by working to get you compensation such that your focus can be on rebuilding your life, as opposed to worrying about money.

While I handle all types of personal injury cases, a good portion of my practice involves automobile-related injury claims. These are the most common, and often the most damaging types of personal injuries. Automobile-related injuries involve automobile vs. automobile, automobile vs. motorcycle/bicycle, and automobile vs. pedestrian, which are perhaps the worst of all since pedestrians don’t have the benefit of protective gear.

Every personal injury case is taken on a contingency basis; you only pay my fee if I obtain compensation for you. You never pay any costs upfront – such as those for filing your claim or hiring expert witnesses. I cover all costs and you pay them upon receiving your compensation.

I represent clients in all of the following areas of personal injury law: