By now everyone knows that drinking and driving raises the chances of an automobile accident exponentially. The nightly news has no shortage of stories in which a drunk driver takes to the road and causes an accident which kills one or more innocent victims. Often times these drunken drivers had too much to drink at local bars, restaurants, or clubs. Some wonder if the victims of drunken drivers, or their families, can sue the owners and proprietors of such alcohol serving establishments which serve too much alcohol to a person who goes on to cause a drunken accident.
Every jurisdiction has its own individual regulations regarding how alcohol serving establishments should treat customers who seem to have had too much to drink. In most cases alcohol serving establishments are to refuse service to customers that appear to be drunk. As such, in many jurisdictions across the country those who have been injured in a drunken driving accident, and the survivors of those who have been killed, can take the proprietors of such establishments to court.
It can be difficult to prove that an establishment should have refused service to a drunken patron, specifically because attorneys must first be proven that the establishment had reason to believe that the patron had too much to drink. It is best to work with an experienced law firm when bringing forth such a complicated case.
If you believe that your serious injury, which you sustained in an accident with a drunken driver, may have been as a result of an alcohol serving establishments’ negligence, contact our office is immediately.
Please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.
