Category Archives: Personal Injury
Negligence Per Se: Liability When A Law Is Broken
If someone injures you, in order to find them negligent, and hold them responsible for your injuries, do you have to find that they broke an actual, written law? You mean be surprised to learn that the answer to that question is “no.” You Don’t Need a Law This may not make sense, but… Read More »
The Largest Personal Injury Class Actions In U.S. History
Although news of class action lawsuits seems to appear almost daily, most class action lawsuits aren’t large by class action standards. Of course, some are. It is interesting to look at what the largest class action lawsuits in American history are or were. Based on the dollar figure of the class action settlement amounts… Read More »
Liability For Injuries To Student Athletes
If your child is an athlete, you can expect injuries to be part of participating in scholastic sports. Certainly, injuries are a risk of any type of sport, and schools are not liable just because your child was injured participating in a sport. However, there are times when they could be held responsible. Is… Read More »
Liability For Elevator Injuries
We all tend to think of an elevator as being a safer mode of transportation up and down floors than the stairs. As a general rule that may be true—but elevators can create their own set of problems, and it is not unusual to be injured in an elevator. Injuries on or Around an… Read More »
How Does A Jury Know What To Award You In Your Case?
Not all injury cases go to trial. Some will settle before a lawsuit is even filed, and others will settle after the lawsuit is filed, but before the case is brought in front of a jury for your day in trial. But if your case does make it to trial, and it is up… Read More »
Why And How Do Trucking Accidents Happen?
Every day, we share the road with large, commercial trucks that far outweigh the vehicles that we are driving in. These trucks seem to operate the same way as our cars, but they in fact do not—there is a skill to operating these rigs, and when they are operated incorrectly, catastrophe can be the… Read More »
Will Your Injury Settlement Or Verdict Be Taxed?
At the end of your personal injury case, you understandably will want to put as much money into your pocket as you can. You may want to minimize what you owe to doctors or hospitals, so that you put more of your settlement or verdict money in your pocket. But one area that people… Read More »
Orlando Accident Brings Amusement Park Safety To Light
Throughout the country, every day, amusement park rides carry thousands, if not tens of thousands of riders. And almost all go without any serious safety problems, injuries or accidents. But accidents do happen at amusement parks, and when they do, the results can be deadly. No Regulations Despite the fact that many of these… Read More »
Exactech Implant Recalls May Affect You
Exactech is a company that makes and manufactures inserts that are used for ankle, knee, or hip replacements. Its medical devices act as replacements for joints, and their devices often anchor bones together, such as their knee replacement device which anchors the femur and tibia. The devices were marketed with the promise that they… Read More »
Could You Be Accused Of Destroying Evidence?
When accident victims worry about evidence being lost or destroyed, they often worry about Defendants which may “accidentally” lose evidence that the victim needs to prove his or her case. Victims often don’t think of destroying evidence themselves. In fact, in many cases where a victim is accused of destroying evidence, the destruction or… Read More »
