Category Archives: Personal Injury
Settle or Go to Trial: The Choice is Yours
When you file a lawsuit, you don’t automatically get to your trial. It can take many months, possibly a year (depending on the court’s schedule), to get to trial. In the interim, your personal injury attorney may tell you that there is an offer to settle your case. Should you take that offer? Get… Read More »
Are Very Large Jury Verdicts Ethical?
When people are injured, and they go before a jury, sometimes, the jury awards a large dollar figure as compensation for the victim’s injuries. So large that the public is often outraged. The media reports the verdict, and people ask whether the “system is broken,” all because someone received significant compensation from a jury… Read More »
Getting Punitive Damages for DUI Accidents
Punitive damages are among the hardest types of damages for an injury victim to get. They are rare and difficult because their purpose is so different. Unlike other forms of damages, which are intended to make a victim whole, or compensate a victim for losses, punitive damages focus on the Defendant—specifically, to punish the… Read More »
Think That Minivan is Safe? That May Not be the Case
You have a family, and want to keep your family safe. So, you get a minivan. It’s safe, it’s large, seemingly provides a nice big cabin in the back where your kids can sit and be protected in the event of an accident, and because it’s built for families, it must be safe. Well,… Read More »
Expensive Cars and Pedestrian Accidents: Could There be a Connection?
When a car hits a pedestrian, it is generally considered a random event. Certainly, things can happen, like drunk driving, distracted driving, poor weather, or other factors, that make hitting a pedestrian more or less likely in any given situation. But could you predict what kind of driver will be more likely to hit… Read More »
What is Negligent Supervision?
There are many occasions when people are called on to watch over, monitor or supervise others. That can be a formal arrangement, like a nursing home watching over its residents, or a less formal arrangement like adults in a house watching a group of kids on a playdate. Whether formal or informal, the duty… Read More »
Attorney Client Privilege: How Can it Help You?
You probably have heard about attorney client privilege, or confidentiality of communications between a client and an attorney. But what does that actually mean—and how does it help you in your personal injury case? What Does Confidentiality Mean? As the name implies, attorney client privilege means that anything you tell your attorney, good or… Read More »
Calculating and Proving Pain and Suffering
If you are injured in an accident, you likely have bills and expenses mounting, whether for lost wages from being out of work, or from doctors bills and medical expenses. But you also have something else, that doesn’t have an exact price tag, but which can, in some cases, be far more damaging than… Read More »
Who is More Valuable: A Pedestrian, or People Inside of a Car?
We are gradually coming into a world where cars will drive themselves. When they do, they will not only have to navigate the road, but will have to make moral and ethical decisions that drivers sometimes need to make. One such decision is the “Hobson’s Choice,” of what to do when faced with injuring… Read More »
Liability for Falls and Accidents Caused by Black Ice
Let’s say that you are walking on a roadway, and you slip and fall. Or, imagine that you are driving on that roadway, and your car tires lose traction, causing the vehicle to veer out of control. You insist that the ground must have been icy, but the property owner disagrees with you—for winter… Read More »
