Property owners often ask: Am I liable if a child is injured on my property? And, like nearly every question concerning legal liability, the answer is always: it depends. Just because an injury occurred on your property, it doesn’t automatically mean you are liable....
Month: November 2016
What to Know If Another Driver Gets in a Wreck in Your Car
Clearly you would not have lent your car out if you knew the person borrowing it was going to get into an accident. And, clearly, you weren’t the one behind the wheel. So other than making sure all the damage gets fixed, the wreck really isn’t your problem, right? Not...
Top 3 Myths About Personal Injury Lawsuits
Injury cases are often highly controversial. For example, people often disagree strongly about whether legal remedies are required to compensate for an injury, or whether the person received a fair or excessive amount.In this context, there are numerous myths...
Is Driving With a Cold as Dangerous as Driving Drunk?
Flu season is upon us, which means quite a few folks will be driving while sniffling, either hopped up on decongestants or hoping they don’t have to sneeze while rolling up to a stop sign. (And just so you know, yes, you can get a DUI for driving while on cold...
Top 4 Class Action Lawsuit Questions
You may have heard the term ‘class action lawsuit’ before, especially when it comes to large companies being sued by a bunch of disgruntled customers. While the majority of lawsuits are filed by one party against another single party, a class action allows many...
Workers’ Compensation Fraud Is a Serious Offense
Maybe you’re sick of your job, or your boss, and you’re looking for a little revenge. Or you’ve been injured on the job, recovered, and like the idea of getting paid to not work. And there’s all this money in state workers’ compensation insurance funds, just sitting...
Liability for Driveway Backover Accidents
All too frequently, children are injured in driveway backover accidents. These accidents tend to occur when children are playing in the driveway, behind a vehicle. Sometimes the vehicle gets put in neutral or the brake is disengaged on accident by another child...
Top 5 FAQs About Personal Injury Cases
Personal injury cases are among the most frequently handled cases by private attorneys for individuals. Injury cases are more challenging for unrepresented parties because they usually do not have the experience of dealing with the big insurance companies or the big...
5 Tips for When You’re Liable in a Car Accident
Car accidents happen every day. Often, when a person causes an accident, their first instinct is to apologize and admit fault. However, in many situations, it is best to just be civil, handle the situation by the book, and even if you are at fault, call the police if...
Liability for Accidents Caused by Falling Asleep at the Wheel
You may not think that driving tired is as bad as driving drunk, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates over 80,000 accidents a year are caused by drowsy driving, killing 846 people in 2014 alone. So if you think you might need a nap, it’s...