Category Archives: Personal Injury
Premises Liability and Public Parks
Florida’s soft white sand, known as sugar sand, is the stuff of legend. It is why the west coast of Florida gets as many visitors as the east coast, despite not having a city that matches the world-famous glamour of Miami. Most incidents involving Florida’s sugar sand are almost idyllically peaceful; retirees take walks… Read More »
Golf Cart Accident on Las Olas Boulevard
When you ride a golf cart on a golf course, yours is the fastest and most powerful vehicle around. Those old fogeys hauling their golf clubs around on foot cannot catch you. While they are making jokes about how golf is a nice walk ruined by a little white ball, you are already at… Read More »
What To Know About Go-Kart Accidents
There have been age limits on driving cars for almost the entire history of the automobile. Despite this, the youth have their ways of getting their fix of motor vehicle fun. If they are of sufficient means, they can drive golf carts in bougie resort towns and gated communities. If not, then the ones… Read More »
Concussions Are Worse Than They Sound
In old cartoons, it is funny when a character gets a bump on the head from a falling object and sees stars, and then everything goes back to normal in the next scene. In real life, concussions are no laughing matter. They are intensely painful, and even though you eventually recover, it takes weeks… Read More »
Product Liability Lawsuits Arising From Chicken McNuggets
Consumers who get injured by consumer products when using the product in the manner and for the purpose that the manufacturer intended have the right to seek compensation for their injury-related financial losses by filing a product liability lawsuit. Many product liability claims against pharmaceutical companies arise when patients who take the drugs as… Read More »
What Is The Fabre Doctrine?
Some of the legal concepts that you will encounter if you are a party in a legal case, or even if you just follow the news about the workings of the courts, bear the names of Supreme Court decisions. For example, medical or scientific evidence presented in a civil or criminal case must meet… Read More »
No Surprises at Personal Injury Trials
Scripted dramas about legal cases often have climactic scenes that take place at trials, but it does not take a professional screenwriter to make courtroom proceedings interesting. Televised trials captivate audiences, and journalists choose the most quotable lines from the trial to use as headlines. For most of the people in the courtroom, though,… Read More »
Your Chances of Winning a Personal Injury Lawsuit
If you file a personal injury lawsuit and it looks like your case will go to trial instead of resolving with a settlement, your lawyer might reassure you that a plaintiff at a civil trial has much less to fear than a defendant in a criminal trial, especially since most people’s mental image of… Read More »
Mobility Scooter Accidents
Millions of adults with mobility impairments are able to live independently. This is due in part to their own resourcefulness, in part due to technological advances in medical treatments and medical equipment and in part due to laws about accommodations for people with disabilities. For example, motorized wheelchairs and scooters enable their users to… Read More »
Injuries Arising From a Rough Ride on a Rollercoaster
People who are afraid even to get on rollercoasters can tell you in vivid detail about the things that can go wrong. The rollercoaster cars can derail, leading to disaster. If the safety harnesses are inadequate, customers can fall out of the cars and plunge to their deaths. The most phobic people can still… Read More »
