Category Archives: Personal Injury
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 »
First Aid Errors at Recreational Facilities
Children are naturally accident-prone, and adults who work at places where children play and otherwise conduct the ordinary business of life must receive training in basic first aid as part of the job requirements. Every classroom and school bus has a first aid kit, so that teachers and bus drivers can attend to children’s… Read More »
An Experimental Treatment for Chronic Pain
When you first go to the emergency room after sustaining an acute injury, it is not always easy to tell whether, a year from now, this day will be a funny story you can tell at parties or the dreaded moment that separated the previous times from your painful new normal. The injuries that… Read More »
Calculating Your Accident-Related Medical Expenses in a Personal Injury Case
Everyone agrees that medical bills are too expensive, but figuring out just how expensive they are is harder than it looks. When the bill arrives in the mail, there is a phone number you can call if you cannot pay it. When you call, you might be able to get the hospital to reduce… Read More »
Personal Injury Lawsuits Take a Backseat to Criminal Cases
Unless you are a policy wonk, you have probably read many more news stories about criminal trials than about civil lawsuits. Yes, Supreme Court decisions arising from civil matters affect our daily lives even decades after they were issued; to name just one famous example, Brown v. Board of Education was not about a… Read More »
Is Your Personal Injury Settlement Money Yours to Keep?
The amounts cited in news headlines about personal injury cases sound like more money than you can dream of, so what do lawyers mean when they say that no one ever gets rich off of a personal injury case? How can you not be rich when the court just awarded you millions of dollars?… Read More »
