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Have You Been Injured in an Animal Attack? Ask an Animal Attack Lawyer What to Do Over 4.7 million people are bitten or mauled by dogs every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In fact, the second most common cause of injury to children are dog bites. Of these, more than 800,000 require medical help. Worse yet, there are more than a dozen deaths from these attacks. Dog owners are responsible for any damages or injuries...
Overview The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has utilized the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act since 1966. The act has been used to hold vehicle manufacturers responsible for the production of their products. Further, it is used to ensure that there are safety standards to institute a recall on vehicles or vehicle parts that are deemed defective. In accordance to the United States Code for Motor Vehicle Safety, the...
What to Do If You're Injured in a Bicycle Accident Bicycling has been rising in popularity, and sadly, so have accidents. For many people, riding their bike is a deeply meaningful part of their day, while for others, it has simply become their main source of transportation. Whatever a person’s reason may be for riding a bike, safety for the well-being of the cyclist as well as for the individuals in large, dangerous vehicles is...
Overview Birth injuries can include any kind of injury to a mother or child during the birthing process. Birth injuries can be temporary or cause long-lasting or even life-long damage. Although some forms of birth injury are unavoidable, it’s thought that nearly 50% of all birth injuries could be avoided with proper identification and planning, according to the Birth Injury Guide. In these cases, it’s possible that medical malpractice ...
Overview Whether used for pleasure or commerce, boating poses a real threat for potential accidents. While most involve recreational ships, boating accidents may include cruise lines, workboats or other shipping vessels. In 2015 alone, the US Coast Guard counted 4,158 recreational boating accidents, including 626 deaths and approximately $42 million in property damage. Boat Classifications The three main types of boat groups are recreational,...
Overview Brain injuries, often referred to as Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), develop from an external force to the head which results in the trauma of the brain forcefully colliding with the skull. For the 1.5 million people that annually experience TBI, the resulting injuries are often devastating and may cause, among physical damage such as a permanent vegetative state, coma, or death, additional emotional and behavioral problems for those...
Have You Suffered Burn Injuries? Ask an Injury Lawyer for Legal Advice Burns, even minor first degree burns, can be very painful. The burn causes damage to a person’s skin, tissues, and nerves. Of the over two million people who are burned each year in America, 300,000 are serious injuries and 6,000 burns result in fatalities, according to the Miami Burn Center. First degree burns are the most minor and can include sunburns. Second degree...
Have You Been Injured in a School Bus Accident? When any person, company, or agency fails to protect kids or adults aboard a bus, that entity becomes responsible if a school bus accident happens. Consequently, school bus accidents--while comparably rare, thankfully--have more than their share of potentially daily aggravating factors, including--among other examples, more deeply addressed below--driver negligence, inadequate security,...
Overview Any commute involves some risk, but car accidents are among the most common types of wrecks and arguably the most avoidable if all drivers paid attention to safe-driving practices. The most common types of car accidents include collisions, such as head-on collisions or rear-end collisions, rollovers, particularly SUV rollovers, tire blowouts, single car accidents and multi-car accidents, and pile-ups. Automobile accidents often occur...
Construction workers are regularly required to work in precarious situations where they put their bodies through significant strain and use powerful machinery such as jackhammers, blowtorches, saws, drills, etc.. They climb great heights, handle potentially harmful debris, work with electrical wiring, dig trenches, mix and pour concrete, and handle traffic as they build up and repair our community. It isn’t uncommon for construction workers to...
Have You Been Injured in a Cruise Ship Accident? Ask a Maritime Lawyer for Legal Advice Cruise ships are popular places for people to vacation, allowing them to experience the comforts of a high class hotel while traveling to new and interesting locations across the water. However, with all the fun that cruise ships can provide, there are inherent dangers with any kind of activity taking place on the water. From 2005 to 2018, there were 448...
What Are the Options for Distracted Driving Victims? Technological advancements like smartphones, GPS, and other devices have flooded the marketplace, and in many ways, they have helped make our lives easier. However, they have also led to dangerous behavior, such as distracted driving. Now, more and more, we are hearing about traffic accidents that happened because someone was texting while driving or concentrating on their GPS instead...
What to Do If You Are the Victim in a Drunk Driving Accident Simply put, there is no excuse for getting behind the wheel of a car or truck while drunk. Not only do drunk drivers put their lives at risk, but also the lives of their passengers and anyone unlucky enough to share the road with them. The thing is, drunk driving crashes are completely preventable. All it takes is someone making the decision to not drive drunk. That’s it. Yet...
Have You Suffered from Insurance Bad Faith? Ask an Insurance Bad Faith Lawyer for Legal Advice The term “insurance bad faith” refers to an insurance company’s failure to deal justly with the people they insure in order to avoid paying a claim. In these situations, a claim can be filed against the insurance company by a policyholder who has been harmed by the company’s show of bad faith. There are a variety of red flags that may...
Overview It’s not surprising that motorcycle accidents and car accidents have significant differences. Due to the smaller size of motorcycles, lack of exterior protection, and lack of visibility to other vehicles, motorcycle accidents tend to be more severe with consequences ranging from injury to death. In 2014, there were approximately 92,000 injuries every year over 4,000 fatalities due to motorcycle accidents, according to the...
Have You or a Loved One Experienced Nursing Home Abuse? Ask a Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer for Legal Advice Nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than we would like to believe. When we put a loved one in a nursing home, we are entrusting that home with the care and health of its dependent patients. With over 1.3 million nursing home residents (CDC, 2015), over 33% will be placed in a facility that is already experiencing reports of abuse...
Overview Pedestrian accidents are often devastating. These kinds of wrecks generally result in pedestrians suffering severe injuries or getting killed. Therefore, pedestrian accident victims and their families can face heavy financial burdens, including hospital bills, rehabilitation and physical therapy expenses, lost wages, and funeral costs. While advancements are continually being made to keep passengers in cars safer from accidents,...
Overview Personal Injury is a broad category of law usually involving lawsuits based on injury or death from a variety of unnatural causes. These reasons could include anything from auto accident injuries to medical malpractice to product liability. Personal Injury cases almost always require the timely hiring of an attorney to represent you or your family and can often require a trial attorney. These cases, whether in settlement or in court,...
Have You Been Injured on Another Person’s Premises? Seek Free Legal Advice From a Personal Injury Attorney A person can be injured virtually anywhere, whether it is at their apartment, a friend’s house, a hospital, a government building, or elsewhere. When an injury comes as a result of negligence by the property owner, the owner must be held responsible according to premises liability laws. Though these laws differ between states,...
Overview Any product may be subject to defects and depending upon the nature of the product or use, consequences could be severe. If a product has a defect that causes injury, or if the proper safety instructions or precautions are not taken, there could be a case for a product defect lawsuit. Common Types of Product Defect Cases There is no limit to the types of products that could cause injury and, thus, be a possible product defect legal...
Overview Slip and fall accidents are the most common type of premises liability accidents, and if you have been injured in a slip and fall accident, you may be eligible for compensation. When you slip and fall or trip and fall due to unsafe surface conditions, such as wet floors, you may become seriously injured. If this surface was made unsafe by another party’s negligence or carelessness, you may be entitled to damages for your slip and...
Overview Spinal cord injury may occur as a result of trauma, in the case of a car crash or assault, or it may be the result of a disease or degeneration. However, in the case of a disease or degeneration, there is likely no at-fault party unless medical malpractice plays a part. A recent estimate showed that the annual number of spinal cord injuries (SCI) comes to about 17,810 new cases each year. Causes of Spinal Cord Injuries While these...
Overview Railroads and trains are governed by different laws than common automobiles. Due to the sheer physics of such a large vehicle, when accidents occur, the damage tends to be severe. It can also be harder to prevent a train accident, at least on the part of the conductor. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sets the guidelines for railroad safety. However, there is a margin of error that may occur in addition to habitual human...
Overview Over two million trucks are on the road focusing on meeting deadlines with the goods they are hauling. However, sometimes the truck drivers or their trucking companies get careless or negligent, putting the lives of others in serious danger. Truck accidents, or semi accidents, are a part of 500,000 accidents each year causing over 5,000 fatalities and over 140,000 serious injuries. Common injuries include head and brain injuries ,...
Overview Safety is an important part of any workplace. Employers are legally obligated to provide a reasonably safe work environment for their employees, the standards of which are decided by a variety of authoritative bodies, including industry regulation experts and OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Act). A failure to follow these industry standards can result in the necessity for legal action to correct the violation. OSHA requires...
Overview When a loved one dies, the pain and stress can be overwhelming; this terrible situation is made worse when the death came as the result of another party’s negligence. When someone dies as the result of negligence, it is considered a wrongful death. Wrongful death falls under personal injury law , and it often involves car accidents , medical malpractice , defective products , criminal cases , and other forms of...