Recent Blog Posts
Understanding the Assumption of Risk Defense in Injury Lawsuits
If you’re injured in an accident, you may hear the Defendant tell you (or your injury attorney tell you that the Defendant is saying) that you “assumed the risk” of your injury. That doesn’t seem to make any sense though–who would voluntarily subject themselves to being injured? What Does That Actually Mean? Assumption of… Read More »
How a Negligent Driver’s Insurance Policy Affects Your Injury Case
In Massachusetts, all insured drivers must carry liability insurance, in the amount of $25,000 per person, and $50,000 per accident. This is the minimum liability that is required, and therefore, the most affordable–and that means that often, when someone in a car injures you, there’s a good chance they are only carrying this minimum… Read More »
Defendants Might Challenge Your Medical Bills and Expenses in Court
It should go without saying, and is almost common sense, that in an accident, you should be compensated and can be compensated the reasonable value of your medical bills and expenses. Many people interpret that to mean you automatically get 100% of your outstanding medical bills after an accident. But that would be forgetting… Read More »
How Gaps or Delays in Medical Treatment Affect Your Injury Case
When it comes to medical decisions, they are ours, personally and ours alone to make. Which is why if, you’re in an accident and make a claim or file an injury lawsuit, it may come as a shock to hear the other side use as a defense, that you waiting too long to get… Read More »
Can You Sue a Minor Child for Personal Injuries?
It may seem like a silly thing to ask, but the question of whether or not you can sue a minor for injuries, is a real one. After all, minors include teenagers and preteenagers–ages of children who are big enough and old enough and more than able to cause injuries to others if they… Read More »
How Can You Tell if You’re a Victim of Medical Malpractice?
If you fall, or you’re in a car accident, or you’re injured some other way, you normally, immediately have some idea that your injury was caused by someone else. You may not know the details and you may not know exactly if the other person is at fault–but you know you have been injured… Read More »
Can You Inspect a Dog in a Dog Bite Injury Case?
If you were in a car accident, you would expect that the vehicles in the accident would undergo some kind of inspection by both the victim, and the negligent defendant (as well as the insurance companies involved). If you were in a slip and fall, you would expect that the area where the person… Read More »
The Role of Trucking Weigh Stations in Highway Safety
If you’ve ever taken a road trip on America’s roads, you’ve seen the signs, even if you weren’t exactly sure what they were: trucking weigh stations. What are these for, and what is even the purpose of having stops for trucks to be weighed? More Than Weight In reality, trucking weigh stations do a… Read More »
Proving Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Emotional distress and emotional damages have two opposite sides. On the one hand, we know emotional distress is real, and painful; accident or not, we’ve all had traumas in life that cause us emotional distress. But by the same token, emotional distress can be easily manipulated or faked, and that’s something that the law… Read More »
How do OSHA Safety Violations Affect Your Injury Case?
The Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration, or OSHA, is the government agency tasked with setting safety standards for workers in the workplace. Employers must follow OSHA guidelines, to keep employees from being injured on the job. But how do these regulations affect you if you’re injured by a property owner’s negligence? Not Just for… Read More »
