Category Archives: Personal Injury
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 »
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 »
Winning Your Case When You Don’t Remember How the Accident Happened
In a typical injury case, often the most powerful testimony or evidence that a jury can hear, is yours, the injured person. It is both persuasive, and first-person, in that you were the one who was there and living the accident. You Don’t Remember? But it often happens that the accident victim doesn’t remember… Read More »
What Does an Accident Reconstructionist Actually Do?
When there is a car accident, you may have heard attorneys discuss hiring what are known as accident reconstructionists. But why is this kind of expert so widely used in personal injury, and especially car accident cases? What does an accident reconstructionist actually do? When Facts are in Dispute As you may imagine, there… Read More »
This is How You Know the Insurance Company Isn’t on Your Side
So you’ve decided that you want to negotiate your accident case settlement on your own. That isn’t a good idea for a number of reasons, but for now, let’s assume that’s the route you want to take. The adjuster for the insurance company that is speaking with you about your accident seems kind, caring,… Read More »
Can an Independent Contractor Sue for Being Injured on the Job?
Like many states. Massachusetts has what is known as workers’ compensation immunity. In short this means that an employee can’t sue his or her employer for injuries sustained as a result of injuries on the job, unless the employer doesn’t give workers’ compensation benefits to the injured employee. But workers’ compensation is generally all… Read More »
Can (and Should) You Bring a Loss of Consortium Claim?
If you are in an accident, is it possible for someone who was not directly injured in the accident to sue for damages? It may seem like the answer is no — but because of what is known as a loss of consortium, the answer to that question is actually yes. The law recognizes… Read More »
