Category Archives: Personal Injury
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 »
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 »
