Category Archives: Personal Injury
Liability When Guns Injure People
Victims of gun violence often think that nothing can be done to get compensation for their injuries. They often think that it’s up to the criminal system to punish the wrongdoer, which is true. But victims of gun violence can also seeks civil accountability in the form of compensation for their injuries. How Gun… Read More »
The Role of Bad Weather in Car Accidents
When you were a kid learning to drive, you may remember your parents telling you to adjust your driving habits based on weather conditions. This wasn’t idle or pointless advice—your parents were just telling you what the statistics bear out. The Statistics of Bad Weather The United States Department of Transportation, in a study… Read More »
Patients Contract HIV at Unlicensed Medical Spa: A Warning for All of Us
There are a lot of seemingly routine procedures at health spas that can cause serious injury. Even manicures and pedicures can cause serious injury, and lead to infection, some of which have led to amputation of limbs. But there’s a new trend in health spas that is now causing the Centers for Disease Control… Read More »
No Pain at First? You Still Could be Seriously Injured
Let’s say that you are in an accident. You get hurt, you get medical treatment, and after treatment and consultation with the doctor, you know what’s wrong with you. It would be convenient if it worked just that way. But in reality, it often doesn’t. That’s because the human body often doesn’t tell you… Read More »
Incomplete and Missing Product Labels: A Failure to Warn
Have you ever noticed how many instruction labels are on products or items that we use in our daily lives? Some make sense—like instructions telling us when to use and not use prescription drugs. Others seem a little comical, like labels telling us not to eat what clearly are inedible items. But those items… Read More »
Patient Falls in Nursing Homes: How Do They Happen?
Much has been made and published about the ways that people can get injured in nursing homes. From active abuse to neglect, our most vulnerable population is often the group that suffers the most when nursing homes are understaffed, or poorly trained. But there is another danger in nursing homes—falls. And before you think… Read More »
Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice Cases Can be Difficult Cases
When doctors commit malpractice it sometimes isn’t so much that they did something wrong, or botched a procedure, or did something “poorly.” Often, the problem is that they didn’t do anything at all, or else, that they completely diagnosed what you actually had, with something else, called misdiagnosis. Like “active malpractice,” where the doctor… Read More »
Defenses to Product Liability Cases
If you are injured by a product that is broken, made dangerously, or defective, it may seem like the case is an easy one. After all, you didn’t make the product wrong, they did. But you may be surprised to know that there are common defenses to product liability cases. Strict Liability Victims of… Read More »
More Than Abuse: How Else Do Patients Get Hurt in Nursing Homes?
The internet and the news media are filled with horrific stories of the elderly and infirm, being abused in nursing homes. Often, these stories are accompanied by video, showing someone from the nursing home physically abusing an infirm resident. But while horrific and intolerable, these aren’t the only ways that people get abused in… Read More »
Accidents and Insurance Involving Food Delivery Services
Many people have written about the liability issues, when you are in an accident involving a rideshare company, like Uber or Lyft. But rideshare companies don’t just carry passengers—they also carry goods, and especially food. Are the legal issues different, when you are injured by a rideshare company that is delivering food instead of… Read More »
