Notice requirements compel those injured in an accident to notify proper authorities within a certain time frame. Otherwise, they lose the ability to make a claim. Many people understand statutes of limitation. Such laws give an injured person a certain number of years after an accident to file a proper complaint in a court with [...]
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Products Liability: Personal Injuries Caused by Defective Products
Products liability cases present horrifying facts: A power wrench explodes throwing metal pieces into an auto mechanics face, causing partial blindness. The transformer block on a new telephone answering device short circuits, sparking a home fire. A breast implant ruptures, leaking fluid into a woman’s body, causing cancer. These actual product defects provide a few examples [...]
Life Expectancy Tables In Personal Injury Cases
Life expectancy tables provide key information in evaluating some personal injury cases. The tables give a statistical perspective, a number, telling us how long any given human being can be expected to live. One of the most often overlooked elements of a personal injury case calculates long term potential damages beyond the date a release [...]
Cell Phones and Accidents: Is Legal Cell Phone Use Negligence?
Motor vehicle accidents happen more often than not due to driver inattention. Jabbering on the cell phone, texting, eating, drinking, turning to communicate with passengers, daydreaming and many other distractions reduce driver attention. Cell phones and accidents present growing legal issues. Whether the distraction breaks a state law or not, any cause of driver distraction, [...]
SNOW AND ICE PERSONAL INJURY CASES
Snow and ice cases, where injuries are claimed for a slip and fall, present unique issues. A slip and fall on slippery snow or ice can cause serious injuries. But, the happening of an accident and injuries does not automatically entitle the injured person to a recovery. Fault must be established on the part of the property [...]
LIENS ON PERSONAL INJURY CASES
Like locks on a gate, liens prevent final settlement of personal injury cases until they are addressed. Government liens, private liens, statutory liens and others lock down settlement until dealt with. Medicare & Medicaid Liens Medicare & Medicaid, by statute, have liens on injury cases where accident related bills have been paid. Acceptance of these [...]
Independent Medical Examination in Personal Injury: the “IME”
Independent Medical Examination is anything but independent. The exams, also called an “IME” are also not medical examinations in the sense of a physician performing an unbiased examination seeking clinical findings for the purpose of healing. IMEs are set up by insurance companies solely for insurance company purposes. So, the correct term should be ‘Insurance Examination’. [...]
AUTO INSURANCE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Car accidents cause trauma. Those injured wonder why they suffer again when they try to figure out auto insurance. PIP Massachusetts lawmakers enacted what they call ‘no-fault’ auto insurance. This means that under the ‘PIP’ or Personal Injury Protection provision of your own insurance policy, regardless of fault, your insurance pays up to $8K of your medical bills. There are many [...]
WORKERS COMPENSATION: BENEFITS DEFINED BY LAW
Employees injured on the job become eligible for workers compensation benefits to help them back on their feet. Workers compensation is a state mandated insurance system spelling out certain defined benefits to employees who suffer job related injuries and illnesses. Each state has its own workers compensation laws. What are the benefits? [...]
PERSONAL INJURY: Reasonable Person Standard
Negligence happens when a person does one of two things: Fails to do something that a reasonable person would do, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs; or Does something that reasonable person would not do. Common law evolves slowly. The reasonable man concept is burned into legal history. However, [...]
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