Monetary Damages in California Drunk Driving Accidents

Generally, in a an auto accident, a plaintiff is only entitled to receive their monetary damages and an award for pain and suffering. These damages consist of past and future...

Assault Victim Help for Injuries: Civil Lawsuit

A victim of assault has two distinct types of potential remedies in order to recover for the costs of his or her injuries.  An assailant who has committed an assault may be criminally prosecuted for assault charges, which may result in criminal penalties such...

Employer Liability for Injuries Caused by Employees

As a personal injury attorney in San Francisco, CA, I work with individuals who unfortunately have been injured.  Most of the time determining who is responsible for your injuries...

School Bus Accident Injury Liabilty

The services that school buses give are beneficial especially to busy parents. Parents no longer have to worry in transporting their children from home to school and vice versa...

Determining a Common Carrier and Its Liability

A common carrier is any association or corporation engaged in the business of carrying or transporting passengers or goods or both, offering their services to the general public for compensation.

How to Hire a Personal Injury Attorney

In every city and every state there are many, many personal injury attorneys.  How do you know you are going to retain someone who may best represent you? There are many attorneys...

Hit and Run Accident

State traffic laws require parties involved in accidents to follow certain procedures immediately after an accident has occurred. If you are a driver involved in a hit-and-run accident...

Injury Compensation for Lost Work Time

If you are injured at work, you may qualify for state workers' compensation benefits. It's important for the employer to prepare an accident report to help determine if you qualify for work injury compensation

Injury Harassment at Work

A typical job related injury is harassment and/or discrimination. It is defined as an action or speech that is so severe or pervasive as to created a "hostile" or "abusive" work environment. A common...

Settling a Personal Injury Case

There is no in hard rock standard for arriving at the settlement dollars in any given case. The controlling factors are...