If you have been injured in an accident, at work, at a hospital or in a slip & fall or premises liability incident, you need to be aware of the rights you are afforded under civil injury law, better known as personal injury law.
We have put together a comprehensive eGuide that will inform you about personal injury laws, types of cases, your rights to money compensation, dealing with an insurance company, settling you claim and even taking your personal injury lawsuit to court.
Personal injury laws are primarily set based on common law rules and state legislatures. This means that they can and do vary by state. You will, ...
Legal Remedies for Accidents and Injuries. Personal injury law, also known as tort law, is a body of law that allows an injured individual to sue ...
When you suffer from a personal injury of any type, from medical malpractice to a car accident case to a dog bite or intentional tort, you general...
When you suffer from an injury that gives rise to a personal injury civil action, there is a very good chance you are going to be dealing with som...
A personal injury case can arise from any number of different situations, including medical malpractice, car accident cases, defective products, s...
While a settlement can be a good thing, it is not always a possibility and it doesn't always happen in every case. There are a few reasons why a settl...
When you bring a personal injury claim against someone who has harmed you or injured you in some way, one way or the other, you are going to have ...
Tort reform refers to changes that are proposed to tort and personal injury laws. Tort laws are those laws that allow one private citizen to sue a...
One of the questions most commonly asked by victims of a personal injury is how a personal injury case should be valued. This question comes up fo...
When you bring a civil suit for a personal injury that you or a family member has suffered, your aim in doing this is to collect financial compens...
Perhaps the single most determinative factor in whether you will be able to receive compensation after an injury, and in what amount, is a determi...
Wrongful death claims are among the most severe types of personal injury claims because they concern cases in which a party has brought about the ...
Outside of potential statute of limitations issues, the single biggest hurdle for a plaintiff in a toxic tort case is the problem of causation. When a...
Medical malpractice is a special form of personal injury case that is brought against hospitals, nurses, doctors, EMTS or other medical care profe...
There were over five and a half million car accidents within the United States in 2009. Of those car accidents, the National Highway Traffic Safet...
The United States imposes a number of obligations on the manufacturers of products, including a series of implied warranties. This includes an imp...
Who is Liable for Injury & Damages? Property Owners vs. "Occupants" All of the above discussion uses the word "premises owners," but in reality, l...
In most instances when you suffer an injury, the law allows you the opportunity to recover damages from the person who caused that injury through ...
Personal injury law, or tort law, is a very broad category of the law. Personal injury law allows an individual who has been injured through eithe...
Giving the papers to the defendant is referred to as "service of process." Usually someone official (like a sheriff or process server) has to give the...
Toxic Torts. Toxic tort cases are among the hardest personal injury cases to prove. In a toxic tort case, it is asserted that the defendant...
After the discovery process, the case actually moves into the trial stage. During this time, the plaintiff has the burden of proving all of the elemen...
Punitive damages are another category of damages that may be compensated for in a personal injury claim. They have been left off the list thus far, al...
When a personal injury case exists (except for non-serious injuries in no fault states) there are two possible ways that the case can be resolved...
When a plaintiff either settles outside of court for a product liability case, or takes his or her case to court, there are a few different types of d...
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