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Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid After a Car Accident

  Being involved in a car accident is a stressful experience that can leave you feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. However, it’s crucial to remain calm and composed in the aftermath to avoid making critical mistakes that

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Distracted Driving: A Growing Menace on the Roads

  Distracted driving has become a significant concern on our roads, posing serious risks to motorists, passengers, and pedestrians alike. One of the most common forms of distraction is cell phone use, including texting, calling, and browsing

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Importance of Medical Evidence in Personal Injury Cases

  In personal injury cases, medical evidence plays a crucial role in determining the extent of injuries and the compensation owed to the injured party. Medical records and expert opinions provide valuable documentation and analysis that stren

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What Happens During a Personal Injury Lawsuit?

  When you’re involved in a personal injury lawsuit, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed by the legal proceedings. Understanding the stages of litigation can help ease some of that uncertainty.   The first stage is filing a comp

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Bus Accidents: Pursuing Personal Injury Claims

Bus accidents, whether involving public transit, school buses, or private carriers, can lead to significant injuries and complex legal scenarios. If you’ve been injured in a bus accident, understanding the process of pursuing a personal inju

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Dealing with Insurance Companies: Dos and Don’ts

Navigating the complexities of dealing with insurance companies after a personal injury can be challenging. Knowing the dos and don’ts can help you protect your rights and maximize your chances of receiving fair compensation.   Dos: &nb

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Bicycle Accidents: Legal Rights for Injured Cyclists

Bicycle accidents can result in severe injuries, and understanding your legal rights as an injured cyclist is essential to pursuing the compensation you deserve.   Establishing Liability:   Determining who is at fault for the accident is

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The Role of Expert Witnesses in Personal Injury Cases

Expert witnesses play a pivotal role in personal injury cases by providing specialized knowledge and testimony that can clarify complex issues, strengthen claims, and aid in achieving just outcomes. Their expertise covers a wide range of fields, m

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How Social Media Can Impact Your Personal Injury Case

Social media has become an integral part of our lives, and it can have a significant impact on personal injury cases. As social media platforms have grown in popularity, they have increasingly become a place where people share information about th

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What to Do When You Have Been Injured at Work

Sustaining an injury at work can be a traumatic experience, both physically and mentally. It can also result in financial difficulties, such as lost wages and medical bills. If you have been injured at work, it is important to know what steps to t

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Ways to Prevent Cycling Accidents

If a careless and negligent motorist injures a cyclist, the cyclist has a legal right to be compensated for the injuries he acquired. Injuries and damages are usually very painful, stressful, expensive, disabling, sometimes permanent, and fatal to

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Main Causes of Pedestrian Accidents

Pedestrian accidents have increased very much. The accidents have left many dead while others severely injured and unable to work or do things for themselves. To prevent any more pedestrian accidents, it is important to know their causes which inc

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Common Causes of Bus Accidents

What is your main mode of transportation every day? I am almost certain that most of you use a bus as a mode of transport. No one is ever prepared for an accident because many of them occur suddenly. Compared to other vehicles, buses do not often

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Steps to Take After a Truck Accident

Getting into an accident is never an amazing experience but a traumatizing one, especially when it has to do with a truck. A truck weighs way more than an average car. Being in a truck accident leaves you with many physical and mental negative imp

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What Are the Most Common Truck Accidents?

Trucks are increasing on our roads daily. But aren’t they just gigantic? Sadly, we not only experience car accidents daily, but these gigantic vehicles have also been causing different types of devastating accidents on today’s highways

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Types of Burn Injuries

A burn is a damage to tissues or traumatic injuries to the skin caused by excessive heat, chemicals, electricity, the sun, or radiation. Many people seek medical attention every day caused of burn accidents. The burns may be either minor injuries

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Ways of Preventing Slip and Fall Injuries

Almost all of us have slipped and fallen at some point. The falls may have caused bruises or severe injuries to us. Loss of grip between the shoe and the walking surface or unintended contact with a fixed or moveable object causes slips and falls.

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The Most Common Causes of Burn Injuries

The word “burn” makes you think of “fire,” right? Most people connect burns to fire, which is undoubtedly true since most burns are caused by heat. Burn injuries occur unexpectedly and can be very painful and highly damaging. Burns affect

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Causes of Dog Attacks

Dogs are friendly animals but can be very aggressive when triggered. Most dog owners do not like to think that their dogs have the capability of biting people. That is why most of them when asked whether their dogs bite, deny it even if the dog ha

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The Most Common Causes of Car Accidents

Getting into an accident is not fun at all. Whether the accident was minor or severe, accidents drastically change a person’s life. No matter what or how the accident happened, car wrecks are stressful, frustrating, and painful experiences. They

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The Major Types of Car Accidents

In today’s world, many people get the opportunity to own cars, thus leading to an increase of vehicles on the roads. Car accidents are, therefore, everyday hazards for many people worldwide. Accidents are not a problem just on high-speed roads o

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Liability for Dangerous Premises

You must be wondering how a premise can be dangerous or what a dangerous premise is. A dangerous premise is any property that has not been appropriately maintained. It is deemed unsafe because it is not compliant with building and safety codes. So

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Safety Tips to Prevent Motorcycle Accidents

Gear up. Wear long pants and sleeves made of leather or another thick, protective material, gloves, eye protection, and durable boots that cover your ankles. Don’t forget to add layers or invest in heavier gear designed for the temps when it

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What Counts as Harassment in the Work Place?

Workplace harassment is a form of discrimination and is against the law. It’s a shame that some victims encourage it to protect their positions. Others downplay it as a way of life.   All employees deserve respect, whether interns, permanent, o

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Signs of Mistreatment at Work

Sadly, mistreatment is so common that most employees can’t spot it. And if they do, they are silent about it or dismiss it as something minor. Some people are so blinded by the wicked society we are living in that they can’t see anythi

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How to Recover from A Car Accident

The good news is that you survived and you can only get better. The only frustrating thing about getting involved in a car accident is that it happens so fast yet the healing is slow and boring. From the onset, you need to be patient. Even if ther

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How to Sue After Being Hit by a Drunk Driver

According to a Colorado state study on drunk driving, about 60 percent of individuals are arrested daily for drunk driving. Unfortunately, most drunk drivers avoid arrest and cause severe injuries to motorists and pedestrians.  Drunk drivers who

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Myths About Filing a Lawsuit

Only a third of complaints escalate to lawsuits. The reason being, victims do not have the confidence that the legal system will handle their case satisfactorily. Additionally, there have been a few cases of legal abuse where an unfair judgment is

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What to Do if you are injured in an Uber or Lyft Accident

Uber and Lyft are among the top cab companies globally. They offer rider services via a mobile app where customers submit their trip requests and it alerts the cab driver nearby. The customer can confirm and accept the response and further pay thr

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How to Spot OSHA Violations

The Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a Universal government agency mandated to ensure that health and safety measures are maintained at workplaces. It does this by setting up safety protocols, training, education, and enforcem

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5 Major Causes of Road Accidents

Reckless driving costs us up to 1.3 Million lives globally per year. This is a ridiculously high number considering these drivers went through training, were tested, and seen to be fit as road users. They also know the lurking dangers and have los

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Diversified Executive Boards

By the end of 2021, boards with five members will have to ensure at least two of them are women. Boards with six members will need to maintain 50:50 men to women ratio. The expectation is that this diversity will reform the corporate world and ope

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Can Employers Make COVID-19 Vaccination Mandatory?

2020 saw employers lose several work hours, employees, opportunities, and much more. If the vaccine would help stabilize the business, then it would be natural for employers to want to enforce it.  The vaccine has been feared to cause COVID-like

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Slip And Fall Settlements

  Can slip and fall cases settle out of court? Some slip and fall cases can be settled out of court because the property owners are conversant with the fact that it is less expensive and time-consuming settling such cases out of court to avoi

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Do I Have A Personal Injury Case?

What are some personal injury case examples? In 2005, out of 26,928 contracts, real property, and tort trials held in the United States, 60 percent of these trials were personal injury related cases. Some of the most popular personal injury cases

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Dog Bite injury

How to manage a dog bite after an attack? First aid should be the initial step to take in case of a dog bite. The first aid entails stopping any bleeding by placing a clean towel over the wound. The injured region should be kept in an elevated pos

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Car Accident Injuries And Compensation

How serious are car accident injuries? Car accidents are among the leading causes of injuries. In 2012, the United States recorded over 5.6 million car accidents, 30,000 of these accidents were fatal. Although the injuries involved vary from crash

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Filing a Personal Injury Claim Against Your Employer

When you get injured at work should you file a worker compensation claim or personal injury claim? There are many instances in where people can get an illness or suffer serious injuries at work. Sometimes it might just be that the employee wasn

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3 Cheers for Cheerleaders

Cheers for Cheerleaders: California has added labor code 2754 that now makes “cheerleaders” of a California based “professional sports team” an employee (and no longer an independent contractor). As an employee, cheerleade

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Proposition 213?…..What does that mean?

The car insurance company said I am a “prop 213”. What does that mean? Proposition 213 is a law that generally says you cannot recover for your pain and suffering in the car accident because you did not have car insurance at the time o

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Injured while riding in a cab? Know your rights.

Question: If I am riding in a cab in California and there is an accident, do I have any rights? Can I get my medical bills paid? Answer: Yes, you have the right to be compensated for your injuries and also have your medical bills paid when you a

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California overtime update

Employment update on overtime pay: In order for a California employee to be exempt from getting paid overtime, the employee has to make a certain amount each month or per year. On January 1, 2016, minimum wage increased from $9.00 to $10.00. With

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California gives cheers to Cheerleaders

California has added labor code 2754 that now makes “cheerleaders” of a California based “professional sports team” an employee (and no longer an independent contractor). As an employee, cheerleaders have more rights and pr

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