What to Do After a Car Accident with Uber As personal injury attorneys, we often have clients that are involved in Uber car accidents. Ride sharing has become a massive part of the traffic happening on the roads. With the increased use of ride sharing, car accidents with Uber drivers...
Worker’s Compensation in Personal Injury Cases
Workers Compensation in Personal Injury Cases Imagine that you are working at a construction site removing the shackle from a girder when the crane operator prematurely lifts the boom crushing your right dominant hand. The crane operator works for a company that is not your employer. What rights do you...
How Personal Injury Settlements Work
How Do Personal Injury Settlements Work? By definition, a settlement is an agreement between parties where you accept compensation for your damages instead of continuing to move forward to trial and releasing one another from any other legal actions or claims. For a personal injury settlement, the injured party or...
Dealing with Insurance After an Accident
Dealing With Insurance After a Car Accident Insurance companies are in the business to make money. Over many years, they charge you, their insured, and thousands of other people, premiums for accident protection. These companies hope in a given year that nobody needs them and often, nobody does and they...
Basic Guide for How Car Insurance Works in Ohio
Basics of How Car Insurance Works in Ohio As in most states, Ohio drivers must demonstrate financial responsibility if they are negligent and cause an accident. Generally, they purchase car insurance to provide that protection. To carry this type of insurance, Ohio, like most states, has minimum amounts of liability...
Zantac Manufacturer Facing Mounting Personal Injury Liability
Zantac Manufacturer Facing Mounting Injury Lawsuits over NDMA and Cancer In 1983, Zantac, also called ranitidine, was introduced in the USA and distributed by Sanofi. The main manufacturers include Glaxo-Smith Kline, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Sanofi. It was very effective in treating acid reflux and related conditions such as ulcers. In...
Family Awarded $300 Billion For Texas Drunk Driver Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Family Awarded $300 Billion For Texas Drunk Driver Wrongful Death Lawsuit On November 12, 2017, Tamra Ray Kindred was on her way home. She had just picked up her granddaughter Aujuni Tamay Anderson from her place of employment. As they proceeded home, they were struck by a Dodge Charger that...
International Rugby Governing Body Facing Mounting Brain Injury Lawsuits
International Rugby Governing Body Facing Mounting Brain Injury Lawsuits Rugby is one of the most dangerous sports and traumatic injuries are commonly suffered by rugby players. The University of Rochester Medical School describes traumatic injuries for rugby players as ”commonly sustained during collisions with other players and/or the ground during...
Parasailing Wrongful Death Injury Lawsuit Filed in Florida Keys
Parasailing Wrongful Death and Injury Case Filed in Florida Keys How Did the Accident Happen? The family of a woman killed as well as injured victims in a parasailing accident sued the parasail boat’s captain and his company Lighthouse Parasail Inc (Lighthouse) in Monroe County Circuit Court. The tragic accident...
YouTuber David Dobrik Sued for $10M Over Jeff Wittek Injury Claim
YouTuber David Dobrik Sued for $10M Over Jeff Wittek Injury Claim How Was Jeff Wittek Injured? In June of 2020, Jeff Wittek, a member of David Dobrik’s crew “the Vlog Squad” was injured in a stunt gone wrong. People magazine reported that Mr. Wittek suffered serious injuries including “a broken...
3M Military Earplug Lawsuits Finding Success with $110M Verdict
3M Military Earplug Lawsuits Finding Success With $110M Verdict Over 300,000 American Military service members and others have sued 3M - claiming that they suffered sever hearing loss as a result of using faulty earplugs manufactured by the company. The litigation has quickly become one of - if not the...
Crew Members from Jackass Movie Sued in Injury Lawsuit
Jackass Crew Members Sued for Injury Allegedly Caused During Stunt The “Jackass” franchise has built somewhat of a cult following from dangerous stunts recorded on video. In 2018, the practical jokers may have taken stunts a bit too far in an alleged jet ski stunt gone wrong that resulted in...
10 Car Accident Shuts Down Secor and Monroe After Semi Truck Loses Control
10 Car Accident Closes Intersection at Secor and Monroe After a Semi-Truck Loses Control On Friday, February 5th, 2022, several people were reportedly injured when a semi-trailer lost control at the intersection of Secor Road and Monroe Street in West Toledo.At least ten vehicles were involved in the crash and...
Travis Scott Astroworld Injury Lawsuits Combined
Hundreds of Travis Scott Injury Lawsuits Combined into One Giant Case On November 5th, 2021, at Travis Scott's Astroworld show in Houston, Texas, 10 attendees dies and hundreds were injured. The injuries and death were caused by a massive crowd swell and stampede from the 50,000+ attendees. Due to the injuries...
Family of Fraternity Pledge Files Hazing Injury Lawsuit
Family of Fraternity Pledge Files Hazing Injury Lawsuit The family of Danial Santulli, 19, have filed a hazing lawsuit against a University of Missouri fraternity for requiring their son to drink a whole bottle of alcohol as part of the initiation process to join the frat. Tragically, Mr. Santulli was...
Viral Video Showing Car Accident Involving Reporter Sparks Conversation on Safety
Viral Video of Journalist Getting Hit By Car Sparks Conversation About Safety In a video that has been seen over 1 million times on YouTube and garnered thousands of shares on Twitter, Tori Yorgey, a 25-year-old multimedia journalist with WSAZ-TV in Charleston, West Virginia was hit by a passing car...
Levels of Snow Emergencies in Ohio
Levels of Snow Emergencies in Ohio In Ohio, there are 3 total levels of snow emergencies. The levels, and their meanings are as follows:Level 1. Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Roads may also be icy. Drivers should exercise caution when driving in these conditions. Level 2. Roadways are hazardous...
Texas Jury Renders $300 Billion Verdict in Drunk Driving Wrongful Death
Texas Jury Renders $300 Billion Verdict in Drunk Driving Wrongful Death Is everything bigger in Texas? Given the massive personal injury verdict rendered by a Texas injury lawsuit recently, it certainly seems to be the case. True to the Texas mantra, this Corpus Christi jury rendered the largest personal injury...
Harry Styles Fan Sues Following 2019 Crowd Crush Injury
Harry Styles Lawsuit Following 2019 Crowd Crush Injury A Harry Styles fan has filed a lawsuit following a concert crowd surge that caused alleged injuries in 2019. The plaintiff is now suing the Forum, it's then owner Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp, Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., Ticketmaster, Live Nation,...
Man Paralyzed in Uber Crash Sues for $63 Million Dollars
Man Paralyzed in Uber Crash Sues for $63 Million Dollars Last year, a Massachusetts man was injured in a serious car accident involving the Uber he was riding in. The trip in the ride-hailing service left him paralyzed. On Tuesday, January 25th, 2022, the man - William Good - filed a...
Personal Injury Law Basics
Personal Injury Law Basics Personal injury law covers many different types of civil proceedings. This law allows an aggrieved party to seek monetary compensation for harm caused by the failure of another person to act or to breach a duty owed to them. The victim of the breach is called...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Involved in Car Accident in Los Angeles
Arnold Schwarzenegger Involved in Car Accident in Los Angeles Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Governor of California, was involved in a car accident in Los Angeles on January 21st, 2022, just before 4:35 p.m., at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Allenford Avenue, near Paul Revere Charter Middle School according to...
The 12 Most Commonly Asked Questions in Personal Injury Cases
The 12 Most Commonly Asked Personal Injury Law Questions Being injured by another in an accident or due to negligent acts can be a confusing and difficult experience. As if its not enough to have to deal with potentially life altering injuries, most injured victims struggle to navigate the complex...