Consider the scenario, a man was driving his family home. Not long after the family’s station wagon entered the city, the driver stopped at a red light, and was rear-ended by a drunken motorist. Because no insurance company had started selling an uninsured motorist option, the man with the damaged wagon submitted a 1st party claim at his own insurance company. Read More

In any personal injury case, someone can usually be held at fault for the injurious accident. The plaintiff must produce evidence of negligence, in order to accuse the responsible party of having been careless and neglectful. Read More

Courts make note of the sort of actions that were committed by the responsible party in a personal injury case. Whenever a defendant’s behavior has been presented as something that deserved to be called outrageous, a court might impose punitive damages on the same defendant. Read More

Someone that has suffered a personal injury has the right to seek a settlement by negotiating with the responsible party. Yet, if the negotiations were to reach a standstill, it could be time to think seriously about initiating a lawsuit. Read More

The victim of an accident has the right to file a personal injury claim. The size of the victim’s compensation depends to a great extent on the treatment prescribed for and used on the victim’s injuries. Read More

The injured victim from an accident seldom takes into consideration the jury’s part in the process used for making the responsible person accountable for his or her actions. While the victim gives little thought to the jury’s role, the lawyers for each of the disputing parties views the jury differently. Each of them asks this: What could be the jury’s ruling, if this case were to go to court? Read More