If you’ve ever been involved in a personal injury accident, your first action was (probably) to hire a good lawyer. If you talked to this person enough, he or she probably told you about medical liens. This is important since the majority of the costs in a personal injury accident stem from medical bills. Read More
Category: Personal Injury Faq’s
Do You Always Have To Give A Deposition In A Personal Injury Case?
Your lawyer will tell you that you may have to give a deposition if you are ever involved in a personal injury civil lawsuit. You’ll be told that a deposition is essentially a question-and-answer session that is a standard process in the discovery period that takes place before the trial does. Read More
What Is The Evidence Threshold In A Personal Injury Case?
The amount of evidence presented by either party in a personal injury case serves to strengthen or weaken the body of proof. Each element of a presented claim must be proven as having been more likely or not to have existed at the time of the injury-causing accident. Read More
How To Recognize The Need To Hire A Personal Injury Law
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
When Can Someone With Personal Injury Case Enter Claim of Negligence?
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
How Neglectful Behavior Could Lead To Imposition of Punitive Damages
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
Benefits And Drawbacks Linked To Pursuit of Lawsuit
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
How Does Treatment For Accident Victim Affect Outcome For Personal Injury Case?
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
Role of Jury In Determination of Accident Injury Settlement
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
Jury’s Approach To Determining Plaintiff’s Reward In Personal Injury Case
What goes on behind the closed door, when a jury that has heard the arguments in a personal injury case starts it deliberations? Read More