After your injury, you may be asked for extra information about your claim. For example, the insurance adjuster determining the worth of your settlement may ask for your medical records when calculating the right amount. When they ask for this information, you may need to ask a few questions yourself. For example, what impact will medical records have on an injury lawsuit? You’ll need to know what information is necessary and what may not be reasonable. If you’re not sure where to begin, reach out to an attorney for help deciding...Continue Reading...
Whiplash is an injury that commonly occurs in vehicle collisions. Many people don’t understand how serious this type of injury can be. It can be painful, cause permanent damage to your neck and spine, and even cause you to miss out on work for a while or be forced to change your profession.When someone else caused the vehicle accident that led to your whiplash injury, you have every right to file a car crash claim or lawsuit against them. You deserve to recover a settlement to pay for your injury-related losses.What Is Whiplash, and How Can...Continue Reading...
We all rely on medical practitioners to take care of us, heal our ailments and injuries, and give us prescriptions that will help us. The last thing you would ever expect is for a doctor to cause you injury rather than fix one. Unfortunately, doctors and healthcare professionals can make mistakes. Some mistakes are understandable in any profession. After all, doctors are humans and capable of errors. It’s when their mistakes go beyond reasonable and move into negligence that they can be held accountable. If you’ve suffered...Continue Reading...
A bar fight is generally depicted on the television and in the movies with the protagonist physically confronting a group of assailants. They rarely depict the reality of the financial pain that is suffered by the victims due to getting injured in the bar fight.With thousands of bars and nightclubs operating in California that serve alcohol, the possibilities of a brawl happening are high. If you have been injured due to a bar fight, you have the legal option to collect compensation from the guilty party for your injuries.But who should you sue...Continue Reading...
The Orange County Register published an article on October 8, 2017 discussing a two-car crash in Santa Ana that occurred earlier that Sunday morning around 2:56 a.m. Both cars reportedly crashed at the intersection of Edinger Avenue and Main Street with the wreckage winding up on the front porch of a home causing an extensive amount of structural damage. There was also a significant amount of damage done to both cars. Three people were taken to the Orange County Global Medical Center, one being in critical condition.Car crashes can be without...Continue Reading...
The Hartford has recently been the target of a class action lawsuit from one of the premier bad faith insurance lawyers in the country, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP and Consumer Watchdog. The original law lawsuit, available as a download here, saidConsumers purchase life insurance coverage to provide peace of mind to themselves, and financial support to their families when they die. The life insurance coverage at issue here is no exception. In fact, Plaintiff’s and class members’ life insurance coverage provides an extra layer of...Continue Reading...
Most every adult in California knows that a car accident, workplace mishap, or medical mistake that comes about because of another person’s careless actions can result in compensatory damages being awarded to him or her. However, personal injury lawsuits are not required to fall into these traditional categories. Any time one person is injured physically and/or financially as the result of another person’s actions, that injured person may be able to recover monetary damages for his or her losses. Top Three Unusual Personal...Continue Reading...
