When you speak to your accident lawyer, your attorney will need some vital information before he or she can start on your case. Having this information handy during your initial consultation will make the process much easier. 5. What happened, exactly (without the commentary)? At first, your lawyer wants a...
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Are you an expert on the rules of the road? Do you know the law better than anyone else? Test your knowledge and see how well you fare against your friends and fellow drivers. Once you're done, click here to share on Facebook 1. Two cars come to a...
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Every now and then we like to have a bit of a laugh, just to keep things from getting too serious. While car accidents are usually no laughing matter, sometimes we come across some excuses people give that just make us shake our heads. "Real claims...
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There are aspects of the vehicle code that we all know we break sometimes, like not using a turn signal when turning or changing lanes. We know we’re supposed to do it, but sometimes we forget or just don’t bother. (You really should though, if...
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When you go out in public, there are places where you feel relatively safe — but many of these places have hidden risks. 5. Fights Aren't the Only Way to Be Hurt at the Club It makes sense that any place that mixes alcohol and large groups...
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When we hear about sudden injuries or deaths that seem to occur in non-typical locations or situations, we may not be aware of how common these types of accidents are. 5. Escalators Injure and Kill Enough People to Fill a Minor League Baseball Stadium While most people...
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In exchange for your tax dollars, one of the things the government must do is provide safe roadways. For example, if Caltrans knows that a road is unsafe because there have been many reported accidents at a certain intersection, and the state does nothing to...
Continue ReadingAs a personal injury lawyer and consumer advocate, I've spent the last five years of my life fighting insurance companies on behalf of people who have been injured or have lost love ones in accidents. For me, it has been a harsh reality how unfair...
Continue ReadingEveryone knows the McDonald's Hot Coffee case - or at least everyone thinks they know about the case. The truth is, most of America still doesn't know what actually happened in the case, other than to mock the "greedy plaintiff," the "greedy lawyer" and the...
Continue ReadingPublished in the Los Angeles Daily Journal & San Francisco Daily Journal Monday May 3, 2010 By Allen P. Wilkinson and Reza Torkzadeh. Tort law is all about a person's right to be fairly and fully compensated for his or her injuries—or the death of a...
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