Can you recover for a personal injury if the investigating officer or company representative never filled out an accident report? For example, if a police officer in Virginia believes that the damage to the cars involved in the wreck are minimal, he or she may not fill out a formal accident report.
There are several categories of railroad injury related cases. First, a federal law, the Federal Employer’s Liability Act (FELA), gives rail workers the right to sue their railroad employer directly for injuries suffered on the job–this law trumps workers compensation entirely. Accidents and serious
Medical malpractice lawsuits are attacked by doctors and major insurance companies, but the laws that permit these suits are critical to assuring that the delivery of medical care in the U.S. is improved. Simply stated: without the risk of economic penalty for poor care, U.S. medical services would
Due to the huge size, weight, and speed at which trucks and tractor-trailers travel on our nation’s highways, accidents involving motor vehicles, cars, trucks and trailers can be catastrophic or even fatal. Tracking down the proper entity, or just the proper insurance sources, can be frustrating. Al
While there are pesonal injury cases where head or brain injury is diagnosed immediately, the more common scenario involves diagnosis through specialists well after the injury occurs. Some of the common questions are answered below.What is a traumatic head/brain injury?A traumatic brain/head injury
I am often asked by my clients if they can recover for vacation time or sick time that they have to use because of injuries from a motor vehicle accident or other type of personal injury claim. Are these compensable and recoverable–even if the person was paid while out of work but had to tap into si
It looks like lawmakers in Lebanon Township, PA, may want to look into installing better safety measures at a railroad crossing where there have apparently been three train accidents in eight months.Cynthia Dunlap was hit by a train traveling 38 MPH in a 50 MPH train zone. According to witnesses, sh
A Virginia Beach police officer was injured Monday morning when a car made a left turn in front of him. Officer Troy Cornett was traveling north on Princess Anne Road around 8:30 AM when Mary Homesly pulled out in front of him while making a left turn from Newstead Drive. The force of the crash thre
The state of Virginia recently struck down proposed memorials at the sites of three fatal trucking accidents. While this might sound ridiculous – that the state wouldn’t allow memorials at the sites of fatal crashes – the catch is that the memorials were proposed by People For the Ethical Treatment
Bruce Stern over at the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog notes that a team of doctors at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new technique for Traumatic Brain Injury imaging.Bruce summarizes that the testshows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates. Test subjects heads wer
In this article, I wanted to set out some of the more common questions I receive from personal injury clients who are in car, auto or vehicle accidents and believe that they may have a personal injury claim. Probably the best way to do this is in a question and answer format as I have done below:1.
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