Posts tagged injury

• Choosing a Personal Injury Attorney

  Mike Schneider | July 31, 2007 1:27 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When you are injured as the result of negligence, you should seek legal advice immediately before you discuss the matter with an insurance adjuster, before signing any documents, and before valuable evidence can be lost. The less money insurance companies pay for claims, the more money they make. Before discussing the matter with an adjuster, you should get the advice you need from a qualified...

• Another Deadly Motorcycle Crash

  Mike Schneider | July 30, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Seward Highway was shut down for hours Saturday night after a vehicle-motorcycle crash that took place south of McHugh Creek at around 7:00 p.m.. The female driver of the motorcycle apparently crossed the center line and caused the crash that took her life, according to Alaska State Troopers investigating the case.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Car and...

• Two Dead in Industrial Fall

  Mike Schneider | July 25, 2007 12:22 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Two young men working to put siding on the mill building at the Rock Creek Mine died Thursday evening when the man lift, a metal basket-like elevated work station, tipped over, spilling them 50 feet to the ground. The mine, near Nome, had recently passed a safety inspection. These fatalities double the mine death numbers for Alaska over the last decade. An investigation of the incident...

• Can Assault Victim Get Justice?

  Mike Schneider | July 18, 2007 12:55 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An Anchorage bus driver was arrested on sexual assualt charges, allegedly having taken advantage of an adult passenger with the mental age of a child. Criminals often have no money or insurance, but if they were on the job, or if their work position helped them commit the crime, a good lawyer can often find a way to hold the employer and its insurance company accountable.

• Big Oil and Insurance Team to Disadvantage Alaskan Families

  Mike Schneider | June 29, 2007 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  If you are hurt or killed on the job you can't sue your employer or fellow employees. And it used to be that employers/fellow employees were the only ones that enjoyed this immuntiy from negligence...or worse. But a couple of legislative sessions ago, Sen. Ralph Seekins of Fairbanks, big oil, and big insurance teamed up to make things even better for negligent big business, while leaving...

• Multi-Million Dollar Dry Cleaner Lawsuit Tossed

  Jane Schneider | June 28, 2007 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On Monday, June 25, 2007, a judge ruled that no pair of pants if worth $54 million. Roy Pearson, ad administrative law judge sued a Washington D.C. dry cleaner alledging that the dry cleaners lost his pants and tried to give him a pair that were not his. D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled that the owners of Custom Cleaners, the Chung family, did not violate the consumer-protection...

• Injured Crime Victims Have Hope

  Mike Schneider | June 22, 2007 12:06 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Some crime victims are seriously or catastrophically injured. Some are killed. The criminals often have little or spend what they have on defense lawyers. Most victims know about the Violent Crimes Compensation Act. But few know that there are private insurace policies that may pay for the harms and losses they have suffered.The Violent Crimes Compensation Act may be a small help, but by its...

• Child Dog Mauling Lawsuit Will Go To Trial

  Mike Schneider | June 15, 2007 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Alaska Supreme Court, in a 3/2 decision, announced that Alaska's minor Statute of limitations, AS 09.10.140(c), requiring a minor injured under the age of 8 to file suit on or before his/her 10th birthday, deprives the minor of his/her due process right to access the courts. See, Sands v. Green, and State of Alaska, S-11582, Op. no. 6121, May 4, 2007, a personal injury lawsuit alleging...

• Selecting a Personal Injury Attorney

  Jane Schneider | June 14, 2007 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When you are injured as the result of negligence, you should seek legal advice immediately before you discuss the matter with an insurance adjuster, before signing any documents, and before valuable evidence can be lost. Remember, the less money insurance companies pay on claims, the more money they make. Before saying anything to anybody, get the advice you need from a qualified personal...

• Personal Injury Lawyers

  Christina Cole | March 04, 2007 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A personal injury lawyer specializes in personal injury lawsuits, by providing legal services to clients that have been injured either physically and/or financially due to the fault of another person or business.In most instances, a personal injury lawyer has experience in a wide array of person injury areas so they can provide case specific legal services that include areas such as medical...