Miscellaneous

• Selecting a Personal Injury Lawyer for Your Case

  Rob Curtiss | April 12, 2007 8:22 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  People who have been seriously injured in automobile accidents often have a difficult time choosing the right lawyer to represent them. What makes their choice so difficult is that so many lawyers run ads claiming to be experts in personal injury cases. How is the injured person supposed to figure out which of these attorneys is best suited to represent them in their case? Injury victims...

• Legal Malpractice and Nondelegable Duties -- When Can a Lawyer Be Held Accountable for the Negligence of an Independent Contractor?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | April 12, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ

  We recently filed suit in a case where a lawyer himself did nothing wrong, but hired an independent contractor to file a lawsuit -- that is, a process server. The process server negligently failed to file the lawsuit on time and, as a result, the lawsuit was time-barred. Worse, the process server was uninsured.Most people know that employers are generally liable for the negligence of their...

• Two Injured in Crash

  Craig Cannon | April 12, 2007 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Two men were seriously injured after a head-on collision on County Road 484 in Marion County. Both men were taken by ambulance to Shands Hospital in Gainesville for treatment. The crash happened near Marion Oaks on County Road 484. Traffic was blocked for two hours while rescue workers cleaned debris off the road.Jonathan Jones, of Dunnellon, was traveling west in a red GMC Sonoma pickup...

• Pain and Suffering: Getting the Jury to "Feel Your Pain" in a Personal Injury Matter

  Geoff Trachtenberg | April 11, 2007 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ

  Pain and suffering. Two "legal words" that literally roll off your tongue. Words that are easy to say, but are hard to live with, especially when you are injured or disfigured by someone else's carelessness.One of the jobs of trial attorneys is to convey a client's pain and suffering to a jury, and it's not an easy thing to do. In fact, it is one of the hardest things trial lawyers do, and it...

• Seniors Beware of Home Repair Schemes

  Rebecca Castell | April 11, 2007 5:49 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Homeowners, particularly senior citizens, have been targeted by fraudulent home repair and maintenance companies. Jerry Ponsky, a Bainbridge Township resident, has been charged with numerous counts of bogus home repair agreements and ripping off consumers with fraudulent loans. Ponsky operated a ring of activity where in Ponsky and his collaborators would inundate run-down neighborhoods with...

• Supervisor Picks Worker Up By the Throat and Throws Him to the Concrete Floor

  Brent Adams | April 11, 2007 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  The tire changer told this supervisor that his own supervisor had instructed him not to perform such work. When the tire changer refused to comply with the request to work on ambulance tires this supervisor, Mr. King, threatened him. As the tire changer started to walk away, King grabbed him by the throat, picked him up in the air, and threw him down to the concrete floor where he landed flat...

• Hunter Recovers $2 Million for Deer Stand Collapse

  Brent Adams | April 11, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A North Carolina hunting club has agreed to pay $2 Million as a result of a deer stand collapse.The 54 year old hunter suffered a T-1 burst fracture which resulted in paraplegia.The hunter was sitting in a wooden deer stand and fell when it suddenly collapsed. The hunter fell approximately 30 feet to the ground.The hunter alleged that the hunting club was careless in failing to properly inspect...

• JURY AWARDS PARALYZED COLLEGE STUDENT $11.7 MILLION

  Bruce Roberts | April 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A Fulton County, Georgia jury awarded Joshua Coleman, a 19 year old Piedmont College freshman $11.7 million for a spinal surgery that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The surgery, in 2003 was to relieve chronic back pain. But after the surgery, Coleman ended up in a wheelchair paralyzed. Coleman's attorney blamed his paralysis on a medical mistake by his surgeon and a team of doctors...

• Court of Appeals Upholds Injured Employee's Award

  Robin Martinek | April 11, 2007 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  In a recent decision, the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld an injured workers' award of total disability despite protests by his employer that he had a previous disabling injury. Mr. Raymond M. Ard was employed by Owens-Illinois as a stock handler and was consistently required to move forty-pound boxes as part of his job duties. On May 11, 2001, Mr. Ard sought treatment for back pain...

• La Ley de Lesion Personal de la Florida esta Programada para Expirar en Octubre

  Evan Rosen | April 10, 2007 9:49 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL

  Al acercarse el mes de Octubre, se acerca la expiracion de la ley de la Florida conocida como la ley de No Fault/Personal Injury Protection (no importa culpa/proteccion de lesiones personales o PIP por sus insignias en ingles). Esta ley que se relaciona con lesiones personales de accidentes automovilisticos ha estado vigente por veinte anos. Esta ley requiere que todos los conductores de autos...