Posts tagged personal injury

• Will The Graduated Driver Licensing Program Work With Teenagers?

  John Demas | September 14, 2010 7:21 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The highest numbers of auto crash victims are the young and the restless. Although, it’s part of the learning process towards maturity and responsibility, often teenagers get drunk on...

• Pacific Law Center Accused of Unethical Activity

  Randy Walton | November 26, 2007 1:29 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  If you listen to Padres games, or watch them on television, you're very familiar with the commercials of the Pacific Law Center. Heck, if you live in San Diego and have eyes or ears you know of this law firm, whose ads can be found all over San Diego County in phone books, newspapers, the radio, and television. Allegations are now surfacing that the law firm was not keeping the promises it makes...

• How should I deal with an insurance adjuster?

  Jessica Grigsby | May 16, 2011 11:54 AM | 5 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After you’ve been involved in a car accident that involved injury to yourself or property damage to your vehicle, seeking—and getting—recovery from your insurance company can be...

• Distractive driving. Killer number one of teen drivers in the USA

  David Rosenthal | August 11, 2010 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Today’s teens are constantly admonished never to drink and drive. The Ad Council inundates the public with stirring images designed to make everyone think twice about potentially harmful...

• Defective Toys Recalled - Kids in Coma

  Susy Owen | November 10, 2007 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It is no secret that there has been recall upon recall of products being exported from China. The latest recall, however, has to be one of the worst. It involves beads used in childrens' toys that motabolize into the "date rape drug" (gamma hydroxy butyrate) when ingested, and ingested it was.The toy is known as "Agua Dots," and is distributed by a Toronto-based company. The beads were also...

• Who is responsible for your child’s car accident?

  David Rosenthal | July 26, 2010 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  “The sins of the father are visited upon the son” is a historically significant saying. A man’s debts could be transferred to his heirs upon his death, or his bad reputation...

• Personal Injury Lawsuit Against International Paper Co. Settled for $5.2 Million

  Chrissie Cole | February 17, 2008 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsBakersfield, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An Atlanta woman has settled a personal injury lawsuit with International Paper Co. for $5.2 million, after suffering the loss of her arm in a car accident that involved an IP employee.The woman was rear-ended after the IP employee failed to stop while she was distracted on her company cell phone and driving.The woman's vehicle was pushed into a ditch, trapping the woman's arm between the door...

• It's Not Malpractice; It's Battery

  Claude Wyle | December 29, 2011 1:34 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This story was sent to me as a joke by my paralegal, Faye, but it was so shocking, I had to share it with you in this blog. It is not often that I report on medical malpractice, and I have...

• Mistakes people make after getting into an accident.

  Jessica Grigsby | May 23, 2011 3:28 PM | 1 CommentChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Drivers often don’t realize that how they respond at the scene of the accident—the information they exchange, the statements they make, or the documents that they might sign—can...

• Running Stop Signs

  Jessica Grigsby | June 14, 2011 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Thousands of car accidents each year are caused by drivers that run stop signs. There were 13,627 cars involved in fatal automobile accidents caused by running a stop sign in 1999 and 2000,...