Posts tagged general personal injury

• General Types of Compensatory Damages in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Cases

  Scott Smith | March 24, 2007 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Loss of IncomeYou are entitled to compensation if your injuries prevent you from working, causing you to lose income. For example, if you are a landscaper who can't work for a week because you sprained an ankle in an accident, you are entitled to compensation for that week of lost wages. You are also entitled to lost wages if you miss work because of treatment.If the injury is serious enough...

• Hiring a Personal Injury or Medical Negligence Attorney on Contingency

  Scott Smith | March 14, 2007 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Abraham Lincoln once said, "A lawyer's time and advice is his stock in trade." In essence, asking an attorney for his advice is no different than asking an accountant to set up a business plan or do your taxes, a doctor to examine you, render a diagnosis and prescribe treatment or hiring an electrician to fix the wiring of your home. Nonetheless, many people are under the impression that...

• Immediate Airplane Crash Investigation

  Scott Smith | August 11, 2007 9:50 AM | 1 CommentColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Using a combination of information from government organizations, Smith Phillips - Trial Lawyers immediately investigates all the events and circumstances surrounding a major aviation accident. Depending on the crash, our investigation could include gathering published news articles surrounding the incident, the accident record of a particular aircraft, airline or airport, detailed weather...

• Factors Affecting Damages Awards in Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Animal (Dog) and Premise (slip and fall) Cases

  Scott Smith | April 21, 2007 8:56 AM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Nature of InjuryIt stands to reason that the most important fact which will affect the amount of damages that you can recover is the nature of the injury sustained. The more serious an injury is, the higher the value of the claim. If you are suffer from a soft tissue injury, such as with whiplash or neck strain, you will not recover ads much as someone who is injured more seriously, involving...

• Cause of Airplane Accident Data

  Scott Smith | August 18, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Causes of Each DisasterAir Traffic Control Error6/13/1947 Leesburg, Virginia Pen Central Air11/11/1949 Arlington, Virginia Eastern /U.S. AF4/14/1958 Castel de Fels, Spain Aviaco7/21/1961 Shemya, Alaska Alaska, AL2/8/1965 New York, New York Eastern AL1/14/1970 Mt. Pumacona, Peru Faucett2/6/1970 Samarkand, USSR Aeroflot12/20/1972 Chicago, Illinois Delta/North...

• CNN Uncovers Auto Insurers Unfair Personal Injury and Property Damage Claims Practices and Bad Faith

  Scott Smith | March 01, 2007 12:35 PM | 2 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An article on CNN.com determined "[I]f you are injured in a minor car crash, chances are good that you will be in the fight of your life to get the insurance company to pay all the medical costs you incur - - even if the accident was no fault of your own." (CNN.com, Auto Insurers Play Hardball in Minor-Crash Claims by Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, February 9, 2007)CNN conducted an eighteen...

• Common Carrier (Airplane/Bus) Liability

  Scott Smith | August 04, 2007 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Federal government has created regulations regarding the liability to passengers injured while using a common carrier. A common carrier is one who represents to the public that its business is one of transporting persons or cargo from place to place for compensation, and such services are generally open to the public. Generally, commercial buses, ferries, trains, and airplanes are...

• Plane Crash in Ohio Kills 4

  Jenny Albano | January 12, 2008 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, A plane crash in northwest Ohio killed four people on Saturday, January 12 at around 1 P.M.Many different agencies, including The Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, the Fremont Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, and others responded to the scene of the crash.The crew of the twin-engine Cessna 340 announced their intention to land at the...

• Woman Claims Starburst Candies Are Dangerously Chewy in Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | June 28, 2007 2:45 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A woman claims Starburst candies are so chewy, they should come with a warning label.The woman is suing Starburst's parent company, Mars Inc., for over $25,000 for "permanent personal injuries" she claims she sustained after biting into one of their candies in 2005."I'm not sure, maybe three chews and they literally locked my jaw... and it just literally pulled my jaw out of joint," she said.Her...

• Personal Injury and Premises (injury while on another's property)Damages in Spinal Cord Injury Cases

  Scott Smith | May 05, 2007 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Event the slightest trauma to the spinal cord is usually devastating. The nature of a spinal cord injury (SCI) is such that the amount of damages that may be recovered against a party responsible for causing such injury is substantial. The average out-of-pocket cost of coping with a spinal cord injury in the first year can be as high as $572,000 for the most severe injuries. For each year...