Month: November 2017

If you want to place a value on a personal injury case, then you need to answer a few basic questions. The answers should offer some clues, as to how much money you can expect to receive, once all parties concerned have reached a settlement. Of course, your answers will not reveal the argument that is apt to be made by the opposing party. (more…)

Normally, after you file a personal injury lawsuit, you focus on how someone has forced you to deal with unexpected damage. In your mind you make a case that matches with your story. In your mind’s eye, you tend to forget that every argument can be viewed from two sides. (more…)

A single defective product claim should alert an entire group of shoppers. It indicates appearance in the marketplace of a defective product. Four different theories can be used to explain the emergence of details on that same unreliable product. (more…)

The term “social host liability” covers those situations in which a guest gets intoxicated and, thus, causes injury to someone at a party or other social occasion. Anyone that provides alcoholic beverages to guests can be held liable, if one guest becomes intoxicated, and if that same intoxicated individual then inflicts injuries on one or more persons. Usually, though, social host liability gets used against an adult host that serves drinks to someone under the age of 21. (more…)

Personal injury law is a field which contains a myriad of provisions as well as terms which are going to cause quite a lot of confusion to the unexperienced reader. This is especially true when it comes to insurance. There is one particular term that’s called “offset”. A lot of people tend to get that mistaken, so we’ve taken the liberty of explaining it in the context of long-term disability claims and the way it’s likely to impact them. (more…)