Recent Blog Posts
Overcoming the Primary Obstacles to Compensation in a Dog Bite Claim
Over the last ten years, the average dog bite injury settlement amount had doubled. Many dogs are bigger and more aggressive than they were ten years ago. As a result, animal attack victims usually sustain serious physical and emotional injuries. Usually, these injuries are permanent, at least to an extent. Ongoing expensive medical treatment,… Read More »
Legal Issues in Distracted Driving Cases
Since 2021, the number of distracted driving-related wrecks has increased 11 percent. Shifts in the rideshare industry most likely propelled this increase. During pandemic lockdowns, rideshare demand dropped, and so did the number of ridesharing operators. As lockdowns ended, demand increased, but supply didn’t. As a result, remaining ridesharing drivers often drive in unfamiliar… Read More »
The Five Kinds of PTSD
“Disorder” is a lightning rod word. Many people believe this D-word simply shifts responsibility for an unfavorable personality trait (e.g. it’s not your fault you have a bad temper; instead, you have IED (intermittent explosive disorder)). That may be true in a few cases. But that’s certainly not true regarding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…. Read More »
Legal Options for Chemical Burn Victims
Young children and industrial workers are the most common chemical burn victims. These injuries send thousands of people to hospital Emergency Rooms every month. External burns occur quickly and without warning. Internal burns, mostly from inhaled chemical fumes, damage tissues slowly over time. Surface chemical burns are much more painful than temperature burns. Internal… Read More »
One Killed, One Injured in San Diego Freeway Wreck
A 10-year-old boy was seriously injured in a high-speed wreck on the San Diego Freeway. The woman, a 63-year-old San Diego resident, was driving a blue Ford Fusion south on the freeway, just north of Interstate 805 when, for unknown reasons, she lost control, said CHP Officer Salvador Castro. The car veered off the… Read More »
Five Kinds of Boating Accidents
Most of the boating accidents listed below are caused by negligence, which is basically a lack of care. Operator negligence, while driving the boat, supervising passengers, or both, is the most common culprit. Usually, owners with little or no experience aboard a watercraft must safely operate a high-powered boat and ensure that passengers, who… Read More »
Holding a Hit-and-Run Driver Responsible for A Crash
It happens almost every day in California. A hit-and-run driver causes a serious injury or fatal crash and flees the scene. These tortfeasors (negligent drivers) run for various reasons, but the result is usually the same. Over 90 percent of hit-and-run drivers avoid criminal prosecution. Quite simply, since they have so little evidence to… Read More »
The Before, During, and After of Birth Injuries
As a rule of thumb, about one in ten births involve, as doctors like to say, “some complications.” About one in ten of these incidents causes a lifelong or life-ending injury. Beginning at the first prenatal appointment (or initial file review for walk-ins) and ending at postnatal hospital discharge, doctors have a fiduciary duty… Read More »
Kinds of Driver Negligence in Car Crash Cases
In 2021, car crashes killed or seriously injured over five million Americans. Driver error, usually one of the four kinds of driver error discussed below, caused over 98 percent of these wrecks. Freak weather events and defective products caused most of the rest. If the driver error was negligence, or a lack of care,… Read More »
Bicycle Accidents and Head Injuries
Bicycle crash victims sustained head injuries in about a third of bicycle accidents. That’s a third of all victims, not just serious crash victims. Many of these incidents aren’t classified a ”serious” because the victim sustained no other serious injuries and didn’t immediately require extended hospitalization. Diagnosis and treatment issues plague these injuries, often… Read More »