Negligence is a legal term for when the actions of one party caused damages to another. If you’ve been injured in an accident, in order to get the largest settlement, you will need to prove negligence. There are five things that courts require in ord...
Most personal injury cases never reach trial. Instead, they are typically solved through a settlement. When you reach a settlement, you will be given two options of how to receive your compensation. The first is a lump-sum where you will receive al...
Florida is a great state for riding motorcycles. The perfect weather, long stretches of flat highway, and beautiful scenery are ideal for riders. Florida has the second highest number of registered motorcycles in the country. Which sadly also means i...
“Bad faith” is a legal term in the United states to describe when an insurance company refuses your claim without reasonable cause. Usually, an insurance company has acted in bad faith if it does not fulfill their obligations listed in the insurance...
Anyone can have a clumsy moment and trip walking up the stairs. However, sometimes when you trip and fall, it’s not because you are clumsy. It is because there was a risk on the staircase. If you’ve recently been injured in a stair accident, it may n...
Vehicular accidents are just a fact of life throughout the USA, and the state of Florida is no exception. There can be any number of factors that contribute to a collision between vehicles, or between property, or individuals occur. When these impact...
There’s no big mystery as to why many car accidents happen. Too often the cause is simply someone looking at their phone for a few seconds too long. There are other common, but tragic causes, such as a driver being drunk, or paying more attention to...
In typical cases where a personal injury lawsuit is pursued, it is because someone else is responsible for the injuries of another party, and negligence is usually the cause. It’s for this reason that negligence is also the word often used when takin...
No one is expected to closely follow the results of every personal injury case, except, of course, for an experienced personal injury lawyer. This is why it’s understandable that the general public would only be familiar with the very “high profile”...
A premises liability is a type of civil lawsuit where a person, or people, are injured on someone else’s property, and the owner of the property is somehow responsible. If you find yourself in a situation where you have an injury that can require sub...
For most people, there’s little doubt about what to do in the event of a car accident, especially once the panic has worn off, and reason reasserts itself. If you find yourself in a vehicular accident, especially if you are unharmed, and your vehicle...
After you’ve been injured in a car accident, you will be contacted by an insurance adjuster. Whether the insurance adjuster is from your insurance company or the other party’s, it is important you understand they are not trying to help you. Insurance...
After you have been injured in an accident, there may be damages you aren’t considering. Most people think of just their medical bills, but there are other damages that you may qualify to receive. One of the most common is pain and suffering. What Is...
The most common reason that someone would need a personal injury lawyer in St. Petersburg is because of negligence. Simply put, this means that someone, maybe the driver in the other car, or the staff at an amusement park, or the janitors at a shoppi...
Slip and falls are pretty common. However, most people don’t know what to do when they’ve been injured in a slip and fall. When you slip and fall on someone else’s property, there is a chance they may be responsible for your fall and liable for the c...
When you’ve been injured by a product, you may be able to make a claim for product liability. Product liability is a legal term that covers the legal responsibility manufacturers, distributors, and sellers have if their product injures someone. Produ...
When it comes to medical conditions like illnesses, a personal injury lawyer may be a surprisingly useful guide and advocate for taking legal action, but it depends a lot on the type of illness. One of the more common types of illness that normally g...
Many of us don’t realize how complicated our insurance policies are until after we’ve had an accident. Trying to understand our coverages and how they apply to our injuries can be really difficult. Add to that, if you are injured the last thing you s...
