Premises liability is one of the more common causes for a civil lawsuit to take place. The simplest definition of premises liability is that a home or business owner has a legal duty to make sure a certain reasonable amount of safety is present in on...
While not every state entertains the notions of punitive damages, Florida does. In fact, Florida had one of the highest profile cases of punitive damage ever in 2014, with the $23.6 billion dollars brought against tobacco manufacturer RJ Reynolds w...
When you’ve injured yourself falling on your rental property, you may have a case for premises liability against your landlord. Determining if your landlord is responsible can be challenging. However, with the help of a personal injury attorney, you...
If you start looking into a civil lawsuit for negligence, or you read up about these cases in the media, there is one phrase that commonly appears in arguments and that is “duty of care.” So what is it, and why is it such a common element of cases wh...
If you’ve been injured slipping and falling on someone else’s property, you may have a claim for premise liability. Premise liability is the legal duty property owners have to keeping people who are on their property safe. The law surrounding premise...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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