Injuries

A trip, slip and fall can leave you embarrassed and disoriented. It can also leave you with life-altering injuries. If negligence played a role in your slip-and-fall accident, you may pursue the property owner or management for compensation through a premises...

Staircase slips and falls are very common. In fact, there are over 540,000 slip and fall injuries every year that require hospital care. While sometimes a slip and fall accident down a set of stairs can be caused by a misstep, in many cases, these falls result from...

Falls are one of the most common causes of accidental injuries in the United States. Elderly people are more susceptible to these types of accidents, but what makes falls so dangerous is that they can essentially happen to anyone in almost any location.  During a...

A trip, slip and fall accident can happen when you least expect it. While most slip-and-fall accidents result in nothing more than benign bruises and a little bit of embarrassment, others can be life-altering.  If you are hurt in a slip-and-fall accident while legally...

Premises liability is the legal term for the financial and legal responsibilities a business has to visitors that get hurt on their property. When a business does not maintain a space appropriately, it may become unnecessarily dangerous for visitors.  Premises...

If you’ve ever been bitten by a dog you know that it can be a painful ordeal. You may be dealing with an infection, permanent scarring, nerve damage, and pain. You may also have some mild to serious emotional trauma depending on the severity of the bite.  Whether you...

Brain injury victims are more likely to develop mental health disorders. This is because of how the brain is wired and the numerous nerves that may be affected by trauma. About 1 in 5 people who suffer mild to severe traumatic brain injuries develop mental conditions...

Although many people don’t assume that whiplash is very serious, the truth is that it can be much more than a sore neck or a few days of tension in the shoulders. Whiplash can be a sign of how serious your collision was and may point to more serious injuries such as a...

The law has traditionally recognized the vulnerability of children to harm and imposed a duty on adults to protect children from unreasonably dangerous conditions. Courts have also considered public policy issues, such as how best to foster personal responsibility and...

Law and Order is more than TV episodes. Laws are a way for societies to keep order. Much like parents set guidelines for their children, governments make, pass and enforce the law. The area of law that often gets the majority of attention is criminal law. Laws against...