The Importance of Evidence in Car Accident Claims
In California, it matters who caused a car accident. Like many states, California has a fault-based insurance system that uses comparative negligence laws to allow injury victims to claim damages even if they were partly at fault in the accident. For example, if you’re found to be 20% at fault and your damages amount...
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How Long Does a Personal Injury Case Take?
Serious injuries are painful and traumatic. Often, the process of a personal injury case seeking compensation for your damages only adds to the distress, but gaining compensation either directly from the insurance company of the party at fault or through a lawsuit is necessary to recover the losses associated with the injury. If you’ve...
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How Can I Prove I Was Rear-Ended?
Each year there are more than 1.7 million rear-end car accidents in the United States, causing about 500,000 injuries and 1,700 deaths. The majority of these impacts occur when the vehicle in the front is completely stopped and the vehicle that hits them is driving at full speed. The driver in the front vehicle...
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Determining if Your Injury Was Caused by Negligence
No one pulls out of their driveway in the morning expecting to experience a car accident, but an average of 6-7 million car accidents occur each year in the United States. Car accidents remain a leading cause of injuries and death in the U.S. Other major causes of preventable, fault-based injuries include, slip-and-fall accidents,...
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What’s the Difference Between Car Accidents and Truck Accidents?
When motor vehicles collide, the human body sustains substantial trauma from the sudden, jarring motion of coming to an abrupt halt after moving at a high rate of speed. Any motor vehicle accident can cause serious injuries, but there’s a significant difference between typical car accidents and an accident involving a large truck. While...
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What Exactly Makes a Product Defective?
As consumers, we expect the products we purchase and use to be safe and effective. When a product causes an injury to ourselves or someone we love, the results can be devastating. Manufacturers owe consumers a duty of care to produce safe, non-defective products that won’t harm anyone who could foreseeably use the product...
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