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Most Common Accident Claims
Accidents happen every day and result in thousands of people suffering personal injury every year. An accident injury can occur on the roads and footpaths, at work, in public places, at home, at school, during medical treatment and in many other situation...
Making A Work Related Accident Claim
Each year in the UK many thousands of workers are injured during the course of their duties. It is important that positive steps are taken by all injured parties to protect their legal rights should a compensation claim become necessary. The latest f...
Making A Successful Car Accident Claim
If you find yourself in a car accident, here's what to do to protect yourself and make sure that everything gets taken care of. Be Prepared. Always carry a mobile phone with you when you're driving, as well as a pen and paper to take notes with, a di...
Rejecting Uninsured Motorist Coverage and Stacking
Under Florida law, when someone makes an election not to have uninsured motorist coverage (UM) on their policy, a specifically worded form must be signed. The insured also has the right to accept or reject stacked uninsured motorist coverage. The effect...
New York Insurance Fraud Crimes
New York Insurance fraud is a broad term that includes numerous acts the law considers illegal. And yes, all of them are related to stealing from insurance companies. Insurance fraud in New York and virtually all other states are probably the most comm...
Consult a malpractice attorney
When in law school a student is very much aware that at some point they are going to have to determine what type of law they are going to pursue. Seeing that there are so many different sectors, planning the rest of their life is something that must be on...
How does medical malpractice
In today’s society there are many things that we are on the lookout for. Gas prices, the credit crisis, and medical malpractice. What these three things have in common is more than you might suspect. For starters, let’s begin with the credit crisis. B...
New Laws Help Reduce Work Related Accidents
Recent laws have made it easier to reduce accidents at work. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force on 6 April 2008. Legal specialist Jim Astle, of Darbys solicitors, says that the government's intention is to make it e...
'No Win No Fee' More Popular Than Ever
No win no fee based claims are growing ever more popular as the realisation comes that members of the public can get compensation as a result of personal injury. The no win no fee claim service came into effect in 1998 when legal aid was replaced by th...
No Win No Fee Encourages Unethical Behaviour
Critics are saying that advertisements for personal injury companies encourage fraudulent accident claims. Funny and misleading advertisements are being cited as a cause for fraudulent accident claims this month. Rick Shapiro on Injury Board.com wrote ...
Recovering from A Truck Accident
Copyright (c) 2008 Katie Kelley In 2004, there were 198.8 million registered drivers in the United States. Currently there are at least 251 million registered vehicles. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Deparment of Mot...
How to avoid acute kidney failure
Acute kidney failure is a serious condition in which a loss in function is found in the kidneys that no longer allows them to remove urine and other waste without also losing electrolytes. Acute kidney failure happens very suddenly and is dangerous so it ...
Think Positive To Recover From Whiplash
A new study into the effects of whiplash has found that the patient’s attitude has a great impact on the speed of recovery. The study was carried out in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute, led by Lena Holm. A questionnaire based study was carri...
Thalidomide Victims Still Waiting For Compensation
During the late 1950’s, a German pharmaceutical company, Grunenthal, launched the drug thalidomide across 46 countries all around the world. The drug was said to be a cure for pregnant mothers suffering from morning sickness, however it produced horri...
'No Win, No Fee': A Tainted Reputation?
The reputation of ‘no win, no fee’ cases has been tainted in the last few years due to a number of high profile cases. It is argued that this concept effectively replaced legal aid for routine accident claims in 2000, with a ‘misleading’ tag-l...

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