Cell phones have, without a doubt, made us safer – they have caught crimes on camera, allowed us to stay on the phone with a friend as we walk home late at night, etc. Cell phones have also made traveling in cars safer. Twenty-five years ago, if your car broke down on a deserted…
“Idiot.” “Loser.” “Dork.” “Fatso.” These are just some of the demeaning, hurtful and often unwarranted insults hurled by aggressors, bullies, etc., at their victims. In recent years, public awareness of bullying here in the U.S. has culminated in public outrage and communal action against the epidemic of bullying. The U.S. government has even dedicated…
It seems as though indiscriminate or negligent shootings by police have been popping up in the news rather frequently recently. This should give us pause, given that the police are supposed to be out on the streets working to protect the population – who would have thought that we would need to look out…
The police serve the public, first and foremost, in an effort aimed at maintaining law and order. We rely on the police to protect us and make us feel secure; sometimes, however, it ends up being the police that are responsible for damages we experience. In instances in which people are injured and suffer…
We all know that using a cell phone while driving is dangerous – in fact, in 2011, 1.3 million auto accidents involved cell phones. And take a look at this frightening statistic: texting while driving makes a car crash 23 times more likely. So, we are all on the same page about the fact…
As we’ve remarked multiple times on this blog, and as you were probably told countless times during your youth, life isn’t always fair. That said, as we’ve also expressed consistently on this blog, the law does provide a remedy for righting wrongs that might otherwise seem to be the result of unfairness or bad…
The tort reform movement, an effort to limit plaintiff’s rights to collect compensation for injuries or losses they’ve experienced due to the negligence of others, has put out into the general public many fallacies about personal injury law, and medical malpractice law in particular. This blog aims to dispel just some of the myths…
Without a doubt, among the greatest benefits that evolving scientific technology has provided us with are prescription medications tailored to treat previously incurable medical conditions or prevent other medical issues. Still, the fact that pharmaceutical companies have discovered new and innovative ways to combat harmful and deadly diseases should not preclude us from questioning and…
As we have previously discussed on this blog, in recent years, many former NFL players have joined together to file a lawsuit against the National Football League for damages they have incurred as a result of injuries sustained while playing football (many stemming from concussions, etc.). Former players have been known to suffer from…
Fast food restaurants seem to have a timeless place in the chronicles and developments of personal injury law. Fresh in the memories of all trial lawyers (in addition to those of many others) is Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, the iconic case that fundamentally altered the perception of personal injury law in the United States….
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