It’s Halloween! Tonight, children (and enthusiastic individuals of all ages) will don costumes and make their way around the neighborhood, spreading Halloween cheer in the hopes of collecting gluttonous amounts of candy, which should last them weeks but will...
The family of three victims of a horrible shooting that took place in Ohio last year have, this month, filed a lawsuit against Cracker Barrel, where the shooting took place. The victims were a mother and her two young...
Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants is one of the most polarizing lawsuits of all time, defining the divide between plaintiff’s attorneys and tort reform activists. But it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Back in February of 1992, 79-year-old Ms. Liebeck...
Just days after workers lifted the Costa Concordia from its horizontal state off the coast of Italy following that ship’s disastrous wreck nearly two years ago, the ship’s parent company is again in hot water – a Florida boy...
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...
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...
When trying a personal injury case, we have one goal in mind: winning the case for you so that you can be compensated for your injuries. That sort of victory might come about in different ways. More often...
In personal injury law, when we talk about an “act of God,” we are not talking about a Biblical instance such as God parting the ocean – unless, of course, the splitting of the ocean caused flooding to the...
This week, we are taking the world of personal injury law by land, air and sea. Our first story has to do with a man being held liable for damages his dogs have caused. Our second has to do...
In this blog, we’re going to outline for you the basic information behind a few recent stories in the world of personal injury law. The first story revolves around an Iraq war veteran receiving a jury award of millions...
