Category: Personal Injury News
Personal injury news for the New Jersey area. See some of the latest news about personal injury cases and other useful information about what you should do if you have been injured and are looking to seek legal representation.
As an accident lawyer, I don’t typically deal with the terms of residential leases involving a tenant. Most tenants are aware of their basic rights. If you rent an apartment, your landlord has many responsibilities towards you. Typically, the landlord is required to provide a tenant heat and hot water. The landlord must maintain the Read More
Accident Lawyer Advisory: Injured Trespassers May Be Able to Sue A trespasser comes to see an accident lawyer. He was on someone else’s property. He had no right to be on the premises. But he tripped on something. He was badly injured. Now he wants to sue the property owner for damages. Can he? You Read More
How a Car Accident Lawyer Evaluates a Case Say a new case comes into the office of a car accident lawyer. One of the first things that the attorney will investigate is whether there was a violation of a traffic law. This is because, if the lawyer can prove that the other driver violated a traffic Read More
Talcum Powder Cancer In Women Is Anything Safe Anymore? Recent lawsuits in New Jersey show that there may be a reason for women to worry about talcum powder cancer. The victims in these lawsuits claim the following: Since 1981, there have been 24 studies that have linked women’s use of talcum powder in the genital Read More
A Dental Malpractice Lawyer Story Stephen had mild sleep apnea. A dentist fit him with a dental appliance, known as a positioner, to wear while sleeping, to reduce the symptoms. Stephen claimed that the dentist assured him that his teeth would not shift. However, his teeth did shift. A later sleep study discerned that the sleep apnea was now severe. Worse still, due to the shifted teeth, there Read More
A products liability lawyer certainly has many issues to be aware of these days. For instance, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association linked the popular drug Viagra with the skin cancer melanoma. Men who took Viagra were 84% more likely to develop melanoma over a 10 year period. Melanoma Read More
When a personal injury attorney sues someone for negligently injuring his client, the personal injury lawyer is seeking to obtain compensation for that client. Such compensation can include lost wages, medical bills, and an award for pain and suffering. What many people do not realize is that the person with the physical injury is not the only Read More
How To Sue A Dogs Owner As a dog bite attorney, I sometimes hear from dog bite victims that they don’t think that they can sue the dog’s owner because the dog that bit them never bit anyone else before. And I wonder about all the dog bite victims that don’t even come to see Read More
It is Veterans’ Day today. Federal and state courts in New Jersey will be closed.Banks have the option to close. There will be no mail delivery. Veterans’ Day was originally established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 as Armistice Day. It commemorated the armistice ending World War I, which took effect in the 11th hour of Read More
Ten Commandments After a Slip and Fall Accident Slip and fall accidents can cause severe injury. What you do after the accident can make or break your case. Accordingly, here’s what you should do right after a slip and fall: 1. REPORT THE SLIP AND FALL ACCIDENT to the police, and to the store manager, landlord, Read More