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Court Awards Damages To Family After Birth Injury Due To Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Error
Except while exercising, most adults have a heart rate of 100 beats per minute or less. Fetuses, by contrast, have a much faster heart rate. At about six weeks of gestation, the heart rate is similar to an adult’s heart rate, but it gradually gets faster until it peaks at about 175 beats per… Read More »
How To Use Evidence To Win A Personal Injury Lawsuit
Movies and television shows often show lawyers winning cases by appealing to the emotions of the judge or jury and by revealing surprising pieces of information at the trial. In reality, there are strict rules about disclosing your evidence to the judge and to the other party well in advance of the trial; for… Read More »
Whiplash Injury: An Invisible But Painful Medical Condition
One of the first things you should do after a car accident, after exchanging insurance information with the other driver, is to go to a doctor’s office or hospital emergency room to be examined, even if you do not have any visible injuries. This is because some car accident injuries, including some severe or… Read More »
The Daubert Standard In Florida Personal Injury Cases
Your grandson thinks that if his toy dragon rubs its wings on your shoulder, the pain from the car accident injury you sustained a year ago will disappear. Your sister-in-law thinks that you just need to smile more, and the pain will go away. Your niece thinks that going vegan is the solution to… Read More »
Premises Liability: Business Owners Have A Responsibility To Keep The Premises Safe, But It Is Your Responsibility Not To Be Careless
When two cars collide, the insurance companies embark on a complex investigation process to determine which driver bears which share of the fault for the accident. When someone gets injured in an accident inside a shopping mall, restaurant, theme park, or other place of business, the assumption is that the owner of the property… Read More »
The Importance Of Hiring An Attorney After Being Injured In A Florida Car Accident
It is natural to initially debate whether hiring a personal injury attorney is necessary after being injured in a Florida car accident due to someone else’s negligence. Indeed, just five percent of car accident claims are resolved at trial and depending on your level of damages and the circumstances of your accident, there are… Read More »
What You Need To Know About Roundabouts
The battle is ongoing to make the roadways throughout this country as safe as possible for those traveling along them and different methods are incorporated in an attempt to accomplish this. An increasing number of cities throughout the United States have incorporated roundabouts as one such attempt to better traffic conditions. Roundabouts are circular… Read More »
Determining Liability In Truck Accident Cases
Sharing the road with big commercial trucks has always been scary, but recently it has become even scarier. For one thing, you can cause a lot of damage in one second of distraction if you are behind the wheel of a car, so think about the damage that a truck driver can cause if… Read More »
Lawsuit Alleges That Johnson & Johnson Ramped Up Its Marketing Efforts Even As Evidence Increasingly Showed A Link Between Talcum Powder And Cancer
The legal concept of product liability means that, if you suffer an illness or injury as a direct result of using a consumer product for its intended purpose, you can sue the company that manufactures and markets the product if you can prove that the company was aware, of reasonably should have been aware,… Read More »
Should I Go To The Emergency Room Or Urgent Care After A Car Accident?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that there are typically more than 130 million people who seek treatment each year at an emergency room (ER). While this number declined greatly at many points during spikes in the COVID-19 pandemic, it will likely increase again to more normal numbers as things continue… Read More »
