Personal Injury News Blog

A widow whose husband died at a Veterans Affairs hospital under fire for substandard care has agreed to settle her lawsuit against the government for $975,000, her attorney said.
Katrina Shank had sought $12 million in her federal wrongful-death lawsuit. Her husband, 50-year-old Robert Shank III of Murray, Ky., bled to death in August 2007, a [...]

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Sometimes in a Personal Injury Case the other person’s Insurance company will attempt to settle the case with you. Usually(not always) this is not such a good idea.
Do you know the full extent of your injuries? How long they will last? How difficult the recovery process might be? How much income you will lose, not [...]

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Pennsylvania will pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by troopers after he hopped out of a stolen vehicle.
A federal jury in Pittsburgh had awarded the boy’s father, Michael Hickenbottom, more than $28 million, including $24 million in punitive damages.
Police attorneys appealed, arguing [...]

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Most personal injury settlements(because of the lawyers inexperience, incompetence, etc.) turn out much lower than they should be.
What is your ability to think worth? What is the use of your arms and legs worth? How about your life? In most cases the answer could be priceless.
Insurance companies attempt to assign a dollar amount to your [...]

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Regarding damages, in a lawsuit filed against the responsible party or parties, you will be entitled to both economic damages and non-economic damages.
Economic damages are those that can usually be easily quantified and proven with documentation. Your medical bills, lost wages, medicines, medical equipment and supplies, ambulance fees, and other costs are economic damages. In [...]

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After motorcycle or car accidents, insurance companies try to assign a dollar amount for compensation for injuries and property damage. Insurance companies have tables which assign a value to various injuries; these tables are very impersonal and cannot take into account how the injury changed a person’s life, how it took away their ability to [...]

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Before you meet with your lawyer for the first time after you’ve been injured, collect any documents you have relating to your accident and injury and place them in a folder or large envelope.
Here’s a list of some of the documents and other pertinent information to take with you to your lawyer, if applicable to [...]

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If your doctor verbally released you from his care, or signed a release allowing you to go back to work after two weeks, it is unlikely you will be able to collect for that additional week unless you are a champion negotiator (or your attorney is). If your doctor simply told you it was okay [...]

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Putting a value on pain and suffering is probably the most difficult task for a jury in any injury case. There is no scientific formula and no chart or table juries, attorneys or insurance companies can look to. Every injury, every injured person, every accident and every case is different and deserves a thorough evaluation.
Two [...]

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In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a man who sustained serious injuries after he was hit by a cement-mixer truck in 2005 has been awarded $1.95 million. Robert L. Howard, a truck driver for Goodwill Industries, lost 70% use of his left arm and suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder because of the catastrophic truck accident, which [...]

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