
Bicyclists have the same rights and responsibilities as automobile drivers. The laws say that bike riders must obey traffic signals and ride in the same direction as the flow of traffic. The purpose of California’s bicycle laws is to prevent collisions between bikes and cars, but collisions do occur, and when one does, legal action may be necessary to bring compensation to the victim. (more…)
Posted on: November 29, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Yaz tablets, the Ortho Evra patch, and the Nuvaring insert are three types of birth control that are very different from each other in their delivery systems, but all are dangerous drugs. (more…)
Posted on: November 25, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Unsafe Drugs No Comments
In California, nearly 1 in 4 drivers are uninsured, even though California law clearly requires all drivers to have proper coverage.
More than 3 million California drivers have no insurance. To reduce that number, a state initiative called the California Low Cost Automobile Program began in 2006. The program’s intent is to make minimal insurance [$10,000 per person/$20,000 maximum per accident] available to every driver in the state. (more…)
Posted on: November 21, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death 4 Comments
The first challenge a spinal cord injury lawyer faces is knowing and understanding the medical terms, physiology and long-term impacts of a spinal cord injury in order to teach this medical field to a jury. (more…)
Posted on: November 18, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
The Toxic Substances Control Act has been on the books since 1976, and it’s done almost nothing to protect Americans from toxic substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA has analyzed only 200 of the 80,000 chemicals in use, and has banned only 5. (more…)
Posted on: November 12, 2009 Posted in: Toxic Chemical Exposure & Birth Defects No Comments
Selecting the right traumatic brain injury lawyer is the cornerstone of a successful claim.
Anyone can advertise their services on television or in the yellow pages. The right brain injury attorneys are lawyers and a law firm with
Posted on: November 6, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Accidents by definition are not foreseen or intended.
Whenever it is reasonably foreseeable that an act, or the failure to act, would cause serious injuries, permanent physical impairment or even death, it is no accident. That is negligence under accident law or, more correctly, tort law. (more…)
Posted on: November 3, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments