If you have been injured because someone else acted in a negligent manner, you may be considering hiring a personal injury attorney to recover damages. Before searching through the many legal directories online and contacting a personal injury attorney, you should first assess if you have any injuries that may require a medical evaluation. If …
Improper Settlement Tactics to Watch Out for
Insurance companies might try to use improper settlement tactics to save their company money. These tactics include: Delaying the processing of your claim Denying your claim without a valid reason Reducing your injury settlement Making you an insultingly low settlement offer A personal injury attorney can help you understand when an insurance company is being …
How to Prove Causation in a Personal Injury Case
Causation is a critical element of personal injury cases. This legal term refers to the link between a liable party’s negligent behavior and the accident that causes someone’s injuries. In most cases, you won’t receive compensation if you cannot prove causation. For this reason, you must prepare to prove causation if you want to receive …
Statute of Limitations for Virginia Personal Injury Cases
The statute of limitations for Virginia personal injury cases is generally two years. The statutory clock starts running on the date of your accident. The state imposes this filing deadline to ensure the case is handled in a timely fashion, prevent the facts from becoming distorted, and ensure lawsuits are not filed frivolously. In personal …
Do I Have A Personal Injury Case? Questions to Ask Yourself
The worst case scenario happens. You’ve been injured in a car accident, dog bite incident or some other personal injury, and now you’re wondering to yourself, “Can I recover damages related to my personal injury?”. Don’t fret! We’re here to help. Here is a very simple set of questions you can ask yourself to determine …
Ways You Might Jeopardize Your Insurance Payout
If you suffered injuries in an accident caused by another party, you could seek compensation through a claim with their liability insurance provider. However, you might jeopardize your insurance payout through your own words and actions in several ways. Do not Speculate About Who or What Caused Your Accident In general, it is not a …
When A Stranger Enters Your Home
As the days get shorter, and the nights get longer, we often feel a sense of unease about our safety coming over us. Perhaps it’s the combination of shorter, colder days and the eeriness of the creepy Halloween season, but whatever it is, there’s nothing worse than thinking about strange man tiptoeing around your home …
When & Why You Need A Personal Injury Lawyer
Imagine this moment: Your vehicle has spun out of control and your windshield just shattered into a thousand pieces. Before all the glass even settles, you’re thrown into a whirlwind of hospital visits, legal paperwork, calls with insurance adjusters, court hearings, etc. Sounds stressful, doesn’t it? Well, that’s why choosing to hire a personal injury …
Social Media Can Cause You to Lose Your Personal Injury Claim
In the modern day, social media can act like our personal safe space to engage with family and friends instantaneously. As a society when we find interesting articles, need to vent about work or have birthday photos to share, we take to Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Our online profiles are our public diaries, and we …
Injured at Work: Common Construction Site Injuries
Our Injured at Work series highlights the fields with the highest risk of injuries in the workplace. Do you have an industry in mind that you would like us to cover? If so, message us on Facebook. Working in construction can be a rewarding and fulfilling job as construction workers help create infrastructure that connects …
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