Category: Personal Injury Faq’s

After a lawyer’s client signs a contingency agreement with a personal injury lawyer, that member of the legal profession gets paid when the client recovers a compensation. If you get asked to sign such an agreement, you should have some say about the percentage of the compensation that will get paid to your lawyer. Still, you should know that most clients pay their lawyers 33% of any awarded compensation. Read More

Anyone that has lost a loved one should find it possible to empathize with a family that must deal suddenly with a death that appears caused by someone’s negligence. Legally, the term for such an incident is wrongful death. According to the laws of our legal system, relatives can go after a monetary compensation for the losses that resulted from that wrongful death. Read More

If you have filed a personal injury claim, then you need to concentrate on collecting all the relevant evidence. In that way, you will increase the chances that you can get awarded the compensation that you claim to deserve. So, how should you go about collecting such evidence? Read More

If you’ve experienced an accident, injury, or illness that has left you disabled and unable to work, a denial of your disability claim can be devastating. But, remember that if your claim has been denied, you still have options. It is important to seek out an experienced lawyer who can help you achieve a successful claim, and get the compensation you need. Read More

Until drivers enjoyed ready access to cell phones, society did not pay too much attention to those instances where a driver had become distracted. Indeed, the introduction of cell phones has led to a sharp rise in the number of distracted drivers. Still, the limits on the brain’s mental pathways become a factor whenever anything distracts a driver. Read More

Usually, a personal injury lawyer will be unable to quote an exact fee during the initial consultation with a prospective client. The lawyer’s only clue to what the final fee might be exists in the client’s memory of the claimed accident. If the client has a strong case, any hired attorney will make good money from his or her percent of the money awarded to that same client at the end of the case. Read More

When this plan was announced, the public did not have to wonder about the plan’s goals. Those goals had been made clear. This was the stated goal of those that supported the plan: Improve the stability and long-term health of the auto insurance industry in Ontario. Read More

This article focuses on any T-bone collisions that might take place in Ontario, Canada. Ontario’s insurance companies always study the percent of fault for all the drivers that have been involved in any accident. In Canada, insurers always increase the premium of any policy holder that has been declared more than 25% responsible for any given accident. Read More

One possible path for such accident victims remains largely untraveled, owing to the difficulties encountered by anyone that would chose to go down such a path. That difficult route entails the actual act of suing the landowner, if someone has been injured. Those familiar with personal injury claims might think that it makes sense to submit a claim, if someone got hurt, while tobogganing on the landowner’s property. Read More

Often a long-term injury falls into the category of catastrophic injuries. It causes the victim to have an ongoing disability or disfigurement. It may keep the patient from returning to work. Long-term impairment will definitely qualify as a catastrophic injury if it can triggers the development of two further problems. Read More