Personal Injury

Fatal accidents in New York and New Jersey have prompted regulators from the U.S. Transportation Department to shut down 26 separate bus companies. The bus accidents in question happened over the course of last year and resulted in the deaths of 17 people in the Bronx and on the New Jersey Turnpike. The safety violations – compiled by federal inspectors – site three main companies as owning

When you make the decision to pursue a personal injury claim there is certain information that you will want to immediately disclose to your law firm. This information is necessary not only to inform them of the specifics surrounding your accident, but also so that they are fully prepared to handle any issues that could potentially be raised by the opposing party over the course of the

Over the past few years there has been a troubling trend with regards to accidents that result in fatalities on the Garden State Parkway. All of the fatal accidents on the Parkway from 2010 through May 2012 occurred within approximately a mile of an exit. This begs the question of what is so inherently dangerous about these areas of the highway that people are dying in staggering

The frantic moments after a serious car accident are often difficult to remember. The body floods with adrenaline, focuses on simply staying alive. For 18-year-old Desaleen James, the video she shot of her and her friends that evening captures the terrible impact of the vehicle as the driver, drunk behind the wheel, loses control of the vehicle and crashes into a brick embankment at 94 miles per

Have you ever filmed one of your friends doing something completely idiotic and reckless and then posted it to YouTube? Well, for one man this very action led directly to his arrest after his friends filmed him driving erratically—nearly causing a car accident—and his attempts to evade police and posted it to the video site.

25-year-old Steven McInulty from Coventry, England had been speeding along a

On a Saturday night a couple weeks ago I was taken to the hospital because I was experiencing extreme pain on the right side of my lower back. It was just past dinner time when I arrived, but of course I would be there well into the night. It turned out that the pain I was experiencing was due to a kidney stone, but once I was

Not all accidents are cut and dry when it comes to determining fault. There are times when the fault is both yours and the other entity, but that does not necessarily mean you do not have a personal injury claim. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania there is what is referred to as Modified Comparative Negligence, which is the system used to determine how much fault bars you

This heroic action by two Barnegat police officers was caught on the dashboard camera in one of their cruisers on Monday night. Officers Lauren Keilitz and Michael Diblasi responded to the report that a man was trapped inside his burning vehicle Monday night around 8 p.m.

Upon arriving at the scene they saw that the car was parked in the driveway and it was fully encased in

Last week, Libia Mendoza and her brother Leonel Mendoza (37 and 39 respectively) were indicted on charges of conspiracy, insurance fraud, tampering with public records, and attempted theft by deception according to the Insurance Journal. Grand jury documents show that the pair allegedly reported a hit-and-run accident that was false.

Their attempt to commit insurance fraud was reported to have happened between May 2010 and September

In the 2011 documentary “Hot Coffee” former public-interest attorney, Susan Saladoff, makes her filmmaking debut in this eye-opening movie. In the film she leads the audience through four civil cases, revealing all of the struggles associated, and unveils the truth about what many people refer to as “junk lawsuits.”

For years now, big business has been waging a war against our right to a fair trial by

Sometimes we do not realize how precious good health is until we are sick or injured. A serious illness can completely derail your life and you want nothing more than to have things back to normal. When we are sick we put our trust in trained doctors and other medical professionals to help us get better, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.

Everyone makes mistakes,

When you have been injured in an accident you will be dealing a lot with insurance adjusters both from your insurance company and that of the other party. The insurance adjuster’s job is to try and minimize the amount of money the company has to pay out as much as possible. When you have a phone interview with an adjuster there are things you are required to

With new advances in technology all the time it is hard to remove yourself from the distractions. When one refers to distracted driving it means more than just using your phone. In just a short car trip some will text their friends, change the song on their MP3 player several times, and adjust their destination on their GPS. It seems impossible for some to resist the urge

When you are injured in an accident you will probably have a lot of questions regarding your personal injury case. One of the main questions is, “How much compensation can I get for my accident?” You will have many costs associated with your accident including medical bills, damaged property, and more. If your accident was the result of someone else’s negligence, you deserve compensation to help with

When you hire a personal injury attorney to aid you in your claim, there are still some things that you are obligated to do. Your attorney is there to advise, advocate for, and support you. That does not mean that you will play no role in the claim, on the contrary you ultimately make the decisions and need to be involved in the process.

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