Frequently Asked
Questions

An ombudsman is a person designated to investigate complaints against the nursing home.

Strict liability is a legal concept that holds manufacturers, distributors, and sellers responsible for the injuries caused by their defective products, regardless of negligence or fault.

Product liability cases arise when a product reaches a consumer and causes injury or damage to that consumer as a result of a defect in the product.

Our personal injury attorneys may use a variety of tactics to demonstrate the significance of your injury, including medical records, accident reconstruction, and expert witnesses.

There are often multiple parties that may contribute to a birth injury including medical staff present during delivery, or even those responsible for prenatal care, when relevant.

We represent victims of all types of train accidents, including crashes, derailments, collisions between trains and other vehicles, and vehicle and other accidents caused by spills from a crashed train.

First, always seek immediate medical attention. Make sure to tell the provider all symptoms or injuries, even if they seem minor in the moment. Often, injuries will worsen over time.

Insurance companies might use defenses such as contributory negligence, intervening cause, overinflated expenses in order to deny your claim. Read more about these below.

As a result, burn victims can pursue compensation for a wide variety of damages, including rehabilitation, reconstructive surgeries and other medical treatments, long-term care, loss of earning capacity, and lost wages, among others.

The types of damages a personal injury plaintiff may recover from negligent defendants vary from state to state.

Spinal cord injuries can be financially catastrophic.

The “One Bite Rule” is based on the idea that an owner who has no reason to believe their dog is dangerous should not be held liable if the dog surprises everyone by suddenly biting someone.

This name is somewhat misleading because some assume it means that an owner will not be liable if their dog has never bitten anyone prior to the bite at issue in a particular case.

The landowner’s defense in a case involving negligence when failing to provide adequate security typically centers on whether the criminal act perpetrated by a third party was foreseeable.

This type of healthcare fraud involves falsifying billing codes that users have to include when they send in claims to the government.

False imprisonment is defined as an act in which one person restrains or confines another person without that other person’s consent and without authority to do so.

Abdominal trauma also called Blunt Abdominal Trauma, or BAT, occurs when a person’s abdomen collides with another object, leading to the compression of the abdomen and surrounding organs (i.e., the pancreas, kidneys, stomach, intestines, spleen, liver, etc.) and excessive pressure exerted on the abdominal wall.

A TBI refers to any trauma or blow to the head that causes the blood vessels in the brain to be stretched and the nerves to be damaged, resulting in the disruption of its normal functioning.

A traumatic amputation is the loss of a body part as a result of an accident or injury. There are two types of traumatic amputations – partial and complete.

A store owner or employee who reasonably believes a customer has shoplifted may detain the alleged perpetrator while the store owner investigates the situation…