It may seem a trivial accident, but you can suffer significant injuries from a slip-and-fall. The law says that if you slip and fall because another party was careless, they are responsible for any resulting injuries. The legal concept at play in such an accident is...
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Who picks your doctor in a NJ workers’ comp claim?
When you’re hurt or sick, you need to be able to rely on your doctor’s judgment and care. Unfortunately, when you’ve been injured on the job and need to go through workers’ compensation in New Jersey to get benefits, your employer gets to pick your doctor. Frankly,...
NHTSA offers advice for safe motorcycle riding
Riding a motorcycle is fun, exhilarating and addicting. Many people ride on their commute to work or simply go out for fun on the weekends. It’s an engaging hobby, to say the least. It’s also a dangerous one. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...
Does workers’ compensation cover repetition injuries?
Workers’ compensation laws exist to prevent you from suffering undue hardship if injured at work. Modern laws stem from those introduced during the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the job you do today may not even have existed back then. The original laws were designed...
Should you take a settlement after a car crash?
After you are involved in a car crash, one of the things you’ll need to deal with is the claim through insurance. When you make an insurance claim as a victim, it’s likely that the insurance company will offer a settlement at one time or another. That settlement may...
What should you do if you see a wrong-way driver?
In many cases, wrong-way driving accidents happen with little to no warning. Many of these accidents happen on the interstate, where cars traveling toward each other may be closing that gap at 140-150 miles per hour. There’s just no time to see what is happening and...
Company vehicles, wrecks and third-party claims: What to know
A tremendous number of occupations require workers to regularly operate everything from a company car or delivery vehicle to larger automobiles, like dump trucks and cranes. What happens when you’re in a wreck while driving a work vehicle? You have a right to workers’...
Are elderly drivers a danger on the roads?
Older adults and the elderly may still drive as long as they meet the same requirements as other drivers, such as passing driving tests and vision tests. In fact, in 2018, there were over 45 million people over the age of 65 who were licensed to drive in America....
Recent crash shows what happens drunk drivers strike pedestrians
An out-of-control motor vehicle operated by a drunk driver is nothing less than an accident waiting to happen. Other motorists, children going to school, pedestrians and bicycle riders often suffer severe drunk-driving-related injuries. Lawmakers do all they can to...
Teens cause more fatal accidents. Why are they a high-risk group?
You may have heard that teenage drivers are the most likely to be involved in serious and even fatal car accidents. This plays out every year. The reason that teens often have higher insurance premiums, for instance, is that there are years of data showing they crash...