What Is The Difference Between Ordinary and Gross Negligence?
Most personal injury cases are based on negligence on the part of the person or entity at fault for the injury. The court defines a party’s act of negligence as breaching the duty of care to prevent harm to others by failing to take measures to prevent injury the way a reasonable person would...
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The Serious Injuries That Come From Sideswipe Collisions
When two vehicles traveling in the same direction accidentally make contact by hitting or scraping along the sides of the vehicles, the impact is a sideswipe collision. Sideswipe collisions often happen due to unsafe lane changes on major, multi-lane highways or while passing on rural roads. All sideswipe collisions can cause injuries, but when...
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How to Measure the Emotional Distress Caused by a Dog Bite
A dog attack is one of the most frightening ways to sustain painful injuries with lasting physical and emotional damage. The sense of terror and helplessness when “man’s best friend” suddenly attacks, can have lasting negative impacts on physical health and emotional well-being. While it’s a straightforward matter to calculate medical costs after painful...
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Ways Bicyclists Can Make Themselves More Visible to Vehicles
Bike riding is a healthy choice for the body and for the earth’s ecosystem. It’s also a wonderful way to appreciate the outdoors. But the unenclosed format of a bicycle leaves no protection for cyclists in an accident, especially in a traffic collision with a 4,000-pound vehicle. While wearing a bike helmet can help...
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Common Causes of Intersection Collisions
Accidents happen every day and can occur anywhere, but a significant portion of annual accidents occur at intersections, both in busy urban areas with signal lights and on dark country crossroads with stop signs. Why are intersections especially dangerous to motorists? Over 10,600 fatalities occurred at intersections in 2020 alone, and traffic has only...
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What to Do in a Bicycle Hit-and-Run Accident
There’s nothing like a bike ride in the open air for exercise, for taking the scenic outdoor views, and as an eco-friendly choice for transportation within your community. But the same unenclosed format and 2-wheeled design that makes a bike ride so exhilarating also leave cyclists vulnerable to serious injuries in an accident, especially...
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