Your Right to Recover Compensation If You’re Injured in a Car Accident While Working
In New Jersey, as in all states, if you suffer an injury during the course of your employment, you have a right to seek workers’ compensation benefits for lost… [Read more…]
Most Common Causes of Motor Vehicle Accidents
Though auto accidents occasionally result from intentional behavior, virtually all motor-vehicle-accident-injury claims are based on negligence, which requires proof of cause. According to statisti… [Read more…]
Can You Be Liable Simply Because You Were on Your Phone at the Time of the Crash?
It seems like everyone does it—you’d be hard-pressed to find a motorist who doesn’t talk on a cell phone while driving. It happens a lot even in states like New… [Read more…]
Steps You Can Take to Reduce the Risk of Injury
It’s nearly spring and, if you’re a motorcycle enthusiast, that means you’re probably starting to think about getting back on the road. It’s inherently dangerous to take a motorcycle on the roads… [Read more…]
Determining Liability for a Rear-end Accident
If you’ve been hurt when someone crashed into the rear of your car, you’re not alone. According to statistics, nearly two million rear-end collisions happen every year in the United States. A common… [Read more…]
The Typical Causes of Needless Injury in New York and Across the Country
As a society, we seem to find more and more ways to engage in distraction, whether it’s on a personal device, looking at a billboard or trying to do more than one thing at… [Read more…]
Economic and Non-Economic Damages | How Potential Claims are Valued
When you have suffered injury in any type of accident, and you can show both a breach of the duty of care and causation, the focus turns to damages. Damages represent the losse… [Read more…]
What Are Your Rights When There’s More than One Driver at Fault?
It’s fairly common, especially when there are more than two cars involved in a motor vehicle accident, that more than one of the parties engaged in conduct that caused the acciden… [Read more…]
Strategies for Recovery for Your Losses
In the aftermath of a motor vehicle accident, one of the first things you typically do is gather insurance information from the at-fault driver. In New Jersey, with its no-fault insurance laws, motorists … [Read more…]
The Factors that Frequently Lead to Public Transportation Injuries
One of the arguments commonly made to promote buses, light rails, commuter trains and other forms of mass transit is the belief that they offer a safer ride. While mass transit … [Read more…]