Why would the Defense Offer a Sizeable Settlement when the Plaintiff’s Story is Anemic
Robert Wolff
April 17, 2015
The Defense Offers to Settle
The Defense Offers to Settle
Just because you have suffered significant injuries because of the negligence of a doctor and filed a medical malpractice case, you need not have a negative outlook on your life. Many victims easily succumb to depression and start believing that their disabilities are going to ruin their lives.
A few people think it is easy to handle their own personal injury cases, and claim compensation based on their own efforts. However, this is a big mistake since personal injury cases can be highly complex involving the law, insurance situations, medical issues, and so on. If you go ahead and start a lawsuit without consulting an experienced medical malpractice attorney, without having a certificate of merit, then your case will run into significant problems at the moment of inception.
People who have undergone laser hair removal may be interested to learn that New York is one of the few states where people can perform this procedure without an operating license. New York is also a state that has seen some of the highest numbers of malpractice lawsuits related to laser surgery injuries.
All over the country, cities and other municipalities are building bicycle paths as part of their local infrastructure. Why? In a day and age where many people are experimenting with alternate forms of transportation, bike paths provide a level of safety for those who choose to travel by bike. With paths, bicyclists will have their own space instead of contending with daily traffic. But what happens when bike lanes or paths are not available? In many parts of New York City, there just isn’t room for dedicated bike paths. Even in specific recreational areas, bike paths are not always immediately available to allow for completely
Did you fall on a slick or uneven surface? Were you pushed? Was something on the floor that wasn’t supposed to be there? Did you fall while under stress, trying to complete some task as part of your job? All of these are questions that injury victims might be asked after a slip and fall accident, and all of them can have a bearing on a personal injury claim. Still, asking the questions is the easy part. Injury attorneys also have to review federal, state and local law and determine how the laws might apply to a particular situation. While some lawyers might make blanket
What is a Loss of Consortium? If you are no longer able to have sex like you used to or at all because of an accident, then can you bring your inability to have sex as part of your damages claim in the State of New York. The answer is yes. It is known as a loss of consortium claim. This fancy legal term says, because of your accident, the injuries you have suffered are now preventing you from doing those activities with your spouse as you used to be able to do. You are no longer as intimate with your spouse and have difficulties
You have suffered serious injuries in a car accident and you want to invoke a personal injury lawsuit to claim compensation. Do you tell everything to your lawyer about what has happened in your past, especially a skeleton in your closet? Possible Skeleton in Your Closet Most people may have something in their past that they are not proud of or something they did wrong. A skeleton in your closet could be: A prior arrest A DUI conviction Involved in prior lawsuit Bankruptcy proceeding you had recently Foreclosure on your home Earned income but did not file tax returns in a particular year Any of
You have suffered significant injuries because of somebody else’s carelessness, and you have decided to submit a personal injury lawsuit. During the course of your lawsuit, your lawyer strongly advises you to stop posting pictures and comments via social media. For example, do not post pictures of yourself and do not explain what is going on with you medically and what did happen to you in relation to this incident. However, you go ahead and ignore your lawyer’s warning, thinking that there is no way anybody can hack into your social media accounts or that anyone pertinent to your case will be able to read
Can you use a property owner fixing a defective problem on his property as evidence to show that what occurred was improper and careless? Showing Liability of Property Owner Let us say you slip and fall on somebody’s property, and you want to claim compensation for your injuries. You will have to show that the property owner knew or should have known about the defective condition that caused you to fall. Many times after an accident has taken place, the property owner will go ahead and fix that defective condition for the obvious reason that they do not want somebody else to be injured due
