Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Hiring a Personal Injury or Medical Negligence Attorney on Contingency

  Scott Smith | March 14, 2007 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Abraham Lincoln once said, "A lawyer's time and advice is his stock in trade." In essence, asking an attorney for his advice is no different than asking an accountant to set up a business plan or do your taxes, a doctor to examine you, render a diagnosis and prescribe treatment or hiring an electrician to fix the wiring of your home. Nonetheless, many people are under the impression that...

• What is a Statute of Limitations and How Does it Apply to Bodily Injury from Auto Accidents and Medical Malpractice Claims?

  Scott Smith | March 10, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As with all lawsuits, a statute of limitations restricts the time in which you can file a lawsuit for negligence. In Ohio, the statute of limitations for most personal injury negligence is two years. If you miss the deadline, you usually have no legal recourse. Note that the statute of limitations for medical malpractice cases is only one year with exceptions. O.R.C. Ann §2305.11. If you...

• Overview of Ohio Personal Injury Law

  Scott Smith | March 02, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Personal injury law covers a broad spectrum of issues when one has been physical or emotionally injured, and/or personal property has been damaged. In legal circles, personal injury law is also known as "tort" law, the French word for "wrong." Personal injury or "tort" law is the body of laws that allows one to be compensated in the even that someone's carelessness, recklessness or intentional...

• CNN Uncovers Auto Insurers Unfair Personal Injury and Property Damage Claims Practices and Bad Faith

  Scott Smith | March 01, 2007 12:35 PM | 2 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An article on CNN.com determined "[I]f you are injured in a minor car crash, chances are good that you will be in the fight of your life to get the insurance company to pay all the medical costs you incur - - even if the accident was no fault of your own." (CNN.com, Auto Insurers Play Hardball in Minor-Crash Claims by Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, February 9, 2007)CNN conducted an eighteen...

• The Myth of Tort Reform

  Scott Smith | February 16, 2007 10:48 AM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Constantly looking for a scape goat, big business, big media and insurance companies have targeted trial lawyers and injured persons seeking compensation as villains who negatively effect the economy. Regardless of the propaganda that constantly spews from the Chamber of Commerce, there is a continuous outpouring of evidence that the cost of personal injury automobile insurance litigation and...

• $20 Million Verdict Against Allstate for Bad Faith

  Scott Smith | October 06, 2006 12:01 PM | 1 CommentColumbus, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Indiana jury determined Allstate Insurance Company committed bad faith in failing to pay a man for losses due to injuries and damage to his car following a car crash and awarded the man $20 Million. The jury decided Ted Fields was in bad hands after applying for property damage and medical benefits under his Allstate policy following a car crash. Fields, age 50, who is now a retired...

• $143 Million Awarded To Nuclear Fuel Reactor Operators

  Scott Smith | October 05, 2006 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The US Federal Court of Claims awarded $143 Million to three nuclear fuel reactor operators because the government failed to remove used reactor fuel rods. The award could be the sign of more lawsuits and awards to come for other operators who also claim the federal government failed to follow contractual agreements that nuclear waste was to be taken from the sites by 1998. Consequently, the...