Sacramento Personal Injury News

Insurance companies are in business to make money. Paying large personal injury claims is contradictory to that objective; therefore, insurance companies try everything within their power to limit their liability. Insurance companies train their insurance adjusters to use certain tactics designed to obtain information that can be used against you to lower the amount of compensation the insurance company must pay for your personal injury claim. Below are three of the most popular tactics used by insurance adjusters in personal injury cases. Tactic Number 1:...

Forgive us for the pun in the title but it is important that you understand that some things you do can literally “wreck” your auto accident claim causing you to receive less money than you deserve. As personal injury attorneys, we handle hundreds of auto accident cases each year. We encourage people to contact us as soon as possible after the accident so we can help them avoid mistakes that will hurt their chances of recovery in an auto accident claim. Unfortunately, some clients come...

A personal injury claim is a demand for monetary compensation for injuries caused by another person or another party’s actions or inactions. Personal injury claims arise from a variety of different situations. Motor vehicle accidents are the most common type of personal injury claim. Collisions and crashes involving automobiles, commercial trucks, and motorcycles occur every minute somewhere in the United States. According to the NHTSA, 32,675 people were killed during 2014 in motor vehicle crashes and another 2.3 million people were injured. In California, 3,074...

What Is A Pain And Suffering Journal? Have you been injured in a DUI accident? Did you fall in the grocery store because of a wet floor? Did a reckless driver collide with your bicycle causing a crash? If so, you may be entitled to compensation under California’s personal injury laws. Whenever a person is injured due to another person’s reckless, careless, or negligent acts or behavior, that person is entitled to be reimbursed for his or her economic and non-economic losses. You can help your...

When you are on another person’s property, you have the right to expect to be safe. Property owners have a duty to provide a safe environment for clients, customers, visitors, and other people who come on the property. When a property owner breaches this duty, the owner is responsible for any damages as a result of injuries occurring on the property under a slip and fall claim. When people think about a slip and fall claim, they typically think about customers falling on wet floors...

If you are involved in a California accident involving injuries, you are legally required to report the accident to the police. When a police officer comes to the scene of an accident, the officer performs an accident scene investigation to prepare the accident report. The police officer will determine who is at fault for the accident a may issue the at-fault driver a traffic ticket. Both parties should receive a copy of the report for his or her records. Even though an accident report is...

There are many dangerous driving decisions that driver make each day as they travel on our roads and highways. Dangerous driving decisions result in thousands of deaths and injuries each year. Do not fall victim to dangerous driving decisions like these. Distracted Driving Distracted driving has become a serious problem in California and throughout the United States. In fact, distracted driving has become almost as big of a problem as drunk driving. According to Distraction.Gov, 3,154 people died during 2013 due to accidents caused by distracted...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that beginning in 2018, vehicle manufacturers who want a top rating by NHTSA must provide automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems on their vehicles as a standard option. The NHTSA hopes that this will reduce the number of rear-end crashes. According to a Special Investigation Report by the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the use of forward collision avoidance systems to prevent and mitigate rear-end crashes, the NTSB investigated nine rear-end accidents. The result was 90 injured people...

Bicycle accident cases can be complex and difficult to prosecute. In order to collect damages in a California bicycle accident lawsuit, the accident victim must establish negligence on the part of the driver who caused the bicycle crash. In some cases, negligence may be difficult to determine depending on the facts of the case. This was true in the case of Bermudez v. Ciolek. Elements of Negligence In a case seeking damages for negligence, the plaintiff must prove that the other driver had a duty of...

Nursing home facilities are unprepared for the number of obese patients entering facilities throughout the United States. The average nursing home patient weighs more than in previous decades and that trend is expected to continue. Some nursing home facilities are turning obese patients away giving rise to potential lawsuits for violations of the federal anti-discrimination laws. A news report by Kaiser Health News details the severity of this problem. Obese residents are not only difficult in terms of their weight. Obesity often results in other medical conditions such...