Personal Injury Blog

According to Sacramento police, the driver of a sedan crashed into a Hummer at the corner of Northgate Boulevard and Tenaya Avenue in north Sacramento causing the death of one person and injuring three others, including herself. The driver, Antoinette Stewart, was charged with felony DUI after one of the passengers in her car died from injuries sustained in the accident. Stewart and the other two passengers were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Due to the severity of the injuries and the circumstances of...

If you ask most people, they would say liability insurance is the most important type of automobile insurance coverage you should carry to protect yourself in an accident. While this is true if you cause the accident, it is not necessarily the case if you are the victim of another driver’s reckless, negligence, or careless driving. Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is the most important insurance coverage you can have if you are in a motor vehicle accident caused by another driver. Why is Underinsured...

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, wearing a motorcycle helmet is about 37% effective in preventing deaths and 67% effective in preventing brain injuries in a motorcycle crash. Head injuries are one of the most common types of injuries sustained by motorcycle riders in a crash. Therefore, 19 states have a universal helmet law, including California, requiring all riders to wear a motorcycle helmet. Because California is one of the states with a universal motorcycle helmet law and California has a comparative negligence law, choosing...

What is a Spinal Cord Injury? According to the Mayo Clinic, a spinal cord injury is damage to any part of the spinal cord (vertebrae, ligaments, or disks) or the nerves at the end of the spinal cord. Because of the potential for permanent damage that affects a variety of bodily functions or causes paralysis, a spinal cord injury alters a person’s life forever. Common causes of spinal cord injuries include: Motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents Falls Acts of violence Sports and recreation injuries Alcohol Diseases Approximately 35%...

As a motorcycle rider, you may not be able to avoid a motorcycle accident caused by another driver; however, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of being involved in a motorcycle accident. As Sacramento motorcycle accident attorneys, we see how much damage a motorcycle crash can cause. Motorcyclists who suffer catastrophic injuries in a motorcycle accident often have permanent conditions that change their lives forever. How Can You Reduce Your Risk of Being in Injured in a Motorcycle Accident? Take a Motorcycle...

No one wants to place a loved one in a nursing home; unfortunately, there are times when it cannot be avoided. In some cases, your loved one needs constant personal and/or medical care that you are unable to provide. In those cases, a nursing home may be the best solution for a difficult situation. When you must place your loved one in a nursing home, it is vital that you take steps to ensure your love done does not become a victim of nursing home...

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...