Category: General

Automobile accident cases need to be handled correctly, or they can last too long and result in too little recovery. For over 20 years, we’ve been handling automobile accident cases resulting in serious and catastrophic injury, including death. We can all do our part in reducing the incidence of auto accidents. Take our pledge not to text, talk or surf the net while driving, and encourage your friends and family to take our pledge as well.

If you’ve been injured in an automobile accident which was not your fault, you should do the following:

1. Contact your insurance carrier to report the accident;
2. Find out which auto insurance coverages you have, including UM-UIM and Med-Pay coverages;
3. Get examined by your primary care physician so appropriate medical treatment can be arranged;
4. Do NOT speak with representatives of the negligent driver’s insurance carrier.

We can all do our part in reducing the incidence of auto accidents. Take our pledge not to text, talk or surf the net while driving and encourage your friends and family to take our pledge as well.

Prescription drugs can be dangerous, and sometimes cause severe reactions or complications which are unintended. Prescription drug companies, which are some of the largest companies in the world, do their best to maintain the profitability of their drugs, which sometimes means putting profits over safety by concealing the risks of their drugs. We handle cases involving serious injuries from prescription drugs, and the results we have achieved in this area of practice have received national recognition. In a prescription drug case we handled, we obtained the largest single jury verdict ever to be affirmed by the  Supreme Court. Currently, we are reviewing Actos bladder cancer cases, and SSRI (Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft) birth defect cases. If you or someone you love has been injured by a prescription drug, let us know.

Accidents at work are handled differently than non-work-related accidents. Typically, worker’s comp benefits will be an employee’s “exclusive remedy” for obtaining compensation for a work-related accident, but there are important exceptions, such as where an independent third-party (i.e., a non-employer) has contributed to causing your injury.

Don’t assume your work-related accident is limited to a worker’s comp recovery, but just to be on the safe side, follow these steps with any work-related injury:

1. Tell your supervisor;
2. Fill out the paperwork your employer provides (Form C-1/Notice of Injury or Occupational Disease (Incident Report);
3. Get medical care if you need it and fill out that paperwork, as well (Form C-4/ Employee’s Claim for Compensation/Report of Initial Treatment).

We have the ability to assist you with your worker’s comp claim, and to determine if some other (non-employer) entity is also legally responsible for compensating you. Why is this important? Because if some non-employer entity also contributed to causing your injury, you can proceed with a personal injury claim against them which is not limited by worker’s comp damages. If you’ve been injured at work, we can help.