Most children love animals, including dogs. They want to pet a dog or play with a dog, even if it is a dog they do not know. Still, the natural curiosity of a child may be too much for even a mild-mannered dog to handle, and the dog might bite the child. Does this...
Injuries
How can you pay your bills after being injured in a car wreck?
Following your car accident, you might be breathing a sigh of relief that you have the ability to pursue a personal injury lawsuit to help offset your damages. But, as you may know, these claims can take a significant amount of time to play out. How are you going to...
Tips for helping your teen become a safer driver
For your teenager, getting a driver’s license means more freedom. For you, though, your teenager starting to drive means more worry about his or her safety out on the road, knowing deaths and injuries are so high among teenager drivers. The Centers for Disease Control...
3 tips for recovering from a brain injury
You suffer a brain injury when an outside force, like a blow or jolt to your head, causes dysfunction. Brain injuries can cause a wide variety of symptoms, and you may experience confusion, irritability, difficulties concentrating and other symptoms after incurring...
What to do if a dog attacks you
Most of the time, dogs are well-socialized and loyal animals who wouldn’t dream of hurting a human. But as animals, any dog can become aggressive if they feel afraid or cornered by a perceived threat. Dogs will rarely bite without reason, but that doesn’t mean the...
Pre-trial motions: How do cases resolve?
You may already know some of the ways a trial can end. However, these well-known resolutions are not the only possibilities. Apart from settlement before a trial — one of the most common ways that personal injury cases end — and court decisions after a trial, there...
Even minor injuries can be a basis for legal action
When parents send their little daughters and sons to school, they do so in the hope that their children will learn something of value. Even more importantly, they hope that their children will stay safe. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. There have been...
It helps to have a post-accident recovery plan in mind
There's no way to know who's behind the wheel of the vehicles that are sharing the road with you at any given time. You may find that traveling by car is sometimes quite uneventful. You're on the open road, and there's barely any traffic. You arrive at your...