Drivers and their passengers on the busy California roads will always be vulnerable. Encounters with impaired drivers are always a significant risk. Many personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits that are filed in civil courts result from auto accidents caused by...
Where The Injured
Go To Protect Their Rights
Year: 2018
How does the qualification process for SSDI work?
Employees in California who become unable to work due to injury or illness might be eligible for Social Security disability benefits. However, it is quite a complicated system, and there might be questions about how to qualify for SSDI benefits. The first requirement...
Workers’ compensation: Agriculture industry rife with hazards
A recent publication highlighted the many hazards that workers in the agricultural industry face every day. This sector includes farm workers, forestry workers and those working in the fishing industry nationwide -- including in California. Very little thought is...
Personal injury: Tired wrong-way driver kills 1 in 8-car crash
Drivers on California roads must have valid driver's licenses, comply with the prevailing traffic regulations, and be sober and alert. Noncompliance with any of these regulations can lead to citations, and if accidents result, it could lead to personal injury or...
Beware of cumulative trauma disorders at work
Some workplace injuries are indisputable. A carpenter slices off the top digits of his fingers. A utility worker gets a serious shock while climbing the pole. A worker falls off of a high scaffold and breaks his back. In cases like those, the path to workers'...
Workers’ compensation: Police officers with cumulative PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder is often associated with members of the military. Many people do not realize police officers in California and elsewhere are also susceptible to this disorder, although a slightly different form of it. While soldiers typically suffer...
Workers’ compensation will assist family of deceased electrician
Electricity poses deadly hazards to workers across California, and the flowers and candles that were placed in Modesto recently are grim reminders of just how dangerous it is. The surviving family members of the worker who recently lost his life while working on a...
Personal injury: Premises liability suit follows death of golfer
Who would ever expect to suffer life-threatening injuries on a golf course? A recent premises liability lawsuit that was filed in California shows that it can happen. In fact, in this case, a golfer apparently died just more than a week after he suffered a personal...
Personal injury: How safe are residents of gated communities?
Last November, a resident in a luxury, high-end apartment complex was found murdered outside his California residence. Although the identity of the killer remains a mystery, questions are being asked about the responsibility of the landlord toward tenants when it...
Workers’ compensation is not always the only remedy
Losing loved ones in workplace accidents can devastate any family. Although surviving family members in California can pursue financial relief through the workers' compensation insurance system, the full economic impact of such a loss is never entirely addressed by...
