A Complete Collection of Austin Injury Lawyer's Blog Posts:
Fire Related Injuries
Posted: November 29, 2010How to Protect Your Employees from Fire Related Injuries Fires in the workplace cause billions of dollars of damage each year, but no amount of money can bring back those who have died in a workplace or school fire. In most cases, injuries and deaths from workplace and school fires could have been prevented through…
Product Recall
Posted: November 25, 2010Product Recall As the holidays approach people rush to the store to buy those new and exciting toys and household products for those on their gift giving lists. Manufacturing companies are also rushing to get those products out on the shelves and sometimes forget the safety aspects that each of their products need to go…
Contaminated food outbreaks
Posted: November 22, 2010Contaminated food outbreaks can affect consumers on local or national levels. Food contamination often results in food poisoning, which is caused by several types of bacteria or other growth. This contamination may cause serious health complications that may require immediate medical attention. Food contamination outbreaks may be announced through media sources or by government sites…
Asbestos-related lawsuits
Posted: November 18, 2010Asbestos-related lawsuits Tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed over the past several years in connection with asbestos-related injuries. The lawsuits are an unfortunate legacy from the days when asbestos was a widely used component in literally thousands of industries and products. Much of its popularity stemmed from the fact that asbestos had very…
Protecting Yourself After an Accident
Posted: November 15, 2010Protecting Yourself After an Accident While most people throughout the world would rather not admit it, the fact is that traffic accidents happen, and are quite common. While accidents can be caused by a wide variety of different factors, the fact remains that it is crucially important to make sure that you protect yourself in…
Who Should Pay for Your Workplace Injury?
Posted: November 1, 2010When you get hurt in the course of performing your normal duties at work, are you responsible? A majority of states provide provisions for employees if an event or exposure that occurred in the workplace caused the accident. These also apply to many health conditions created by working in a certain setting, and even some…
How Long Does it Take to File a Lawsuit for an Injury?
Posted: October 28, 2010If you have been injured during a car accident, the pain, both physical and emotional, is enough to worry about. The last thing that you want to have on your mind is the amount of money that you will need to spend on medical bills. It is helpful to know just how long it will…
Injury Law and Tort Reform
Posted: October 25, 2010If you follow politics, especially if you are interested in the subject of injury law, you will often hear the phrase “tort reform.” Discussions on this subject become especially pronounced when there are debates about how health reform should proceed. So what exactly is tort reform? The remainder of this article will help you understand…
What is Product Liability?
Posted: October 21, 2010Product liability is a type of tort law, which is a civil act rather than criminal. In civil cases, the judge ruling is monetary whereas in criminal court, the sentence is prison or probation. Product liability deals with manufacturing, producing, distributing, supplying, and selling merchandise, manufactured goods, and other products that are available to the…
Medical Malpractice Injury Law in the United States
Posted: September 27, 2010Medical malpractice is a large cause of injuries in the United States. By some estimates, as many as 100,000 people may die due to medical malpractice errors. Many more are injured annually. Because of this, many medical malpractice lawsuits are filed in the U.S. each year. Medical malpractice is not merely suffering an adverse reaction…
Personal Injury Accidents at Work
Posted: September 23, 2010Personal injury accidents at work happen frequently, and these incidents often result in some legal action being taken by the injured party against their employer to recover damages. Even when some injuries are covered by workman’s comp insurance, there may be long lasting effects from an injury that can only be mitigated by pursuing a…
Work Injury and Worker’s Compensation Law Information
Posted: September 20, 2010Work injury law is built around worker’s compensation regulations that are present in each state. These laws and regulations stipulate that an employee injured on the job is entitled to compensation for medical treatment for their injuries and lost wages, and protects the employee from termination should they file a work injury claim. When a…
Wrongful Termination Personal Injury Lawsuit
Posted: September 16, 2010If you have been wrongly terminated from employment, it is possible to pursue recovery of fair compensation for your personal injury damages within the legal system. Even though there is no physical injury that results from being unfairly fired from your job, there are other types of damages incurred, including mental stress and psychological damage….
Personal Injury From Product Defect
Posted: September 13, 2010Personal Injury from Product Defect Accidents happen daily from any number of causes, but when a defective product is at fault, the accident usually involves negligence at some point in product manufacturing or installation. For example, recent news reports have been filled with problems associated from defective brakes on Toyota automobiles. Some accidents have resulted…
Who is liable for water park/theme park accidents
Posted: August 30, 2010Every summer millions of people around the globe visit a theme park or water park. Most of us consider an amusement park a venue of happy memory-makers, however recent trends indicate that water park and theme park accidents are on the rise and who is liable when an amusement park ride turns into trauma and…
The most common medical malpractice errors
Posted: August 26, 2010Birth injury, negligence and a failure to diagnose are the most common medical malpractice errors. A medical malpractice suit is extremely complicated and if you are suffering from a common medical malpractice error, you know that even the smallest of medical errors can sometimes become a life-altering and a devastating experience. Some people don’t even…
Why personal injury claims can take so long to resolve
Posted: August 23, 2010You’ve been in a personal injury accident quite some time ago, and want to know what is taking so long to settle the case? There are a number of different reasons to consider, none of which are your fault at all. Once you have filed the lawsuit within the statute of limitations that applies to…
Compensation for Construction Site Accidents
Posted: August 16, 2010Construction jobs are some of the most dangerous for anyone to have—there are dangers everywhere such as power tools that can easily lop off body parts and cranes. Add in high places that a tight rope walker would think twice about being on, and cement trucks, with live electrical currents flowing through places—and yes, construction…
What can you do if you’ve been injured in a truck accident?
Posted:Recovering from any type of an accident can be traumatic. Taking the time to understand what you can do about the injuries is very beneficial to you, when you think it out. Suffering injuries is not only painful, but quite often inconvenient in many different ways. Sometimes, when the vehicle is bigger than yours, it…
Expertise and Compassion
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