Learn how to get your accident report sooner – and what we can do to help.

When you’re in an accident, documenting what happened is one of the most important steps you can take. But what happens after you file a report with the police or a property owner? How do you get a copy of that report and the crucial information it contains?

Getting Your Car

Figure out who is really at fault for your accident and learn how our lawyers prove fault in high-value personal injury claims.

Being involved in an accident can certainly seem random, but it’s not chance that causes a motor vehicle collision or a slip and fall. Someone chose to act in a way that put others in danger – whether through reckless driving behaviors or sloppy property

How much will you get for your case? There’s only one way to find out.

It’s one of the most common questions personal injury lawyers hear: how much is my case worth?

Unfortunately, this question is also one of the most difficult to answer. That’s because there’s no simple formula to decide, no automatic value that even the most experienced attorney can apply to your circumstances.

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Wondering when to call a personal injury lawyer? Here’s everything you need to know.

Whether your accident happened a few hours ago or a few weeks ago, there’s a good chance that you’ll eventually wonder whether you need to get a personal injury lawyer involved.

If you’re wondering whether it’s time to call a lawyer, the answer is yes. With free consultations and no upfront fees, there’s

When you got hurt, it was one of the most difficult times of your life. But you got through it, and you got justice. Maybe you handled a small personal injury claim on your own. Maybe you had a lawyer to help maximize your compensation. Either way, you ended up with money for the damages you suffered.

Now, though, you may be wondering if the money you

On any snowy day, think about your walking route. Can you take an elevator instead of potentially slippery steps? At any point on your path, do you have the option of using a tunnel instead of walking out in the open? If so, do – during winter storms, minimizing the risk of a slip and fall on ice the most important thing you can do.

When walking

Poet Robert Frost may have famously taken the road less traveled, but he probably didn’t do it during an ice storm. A snowy day is not the time to pioneer your own route – and trying could increase your risk of suffering a slip and fall on ice. In slippery weather conditions, the route you walk could make a big difference in your safety.

• Stick to

Nothing can slow down a snow removal job like the snow sticking to the shovel. Big clumps of snow can weigh your shovel down and decrease the space for scooping up new snow, making your work more tiring and inefficient than it needs to be. Every time you try to jostle stuck snow off of the blade, you’re wasting valuable time and energy. If the snow sticks

Whether You’re Hoping for Your Day in Court or Dreading the Ordeal of a Trial, Here’s What You Need to Know

The Odds of Taking the Case to Court

Every year, hundreds of thousands of tort lawsuits – suits over harm suffered because of someone else’s behavior – are filed in federal courts. State courts see hundreds or thousands of additional tort lawsuits.

How many actually go

We Break Down What a Personal Injury Case Is, Who Is Involved and What a Lawyer Will Do for You

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Damages and Your Personal Injury Case

When you get hurt in some sort of accident, motor vehicle-related or otherwise, you suffer what we in the legal industry call damages.

The injuries you suffered are just one example of your damages.

The 3 Steps You Must Take If You’re Suffering Back Pain from a Crash

When the accident happened, you felt more shaken than anything. That’s normal. You’re in shock – you certainly weren’t expecting this to happen! – and with the adrenaline flowing, you might have really thought you were fine. Maybe you even thought how lucky you were that the crash wasn’t worse.

But that was

Simply breathing in the wrong place could put you in danger of suffering a life-threatening lung infection.

Feeling ill? Your cough might be more than seasonal allergies or a nasty cold. Every year, early autumn sees an upsurge in cases of a severe form of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease, according to the New Jersey Herald. And if you’re like many Legionnaires’ disease patients, you never even realized

Taking a cruise this summer? Here’s everything you need to know about cruise ship disappearances.

A man vanished during his honeymoon, never to be seen again. Investigators found bloodstains in his cabin and more streaks of blood down the side of the ship.

When a woman traveling with relatives didn’t return to the cabin as planned, her travel companions assumed she was out enjoying herself. Only as

This Man Is the Reason Insurance Companies Can Take Money From You (Again!)

My job is to protect accident victims from the overreaching insurance companies who try to wriggle out of paying victims what they deserve. This guy has the opposite claim to fame: he “protects” insurer’s profits at the expense of injured victims.

After all, in his own words, “Why isn’t this money going back to

This one bad driving habit is behind the most aggravating traffic jams clogging up your commute.

We’ve all been there – trapped in an ocean of glaring red brake lights, waiting for what seems like an eternity for the bumper-to-bumper traffic to clear. Yet when it does, there’s no obvious reason for traffic to have slowed to a crawl in the first place. No debris from an