Personal Injury

Car insurance for drivers living in Philadelphia is really expensive. In fact, according to the latest data released by Runzheimer International, a competitive analysis and mobility services firm, Philadelphia is the second-most expensive city for auto coverage in the country. The average annual premium, as stated in the firm’s report, for a Philly driver with what most consumers consider “full coverage” is $4,076 annually as of 2011.

Medical mistakes happen every day, however not every mistake made by hospitals and medical doctors constitutes negligence or medical malpractice. The error which led to Anna Mazur’s legal blindness may be an example of a medical mistake that constitutes clear carelessness. Mazur, now 92-years-old, was at the University of Pennsylvania’s Scheie Eye Institute in 2011 for surgery to repair a blocked vein in her left eye,

The 2 Most Important Things You Need to Know About New Jersey’s ‘No Fault’ Law:

After being involved in an accident that was not your fault, you are faced with many struggles. You are in pain and may be hospitalized—you then learn that the at-fault driver will not be held responsible for your medical bills, adding to the extreme stress you are under. The reason the responsible

When it comes to seeking compensation from an insurance company after an accident, they are not going to make it easy on you. Insurance companies see the costs associated with aggressively defending against personal injury claims as a cost of doing business and they feel that if they can make it so difficult that no one would ever want to pursue a claim, they have succeeded. What

When you are injured at work, you are entitled to worker’s compensation benefits through your employer, but there are also some instances that would lead you to have a personal injury case in addition to the worker’s comp claim. When the accident you were involved in was the fault of someone other than your employer you may also have what is known as a third party claim

Social media changes the immediacy of information and how we interact with current events. The 24-hour news cycle now seems like a senior citizen when compared to the instant-updating abilities of Twitter users and Instagram devotees. Our Philadelphia personal injury attorneys understand that power also extends to accident claims and personal injuries, where insurance companies tend to become very interested in the personal information accident victims choose

Following a motor vehicle accident, many people choose to forgo medical treatment because they do not believe that are hurt that bad. This is a dangerous assumption because the failure to seek treatment immediately following your accident could jeopardize your ability to seek compensation in the future should your injuries turn out to be more severe. After being the victim of a serious accident, you need to

When you have been injured in an accident and are need of legal assistance it can be overwhelming trying to find the right injury lawyer in NJ for you. There are so many attorneys out there that “handle” personal injury claims, but in many instances this is just an area of law they dabble in rather than a specialty. Finding a lawyer who really knows the ins

You would be hard-pressed in this day and age to come across someone who is not on at least one social media site. From Facebook and Twitter to YouTube and Tumblr the masses are obsessed with social media. For some reason, we all feel the need to divulge information about our lives and what we are doing—information that, before social media, we wouldn’t bother sharing in a

For years there has been a constant debate regarding the so-called need for ‘tort reform,’ also known as caps on damages, and whether or not this is a beneficial practice. The main argument is that by placing caps on the amount of money that can be received when someone is the victim of medical malpractice will help ease the staggering costs of healthcare in our country. The

Country Throwdown doesn’t begin to describe it.

More than 160 people sustained injuries at XTU’s Anniversary Concert at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden this past weekend. Police arrested nearly 200 concert goers in connection with a host of assaults causing personal injuries. Live Nation, which promoted the Country Throwdown Tour, may have provided inadequate event security for parking lots. Witness accounts of the violence that took

Fatal accidents in New York and New Jersey have prompted regulators from the U.S. Transportation Department to shut down 26 separate bus companies. The bus accidents in question happened over the course of last year and resulted in the deaths of 17 people in the Bronx and on the New Jersey Turnpike. The safety violations – compiled by federal inspectors – site three main companies as owning

When you make the decision to pursue a personal injury claim there is certain information that you will want to immediately disclose to your law firm. This information is necessary not only to inform them of the specifics surrounding your accident, but also so that they are fully prepared to handle any issues that could potentially be raised by the opposing party over the course of the

Over the past few years there has been a troubling trend with regards to accidents that result in fatalities on the Garden State Parkway. All of the fatal accidents on the Parkway from 2010 through May 2012 occurred within approximately a mile of an exit. This begs the question of what is so inherently dangerous about these areas of the highway that people are dying in staggering

The frantic moments after a serious car accident are often difficult to remember. The body floods with adrenaline, focuses on simply staying alive. For 18-year-old Desaleen James, the video she shot of her and her friends that evening captures the terrible impact of the vehicle as the driver, drunk behind the wheel, loses control of the vehicle and crashes into a brick embankment at 94 miles per