Comparative fault is a legal term for allocating the percentage of fault between parties who share responsibility for an accident. It is most commonly applied in car accidents but can come into play in other types of personal injury, such as slip and fall cases, as well. We Are Available …
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What is a Wrongful Death Lawsuit?
Relatives usually bring a wrongful death lawsuit after the loss of a family member due to either negligence or intentional harm. It allows those closest to the victim (referred to as the “decedent”) to recover damages. State statutes determine who may file a wrongful death lawsuit and how long they …
Should I Accept a Check From the At-Fault Driver or Their Insurance
You are on the road with places to go when out of nowhere, you are involved in an accident. That moment changes everything— it can cause days, weeks, or even years of pain and financial strain. If the at-fault driver or their insurance company offers you a check, should you …
Can Car Insurance Companies Request Phone Records?
A car insurance company that is trying to allocate fault for an automobile accident might request a driver’s cell phone records to determine if they were distracted by a call or text message. Before you comply with any insurance company request for your cell phone information, call Douglas & London …
How Do Insurance Companies Decide to Total a Car?
Following a serious car accident, there is one important decision that your insurance company will make that could have a dramatic impact on your life and finances. That decision is whether or not to declare your vehicle as “totaled.” Many times after a car accident, your vehicle will need only …
Do You Really Need Collision Coverage?
In New York, there are extensive requirements for auto insurance. Drivers in the Empire State must carry liability insurance. This coverage is designed to pay for bodily injury or property damage caused by another driver. However, it does not provide compensation for the insured driver’s own vehicles. Thankfully, collision coverage …
How Do You Determine if a Car is Totaled?
Following a serious car accident, an insurance company will consider a car to be damaged beyond repair, or totaled, if the cost to repair the car exceeds a certain percentage of the car’s actual cash value immediately before the accident. This may sound like an objective and unbiased definition, but …
What You Need to Know About JUUL
What did JUUL do wrong? JUUL Labs Inc. – which is 35% owned by Big Tobacco company Altria, the makers of Marlboro – has been implicated in multiple issues. The first one, which is the base for many of the harsh allegations against them, is their illegal marketing to minors. …
White House Calls for FDA to Ban Sales of all Flavored JUUL Pods and E-cigarettes
After yet another death in the U.S. from a severe respiratory illness linked to vaping, the White House is pushing to banall non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes from the market. U.S. health officials are urging people to avoid e-cigarettes while the Centerfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigates over 450 cases of lung …
Human Sex Trafficking in America
What is Human Trafficking? The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended (22 U.S.C. 7102), defines ‘severe forms of trafficking in persons’ as: Sex trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial …
