Most people have never been involved in a lawsuit. As such, many accident victims and their families are anxious about pursuing a personal injury claim. It is true that a lawsuit could result in a trial before a jury, but most don’t, and the process should not be a stressful one. The steps below will…

Most personal injury lawsuits are filed over accidents — like a slip and fall or a car crash. But, in some cases, the action that caused the harm was intentional rather than accidental. In the context of personal injury law, “assault” and “battery” are intentional torts (wrongs) that can form the basis of a lawsuit…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “poison” as “a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.” The legal definition of the term is “any product or substance that can harm someone if it is used in the wrong way, by the wrong person, or in…

Post Accident Depression The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that every 10 seconds in the United States a person suffers an injury directly resulting from a motor vehicle collision. While the majority of these traffic accidents are not fatal, they aftermath may last with the accident victims for a lifetime. Sometimes the most…

Firefighters with heavy equipment climbed stairs to battle an 11th-floor West LA high-rise apartment fire that sent two people suffering from smoke exposure to a hospital. Details regarding the victims’ conditions were not immediately available, but firefighters said the injuries are not considered life threatening. The fire broke out just before noon inside an 11th-floor unit…

An investigation into an explosion that sent debris into a crowd at a Southern California Fourth of July fireworks show determined that a malfunction involving a shell inside a mortar tube led to the blast. Twenty-eight people were injured in the explosion when mortar tubes and the racks holding them were blasted into the crowd at the…

Actos Bladder Cancer Issue: Increased risk of bladder cancer Ellis Law has represented persons who took the prescription drug pioglitazone, sold under the brand name Actos, and developed bladder cancer. Physicians prescribe Actos to treat patients with Type 2 Diabetes. We are also investigating cases for patients prescribed Actos who developed prostate cancer. Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical…

A 40-year-old Californian with a moderate income will pay between nothing and $219 a month for a basic health insurance plan next year under President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, a state agency announced Thursday. Covered California, the authority in charge of the state’s health insurance exchange, has released details about what the health insurance…

A whiplash accident occurs when one motor vehicle strikes another from behind, causing certain forces to be transmitted from the striking vehicle to the struck vehicle. These forces are then transmitted to the occupant(s) of the struck vehicle, where they have the potential to cause whiplash injury. If you have suffered from a whiplash injury…

Los Angeles Yasmin Attorney; Yasmin Lawsuit Attorneys The birth control market is booming, and while people could point to any number of reasons for it, the bottom line is that the competition in the industry is as intense as it has ever been. As a result, more and more companies are releasing products designed to prevent…