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June 27, 2019

Married couples will often have legal estate documents prepared together. Such documents may include a will, leaving all property to the surviving spouse and/or the couple’s children, and a heath care proxy (sometimes known as a living will) to direct the spouse how to handle medical issues if one spouse becomes incapacitated.

June 14, 2019

Roughly 10 to 25 percent of accidental injuries for children occur while they are at school. An estimated 2.2 million students will suffer an injury at school each year throughout the country.

June 7, 2019

Rear end collisions are extremely common, often resulting in serious injuries. In fact, the National Transportation Safety Board reports that there are roughly 1.7 million rear-end collisions in the United States every year.

May 31, 2019

Car insurance is not only beneficial, it is also legally required in every state in the U.S. However, t some drivers fail to obtain insurance coverage or are underinsured, which poses unique challenges.

May 17, 2019

Hurricanes are the mightiest natural events on Earth. In size, they can exceed the entire state of Texas. In energy, they contain hundreds of times more energy than even the largest tornado. Unfortunately, these natural events readily turn into natural disasters.

May 3, 2019

You’re driving along on a nice sunny day enjoying the radio on your way to work when suddenly you hear the loud screeching noise of tires sliding on pavement. Without time to react, you brace for impact as you realize you’re about to be hit.

April 26, 2019

It’s Tuesday afternoon and you’re driving home from work. Remembering that you need to pick up some groceries on your way home, you decide to take a detour to stop at the grocery store. In doing so, you leave the highway and enter suburban streets.

April 12, 2019

Your friends are over and a few are helping you prepare dinner for your annual Sunday Roast. Suddenly, your friend yells out that the oven is on fire. Startled, you see a large flame glowing through the glass door and you rush to turn the oven off.

April 5, 2019

Airbnb, the home-sharing service for people seeking commercial lodging, now boasts millions of listings worldwide. With that expansion has come questions of who is responsible in the event of an injury.

March 26, 2019

When bringing a product liability case, there are two primary tests which may be applied for purposes of establishing liability and eventually, damages: first, the consumer expectations test; second, the risk-benefit test. The consumer expectations test requires the plaintiff to prove that the product failed to perform in a safe manner that would be expected by an ordinary consumer when the product is used as intended or in a reasonably foreseeable manner.