Few people fully understand the serious nature of brain injuries. Even a minor injury could affect your cognitive functioning for life, making it impossible for you to do the things you once did. Brain injuries affect people differently, and yours could affect your concentration or make it difficult to express yourself. It’s imperative that you...
More than 700,000 civil cases of all kinds make their way into the California court system every year. More than 56,000 of those are personal injury suits of various kinds, including motor vehicle personal injury claims, claims for property damage, premises liability cases, dog bite cases, and others. While 80 percent or more of those...
Seat belts and airbags save thousands of lives every year. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that seat belts have saved more than a quarter of a million lives since 1975. In their first twenty-five years of widespread availability, frontal airbags prevented another 40,000 deaths. But while these and other technologies...
It’s difficult for most of us to imagine abusing a senior citizen, but the sad truth is that many of our most vulnerable elders are abused every day. According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as one in ten Americans over age sixty have been the victims of some form of elder...