Negligent Bars Face Liability For Car Accidents

Bars, pubs and other enterprises that make money serving alcohol must try hard to prevent predictable injury. If they don’t, a court may order them to pay big dollars to an injured victim. Say you get seriously hurt in a drunken fight in a night club, and staff didn’t...

Brain Injuries And Their Effects In Car Crashes

“Mental Illness often a Byproduct of Concussions” declared an attention-grabbing newspaper headline recently. The effort to draw attention to the often misunderstood subject of brain injuries (of which concussions are a common type) is justified. “Concussion” or even...

How ICBC Assesses Whiplash “Pain and Suffering”

Car Accident Law Firms Crash! Somebody hits you from behind. Your head jerks back and you get a whiplash. You develop pain – strong pain – and hard-to-pin-down soft tissue injuries in your neck and back which bother you for a long time after. Among other things,...

Bars and Pubs Responsible For Drunk Driving Injuries

After golfing with his buddies, Peter tossed down 12 pints of beer, then got in his van, only to smash into David, who was out enjoying a bike ride. David suffered serious head injuries as a result. Is Peter solely responsible for the accident that ruined David’s...

Using Your Cell Phone to Prove Accident Liability

Cell phones are great gadgets. Now, as well as being useful for talking (but not while driving!) and taking pictures, a cell phone can also be a useful tool at the scene of a car accident. It may even turn out to be decisive in the all-too-common situation where a...