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What if I can’t prove negligence? To have a valid personal injury claim, you have to be able to prove four things: ·         An individual had a duty ·         The duty was breached ·         The breach caused harm ·         An injury The individual is the person who harmed you, and the duty varies from…

What kinds of Personal Injury cases are there? Most people think car accident when they think of personal injury cases. But there are actually quite a few different kinds of personal injury. In all personal injury cases, the plaintiff has to prove negligence on the part of another party, and that the negligence directly…

What’s the Best Way to Find a Personal Injury Attorney? If you find yourself or a family member with an injury that you believe you should be compensated for, the prospect of finding a personal injury attorney can be daunting. A Google search will reveal too many names to research individually. The best way…

When Should I Call a Personal Injury Attorney? Most of the time when people get injured, they refer to it as an “accident.” Either we don’t assign blame, or we don’t want to think anyone would hurt us intentionally. But sometimes, the word accident just doesn’t apply. In those cases, you need to call…

Brain and Head Injury Symptoms While the rest of the nation watches leaves fall and cozies up in warmer clothes, Texans only hint that fall is upon them is the beginning of football season. Amongst all the tailgating rivalries, what is really getting attention this year is head and brain injuries suffered from football…

From the CDC: Preventing Burn Injuries in Children According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a US federal government agency based in Atlanta, GA, around 100,000 children aged 14 and younger received treatment for burn injuries in 2010 and approximately 300 actually died from burns.   Most of these injuries were preventable.  …

Sprinklers First Line of Defense Against Burn Injuries After suffering severe burns in a commercial airliner crash in 1963, Alan Breslau went on to found The Phoenix Society in 1977. Breslau named his society after the mythical bird that lives for 500 years and then burns, only to rise from the ashes to live…

Dog Bite Statistics in the US; Texas #1 for Dog Bite Fatalities According to an October 2013 report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),close to 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs each year. Nearly half of these are children, and twenty percent of dog bites are serious enough to require medical attention….