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Car Accidents

Can I Get Compensation for Anxiety After a Car Accident?

Frank Fernandez
Car accidents often prove extremely traumatic. Not only can they result in severe injury, they can increase anxiety or prove difficult for many people to cope with. You may find yourself suffering from a range of emotional challenges, including increased anxiety or PTSD. Can you claim compensation for anxiety or emotional distress after a car accident? Can I get compensation for anxiety after a car accident? Yes, you can get compensation for anxiety after a...
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Auto Accidents

How Long Should You Expect To Be Sore After a Car Accident?

Frank Fernandez
Following an automobile crash, you might face devastating repercussions, including significant injuries, excruciating pain, and ongoing medical care you may rely on for the rest of your life. As post-accident soreness lingers, most people begin to worry. You may find yourself wondering whether you have suffered normal soreness or if you sustained more severe injuries than you initially thought, especially if that soreness does not seem to fade as more time passes. How Long Should You Expect...
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car Accident

What Happens After a Deposition in a Car Accident Case?

Frank Fernandez
If you had a car accident and your claim has failed to settle, necessitating a lawsuit, the legal proceedings may involve a deposition. That is, the defendant’s attorney might depose you or your witnesses. Your lawyer may also depose the defendant or their witnesses. Normally, deposition is one discovery method in a car accident lawsuit others include requests for document production, admissions, and interrogatories. Discovery happens at the initial stages and may or may not...
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Trucking Accidents

T-Bone Truck Accidents

Frank Fernandez
T-bone truck accidents are one of the most hazardous crashes on our roads. Any collision can be dangerous, but the nature of T-bone crashes heightens the risk of severe injuries, especially on the smaller vehicle’s occupants. As the name suggests, a T-bone accident, also known as a side-impact truck collision, involves a crash whereby one vehicle’s front end rams into the side of another. A truck may hit a car on the side, or the...
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Trucking Accidents

Dangerous Tanker Truck Accidents Lead to Severe Injuries

Frank Fernandez
Tanker trucks transport various substances across the nation. In general, trucks cause greater bodily injury and property damage when an accident occurs. High-speed truck accidents also have an increased chance of causing fatalities. Tanker truck accidents have an added element of danger because of their cargo. Many tanker trucks carry hazardous substances, such as gasoline, kerosene, and oil. A traffic accident can ignite these substances in seconds, causing devastating injuries and making tanker truck accidents...
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Should I Take the First Offer of a Car Accident Settlement?

Frank Fernandez
Generally, never take the first offer of a car accident settlement. In most cases, such an offer is not in your best interests. Sometimes the deal might be tempting, especially if the medical bills are piling and probably you cannot resume working yet. Any promise of finances might sound like a relief. Unfortunately, accepting the offer closes the case, meaning you cannot pursue the claim further. If you have not healed completely, you would have...
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Medical Malpractice

Misdiagnosis Can Provide Grounds for a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Frank Fernandez
People rely on doctors to diagnose and treat illness and disease. Some people have limited choices for their providers because of their insurance plan, while others have more freedom. Regardless of who someone chooses as a provider, they expect their doctor to provide excellent medical care. Unfortunately, doctors and other medical professionals make mistakes. They do not always provide high-quality care, and sometimes it is difficult to discern between competent providers and those who fail...
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Trucking Accidents

How Will My Family Be Taken Care of in the Event of an Accident With a Truck?

Frank Fernandez
Truck accidents often cause severe and catastrophic injuries, which means that the accident victim might not work for months, if ever. The biggest worry of a truck accident victim, other than recovering, is how they will take care of the family. If the truck accident was not your fault, you could recover damages to help pay medical bills and support your family. Whether you settle or litigate your case depends on several factors, including the...
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Personal Injury

How a Lawyer Can Help You after a Tractor-Trailer Accident

Frank Fernandez
Weighing up to 80,000 pounds when fully loaded and featuring significant blind spots on all four sides, commercial motor vehicles—also known as tractor-trailers or semi-trucks—prove far more difficult to maneuver than other vehicles. Operating one safely requires skills that drivers of smaller vehicles don’t need. For this reason, the trucking industry operates under heavy regulations. However, despite the regulations, truck drivers and trucking companies often bend the rules, either by driving without the proper qualifications...
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Personal Injury

How a Lawyer Can Help You After a Tractor-Trailer Accident

Frank Fernandez
As one of the top exporters in the nation, Florida accounts for 3.9 percent of the overall goods exported from the United States. Many of these goods travel to other countries through one of the state’s ports, but many more ship to other states. As these locally grown or manufactured goods leave our state, items that our residents and visitors need are shipped in. Most products shipped in the U.S. use commercial motor vehicles, also...
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