Auto accident compensation claims are not claimed in proportion to the number of accidents occurring every year. People shy of a legal battle and prefer to pay for damages themselves, even when they do not have to pay for legal help, they still hesitant to go for it. Why? Maybe the answer lies in their lack of awareness.

Foremost let us discuss who is eligible for auto accident compensation claims, anyone who is involved in a vehicle collision. Definitely not the bystander...

When you think of police misconduct resulting in wrongful death , the first thing that probably comes to mind is police brutality causing the death of a suspect. Excessive force is a very real and dangerous problem, but it is not the only type of police misconduct which can turn fatal, and crime suspects are not the only victims who die at the hands of negligent, reckless, or overzealous officers. In many cases innocent bystanders, children, and even other officers are put in...

The following is an expert answer given byFlorida Slip and Fall InjuryLawyer, Joseph M. Maus, and is taken from AllExperts.com, a free Q & A service on the internet:

Subject: Slip & Fall Injury

Question:
While leaving a fast food restuarant in Florida, I tripped on some uneven pavement in the parking lot and fell down.  The manager came out about three minutes later with some ice for my injuries, inquiring about an ambulance.  We declined and my...

If you suffer an injury as a result from an accidental fall, road accident, or a sporting accident, you can make a claim for compensation. This system is designed to help you claim back any financial earnings you may have lost as a result of your injuries. You will either be entitled to make a claim for general damages or special damages. General damages will be applicable to emotional as well as physical injuries. The general impact the injury has had on your day to day life will be...

The chief causes of construction site injuries and industrial death claims are unsafe work practices and unsafe work site conditions. These most often are caused by employers' failure to comply with federal and state mandated safety practices, failure to provide adequate safety equipment such as scaffolding, safety harnesses and fall protection devices, failure to provide safe and properly functioning tools and machinery, use of worn and failing cables, and trenches that have not...

Whiplash injuries occur when a person suffers a forceful movement or jolt resulting in strain on the ligaments, tendons or soft tissues of the neck and back.

They typically occur in road traffic accidents, however whiplash injuries can be sustained in many different situations including slips, trips and falls, sports injuries and even assaults and attacks. People involved in car accidents are often contacted directly by the insurers of the person responsible for the accident...

The incidences of infection from percutaneous injury are low with few recorded deaths in this country (2006 3 per 1000 injuries) however it does not remove the stress and discomfort caused to the injured party before test results give an all clear.

Certain features of a percutaneous injury carry a particularly high risk:

• Where the injured party suffers a deep injury
• There is evidence that the source patient has a terminal HIV-related illness
• Blood can be...

Police have discontinued their efforts to find a 10-month-old infant missing after a truck accident in Oakland, California on Saturday night. The unidentified infant was one of seven people, who were riding in a pickup truck that apparently collided with a limousine, and then flipped over, falling into a roadside canal that was filed with rain water. The truck landed upside down in the water, and two adults and two more children in the truck, all unidentified, were injured. The...

Lawsuit funding has become increasingly popular amongst plaintiffs looking to extend their personal injury cases in hopes for larger settlements. Due to the downturn in the economy and recent job loss lawsuit funding is now becoming a more viable option. The plaintiffs that tend to use lawsuit funding as an option are those people who are strapped for cash and need help paying bills and out of pocket expenses prior to a legal case reaching a settlement.

Over the last few...

If you've been seriously or catastrophically injured in a slip and fall accident in Southern California from La Quinta to Laguna Beach, CA, from Corona del Mar, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Irvine, or Anaheim in Orange County, to Carlsbad, Mission Valley, La Jolla, Del Mar, or Escondido in San Diego, from Fontana, San Bernardino or Riverside in the Inland Empire or Palm Springs or Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley, to Victorville, Hesperia and Palmdale, you're probably asking...