Choose a Lawyer Who Cares about What YOU Get From Your Injury Settlement – Not Just the Fee
One of the most important decisions in a personal injury case is choosing a lawyer who is focused on your net recovery, not just their fee. Many lawyers focus on one number: the settlement. Once they reach what they consider a “good” result, the case is over. They collect their ...
What’s Worse than Being Bit By a Dog – The Insensitive Dog Owner Continuing to Walk the Dog in Front of your House
What’s worse than a Dog Owner’s negligence in failing to confine or leash their Dog and it attacking you — The insensitive Dog Owner continuing to walk the Dog in front of your house. I’ve had it happen multiple times in my career. A neighborhood Dog bites my client and ...
Sometimes the Right Move is to Walk Away from the Table – So Make Sure You Have a Lawyer Who Isn’t Afraid of the Courtroom
Denise was a graduate student at Penn State when her life was suddenly transformed by a preventable accident. She slipped and fell on snow and ice at her apartment complex and sustained a serious wrist injury. #image_title The condition never should have existed. The apartment owner and the snow removal ...
Tiger Woods Legal Team Asserts that Privacy Rights Should Defeat Subpoena of Prescription Records – And How Personal Injury Victim’s Privacy Rights Are Impacted by the Litigation
Tiger Woods’ legal team is challenging the ability of Florida Prosecutors to subpoena prescription drug records using Privacy arguments. The defense lawyers argue that the prescription drug pharmacy records should be off limits, or, in the alternative, they should be used only for the police investigation and prosecution and not ...
Celebrity Litigation of Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni Highlights the Power of a Judge to Limit Legal Claims that Go to Trial
You might think that if you file a Civil Lawsuit, all claims that are filed get decided by a Jury, but you would be wrong. Instead, as the Judge has demonstrated in the celebrity litigation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni arising out of the filming of the movie This ...
500 Video Milestone for @TimRayne on YouTube
500 Vidoes on @TimRayne#image_title In a rare milestone, @TimRayne has reached 500 Videos posted on YouTube. Since 2012, Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyer Tim Rayne of the Law Firm MacElree Harvey has been shooting and posting educational videos to help people protect their families with proper insurance choice and to help ...
Uber Hit with $8.5 Verdict in Sexual Assault Case Even Though it Was Not Negligent – How did that Happen?
An Arizona Jury decided that Uber was not Negligent but still hit it with an $8.5 Million Verdict in a Sexual Assault case because it found that the driver was an Apparent Agent. The lawsuit arose out of an Uber ride in Arizona in which an intoxicated rider claimed that ...
How to Protect Your Legal Rights After a Slip and Fall on Snow or Ice
Winter weather in Pennsylvania can turn everyday places like sidewalks, parking lots, driveways into serious hazards. A slip and fall on snow or ice can happen in an instant, and the steps you take immediately afterward can make a major difference for your both your health and your legal rights ...
The Top Three Car Insurance Coverages To Make Sure You Have on Your Pennsylvania Car Insurance
The start of the New Year is the most common renewal time for Pennsylvania Car Insurance. As a Car Accident Lawyer, I see clients make crucial mistakes in choosing Car Insurance Coverages that limit their legal rights. Here are the Top Three Car Insurance Coverages you need to protect the ...
What in the World is the Subsequent Remedial Measures Evidence Rule
The Subsequent Remedial Measures Evidence Rule provides that, under most circumstances, a Defendant’s act of fixing a dangerous condition cannot be used as Evidence. Rule 407 titled “Subsequent Remedial Measures” states: When measures are taken by a party that would have made an earlier injury or harm less likely to ...