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• Accidents Most Likely Near Home

  John Cooper | October 31, 2006 2:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The vast majority of car wrecks happen within a 3 mile radius of your home.If you think about it, it is just a matter of common sense that more personal injuries happen near home. You are on the road more near your house than anywhere other than work. Because almost every trip begins and ends near home, that is the place that you are most likely to be hit in your vehicle by the negligence of...

• Should I get medical care after an injury?

  John Cooper | October 30, 2006 3:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  One of the initial questions faced by the victims of other's negligence is whether they should seek medical attention.While the answer to this question is driven by the facts of the particular incident (i.e. the age of the victim, site of the injury, degree of trauma, etc.), early and appropriate medical care will frequently hasten the recovery from a personal injury. This is particularly true...

• Railroad Defense Bullies

  John Cooper | October 25, 2006 11:13 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  It never ceases to amaze me how attorneys representing big corporations like CSX Railroad will try to bully and threaten the injured worker and his attorney only to give in in the end when faced with clear law in favor of the little guy.One example of this bluster by railroad defense attorneys has to do with getting a copy of the accident report in an injured railroad worker's case. Over the...

• A Hospital Is No Place For A Sick Person

  John Cooper | October 13, 2006 12:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  We have all heard a similar joke, even from health care providers, that the last place you want to be if you are sick is the hospital.Hospitals are dangerous places. In addition to infections, there are many other dangers of injury and death posed by hospitals that are preventable. An independent agency has determined that nearly a hundred thousand people die each year because of medical...

• Multi-State Injury Cases Are More Complicated

  John Cooper | October 12, 2006 3:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  If your personal injury case involves more than one state, it is more complex and requires an attorney familar with handling such cases.Lots of personal injury cases involve more than one state. For example, if you are from North Carolina and you have a car crash just across the border in Virginia, your injury case involves more than one state. This situtation is very common in today's mobile...