If you’ve been injured in an auto accident, you probably had to go through some type of rehabilitation. During that time, your chiropractor, physical therapist, or doctor likely gave you a home exercise program (HEP). The exercises might make you sore. Or they might...
How to Manage Auto Accident Injuries During COVID-19
With fewer people driving during shelter-in-place orders, the number of auto accidents and injuries has been cut in half. For the unlucky half who do end up in an auto accident, know you have plenty of treatment options. Here are a few.
San Ramon Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Cyclist Hit-and-Run
Days before Thanksgiving, San Francisco employment lawyer Spencer Freeman Smith pled guilty to felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for hitting and killing Bo Hu, who was riding his bike on Dougherty Road in Dublin. According to an article in SF...
How Workers’ Compensation Affects Personal Injury Cases
Workers' Compensation cases vary from personal injury actions in many ways. Personal injury is based on fault. But if an employee gets injured on the job, he or she was entitled to workers' compensation benefits whether the employer is at fault or not. Workers'...
Oakland: Take Creative Steps to Pedestrian Safety
Pedestrians are especially vulnerable to serious injuries, even death when walking on or alongside any street traveled by cars. Most of the time, the driver claims not to see the pedestrian in time. In order to ensure pedestrian safety at intersections, a city needs...
Proposition 46: Doctors Shouldn’t Get a Free Pass
Update: Sadly, Proposition 46 did not pass, but Consumer Watchdog and many others interested in protecting victims declare that the issue is not dead and will return. Stay tuned... What was added almost as an afterthought may be one of the most relevant, albeit...
Safe Cycling: The Legal Effects of the Three-Feet Rule
As you may know, Vehicle Code Section 21760, aka the Three Feet for Safety Act, took effect last month. The new law requires motorists to give at least three feet when passing cyclists. Sounds simple enough. But when the road narrows and giving three feet means...
Distracted Drivers Harm Others and Themselves
On September 12, 2008, 25 people lost their lives and another 135 were injured when a packed Metrolink commuter train collided with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, California. Federal investigators believe that the crash was likely the fault of the train...
Victory From Defeat
Provided by Oakland Personal Injury Lawyer, [nap_names id="FIRM-NAME-3"] Successes From "Take it or Leave it" Offers: In these days of the "take no prisoners" attitude of the insurance companies, the unrepresented plaintiff is at an extreme competitive disadvantage....