Ryan LLP Injury Blog

Car accidents’ factors play big role in contribution of what extent an accident be in terms of severity and what are its damages inflicted to the victims. Generally, it could range from minor to severe or even fatal injury. Some forms of injuries from car accident are broken bones, traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, and lacerations.

One injury that most overlook is nerve damage. There is a big chance of obtaining though since there are around 7 trillion nerves spreaded throughout an individual’s body and any of these nerves are exposed and sensitive to violent force and even stretched out could cause an issue which will transition into a threat.

In a personal injury claim, there are forms of damages that defendant is liable at. It is divided into two wide categories, namely, economic damages where it is a liability held by the at-fault side in which it involves objective, countable, and/or verifiable monetary losses such as possible total medical expenses, property loss, possible earnings lost, cost of amendments, repairs, and etc. While, non-economic damages on the other hand, are opposite to economic damages, wherein it involves non-tangible matters and has subjective values such as emotional turmoil, mental damages and trauma, physical disabilities, loss of companionship, injury to reputation, and loss of enjoyment of life.

In a personal injury lawsuit, there are elements that had to be considered and checked thoroughly as filing a lawsuit in most states is meticolous. Some of these elements are known commonly as sense of liability of the at-fault driver, evident or existing damage, the negligence resulted in sustenance of injury, and negligence itself. Though the word negligence is divided into two terms, negligence and gross negligence.

In this blog, we are going to discuss what is gross negligence and its difference between ordinary negligence for people who are within experiencing lawsuit should know terms and avoid confusion between the two.

This blog is a continuation of the general causes of car accidents, as causes of car accidents has no known lines of times nor identity of someone. It is unfortunate that millions of people fallen victim over vehicular accidents yearly even it is all preventable. This stemmed from unawareness of road users of the circumstances that became required condition for an accident to happen. In bridging the previous blog, these are the other causes of accidents.

Bearing a child is a mother’s pure moment of happiness, as she carried the baby for months and eventually see her child after meticulous care of herself. But, oftentimes, this isn’t the case as some things could go wrong for few factors. This blunders or natural occurrences could put the mother and the baby in danger in most cases and even pose the risk of permanent injury or disability and even death. Few cases of these events are result of medical malpractice.

In this blog, we have stipulated few steps to take when experiencing same narrative of this situation and how to file a legal claim and what conditions should be met before coming up to these with the hope of recovering damages through wrongful death and/or medical malpractice lawsuit.

In a construction site, one thing that is constantly present is the equipment called crane or similar to that. A crane is a type of heavy machinery, usually distinguishable by having a hoist, wire, or chains as a rope or as a connecting tool between the hook. It is usually used to lift or lower materials as well as move them horizontally, especially heavy objects needing of transport from a place to another but not everything a crane can handle, usually enlongated and open ended heavy objects.

Car accidents happen so unexpectedly and as on the event, everything seems so quick yet so slow. Though preventable, the event itself is unstoppable once it has started. Being involved in a car accident could lead to injuries, financial damages, emotional struggles, and even death. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s reports, there are around 38,000 people who died in vehicle crashes in 2020, a significant increase from 2019 by 7.2%.

According to studies, among all massive working industries, constructions has the highest injury and fatality rate, followed by education, health services, and agriculture. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s reports, one in every ten construction workers are injuredevery year and there are around 150,000 construction site accident cases that has led to injuries according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

This blog will be serving few construction site facts that an employee should know given the current posing risks of the said workplace. If one of your family member or friends or even yourself, works in a construction site, then this is for you.