Assuming that car rental agencies provide safe and well-maintained vehicles, drivers often choose to rent a car for a long road trip rather than put the miles on their own car. Renters trust the rental agency to provide safe vehicles because that’s their business. That’s the service customers are paying for in daily rates. Apparently
July 2010
Attorneys Want Parents Accountable for Serving Alcohol to Minors
By Kristine Keala Meredith on
Posted in Vehicles and Roadways
Serving alcohol to minors is illegal. But strangely parents do it or permit it to happen in their home. Stranger still, the law doesn’t allow civil recourse against the parent when a teen is killed or injured as a result of the alcohol the parent served. That may soon change.
The Consumer Attorneys of California…
Five Things People Get Wrong About Tramautic Brain Injuries
By Mike Danko on
Posted in Brain injuries
1. "You couldn’t have suffered a brain injury if you didn’t lose consciousness."
Not so. A brain injury results from any traumatically induced disruption in brain function. The victim needn’t have "blacked out" to have suffered a brain injury. A disruption of brain function may be evidenced by the victim’s inability to recall …
Compensating a Wrongful Death Claimant for the Loss of Financial Support
By Kristine Keala Meredith on
Posted in Wrongful Death
A family member who has lost a loved one due to the negligence of another is entitled to be compensated for his or her loss. In most jurisdictions, that compensation properly includes money to replace the financial support the family member would have received from the loved one had the accident never happened. Here are…