Category Archives: Personal Injury
How the “Firefighter’s Rule” Can Make It Harder for First Responders to File a Personal Injury Lawsuit
Under normal circumstances, if you are hurt on someone else’s property due to the owner’s negligence, you can file a personal injury lawsuit and seek financial compensation for your medical bills and related losses. Such premises liability claims are common when it comes to something like a customer injured in a slip-and-fall accident at… Read More »
Could “Contributory Negligence” Defeat Your Personal Injury Lawsuit?
Historically, courts in the United States applied a common-law rule known as “contributory negligence” to personal injury lawsuits. Essentially, contributory negligence meant that if the plaintiff was responsible in any way for their own injuries, the defendant owed them nothing. To put it in stark terms, let’s say a defendant was found 99 percent… Read More »