personal injury

Safety Check your Tire Tread

Worn tires can cause headaches and personal injury on the road, especially during adverse weather. Use these tips to check the tread on your tires and replace them if necessary.

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Correcting Overcorrecting

Prevent personal injury and learn what to do when icy roads threaten your commute and how to correct oversteering during a slide by watching this video.

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Driving Tips for Hazardous Weather in Any Season

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), one in five vehicle crashes happens in what is considered adverse weather. This fact adds up to over 1.2 million auto accidents a year. We may think that these crashes are primarily due to snow during the winter months, but many other adverse weather conditions can degrade road safety, […]

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How to Stay Safe if you are Stranded in Your Car

Recently, hundreds of drivers in Virginia were stranded on the highway overnight when a snowstorm caused multiple accidents. Some people were stuck for over 24 hours with little food, gas, or heat. If you’re concerned about suffering the same fate, here are tips from safety experts: • Be prepared! No matter the weather, keep a […]

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What If…

I love alternative history stories. Things like “What if the Soviet Union had won the Cold War ?” or “What if JFK had not been assassinated?” I find fascinating and oftentimes help me better understand actual history. I even like alternative takes on imaginary history like “What If Spider-Man had been bitten by a radioactive […]

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Aggravation

Only seldom do I have a personal injury case where there was not a doctor or chiropractic visit sometime in the months or years prior to the event sparking the lawsuit. An injured plaintiff can only recover for damages that were actually caused by the defendant’s negligence. If the defendant can prove that a plaintiff’s […]

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Free Advice

I will occasionally get questions from friends, acquaintances, at a dial a lawyer day, or online at www.avvo.com, who want to know what they should settle for in a small to medium car wreck or personal injury. These casual, cocktail party questions are difficult. Sometimes these folks have already retained an attorney and are looking […]

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Preventative Medicine

Once I had to explain to one of my kids why they had to brush their teeth every night. I told them I knew it was a hassle and took up ten minutes that they could use to play Angry Birds, but it was important because they could get cavities and we’d have to go […]

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Does Your Dog Bite?

“Every dog gets one bite,” is a bit of homey legal wisdom that is often repeated by laypersons and even lawyers, but it is not entirely true in the state of North Carolina. The first way a person can recover from a dog bite or attack is under a negligence theory. Legally, a dog attack […]

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Ground Control to Major Tom

Probably the most violated law I see by Homeowner Associations is restrictions on satellite dishes. The restriction is in nearly every set of Declarations I review and almost all are illegal provisions. Since 1996, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a rule that prohibits restrictions that impair the installation, maintenance or use of antennas used […]

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Lawyer in a Box

Consumer Reports took a break from comparing washing machines and SUVs and subjected some of the do-it-yourself legal products to their testing and review. Using the products of LegalZoom, Nolo, Rocket Lawyer, and Quicken’s Willmaker Plus, the testers created a will, car bill of sale, a home lease, and a promissory note using those company’s […]

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Welcome to the Pool

One of the first amenities that are built by developers of planned subdivisions and condominiums in North Carolina is the neighborhood pool. Pools are an attractive addition to a subdivision and developers and owners see them not only as a great place to socialize with neighbors and entertain the kids, but to enhance the value […]

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The Magic Multiplier

In North Carolina, damages for personal injury involve several different kinds of damages. First are the hard damages or “specials” as some call them. These are the damages where the amounts are usually easy to determine. As long as medical bills and lost hours at work can be shown to be caused by the negligence […]

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Chris Brown, Rihanna, and What Comes Next

Below is a post that my friend, Roger Canaff first posted on his excellent site where he discusses criminal law and violence against women and children. I thought it an excellent discussion of this area and he graceously gave me permission to share it here.  —————————————- If an adult, even a young one, can be labeled […]

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Good TV

I’ve watched a lot of lawyer shows over the years. The first I remember was “The Paper Chase” which was actually about law school. After watching that I decided I didn’t want to be a lawyer just from the shear amount of stress it appeared that law students have. (Of course I did eventually go […]

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A not-so-social deposition

The movie “The Social Network,” is about the formation of Facebook. A lot of the narrative of the movie is told in flashbacks framed by the various depositions in the lawsuits between the parties who allegedly had role in the creation of the social media site. In this scene, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook,(played […]

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Hoarders & Homeowner’s Associations

One popular reality show today is A&E's "Hoarders. "The show details the problems of pathological hoarding or disposophobia. The individuals acquire possessions and fail to discard them even when the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary and impair mobility and interfere with basic functions of life. The show scratches a morbid curiosity and probably makes […]

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How to Go to the Doctor

The following is an excerpt of an article written for paralegals and attorneys by Steven Glass, a retired personal injury attorney from Florence, South Carolina, concerning the lack of attention that attorneys, and their clients, sometimes pay to the client’s treating physicians. Mr. Glass points out that the attorneys should be aware of their client’s […]

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Are We There Yet?

 Just recently the family and I loaded up the Family Truckster and headed north past Richmond, Washington (which some in my family refer to as "Occupied Virginia"), Philadelphia, New York, and finally to Old Lyme, Connecticut to visit for a few weeks, members of my wife's family. From the time we left my driveway to […]

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