If your loved one is killed on the job, you are within your rights to speak to an attorney about a potential wrongful death lawsuit. While no amount of money will ever bring your loved one back to life, if an attorney decides to take on your case, you can seek damages for:
As we reported on Monday, if your loved one is killed in a vehicle accident involving a reckless driver, you can file a wrongful death lawsuit. 
Each year, more than 30,000 Americans are killed in Read More
Attorney Ken Feinberg was hired by General Motors (GM) to oversee its victims’ compensation fund but has stressed his independence from GM management. Feinberg announced this week how many deaths and injuries he has so far connected to a known ignition switch flaw in GM cars. The automotive behemoth has publicly attributed 54 accidents to...
Read MoreEvery month, more and more construction workers are injured and killed when site managers fail to provide safety instructions and guidelines. Workers should never have their safety compromised for the sake of the boss’ bottom line.
A Virginia construction worker was electrocuted last month on a jobsite and died on the way to the hospital.
Impatience is never a virtue—especially not when driving a car. We all want to get where we’re going in a timely manner, but taking unnecessary risks on the road endangers everyone around us. We need to learn to slow down and be more cautious when we drive. Additionally, we all need to be willing to...
Read MoreWhen a car company manufactures a vehicle component part, it has a duty to do so correctly and safely, testing the product regularly and observing federal regulations. Hyundai’s Genesis models manufactured between 2009 and 2012 were found to have sufficient corrosion in certain brake system components that could result in reduced braking efficiency and increase...
Read MoreA retired Maryland State Police trooper was killed recently when a car crashed into the building where he had been living. Philip Nolan Jr., 57, left the force in 2005 as a sergeant, after serving more than 20 years and was making a living as a welder. The preliminary investigation indicates that in the early morning...
Read MoreMany of our nation’s industries rely on trains to get raw materials from one end of the country to the other. The United States is second only to China in the amount of raw materials shipped by freight train every year. For the billion-dollar shipping companies who rely on trains to ship their bulk materials,...
Read MoreThe unwritten social contract tells us that when we drive a car on public streets, we must take responsibility for our actions. We are responsible not only for ourselves, but for any passengers we might take on, as well as pedestrians and other drivers around us. Not all drivers seem to understand or care about...
Read MoreThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that in 2012, on average, almost 100 workers died every week on American construction sites – more than a dozen deaths every day. This number is actually lower than in past years, and yet it is still far too high.
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