Major incidents, including car crashes, can leave people hurt and struggling with financial losses. Car wrecks are a leading cause of both severe injury and death in California for people of all ages. Although crashes technically occur every day in California, most...
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Can California employees fight a seemingly wrongful termination?
When a worker in California accepts a job offer, they generally enter an at-will employment arrangement with the business that hires them. The company and the worker both theoretically have the right to terminate their employment agreement at any point and for any...
When is a California business responsible for customer injuries?
Patronizing a business often necessitates physically visiting its premises. Whether someone needs to pick up merchandise from the store or sign tax paperwork before their accountant submits the documents to the IRS, their physical presence may be necessary to complete...
2 reasons California families file wrongful death lawsuits
The average person in the United States can anticipate roughly seven-and-a-half decades of life experience, but many people die long before statistics would suggest that they should naturally. For example, someone who lives a healthy lifestyle and who is in the prime...
3 ways the size of semitrucks contribute to major collisions
It is often easy to spot a commercial truck in traffic because of how large they are. You may be able to see them from quite a bit down the street. You probably also know to behave differently when there is a large truck near you in traffic, as they could cause a...
3 kinds of employer behavior that constitute retaliation
Workers in the United States have certain basic protections. You have the right to a fair wage. You also have the right to basic accommodations if you get hurt on the job and have to work with a broken arm for several weeks. Workers have protection when they went to...
Your afternoon commute is more dangerous than the drive to work
If you asked the average person if their morning commute was more dangerous or their afternoon commute was, many people might choose their morning commute as the riskier drive. After all, they may feel more stressed as they drop the kids off at school and head to...
3 possible injuries that could happen from a rear-end collision
There are many kinds of injuries that you could suffer if you’re hit from behind while driving. Rear-end crashes, which may happen when you’re stopped at an intersection or when you need to slow down in traffic, usually push vehicles forward with a jolt. This may lead...
3 common ways employers can accommodate injured workers
Maybe you got hurt at work and need to file a workers' compensation claim. It's also possible that your medical issue is the result of something from outside of work, such as a car crash or a stroke suffered on the weekend. When you have a disabling medical condition,...
Why did 2020 see more serious car accidents than 2019?
Overall, the number of car accident deaths in a year tends to go down. It does move in waves. For instance, more than 56,000 people died in 1972, a high point in the U.S. That fell to just under 46,000 three years later, then rose to 53,500 in 1979. But, if you look...