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This past week I had a telephone call from a prospective personal injury client who had been hurt in a car accident. The victim related to me that they were not at fault in this injury accident..in fact liability was crystal clear: they had been stopped at a red light and were "rear-ended" at approximately 40 mph. This accident completely demolished their car. Despite the immediate onset of injury symptoms they declined medical care. They returned to work the next day, and ...

As a reader of this blog would know most personal injury cases arise out of car accidents. Other frequent means by which people can be injured due to the negligence of another party are slip and falls, dangerous or defective products, etc.

Although not strictly a personal injury case, most San Diego personal injury attorneys consider medical malpractice to fall under the general banner of personal injury law. Many personal injury lawyers also practice medical malpractice law.

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When a worker is injured on the job that person has a workers compensation case . Employers provide workers compensation insurance to protect employees who become injured at work. The only requirement for this type of case is a job related injury. It doesn't matter who is at fault, as the concept of negligence does not enter into the picture. The injured worker is entitled to, among other things, payment of medical bills, disability payments while they are off work, and a settlement i ...

The typical personal injury lawyer in San Diego , or most anywhere in the United States for that matter, deals in a variety of types of injury cases. Most commonly, personal injuries result from automobile accidents , motorcycle accidents , defective products , medical malpractice , or slip and fall situations.

The latter category, slip and falls (or trip and falls), can often be the most difficult type of case to establish negligence, or fault, on the part of the prospective defendant. ...

As any personal injury attorney in San Diego or anywhere else for that matter can tell you, low impact cases resulting in soft tissue types of injuries are specifically "red flagged" by the insurance industry as cases meriting special attention. Such cases are given the code word "Mist" for Minor Impact Soft Tissue .

Mist cases are typically either denied in their entirety by the defendants insurance company or else the defendants insurance company will make an extremel ...