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Nov
How Your Profession Can Affect the Value of Your Personal Injury Case
There are many types of damages for which a plaintiff in a personal injury case can receive compensation. While all of them will primarily concern the facts of the case, the plaintiff's profession can also have a direct bearing on certain kinds of awards for damages. Below...
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22
Nov
How to Properly Handle a Personal Injury Claim
A personal injury accident can happen to anyone. Incidents of this type may be caused by another person's negligence or carelessness, such as a reckless driver or someone driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Similarly, a person’s employer may be at fault i...
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22
Nov
Slip and Falls in Mississippi: You Must Be Slipping, Man.
Here's the scene, you’re filling up your cup with a fizzy combination of sugar, syrup, and carbonated water, you turn around, and before you realize it, you’re on the ground covered in soda. That’s not just your pride that is hurt—you’ve slippe...
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22
Nov
Dog-Bites in Mississippi: One Bite, Everybody Knows the Rules
Picture this: your child goes over to pet your neighbors' new dog they rescued from the pound. About thirty seconds later, you hear a scream and find your kid crying and bleeding with apparent bite marks. Or imagine you’re out for a jog (or in my case, a nice casual s...
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22
Nov
Don’t Think You’re Slick on an Icy Road: Determining Liability in Black Ice Accidents
Here in Mississippi, the roads and highways seemingly shut down anytime the temperature creeps below freezing. People that live below the Mason-Dixon line rag on us Southerners for our seemingly inability to navigate our vehicles in frigid temperatures. Most non-Southerners belie...
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22
Nov
5 Key Indicators Of A Distracted Driver
When you are behind the wheel, it's important to be acutely alert to everything going on around you. Pedestrians and other drivers can do the wrong thing and lead to an accident. One of the worst problems on the road is distracted driving. Even if you are always 100 percent...
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Nov
What Constitutes “Adequate Security” In Mississippi?
The concept of adequate and inadequate security falls under the legal topic of premises liability. The law requires business owners to provide “adequate security” to protect patrons from criminal activity on its property. Mississippi RequirementsThe definition of&...
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Nov
What Causes An 18-Wheeler To Jackknife?
Mississippi Trucking Accident LawyersIt's not a good thing when an 18-wheeler truck jackknifes. This means the truck was out of control and skid when the driver applied the brakes. The truck’s drive wheels lock down, and its trailer continues to move. A 90-degree angl...
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Nov
3 Holiday Safety Tips to Avoid Personal Injury
With the holiday season in full effect, it's time to start thinking about ways to prevent personal injuries while out and about. It’s not just car accidents you have to be wary of. It’s also slip and fall accidents at shopping malls and retailers. It’s top...
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Nov
Rear-end Collisions: Not Always the One at Fault
If you were to ask drivers from across the country to give an example of a driver at fault in a car accident, I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of those surveyed would say a driver that rear-ended a car in front of him or her is always at fault. Now while that is norm...
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Nov
Uninsured Motorist Coverage: Not the Place to Save Money
Last week's article focused on what to do following a hit and run collision. One of the points touched on in the post was about Uninsured Motorist coverage in insurance policies and how it could benefit you in the event the driver that hit you fled the scene. This week, we ...
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Nov
How To Protect Yourself From Hit And Run Accidents
For me it was after one of my baseball games when my then-girlfriend and I were eating at a Waffle House; one of the waiters walked in and asked if anyone was driving a silver Toyota to which I raised my hand. The waiter told me that he had just watched a truck run over the front...
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