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[31 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]

It is not uncommon for attorneys representing victims of motor vehicle accidents to run into a claim involving 2 drivers who have drastically diverse accounts of the accident.

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[25 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]

It is not unusual for an attorney to assess a potential motor vehicle accident claim in which the individual who is harmed and wishes to pursue a lawsuit tells one story of how the accident happened and the potential defendant in the lawsuit tells an entirely different account – always one in which he or she is blameless and is not liable for the accident.

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[13 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

In the event that a vehicle accident claim involves comparatively modest injuries and will probably be resolved with a comparatively modest settlement or award the economics of the case make it improbable that either the plaintiff or the defendant will use an expert witness. The expense incurred by using an expert witness might easily be more than the amount likely to be recovered in the claim. When the lawsuit involves serious injuries and a recovery would likely be significant things change.

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[28 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

There is value in analyzing vehicle accident lawsuits where insurance companies have made offers well under the total ultimately achieved by the victim at trial. These claims illustrate the issues that might come into consideration in the offer and the issues that may change the ultimate outcome

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[24 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

When litigating a vehicle accident case, it can in some cases be very important to be able to demonstrate that the defendant’s story is not truthful. Sometimes all a lawyer has to do in order to show this is to show that the defendant lied or told an account that was false in some aspect.

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[24 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

Bone fractures are not uncommon in high impact automobile accidents. When the impact is enough to cause a fracture it will in many cases additionally cause various other types of substantial injuries

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[7 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

It is not out of the ordinary for an attorney to review a possible motor vehicle accident claim in which the individual who is injured and would like to go forward with a claim tells one story of how the accident took place and the driver who would be the defendant tells a completely contradictory account. Of course, in the defendant’s account he or she is blameless and is not liable for the accident. Lawyers recognize that individuals from time to time recall incidents as consistent with their own self-image, an image of an individual who is a careful driver, of someone not able to be responsible for causing harm to someone else.

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[4 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

In this article we look at yet one more claim in which an insurer made only low ball offers to settle a car claim in which the plaintiff sustained a considerable injury, this time an injury that definitely affected the injured person’s ability to work. In this claim an individual driving an SUV was involved in an accident with bicyclist.

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[29 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

It is well known that teenage drivers are at high risk of causing a motor vehicle accident. Just about every day one can find reports of still more accidents concerning teenage drivers

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[24 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

It is not unusual for someone hurt in a motor vehicle accident to be faced with a defendant who denies liability. Sometimes, these defendants actually blame the victim for the accident. Given that a large number of vehicle accidents occur without any witnesses the outcome of these kinds of lawsuits may come down to the credibility of the plaintiff versus the credibility of the driver.

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