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A deposition is a face-to-face meeting where the attorneys are allowed to ask a witness questions under oath while a court reporter transcribes the session.  Any witness that may offer relevant information about the case at trial can be deposed, including you, your doctors, and your friends and family. 
Either side may request a deposition at [...]

If you were hit by a driver without insurance, you may think you are out of luck — unable to collect any settlement at all. But before you give up, you should always call an experienced personal injury lawyer to see if there’s any way that  you can recover compensation under your own auto policy.
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If you were in an accident with an uninsured or underinsured driver, you may have an especially difficult task ahead. An uninsured driver is a driver with no insurance coverage at all; an underinsured driver is one with some coverage, but not enough to cover the damage he or she has caused. (A hit-and-run driver [...]

If you were injured in your accident, the chances are good that there was also damage to your property. Damage to your car, truck or other vehicle is the most common type of property damage, but any other property you lost or had to repair because of the accident should also qualify. The same auto [...]

After an accident, one of your first concerns will probably be whether your injuries and property damage are covered by auto insurance. Luckily, you probably have at least some insurance coverage, because 48 states make auto insurance mandatory. (The other two, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, allow residents to drive without insurance as long as they [...]

I recently announced that my new book on wrongful death claims was just published.  I’m pleased to say that my book has received some very favorable reviews from other lawyers across the country and in Canada:

 “Although I practice law in Florida, I have relatives who live in Seattle. So I’m familiar with Washington’s complicated wrongful [...]

The Wall Street Journal recently reported about the alarming rate of death and injury caused by medication errors.  The article states that according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at least one person dies each day and more than 1.3 million are injured each year due to mistakes with prescribing dangerous medication.  
There is a non-profit organization called [...]

You’ve been injured in an accident.  The accident was caused by someone else, so you have a claim against that person’s insurance company.
The full extent of your injuries may not be obvious immediately after an accident. Some people may feel that they did not sustain a serious injury, only to discover weeks or months later [...]

Statistically, most cases settle voluntarily, and without having to go to trial. Trials take time, are expensive and take a lot of work. They can also produce unexpected outcomes. From a professional standpoint, an experienced personal injury lawyer may want to take a case to trial — but the decision to go to trial is [...]

When I first entered into the legal profession in 1993, one of the things that I noticed was the lack of community involvement that I saw among my lawyer peers.  Back then, as well as now, lawyers did not have a stellar reputation for giving back to their community without an expectation of getting something [...]