When people discuss the concept of malpractice, they are often referring to some form of failure or neglect by a person of a specific profession to provide the expected level of care during the process of their practice. Due to an extensive amount of media coverage...
General Motors (GM) has issued five recalls for over seventeen million cars that have defective ignition switches, including models that have been in production since 1997. Millions of people could be owed millions in compensation. The administrator of GM announced...
General Motors’ attorney Kenneth Feinberg says GM is prepared to pay substantial sums of money to those injured as a result of accidents caused by ignition switch faults in their cars. GM has already admitted to 13 deaths caused by the faulty switch, and experts...
After openly declaring that they will spend as much money as required to properly compensate the victims of accidents that took place due to faulty ignition switches, General Motors has finally come clean about the faults with their vehicles and are starting to help...
Millions of people may be due compensation in one of the largest automobile recalls in recent history. If you have owned a General Motors-made vehicle in the last 17 years, or a relative of yours has, you may be eligible for compensation. If you believe you are one of...
Attaining legal representation costs money, and some lawyers give better rates than others depending on their caseload and what practice area a particular lawsuit falls into. The truth is some clients just don’t know exactly what it is they are supposed to be paying....
Causation is when you try to prove that your prior lawyer’s negligence in a previous case that he or she represented you in is the reason that you didn’t get a better settlement or judgment. It has to be completely their fault that you didn’t come out better (much...
When you find yourself in the often uncomfortable position of hiring a lawyer, you do so with the confidence that you can trust in his or her abilities to handle your case in an effective, economic, and confidential manner. The same applies with various other...
In the midst of many recent letters to the Walnut Creek Journal under a heading that targeted tragic medical mistakes, a mother by the name of JoAnne Wagnon who had lost her son because of them had this to say about the annual number of victims that this horrible...
Many people get a lawyer because they want to sue an opposing party. But sometimes, when the lawyer that they hire doesn’t do a good job, they end up suing him or her instead. A few years ago, Law Practice Magazine published an article that showed a long list of what...