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Some online notes about interesting current legal issues...
What to do After a Car Accident
When someone else causes a car accident with your vehicle, it has an impact on your life, your budget and your schedule. The impact can range anywhere from catastrophic to minor, but you are affected because someone else made a mistake or was reckless.
The police will tell you one thing, while the insurance company tells you another. Even the other driver will sometimes tell you what you should do. Friends and family will talk to you about what needs to be done too, but it can be quite overwhelming, and some of the information might be wrong.
Talking to an experienced car accident lawyer as soon as possible can really help. Such a lawyer has been through this process many times, and there are little things that you may not know that can make a big difference in getting your life back to normal.
For example, did you know that when your car is towed to a shop, that shop will often charge a storage fee of $50.00 or more per day? If this is not handled correctly, you could end up liable for those fees as they accumulate.
Another example is, if you are injured, did you know that some of your medical bills may be paid by your auto insurance with something called medical payments coverage, and it can be more advantageous to use this coverage sometimes than to submit it to you health insurance.
In other words, there are a lot of decisions you will be making after a car accident, and you could make the wrong decision without good legal counsel. Contact an attorney if you have been in a car accident. Our office, like many, will provide a free initial consultation.
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| New Hampshire Injury Lawyer
If you are seeking a New Hampshire injury lawyer, there are certain things you should know. Here are some preliminary steps. There will be more to follow over the next few days.
What is the most important thing for me to do after my injury? By far the most important thing you can do is to concentrate on recovering from your injury. The law requires injured people to do their best to get better. In most cases, this means doing the following:
a. Stay in touch with your doctors and keep your medical appointments. If you must cancel, notify the doctor as soon as possible. Unexplained failures to keep appointments can seriously hurt your case at the time of settlement or trial.
b. Take prescribed medicines in the amounts and at the times directed. If your doctor advises physical therapy, make sure you keep the therapy appointments. Failure to follow medical advice and direction can be used against you later.
c. Follow your doctor’s advice concerning work and leisure activities. If your doctor says that you should rest, stay home from work, or avoid certain activities, follow that advice. If you resist your doctor’s advice and do things you shouldn’t, you will slow your recovery and probably lower the value of your case.
Keep in mind that even though staying out of work on your doctor’s advice may hurt financially in the short run, lost earnings are normally part of the recovery in a personal injury case.
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| Asbestos and Mesothelioma
There are dozens of potentially cancerous occupational carcinogens. In other words, there are a great number of substances that a person may have encountered in the workplace that could cause cancer. But it usually takes years from the time the substance enters the body to the time the disease is discovered by a medical professional. The passage of time can make it very difficult to document such exposure.
Asbestos is one of these cancerous occupational carcinogens. Exposure to asbestos can cause a rare cancer called pleural mesothelioma. It is different than lung cancer because it mesothelioma occurs in the lining of the lung (mesothelium) as opposed to inside the lung (lung cancer). Asbestos can also cause peritoneal mesothelioma, which starts in the abdominal cavity.
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