From waivers during dangerous activities and hospital consent forms to the electronic “end user license agreements” that pop up during software installation, contracts have become a common part of everyday life. Among other things, this had led to a proliferation of “arbitration clauses,” a certain type of contractual provision that requires the parties to solve…
Most of the time when the general public hears about a personal injury lawsuit, it’s boiled down into a simple A v. B scenario. B did something careless that allegedly caused an injury to A and now A is suing B. However, it is not always that simple. Often, North Carolina personal injury cases are…
In any Virginia personal injury case (i.e., a car accident, a workplace mishap, or a bicyclist or motorcyclist injury crash), there is one person who is repeatedly made the focal point of the injury victim’s case: the “reasonable person.” The injury victim’s entire case for compensation rests on what this “reasonable person” would have done…
In Virginia, fault for any kind of negligence-based accident is apportioned in terms of percentages. Because the state follows the law of contributory negligence, if even one percent of negligence or fault is assigned to you, you will be barred from recovering any damages for your Virginia personal injury case. This is just one of…
Most people do not want to go to court. This is a sentiment commonly expressed by clients at the start of a case. They intuitively understand that trials are expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive. Fortunately, the majority of Virginia personal injury cases settle before a suit is ever filed. Even cases that go through intense litigation,…