Civil Litigation - Page 101
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Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation Articles
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Handling a divorce can be a very distressing experience. Divorce mediation can help to ease the stressors surrounding this traumatic time in your life. -
Automobile accidents have the ability to create long-term effects that a victim can feel for a long time after the event. Common injuries that result from motor vehicle accidents are those that cause damage to soft tissue. -
Injuries from motor vehicle accidents are common in emergency rooms around the world. The many scenarios that can occur during an accident set the stage for a variety of forces and damage to the vulnerable areas in the head and neck. -
Oxygen deprivation to a fetus can occur at any stage of the pregnancy, but most injuries occur during childbirth due to negligent medical care. -
As automobile manufacturers strive to meet new federal fuel-economy standards, the race to produce lighter, cheaper vehicles could possibly lead to an increase in vehicle defect litigation. -
More than half a million people in the United States suffer ladder-related injuries every year, and increased ladder use in the winter months results in a higher proportion of falls between October and March than at any other time of the year. -
The most protected and most important organ in the body, the brain serves as our body's life center, so injury to the brain can have severe disabling and permanent consequences. -
In a 1999 study conducted by the Institute of Medicine, entitled To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System , the authors discovered that harm to patients due to errors of commission or omission occurred in between 2.9 and 3.7 percent of hospital admissions, with between 9.8 and 15.7 percent of those errors leading to death. -
A wrongful death claim may provide compensation to survivors of a person or persons who have been killed due to the negligence of another individual, business or government agency. -
Accidents are a leading cause of serious injury and death in the United States every year.