Most of the time, it’s not motorcycles that are dangerous, but the other drivers. Motorcycle accidents affect thousands of riders every year; the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports over 4,500 motorcycle fatalities every year, and over 84,000 injury-causing accidents. Enlist the top San Diego motorcycle accident lawyers to be on your side in [...]
Car accidents can change your world in an instant. If you’re lucky, a San Diego car accident is minor and you’re only looking at property damage to your vehicle. In a more serious car accident, you or a family member may be injured, and thousands of car accidents per year are fatal. When your car [...]
No-one expects a pedestrian accident. When you’re walking along, minding your own business, the last thing you’re thinking about is whether a car, truck or bus is going to hit you. Unfortunately, over 4,000 people are killed in pedestrian accidents every year, with an additional 59,000 people injured in these unexpected accidents. Pedestrians are even [...]
Dog bite incidents affect millions of people every year. Nearly five million people report injuries from dog bites every year, and many more incidents go unreported. Hundreds of thousands of people require emergency room treatment for dog bites; and the most severely injured are often children. Unfortunately, because children’s faces are typically dog-height, many children [...]
Slip and fall accidents are always unexpected. They can happen anywhere, at any time. Sometimes, slip & fall accidents are just accidents. They couldn’t be predicted or prevented and there’s no legal ground to make a recovery, but sometimes slip and fall accidents could have been prevented. If you’ve slipped on a wet floor, tripped [...]
It’s an unfortunate fact that people are injured on the job every day in the greater San Diego area. In some cases, the employer pays the medical bills, the employee gets the appropriate time off and disability pay, and everything works out fine. In other cases, though, the employer’s Workers’ Compensation insurer sends the injured [...]
You will want to consult a personal injury lawyer in San Diego if you’ve been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, as you may have a personal injury case. Personal injury accidents can cause a broad range of financial repercussions, from medical bills to lost wages to even losing a job. Injuries may [...]
Getting into a bicycle accident is a frightening event for any cyclist. However, in this stressful time, there are certain steps you must take to protect your rights and handle your recovery correctly. […]
Worker’s Compensation is a body of CA laws that are meant to protect workers who are injured on the job. If an employee is seriously hurt on the job and has problems with their employer or with the compensation system, a workers compensation attorney in San Diego will make sure that the rights of the [...]
At the Law Offices of Philip Cohen, our personal injury attorney recently settled a case for a young woman who suffered serious facial burns as a result of the negligence of a cosmetologist during the course of a facial treatment, and the misuse and unsafe exfoliation, with excessive application of glycolic acid. This woman suffered [...]