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Books : Professional & Technical : Law : Specialties : Personal Injury
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Know your rights! Find out how to make the best case for yourself and win your personal injury claim.
Dealing with insurance companies and lawyers when filing a personal injury claim can feel like another accident is in the offing. But you can handle a claim yourself -- and save hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process.
How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim shows you how to handle almost every accident situation, and guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. Learn how to:
- protect your rights after an accident
- determine what your claim is worth
- handle a property-damage claim
- deal with uncooperative doctors, lawyers and insurance companies
- counter the special tactics insurance companies use
- prepare a claim for compensation
- negotiate a full and fair settlement
- stay on top of your case if you hire a lawyer
The completely updated 7th edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim provides your state's most recent laws, small-claims court limits and Department of Insurance contact information. Plus, you'll find an all-new chart explaining your state's in-car text and cell phone laws. (20060502)
- protect your rights after an accident
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Most of the cases in Torts and Personal Injury Law have been decided since 2000, making this the most up-to-date text available on this area of law. The text features the most memorable cases and examples to make the content thought provoking and of great interest to the student. In particular, it addresses computer tort cases which are timely and generally attract students’ attention.
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Eight out of ten Americans will have an accident in the next seven years. Baldyga delivers over three decades of personal injury, insurance claim experience in this easy-to-read book. Learn how to settle your "pain and suffering" for top dollar.
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Maximize the medical care and benefits you're entitled to!From industrial injuries to carpal tunnel syndrome, more than a million Californians a year suffer job-related injuries or illness. For many, receiving compensation can be a nightmare.
California Workers' Comp shows you how to handle a California workers' compensation claim from start to finish. Find out how to:
*file a claim *protect your legal rights *receive the medical care you need *get the benefits you're entitled to *deal with uncooperative employers, doctors and insurance agencies *negotiate a settlement *present your case before a judge
The 6th edition is completely updated with the latest regulations, and explains how the new AMA Guides affect your permanent-disability award.
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David Berg knows how to win cases. And he knows how to tell a story. In The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes To Win Berg puts both skills to dazzling use in an engaging and instructive guide to winning at trial. Berg covers the key elements of a trial - persuasion, discovery, jury studies, voir dire, opening arguments, cross examinations, preparing and presenting witnesses and closing arguments - but he also shares his thoughts on what it takes to win - whether winning means a decisive verdict or an extraordinary settlement.
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In our post-9/11 world, the laws of aviation are under intense scrutiny. From torts law and victim compensation to passenger screening, pilots with guns, and international aviation agreements, the practice of aviation law is burgeoning. The book, "Aviation Laws: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources", fills a gap in legal literature. It is directed to both practicing lawyers and to law students. The book introduces all the major areas of air law: International air law regime, crimes involving aircraft, economic regulation of domestic and international air carriage, litigation management, domestic and international liability regimes, governmental immunity from liability, airport law, airline travel restrictions, airport law, insurance, NTSB accident investigation, aircraft financing, FAA regulation of air safety, and airline labor relations. These subjects are presented not only in explanatory text, but also in cases and related source materials. The most important texts are annexed. The authors, Professors Larsen and Gillick, have regularly taught the course in Air Law at Georgetown University Law Center for more than 30 years. They have long time hands-on experience at the Department of Transportation and in private practice. Professor Sweeney, John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law, has taught the course at Fordham University Law School for 30 years. He also has extensive transportation practice background.
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Winning Your Personal Injury Claim, 3E examines every aspect of personal injury litigation, from car insurance choices to jury trials and beyond. While personal injury laws vary from state to state, Aidman provides a step-by-step guide to pursuing a general personal injury case without formal representation. He discusses specifics of accident scenes and how to handle yourself during that emotional time. Information regarding the different types of letters that need to be written and the order in which they are sent to be most effective while the claim is being pursued is also included. Specifics regarding medical examinations, assessing monetary damages and insurance fraud are also covered.This new edition includes updated information on: € Social Security Disability € Collecting from an uninsured defendant € Medical malpractice € Legal malpractice € Online settlements € and much more
If you have been the victim of an accident or personal injury, you deserve compensation for your damages. But, in seeking compensation, be careful you don't become a victim of the system as well.
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This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how insurance companies process automobile accident injury claims. Knowing how insurance companies process these claims can make the difference of receiving thousands of dollars more for your Insurance settlement! Written in plain English, the book gives readers all the tips they need to ensure they receive the settlement they deserve. Written by an insurance company insider who has worked in the industry for years and negotiated hundreds of injury settlements. Readers will learn: Steps to take if they are injured in a motor vehicle accident. How to deal with insurance companies when they call. How to take the advantage against the insurance company. What medical information is crucial to your claim. How to push the same buttons an experienced lawyer would push. When and how to negotiate for a fair settlement. "Insurance Settlement Secrets" shows readers how they can do all of this themselves without hiring an expensive lawyer.
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Learn the secrets today of what you need to know if you or someone in your family is involved in a car accident. Learn from the pros on what to look for when having your car repaired, what you are entitled to and how to handle a personal injury accident claim. Learn what the insurance companies don't want you to know.The book will show you the SECRET FORMULA that the insurance companies use to determine how much a claim is worth. It's a secret that can be valuable to you and your family/friends if they are ever in an accident. The book also provides you with the forms you need before and after an accident.
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Using ergonomics in forensics can help prevent the recurrence of system failures through engineering or administrative controls. It can also raise the level of concern among professionals and the public regarding product, workplace, and service safety due to perceived exposure to liability. Even with such a potentially important and broad impact, forensic human factors is a subject that is neither taught nor systematically practiced. There is little documentation to help develop a knowledge of the field in a systematic way, nor is there a large pool of qualified practitioners.
The Handbook of Human Factors in Litigation provides a comprehensive reference that provides the tools necessary for the preparation, analysis, and presentation of forensic evidence. Compiled by experienced, internationally respected authors, this handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the application of ergonomics to forensic investigation. It contains information on the litigation process, forensic approaches and methods, important scientific data in the major application areas, and valuable case studies.
For legal and forensic practitioners, this handbook will serve as an indispensable reference and as the foundation for further development of formal study in the field. For product and workplace designers and managers, it is a useful tool in the management of exposure to liability.
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Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological injuries comprise a rapidly growing set of personal injury insurance claims. Although the diverse range of problems that people claim to suffer from are serious and often genuine, the largely subjective and unobservable nature of psychological conditions has led to much skepticism about the authenticity of psychological injury claims. Improved assessment methods and research on the economic and physical health consequences of psychological distress has resulted in exponential growth in the litigation related to such conditions. Integrating the history of psychological injuries both from legal and mental health perspectives, this book offers compelling discussions of relevant statutory and case law. Focussing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common vulnerabilities in expert evidence from mental health professionals. In addition, it also uses the latest empirical research to provide the best forensic methods for assessing both clinical conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder and for alternative explanations such as malingering. The authors offer state-of-the-art information on early intervention, psychological therapies, and pharmaceutical treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and stimulating suggestions for further research into this complex phenomenon. A comprehensive guide to psychological injuries, this book will be an indispensable resource for all mental health practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals who work with psychological injuries.
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Extensively revised and rewritten, this text is a must for any attorney involved with Longshore and Harbor Workers' compensation claims.The fifth edition of The Longshore Textbook is packed with up-to-date analyses of current court decisions and expanded with new and revised chapters, making it a must for your reference library. Long recognized as "the single source" reference guide for attorneys, adjusters, physicians, vocational counselors, and insurance professionals, the fifth edition is the most complete publication of its kind.
Experts in law, medicine and administration present an easy-to-read explanation of the Longshore Act. You will appreciate the clear concise manner in which the Act is evaluated and examined, supplying you with careful presentations of court decisions affecting its application. Legal decisions, statutes and regulations are liberally cited throughout. Its treatment includes issues such as disability, occupational disease, coverage, benefits, vocational rehabilitation, and administrative procedures. Practical questions are also addressed: file administration, administrative procedures, and handling appeals before the Benefits Review Board.
Supplementing the substantive materials are the texts of the Longshore Act, the applicable portions of the Code of Federal Regulations, interest and benefit tables, samples of commonly used forms, and a current directory of Department of Labor Longshore offices.
Thousands of professionals use the previous editions of The Longshore Textbook. The fifth edition, the most complete single source publication yet, should be part of your professional library.
TOPICS COVERED
- Administrative claims handling
- AMA disability guidelines
- BRB appeals and operation of the BRB Claims administration for nonappropriated fund employees
- Coverage boundaries
- Defense Base Act: Jurisdictional considerations
- Death benefits
- Disability
- Retained wage earning capacity
- Employer considerations
- Fees for services
- Interest and penalties
- Medical benefits and treatment
- Modification of awards
- Notice of injury and the statute of limitations
- Occupational disease
- Practice before administrative law judges
- Presumptions
- Rehabilitation
- Settlements
- Limitation of employer liability
- Third-party provisions
- Vessel and vessel owner considerations
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Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals<\B> is a highly teachable new textbook that balances substantive and practical coverage to prepare students to work as personal injury paralegals.Emphasizing medical information specifically related to personal injury law, Emily Lynch Morissette provides consistently clear writing, examples drawn from experience, and myriad teaching devices to convey a working understanding of the role of the paralegal in personal injury cases.
Providing both foundational information on torts and the skill development needed to work as a personal injury paralegal, this text features:
complete coverage of the AAfPE s Model Tort Law syllabus
logically organized substantive topics that begin with an introduction to the concept of torts and move through each element of negligence, followed by medical malpractice as a type of negligence, intentional torts, and Worker s Compensation.
practice-based topics that examine how to discover medical records, tort discovery, and litigation
An Introduction to Medicine in the Appendix
an emphasis on medical information specifically related to personal injury such as how to obtain and understand medical records
a wealth of clear and accessible examples
fact-based exercises using real-life scenarios
consistent and hard-working pedagogy, including:
Chapter Objectives
marginal definitions
tables and figures
case summaries
ethics topics
Chapter Summaries
review questions
Web links
detailed Instructor's Manual that includes sample syllabi, answers to all review questions and exercises, and a Test Bank
Take a look at the new Torts book for paralegals that offers complete coverage of substantive torts topics while underscoring the specific skills critical to the work of a personal injury paralegal: Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals by Emily Lynch Morissette.
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TRIAL SECRETS OF THE MASTERS! With more than 15 million civil lawsuits filed in the U.S. each year, the odds are high that you will one day find yourself in court particularly if you are in the business world. If it does happen to you, don t assume that all you can do is hire a good lawyer. The truth is, you can arm yourself for battle with the basic tools and sophisticated strategies described in How to Win (& Survive) a Lawsuit. If you want to win, you need to be a tuned-in and active participant. "How to Win (& Survive) a Lawsuit" reveals the secrets to achieving great results as well as tips on what makes the difference between winning and losing in real cases. In this dynamic and insightful book, Robert Dawson, top trial partner at the blue-chip legal powerhouse Fulbright and Jaworski LLP, shares the trial secrets of the masters. He will teach you how to: *Pick (and manage) the right lawyer *Evaluate your case on an ongoing basis *Determine when to settle and when to go to trial *Handle depositions and trial testimony *Give yourself the best chance to win "How to Win (& Survive) a Lawsuit" is a practical guide to the inner workings of our legal system. Empower yourself with the tools you need to give yourself the winning edge!
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Learn motorcycle accident reconstruction techniques from the experienced authors of this book. The special mechanics of riding a motorcycle and the way a motorcycle performs mechanically are explained in nontechnical terms. Quasi-motorcycles are compared and contrasted with standard motorcycles to aquaint the reader with their similarities and differences. Rider safety considerations and human factors issues such as conspicuity, evasive action, warning to the rider, and rider experience and training are discussed in detail. Visual perception and injury biomechanics are given extensive coverage. A wide variety of motorcycle accidents are reconstructed and explained to illustrate the most useful, successful and often specialized techniques for reconstructing these accidents.The legal aspects of motorcycle use are thoroughly covered, including helmet laws, negligence, laws governing accidents, accidents on public and private property, trespassing, warnings, roadway defects, motorcycle defects, injury to passengers, and Dram Shop liability in DUI cases. Case examples are included for each topic. These case studies have been revised, updated and expanded to include the most recent information.
This edition includes accident cause factors and identification of countermeasures, commonly known as "The Hurt Report," on CD-ROM. This important government study has never been repeated.
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They couldn t have been more different one a teenager from affluent suburbia, the other a little kid from the poor part of the city. But John Tucker Mahoney and Shareif Hall would come to share a common experience as random, unsuspecting victims of terrible tragedies. Tucker would be felled by a tiny piece of metal, a BB fired from the powerful, new-generation air rifle he got for his 16th birthday. Shareif, four years old, would be riding a transit system escalator on the day before Thanksgiving, when his brand new Fila shoe would get caught in the contraption s giant metal teeth.. Tucker and Shareif would also share one other thing. The tragedies that befell them were not merely bad luck but the result of wrongful, egregious conduct. Both cases involved bad actors : the manufacturer who sold some 7.5 million defective PowerLine air rifles (and later refused to remove them from circulation), and the transit authority that failed to properly maintain and upgrade its moving stairways. The boys families, powerless to restore health or happiness, could not do much to help Tucker and Shareif. So they did the only other thing they could. They sought justice using the sole remedy available to them the legal system. Partners in the same Philadelphia law firm would represent the families and battle for them against well-known corporate entities: Daisy Manufacturing Company and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), a government-related agency. Both would deny they were at fault, one going so far as to conceal and even fabricate critical evidence. With crisp narration and great fidelity to detail, Robert Zausner s tells their harrowing story.
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You're considering the case of a maintenance worker injured while repairing an elevator. Or perhaps it's an elderly woman hurt on a department store escalator while Christmas shopping with her grandkids. An initial search of the literature has turned up almost nothing useful. Your instinct tells you it's a good case, but to evaluate it properly, you need this latest addition our litigation series.The key questions are: what caused the accident, and what were the contributory factors? Some accidents have an element of "in the wrong place at the wrong time" about them, and others have an element of disregard for the equipment involved. Sadly, others fall into the category of sheer negligence or incompetence. This book will help you tell the difference.
The authors have had the unpleasant task of investigating numerous elevator and escalator accidents. Their expertise will guide you as you make your decision to take or reject the case, and their experience will give you the basic understanding of the issues you need to proceed with confidence.
TOPICS INCLUDE Codes, regulations and related subjects--for the U.S., with consideration of Canada and the U.K. Accident statistics and selected incidents The elements of typical elevator accidents The elements of typical escalator accidents Reviewing and understanding maintenance documents Presuit investigation: should a suit be instituted? Legal theories and negligence A glossary and a sample expert report Pleadings--excerpt of a typical complaint Discovery--sample interrogatories, request for production of documents and corporate designee notices Expert opinion: the applicability of Daubert, Khumo and Frye
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The totality of burn injury – personal and economic – is enormous. From a neighborhood house fire to the collapse of the Twin Towers, burn injuries have continued to affect society especially burn victims and their families. For the medical, forensic and legal professions, burn care continues to be viewed by many as part science and part myth. The medical science of burn treatment and rehabilitation has progressed rapidly, dispelling many of the myths, and the legal issues have changed as well.
This book provides a rapid, concise treatise on the ramifications of burn injury–from electrical injury to thermal and blast injury. Forensic considerations are presented consistently throughout the text, both in the medical and forensic sections. The medical sections provide essential information on many facets of burn injury and care, including burn characteristics, evaluation and treatment including pre hospitalization care, critical care, and rehabilitation, toxicology and physiology, hidden toxic dangers, and planning for disasters where there are many people injured, including building explosions and terrorist attacks. The forensic sections cover diverse topics such as fire and arson investigation, identification of burn victims, fire death investigation and advanced forensic considerations in electrothermal burns.
This book is essential for anyone in the legal, law enforcement, and/or health care professions, involved with burn cases.
Topics include
- Characteristics of skin burns
- Pre-hospital evaluation and treatment
- Emergency department management
- Critical care for severe burn injuries
- Rehabilitation
- Burn care planning for major disasters including building explosions and terrorist attacks
- Fire and arson investigation
- Victim identification
- Fire death investigation
- Interaction of toxicology and physiology
- Hidden toxic dangers
- Advanced forensic considerations in electrothermal burns