Personal Injury FAQ’s

The legal system expects an accident settlement to provide a victim with a way to regain the financial security that he or she enjoyed prior to the accident. Still, no settlement can help a claimant/victim to recover all the time and effort that was expended, during the quest for a…...

An insurance company has promised to provide financial support to a policy holder that has suffered a covered loss. Still, that fact does not prevent the same insurance company from working to minimize the extent of that loss....

In a personal injury claim, the responsible party gets charged with having been negligent. According to the claimant’s allegation, that same party was careless and neglectful at a specific time or in a specific situation. That party’s negligence then caused the damage to the victim, the person that filed the…...

Personal injury lawyers know that a long-term disorder can trigger the development of unrelenting pain. That pain comes and goes, independent of the presence or absence of an obvious injury or illness. Unfortunately, science has not discovered a means for locating the source of a patient’s painful sensations....

A fracture results from damage to the bone as the result of an impact. While fractures have a simple definition, the consequences faced by a victim with a fractured bone can be varied and serious, depending on the victim’s age. The type of break also affects the consequences....

In Alberta, as is true in all parts of Canada, someone that has been injured in an accident has only a limited amount of time in which to file a personal injury claim. That limited amount of time is referred to as the limitation period....

During the questioning phase of litigation, a good personal injury lawyer should manage to judge the strengths and weaknesses of a given client’s case. At the same time, the questions and answers ought to expand the size of the lawyer’s collection of the known facts, and thus narrow the number…...

Any trustworthy personal injury lawyer provides each potential client with the chance to enjoy a free consultation. Clients can benefit from such an opportunity by knowing what questions to ask. A lawyer’s answers to five questions should disclose the extent to which that same lawyer can help the man or…...

Some adults feel that the viewing of courtroom scenes on television and in movies provides them with the ability to gather a fair amount of legal knowledge. Indeed, a certain percentage of those same adults elect to self-represent themselves during the proceedings in a personal injury case. It never pays…...

Insurers put great effort into uncovering the facts about any claimant’s previous accidents, and the injuries sustained as a result of that same accident. Yet no insurance company can alter the court’s goal....