If you have suffered a serious personal injury as the result of a traumatic event, you are probably looking for a personal injury lawyer to represent you. In such cases, injured victims and their families tend to believe that larger firms mean bigger settlements or better results. However, this...
Losing a loved one in a work-related accident is a horrible tragedy. In addition to the grief and emotional toll such a traumatic event takes on a family, a workplace death also leaves loved ones with financial stress that stems from losing a primary wage earner or breadwinner. While no amount ...
Workplace accidents are sadly common. Sometimes, an accident in the workplace ends in a terrible tragedy when a worker loses his or her life on the job. Typically, the family of a deceased worker will be able to seek death benefits through California's workers' compensation system. These benefits...
Forklift accidents have the potential to result in catastrophic injuries or even death. Because of their size and weight, they could result in crushing injuries, broken bones or even internal organ damage. There are also many cases where a forklift operator causes people to fall or causes heavy...
If you have been injured in a construction site accident in Los Angeles, you are probably not just struggling physically, but also financially. You are likely wondering how to pay medical bills and deal with lost income as a result of being unable to work while recovering from your injuries. Th...
In late 2021, the California Supreme Court published Sandoval v. Qualcomm Incorporated (2021) 12 Cal.5th 256 (Sandoval) and Gonzalez v. Mathis (2021) 12 Cal.5th 29 (Gonzalez). These cases provide some long-overdue guidance for courts and litigants to use in applying the Hooker and Kinsman excepti...
If you have been injured on the job, you may be wondering if you need to contact a work injury lawyer. The answer to that question depends on the circumstances of your case and severity of your injuries. If you have suffered a minor injury for which you did not require medical care or treatment...
In 2019, we were contacted by a woman who had lost her husband and the father of her three young sons in a tragic construction site accident in 2015. Her husband was a foreman for a framing subcontractor on a new project building dorm rooms for the University of Southern California campus. Pot...
Neck injuries suffered on the job can be extremely painful and uncomfortable to endure. If you have suffered a neck injury that limits your physical movement and causes pain, you are most likely unable to work and are looking at additional medical expenses to get the treatment and therapy you n...
If you suffered a workplace injury that led to nerve damage, you are likely worried about the amount of compensation to which you are entitled. When people envision workplace or industrial accidents, they may visualize something dramatic like a back injury or brain injury that leaves a person d...
Cases involving the serious injury or death of an employee of an independent contractor highlight a fundamental flaw in the rationale of the California Supreme Court's holding in Privette v. Superior Court (1993) 5 Cal.4th 689 (Privette). The Privette doctrine is based on the incorrect premise ...
If you suffer a back injury on the job, you may be wondering how to pay not just your medical expenses that begin to pile up, but also how you would handle other household expenditures at a time when you're unable to work because of your injury. If you have suffered a workplace injury, you may ...
Woodworking is an integral and important part of building and construction activity. However, a lot of machinery that is used in woodworking can be dangerous to operate and pose a high risk of accidents that could result in disabling injuries. Statistics show that the rate of accidents in the w...
A study conducted by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) showed that 377 or 65% of 580 work-related electrocutions occurred in the construction industry. Nearly 30% of these electrocutions involved cranes. Electrocutions are part of what is known as the "fatal four," w...
Forklifts are used in a number of different settings including warehouses, manufacturing facilities and construction sites. While each of these worksites present their own complexities when it comes to safety issues, forklift accidents still result in devastating injuries and fatalities for wor...
If you have been injured on the job, you may have a number of questions about how to pay your medical bills or deal with loss of wages. Dealing with a work injury can be traumatic not just physically, but also emotionally. In addition, you are likely dealing with unexpected expenses and are una...
If you are a worker in California who has been injured on the job, the state's workers' compensation system gives you a way to secure monetary benefits that will help cover your medical bills and lost income. In order to receive workers' compensation benefits, injured workers don't have to prov...
Suffering a spinal injury in the workplace, such as a herniated disc injury, can be devastating for workers. The recovery time could be lengthy in such cases. Injured workers may have to go through treatments and therapies including rehabilitation to regain strength and function. Even after the...
Back injuries caused by trauma to the spinal cord are some of the most common and serious injuries suffered by individuals on the job. Spinal fractures that involve broken vertebrae in particular can be extremely painful and limiting. These injuries often prevent employees from returning to wor...
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Act guarantees every employee the right to work in an environment that is safe and healthy. However, industrial work environments pose serious inherent dangers for workers, which are made worse by dangerous situations that must and can be avoided. Ther...
Ladders are commonly used in a variety of construction projects. From a small home improvement project to constructing a large office building, ladders are used in all types of projects. However, statistics show us that tens of thousands of people across the United States are injured each year ...
If you have suffered an injury on the job, you may be asked to attend an examination with a doctor who may not be your primary care physician or treating physician. These exams are known as independent medical exams and could have a significant impact on the outcome of your case. For this reas...
If you have a work injury claim because you suffered an injury on the job, you may have an arduous road ahead of you to make sure your case is resolved in a manner that is advantageous to you. Once you get an award of benefits or a settlement with your employer's insurance company, other parties ...
If an on-the-job injury has left you injured and disabled, you may be eligible to receive permanent disability benefits from your employer's workers' comp insurer. If you accept the amount the insurance company has decided to pay you, then you will receive weekly checks for a certain period of ...
Greenberg And Ruby Injury Attorneys, APC helps California injury victims receive maximum compensation.
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