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Cause of Action? Personal Injury 101

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Each state has their own laws about how long from the date of the accident you have to file your personal injury suit.

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Supreme Court considers truck driver’s RICO case over CBD product that cost him his job  

SCOTUSBlog

But the companies that manufacture the product told the justices on Tuesday that because Horn’s injuries were personal, rather than harm to his business or property, they did not fall under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

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Ways to Determine How Much Your Personal Injury Case is Worth

LegalReader

But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number. If you are considering one of these claims, you are probably wondering how much compensation you could recover.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

Thanksgiving means one thing for personal injury lawyers: food poisoning. To capture the pain and suffering in such acts, plaintiffs will often proceed on negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress claims. __. The problem is that the larger the case the more difficult the causation.

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