LegalReader

JANUARY 19, 2022

The chance to file a personal injury lawsuit is not available forever. Each state has its own time requirement for potential plaintiffs who hope to recover for their personal injuries in court.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 24, 2025

Where the defendant in a car accident case received several citations for violations of city traffic laws, the statute of limitations was not extended to two years because the citations were civil in nature, not criminal. The plaintiff filed this personal injury action more than one year after the accident. In Sandridge v.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 18, 2022

As a personal injury paralegal , few things ache my heart more than seeing someone injured in a motor vehicle crash with minimal or no personal injury protection (“PIP”) benefits. From $2,500 in coverage to $100,000 in coverage, these figures are equally important in your client’s personal injury case.

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Day on Torts

MAY 23, 2023

Ordinarily and subject to several important exceptions, the statute of limitations in Tennessee personal injury cases is one year. One exception to that rule is Tenn. Personal injury suits are subject to a one-year statute of limitations under Tenn. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2). In Glover v.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline. The Tennessee lawyer failed to add a calendar reminder to track the statute of limitations deadline.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

What you have to know is that in South Carolina, the statute of limitations in personal injury cases is three years from the date of the injury.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 3, 2021

Most jurisdictions should have a statute that you can access to learn the limit of what a facility may be able to charge you to produce copies. The average personal injury case may have as many as 5-7 different locations from which you will be obtaining records. MANAGING CUSTODIAN FEES. #11 16 Develop a process for tracking.

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LegalReader

MARCH 1, 2022

In Indiana, the statute of limitations gives claimants two years from the date of the accident to file for personal injury claims.

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LegalReader

APRIL 12, 2022

The statute of limitations is a rule that places (you guessed it) limits on plaintiffs who want to sue for personal injuries.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 16, 2021

Where a car accident plaintiff filed suit against the other driver’s insurance company within the statute of limitations, but failed to add the other driver as a party until two days after the statute of limitations had run, dismissal was affirmed. In Haywood v. Trexis Insurance Corp., W2020-00418-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. citing Tenn.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Where plaintiff’s personal injury claim was based on a Tennessee car accident for which defendant was given a traffic citation for failure to exercise due care under Tenn. 55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gathering records and proof of your injury is a crucial step in ensuring you do not miss the filing deadline for personal injury lawsuits in New Jersey.

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LegalReader

JULY 18, 2022

The statute of limitations for a personal injury truck accident claim in Florida is four years.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 31, 2023

It's important to note that in Florida, there is a statute of limitations for filing a personal injury lawsuit, which is generally four years from the date of the accident.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 8, 2022

As with most types of personal injury lawsuits, the statute of limitations for medical malpractice is 2 years from the time of the injury-causing event. However, there are several exceptions that allow you to sue later. .

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

It concluded that because Horn’s lost earnings flow from a personal injury – his ingestion of THC – he had not suffered an injury “to business or property” for which he could recover under RICO. The district court ruled for Medical Marijuana and the other companies on Horn’s RICO claim. Horn appealed to the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Because RICO authorizes lawsuits only for injury to business or property, the district court held, it does not extend to harm from a personal injury like being misled into purchasing an alternative health supplement. The company argues that economic harm stemming from a personal injury has no business, so to speak, under RICO.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

He claimed that he had suffered personal injury “as a result of each defendant’s ongoing violation.” The defendants moved to dismiss Mr. Elden’s complaint, arguing that it was barred by the applicable 10-year statute of limitations for such claims.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 4, 2023

When I used to practice solely personal injury , I created folders for the cases that were in active litigation and then a sub-folder with the case name. We are multi-tasking masters of drafting documents, researching new or updated statutes and codes, and answering client phone calls all at the same time.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The relevant statute , regulating disability benefits, provides that “the United States will pay [compensation] to any veteran” who is “disabled” as a result of (1) “personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty,” or (2) “aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty.”

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LegalReader

AUGUST 29, 2022

After a serious accident caused by someone’s negligence, you can file a personal injury claim.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 5, 2023

Where plaintiff was in a car accident when she was four years old, and her parents filed a personal injury suit purporting to represent her once she turned 18, the trial court properly granted summary judgment based on the statute of limitations. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss based on the one-year statute of limitations.

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ALPS

JUNE 2, 2021

A nonprofit regularly reaches out to a plaintiff personal injury lawyer on behalf of clients of the nonprofit. The nonprofit’s client reached out asking about the video and also raising concerns about what the recent running of the statute of limitations means for her case. Here’s an example of why.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Where a plaintiff originally named the wrong defendant in a car accident case and did not file an amended complaint naming the correct defendant until after the one-year statute of limitations had run, dismissal was affirmed. In Black v. W2020-00228-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. The Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

JUNE 14, 2021

The only issue here was how Tennessee’s cap on noneconomic damages should be applied when the injured plaintiff is seeking noneconomic damages and his or her spouse is also pursuing a loss of consortium claim (but not a claim for personal injuries). Each has two broken legs and thus each has a personal injury claim.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Personal Injury Firms: Statute Reminders In personal injury firms , lawyers frequently have to send out statute of limitation reminders, which acts as the anchor date for these workflows.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For claims in tort in relation to goods that have caused personal injury, the relevant choice of law rules favoured application of the law of the place of injury. The more difficult question would be whether a statute should be given a wider scope of application than it would receive under bilateral choice of law.

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ALPS

AUGUST 24, 2021

After all, if a lawyer representing you on a personal injury matter blew a statute that resulted in a lost opportunity for any kind of recovery, you would expect to be made whole and you know it. You know darn well what the answer is. You see, insuring for malpractice isn’t about protecting yourself.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As is normally, the case, the statutes themselves are vaguely written so that even if you do understand the language of lawyers, you're not going to understand how these Tort Claims Acts work. Which is why (love 'em or hate 'em) people hire lawyers to handle personal injury lawsuits.

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ALPS

AUGUST 31, 2022

Remember, clients need to be made aware of fee splits, so acceptance of such a fee can come with liability for the other attorney’s missteps — particularly if the misstep is a blown statute of limitations date and the other attorney is uninsured. Acceptance of a referral fee is not the only method of creating a liability from a referral.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

Illinois is not the only state that regulates biometrics, but it is the only state currently whose biometric statute includes a private right of action. A plaintiff need not show any injury from the violation – just the violation itself. General Liability Insurance.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Omega , but did so “without prejudice to defendant filing a [resentencing] petition in the superior court pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.95 ” (link added), a statute added by SB 1437 (see above). That wasn’t enough for Justices Goodwin Liu and Joshua Groban, who recorded votes to grant review.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The only issue in this personal injury case was damages. Plaintiff and his experts also testified that plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. W2020-00430-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 353697 (Tenn. 7, 2022), plaintiff was in a car accident caused by an employee of defendant, and defendant had admitted fault.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re trying to achieve a positive outcome for a case or matter (such as a patent application, divorce, or personal injury claim), missing a deadline is disastrous. Calendaring software —Create and monitor court dates, deadlines, and Statute of Limitations dates in a central calendar.

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Dwyer,Williams&Cherkoss

OCTOBER 17, 2024

How to Handle a GEICO Claim After a Car AccidentUnderstanding Your Rights and Maximizing Your Claim After a Car AccidentWhile this car insurance company is mainly remembered for its popular lizard commercials, GEICO is also the second-largest auto insurance provider in the nation. After an auto accident, there is a high likelihood you will have.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

The district court held that Horn lacked RICO standing because he sued for economic injuries from loss of earnings that were derived from his personal injury (exposure to THC). If granted, it should make for an interesting argument. We’ll know more soon. Until next time! New Relists Medical Marijuana, Inc.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Law360 has coverage: A California state judge said Tuesday that he’s inclined to toss Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter’s extortion claims against personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee and some, but not all, of the rapper’s defamation allegations stemming from a now-abandoned rape lawsuit.

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