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Why You Should Use a Personal Injury Attorney For Mass Transit Accident Claims

Fortunately, most people go through their entire lives without ever running into any major trouble while using public transportation. Every day, millions of people use things such as public buses, trains, planes and boats without incident. According to many statistics, these types of transportation are often thought to be far safer than private transportation methods like automobiles and motorcycles. However, when an accident does occur in a public transit setting, those who suffer injuries need to protect their rights; as such, hiring an experienced personal injury attorney is one of the best ways to do so. Many laws govern how various types of public transportation are conducted. Whether it be buses, planes or other forms of transportation, the law is Read more…

How to Calculate Lost Wages in Personal Injury Lawsuits

In a personal injury lawsuit, the plaintiff seeks damages from the defendant for medical bills, pain and suffering, loss of ability to enjoy life and lost wages into the future. Depending on the job and type of injury, the amount of money rewarded for lost wages can vary vastly. Personal injury lawyer, Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at Flaxman Law Group based in south Florida, sheds some light on how to calculate lost wages. Lost wages in the past and, even more so, in the future, are sometimes tough to quantify, but there are ways and means which we have developed to attempt to do exactly that. Depending on the person’s job, their age, the typical upward mobility for that career Read more…

What is a Personal Injury Lawsuit?

Charles Flaxman, a lawyer at Flaxman Law Group, has worked as an insurance claims adjuster and has been fighting personal injury lawsuits for over 37 years. In this article, he defines what a personal injury lawsuit is and why the advice of a lawyer is so important. A personal injury lawsuit is a type of legal claim made in the court system that attempts to obtain compensation for any type of injury that a person sustains to their body or mind. This compensation can apply to any medical bills that one has to pay in both the past and future, any suffering one sustains in the past and future, the loss of one’s ability to enjoy life in the past Read more…