Rideshare Sexual Assault Claims Against Uber and Lyft
A federal law lets survivors escape the arbitration clause, and the claim runs on the company's own negligence — not the driver's acts.
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Social Media and Surveillance in an Injury Claim
Deleting posts after a claim arises can be far worse than posting them. Privacy settings are not a privilege, and deletion can be spoliation.
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Surgical Errors: Wrong-Site Surgery & Retained Objects
Some surgical errors are so basic the law calls them 'never events' — and that classification can let your case skip the expert-testimony requirement entirely.
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Train Accident Claims: Grade Crossings and Passengers
Federal law preempts many claims against railroads outright. What survives preemption is narrower, and specific, and worth knowing precisely.
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Trench & Excavation Collapse Injury Claims
Soil is heavier than it looks, and a trench without a protective system can kill in seconds — federal rules make that failure easy to prove.
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Underride Crashes: Why Side Guards Aren't Required Yet
Federal law has required rear underride guards on trailers since 1996 — but side guards are still voluntary, and that gap shapes the whole claim.
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Vaccine Injury Claims: How the VICP Actually Works
Most vaccine injury claims cannot go to court at all. A federal no-fault program decides them first, on its own three-year deadline.
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Vicarious Liability: Who Else Can Be Sued for Your Injury
The person who hurt you may have no money. These are the doctrines that reach the employer, the owner, or whoever handed them the keys.
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Virginia Car Accident Settlements: Contributory Negligence
Virginia is one of four states where any fault bars recovery entirely — but unlike North Carolina, ordinary gross negligence isn't enough to escape it.
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Wrongful Death From Medical Malpractice: The Causation Fight
Proving malpractice caused a death is harder than proving it caused an injury — the underlying illness is often already competing for credit as the real cause.
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Wrongful Death of a Child: Why the Damages Math Is Different
There's no lost paycheck to project when the person who died was a child — so these claims are valued on a completely different set of losses.
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Camp Lejeune Claims: Why New Filing Is Closed (2026)
The deadline to file a new Camp Lejeune claim passed in August 2024. Here's what that actually means, and where the roughly 3,750 pending lawsuits stand now.
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