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Are Rear-End Collision Injuries Really That Bad?

Are Rear-End Collision Injuries Really That Bad?
A rear-end accident sometimes seems like a minor collision that could not produce serious injuries. The reality is that rear-end accident victims can suffer serious injuries that affect their lives for years or even the rest of their lives. An experienced car accident lawyer should understand rear-end collision injuries and the accompanying costs and losses. The right legal team can protect your legal right to full and fair compensation for all the losses you suffer due to another driver’s negligence. This guide aims to help you understand these common injuries and the losses they cause. Of course, we cannot answer all your questions...
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How Much to Expect From a Car Accident Settlement

How Much to Expect From a Car Accident Settlement
For most car accident victims, the most pressing question they have for their attorney concerns how much they can expect to receive from their car accident settlement (an important issue). Most injury victims are facing mounting medical bills at a time when their wages are being reduced by time off for medical appointments, recovery, and overwhelming pain. An experienced car accident attorney can help you understand how parties determine car accident settlements. Of course, a lawyer cannot answer all your questions or give you an estimate of your particular claim value without information about your specific situation. This is why you need a...
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What Are the Top Causes of Motorcycle Accidents?

What Are the Top Causes of Motorcycle Accidents?
There are many reasons why auto accidents happen. Motorcycles, being smaller and harder to see, can be more likely to get hit. Motorcycle riders also have far less protection than motor vehicle occupants in an accident. Drivers and passengers the protection of a steel frame designed to divert the force of impact away from the passenger compartment. Inside the vehicle, they have the additional protection of seat belts and airbags. Motorcycle riders have none of this critical protection. Often, their helmets are the only protection they have from the full force of a serious collision. This is why it is so important for...
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How Much Is a Car Accident Claim Worth?

How Much Is a Car Accident Claim Worth?
When a motor vehicle operator drives carelessly and recklessly and a car accident occurs, serious injuries like soft tissue injuries (including muscular sprains and strains), fractures, and traumatic head and brain injuries can result. When accident victims suffer one or more of these serious injuries in a car accident, they may have to seek emergency medical care at a hospital emergency room or urgent care facility. After receiving this initial treatment, they might need to have a procedure done, attend physical therapy sessions, or follow up with a specialist to obtain additional treatment. Car accidents can also cause injured accident victims to miss...
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How Long Should You Be Sore After a Car Accident?

How Long Should You Be Sore After a Car Accident?
The length of time that you will be sore from your injuries following a car accident depends upon a variety of factors and will not be the same for everyone. One of the most important factors determining how sore you will be following a car accident is the type of motor vehicle accident that leads to your injury. The nature and extent of your injuries, the medical treatment that you had to receive for your injuries, and the length of your treatment will also play a significant part in determining your symptoms and how long those symptoms will last. In addition, your general...
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How Long After a Car Accident Can You Claim Injury?

How Long After a Car Accident Can You Claim Injury?
Victims of car accidents, especially high-speed car accidents, can suffer serious injuries. The nature and extent of these injuries often depend upon how the accident occurs. For example, the injuries that an accident victim might suffer in a head-on collision are often more serious than those they might endure in a low-speed rear-end car accident that occurs at a traffic intersection. Injuries that car accident victims suffer can require a significant amount of medical treatment, physical therapy, and medical procedures. Potential injuries that individuals suffer in car accidents can often include soft tissue injuries, traumatic head and brain injuries, bone fractures, spinal cord...
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How Can You Tell Who Hit Who in a Car Accident?

How Can You Tell Who Hit Who in a Car Accident?
No matter who is at fault, car accidents can lead to extremely serious and debilitating injuries for victims. Crash injuries can change a person’s life, and might be catastrophic with permanent consequences. When a car accident victim suffers injuries this serious, he or she might need to undergo various medical procedures, medical treatment, and physical therapy—all of which can be expensive, painful, and extremely disruptive. Car crashes can also happen in many different ways. Some examples of common causes of accidents include speeding, distracted driving, failing to yield, or driving on the wrong side of the road. In addition, some car accidents are...
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Head-on Collisions: The Worst Crashes of Them All

Head-on Collisions: The Worst Crashes of Them All
A head-on motor vehicle collision occurs when the front of one vehicle collides with the front of another vehicle. Although these accidents can occur anywhere, they are especially common on two-lane highways and roadways, where there is one lane in each direction and no median strip or concrete barrier that separates the lanes. Head-on motor vehicle collisions can also result in extremely serious injuries for everyone who is involved. This is especially true if the accident occurs when the vehicles involved are traveling at a high rate of speed. Potential injuries that accident victims may suffer in head-on motor vehicle accidents include fractures,...
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Can Injured People Recover Compensation for Drunk Driving Accidents?

Can Injured People Recover Compensation for Drunk Driving Accidents?
Drunk driving accidents are unfortunately all too common across the United States today. In fact, recent statistics show that one person dies in a drunk driving accident approximately every 52 minutes in the United States. Moreover, this already high number does not count the many individuals who are injured in drunk driving accidents every day. When motor vehicle drivers operate their vehicles while they are intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol or drugs, they significantly increase their chances of bringing about a collision with another vehicle on the road. Similarly, drunk drivers are the cause of many pedestrian accidents, and these accidents...
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Rear-End Collisions

Rear-End Collisions
A rear-end collision can cause serious injuries to those involved, which can result in serious pain and discomfort. You have the right to receive fair compensation for all the financial losses and suffering that a negligent driver causes. Some injury victims think that they can handle a rear-end injury claim on their own. They might believe that the rear-position driver is automatically at fault and assume that it will be easy to get the money they deserve from that driver’s insurance company. This is not the case in every situation, however. It is important to consult with a car accident lawyer after any...
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