Car Accidents

Nobody handles a crash scene perfectly — adrenaline sees to that. This checklist exists so the important things happen anyway, in order of urgency, from the roadside through the first...

Arthritis sounds like age; post-traumatic arthritis is injury. Joint damage from a crash — fractures into joints, ligament tears, cartilage injury — can produce arthritis months or years later, and...

Internal injuries are the crash injuries that kill quietly — organ damage and internal bleeding behind a body that ‘looks fine.’ The medical message is urgency; the legal message is...

Degenerative disc disease is the phrase insurers deploy like a case-closer: it was already there. Often true — and often irrelevant, because the claim isn’t that the crash created your...

Spondylosis — degenerative change in the spine — is on nearly every adult’s imaging, which makes it the defense’s favorite word after a crash. The honest medical-legal picture: crashes rarely...

Fault questions arrive as scenarios — ‘they rear-ended me,’ ‘we both backed up’ — and scenarios have starting answers: presumptions the evidence then confirms or rebuts. This is the map,...

Crash causes are boringly consistent — the same seven failures produce most collisions year after year in NHTSA data. For victims, each cause carries a liability fingerprint: the evidence it...

A pedestrian struck by a ‘self-driving’ car meets injury law’s newest question with its oldest need: who pays? The honest answer is that liability follows control — and today’s vehicles...

Airbags fail in two opposite directions — not deploying when the crash demanded it, or deploying with injurious violence (including the shrapnel failures behind history’s largest auto recall). Either way,...

Legs meet crashes at the point of intrusion — footwells collapse, dashboards advance — and the resulting injuries write themselves into how you move for years. The claim’s job is...

‘DOT recordable’ is trucking-industry vocabulary worth learning after a crash, because it answers a question your case cares about: does this collision go on the carrier’s federal safety record? Recordables...

You have a legal right to sue the person who is liable for your injuries, but the process can be long and drawn out.