I got hurt in an automobile accident. I have talked to two different lawyers. The first lawyer listened to what I had to say, explained the law and the legal process to me, and answered all of my questions but one: he said he could not tell me his opinion…
Liability insurance is insurance that protects you from loss in the event you are alleged to have negligently caused harm or damage to another or are determined to have negligently caused harm or damage to another. Liability insurance offers two important components. First, liability insurance pays for a lawyer to…
Tennessee has seen a decline in the number of deaths from car and truck accidents. Recently released statistics reveal that the number of people killed on Tennessee roads decreased from 1032 in 2010 to 946 in 2011, a drop of almost 9%. Traffic fatalities were down in most counties in…
My wife lost her leg is a bus accident last month. Does Tennessee law impose any limit on the damages she can recover from the negligent party? There is no limit on the damages can recover for medical expenses or loss of earning capacity that arise as a result of…
I believe that my father victim of malpractice by a nursing home, but no lawyer will take my case. Why not? There are several possibilities. First, there are relatively few lawyers in the state that represent medical malpractice victims. In fact, my guess is that far less than one percent…
I have an automobile accident case. My lawyer is often on the phone when I call and my call is forwarded to his paralegal. What do paralegals do? You didn’t hire a lawyer, you hired a law firm. In our firm a team of people works together to help every client. The…
I live in Knoxville and I was in a car wreck in Nashville. The driver of the other car lives in Murfreesboro. If my case doesn’t get settled can I file a lawsuit in Knoxville? No. Under a new Tennessee law that was effective for all lawsuits arising from injuries…
Child abuse injuries resulted in 4,500 hospitalizations and 300 fatalities in just one year in the United States, researchers from Yale School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. This is the first study that has quantified abuse severity and how many children ended up in hospital, the authors added. The…
The Tennessee Department of Health has posted on its website thousands of pages of inspection reports on Tennessee nursing homes. The Affordable Care Act passed under President Obama required that the reports be more accessible to consumers. The new postings include one year of reports for each licensed facility. Eventually, four…
The Clerk of the Circuit Courts for Davidson County, Tennessee has released the following statistics for jury trials for 2011: There were 10 health care liability (medical malpractice) jury trials. The health care providers won six of those cases, the patient won two, and the other two cases resulted in…