Outside of Black Friday, most people would not consider shopping to be an extreme sport or a dangerous activity. Nobody expects that a quick trip to the store will end with a trip to the emergency room. Unfortunately, accidents can happen at every point of a shopping trip. You can suffer an injury in the parking lot or in the store. Follow these five tips for staying safe while shopping.
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On your way home from dropping your child off at school, a semitruck slams into your vehicle. You are alive, but you can’t feel anything below your belly button. The paramedics rush to the scene and put you on a hard board and place a neck brace on you. Once you are at the hospital, you find out that you have a spinal cord injury.
The news you are facing is grim. You are paralyzed, but you are going to live. Now, you have to think about how your life will change because of the trucker’s decision to pay attention to his phone instead of his driving.
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We live in an age where the right to fair compensation is under attack. More often than not, if you have been the victim of negligence, fraud, or breach of contract, your only hope of recovering damages is by selecting an excellent attorney. From the obstacles to filing a lawsuit to caps on the recoverable damages, the odds of success are simply stacked against individuals in favor of large corporations. One tool used by large corporations that is becoming all too common and that can eliminate your constitutional right to an impartial jury claim is an arbitration clause. Unfortunately, these clauses are often hidden underneath pages of fine print in the contract you are asked to sign.
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2014 has brought immense change to me and to our country. We have watched victory after victory-with one exception in a federal trial court in Louisiana-as marriage bans throughout the country have been declared unconstitutional. For the first time in history, a United States citizen can sponsor a same-sex spouse from a different country for […]
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