Auto Accident Series (Part 8) The Auto Accident Demand
Your recovery from your accident will be under the direction of medical providers, and specialists, who will provide treatment and pos sibly prescribe medications to manage pain. As your accident claim progresses, your doctor may disable you for a time. You may be referred to chiropractors and/or physical therapists to assist in the healing process for soft tissue injuries. You should follow their directions to the letter. Once your doctor finds that your recovery is essentially complet...
Auto Accident Series (Part 7) – Social Media and your Accident Claim
Privacy is a word that gets thrown around a lot today. What can others find out about us in the internet age, that used to be considered private? The answer is a lot. Before the advent of the internet, about as much as anyone could find out about you, without hours of investigation, is your phone number and address in the phone book. Further information could be gathered, but from specialized sources which were either expensive to access, or difficult to find. Today a determined individua...Auto Accident Series (Part 6) – The Legal Process of an Accident Claim
Once you’ve retained an attorney for your Auto Accident Case, continue seeing your doctor and follow their instructions regarding treatments, taking your medications, visiting with specialists if needed, obtaining needed physical therapy, and concentrate on the processes which will allow your body to heal. It’s important to your case, that all instructions from your doctor be followed to the letter. Once you’ve retained our firm, your case will be entering the first phase of the legal proce...Auto Accident Series (Part 5) – Communications with our firm
Once you have retained our firm to represent you in your Auto Accident case, the need for ongoing communications between you, your lawyer, and our staff becomes critical. It is important that our lawyers and staff obtain all needed documentation that wasn’t submitted during the Initial Consultation. Much of the additional information will be obtained from the information given in the Initial Consultation. In the first few days after your case opens, many activities take place establishing o...AUTO ACCIDENT SERIES (PART 4) – THE INITIAL CONSULTATION
After a car accident which resulted in injuries to you, you’ve now determined to hire a lawyer to assist with your case. When you call the Richard Harris Law Firm, you will talk with a Legal Assistant known as an Intake Specialist who will gather and record general information about your accident and will discuss with a lawyer whether our firm can assist you, based on the circumstances of the case. Then an appointment will be set for the Initial Consultation. Perhaps your first exper...
AUTO ACCIDENT SERIES (PART 3): WHEN TO HIRE A LAWYER AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT LAWYER
In our previous blog entries in this series, we’ve discussed the accident itself and ways to protect your rights at the accident scene, and what the objectives of the insurance company are in handling your claim. If you’ve been in an accident, you may have learned that dealing with the opposing insurance company is not in your best interest. You’ve been injured, you’ve sought medical treatment and you’ve now decided to hire a lawyer to represent you in your accident claim, but don’t know w...
AUTO ACCIDENT SERIES (PART 2): INSURANCE COMPANY OBJECTIVES
Car, Crash, Examining, Expertise, Insurance In the words of Richard Harris, “The insurance company’s objective is to settle quickly and unreasonably, for as little money as possible. But the objective of a skilled attorney is to make sure your settlement will be fair and reasonable to the injuries you sustained, with proper and complete medical treatment to restore you to the health you enjoyed before the accident.” Are They Really On Our Side? Insurance companies spend millions eac...
AUTO ACCIDENT SERIES (PART 1): THE ACCIDENT
No one plans for an accident when they get in their vehicle. But the statistics indicate that getting into an accident at some point in your driving career is likely. In 2016 alone, over 3 million injuries occurred due to car crashes nationwide. A little bit of advanced planning isn’t a bad idea. Some items which would assist in case of an accident are: First Aid Kit Cell phone (if it’s a smart phone with a camera, even better) Pad of paper and pen Vehicle registration and ...
INTRODUCING THE AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT SERIES
A large portion of the Richard Harris Law Firm is devoted to representing people who were injured in motor vehicle accidents. While we have reported on this subject previously in several blog posts, we realize that having information regarding all aspects of the accident itself, and the subsequent decisions of hiring a lawyer and going through the process of pursuing a fair claim, is confusing and intimidating. For that reason, we will be devoting the next several weeks to a series of artic...
Jury Awards to Round Up victims continues to gain momentum
In the third jury verdict within a year, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, were awarded $2 billion in punitive damages, as a settlement for cancer which the couple maintains was caused by using Round-Up weed killer on their Northern California property. The case revolved around a claim that the product’s manufacturer, Monsanto, which was purchased in 2018 by Bayer AG, failed to warn users of the product that it could cause cancer. What’s happened in previous Round Up trials? Three verdicts fr...
3 Work Zone Safety Tips
Roadways in Nevada receive frequent repairs and alterations. When that happens, road work crews may be present for weeks or even months at a time. Driving through active work zones requires focus and caution, as they can pose threats to both drivers and workers. The Nevada Department of Transportation says that work zone crashes claim three lives every day nationwide. To do your part in making Nevada’s work zones safer, be sure to follow these tips: Avoid distractions—Work zones can ...
Not For Human Consumption: the Dangers of SARM’s
Young man flexing his muscles in the local gym Nutritional Supplements have always been a hit or miss proposition. Whether you achieve the promised effects of the products aside, they can do harm to you. Many supplement manufacturers are less than honest about what’s in the products they market, with the ingredients label being only a shadow of the actual contents of the product inside the bottle. It’s a huge marketplace, estimated to be about $60 billion within 3 years, that is largely...
What Should You Do After a Hit-and-Run Accident?
When another driver causes an auto accident that results in you or your loved ones suffering injuries, you can file a compensation claim against their auto insurance provider. But what are you supposed to do after a crash where the other driver leaves the scene? Hit-and-run accidents are more common than you might think in Nevada, and victims of those crashes often feel like they don’t have any recourse for getting money for their accident-related expenses. However, the following steps ca...
Recent Motorcycle Accident has deadly outcome
Motorcycle riders will tell you, that cars don’t respect motorcycles. While that may be true, some motorcyclists sometimes don’t respect the dangers that exist on the roads. On Sunday, April 28, at about 10 PM, a motorcycle was traveling NB on Decatur approaching the intersection with Oakey. Traveling SB on Decatur, a Ford Mustang made a left turn onto Oakey into the path of the motorcycle. The motorcycle, which was carrying two riders, hit the right front of the Mustang ejecting both pe...
The Dangers of Texting and Driving
When you drive your car, you keep your eyes on the road, your hands on the steering wheel, and your mind on the task at hand. Driving is a complex task, and it requires all three of those actions working simultaneously to get you and your passengers to and from your destinations safely. Anything that interferes with those tasks can increase your risk of being involved in a crash, and there’s no greater threat when it comes to distracted driving than texting. That’s because sending and rec...
Gadolinium MRI Contrast Agents can cause Serious Side Effects
Gadolinium is a rare earth metal which has been used as a contrast agent in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). It has been found to be particularly effective in highlighting soft tissues, especially blood vessels. The product is manufactured by many different manufacturers under various names including Magnevist, MultiHance, ProHance, Omniscan, and OptiMARK, among others (see more complete list below). Despite its effectiveness as an MRI contrast agent, some patients who have been expose...
Eight Reasons to Carry Medical Payments Coverage on your Car Insurance
You don’t want to be “insurance poor”, which means, you’re paying so much in premiums to insurance companies that there’s no money left for anything else. However, there is one form of insurance you can add to your auto insurance policy that is one of the least expensive coverages you can buy and is so versatile that it covers much of what other insurance products don’t pick up due to deductibles and co-payments. What is MedPay? The form of coverage is called Medical Payments coverage...
Opioid Case Review
THE OPIOID CRISIS 50,000 people die in the United States each year due to opioid overdoses. That is almost the equivalent of the total number of U.S. soldiers who died during the entire Viet Nam war. How did this happen? At one-point in the not too distant past, opioid addiction almost exclusively resulted from the illicit use of street heroin. Most of the opioid deaths today however are not your normal addicts looking for the heroin high or needing to stave off withdrawal. Among today...
