Have you been in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles? Regardless of whether it was a minor accident or a serious crash, a motorcycle accident lawyer is your best resource to ensure your rights. A good attorney can help sort out all the details in a motorcycle accident claim.
There are various causes for motorcycle accidents. When a car or truck pulls out in front of you at the last minute, your bike and the car can collide. Many times the driver just does not see you coming. That is no excuse though, He or she can still be held liable. You may have had to swerve to miss the car and then crashed into an oncoming car or hit a tree or stop sign or even a telephone pole. The driver of the car is still liable even if their car was not damaged.
There are rear end collisions also where the driver stops for some unknown reason and you crash into the back of their vehicle. Who is responsible for that one? Is it you because you were not paying attention? The experienced motorcycle accident lawyers in Los Angeles will know the answers to these questions. They are experts in California motorcycle riding laws.
U-Turn accidents happen frequently. Usually the car will do a u-turn in front of you and will not have even seen you. Again, who is responsible? The motorcyclist or the automobile driver? Debris on the road, trash thrown out the window or lose pavement can cause your bike to skid out from under you. Are you at fault for that? Is the city or the county? What if you are splitting lanes and a car door opens and knocks you off your bike.
The causes of motorcycle accidents are endless. The injuries caused by them can be endless too. The injuries can be a simple but painful road rash up to the end result, being death. If there is a passenger involved there are many questions that need to be answered for them too. Los Angeles and the Orange County in general suffer many motorcycle accidents.
Personal injury Lawyers and Motorcycle Accident lawyers are ready and able to help you receive just compensation for any accident you may have been involved in. Don’t hesitate to call if you need help understanding the law regarding motorcycle accidents.
By: Michael Ehline
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Vehicle Accidents and the Role of Lawyers
January 12th, 2010
Vehicle accidents generally occur as a result of human error in the operation of vehicles, the design of roads, and the manufacturing and maintenance of vehicles. Vehicle accidents can include 18 wheeler accidents, bus accidents, truck accidents, and passenger cars and vans. Lawyers role in society is to make it better and generally speaking they do.
Young people and the elderly cause a disproportionately high number of vehicle accidents. The young because they are careless and the old because their bodies are just not as good as they used to be. For the most part speed is the principal cause of vehicle accidents. The elderly react much slower than younger people and have to be driving substantially slower to keep from colliding. The elderly generally don’t speed, but speed limits for the elderly may be too fast, because they simply don’t re-act fast enough.
Younger drivers are not too familiar with the consequences of driving recklessly, but learn after a few traffic tickets and as they watch their insurance premiums rise. Many drivers drive cautiously because of the potentially higher insurance premiums. Often drivers want to keep vehicle accidents hidden and offer to pay for damages out of their own pocket. These type of arrangements following a vehicle accident is very common, but often back fires on the injury victim. The injury victim often does not realize the severity of the injury until several hours later when they realize they can barely move.
The person causing the accident often finds himself in a lawsuit despite the best efforts to keep the vehicle accident secret from the insurance carrier. Insurance companies then use the accident as an excuse to raise the insurance premium. Insurance companies are quick to point the finger at personal injury lawyers as the primary reason for raising insurance rates. Studies contradict these views. Vehicle accidents are caused by careless drivers, poor manufacturing of vehicles, and poor maintenance of vehicles, not the personal injury lawyer. The personal injury lawyer simply advocates the rights of the personal injury victim.
What is interesting is that statistical data shows the number of personal injury lawsuits has actually been dropping over the last 5 years. This has been primarily a result of safer cars. Cars are safer as result of many personal injury lawsuits brought against car manufacturers for defective vehicles. Car manufacturers often use statistical analyzes to determine whether it is more profitable to release defective cars into the market and pay out on lawsuits or to recall and fix the defects. Once again personal injury lawyers serve guard dogs and protect consumers.
If you read some former auto manufacturer’s you might come across complaints about how attorneys sue the car manufacturer following vehicle accidents and how they were forced to make cars safer. Make vehicles safer is apparently an evil, when you are running a profit focused corporation. Personal injury attorneys rarely sue car manufacturers, but when they sue is for a good reason -the vehicle is defective and it caused injury.
Personal injury laws are not designed to make people wealthy, you simply don’t get rich following an accident. The law puts you back where you should have been and this is what personal injury attorneys do. Lawyers help personal injury victims to regain their life and to be where they should have been. The $1 million dollar settlement usually follows very severe injuries or death. If you suffer an accident an were struggling to make a living, chances are you will be in the same situation right after a jury verdict.
Personal injury attorneys have been instrumental in making lives safer. Corporations complain about having to make product’s safer, because it is often less profitable to do, but in reality, personal injury attorneys force businesses to stay in business by forcing them to stay out of trouble.
In short personal injury lawsuits following vehicle accidents are fewer in number and personal injury claims are down, because among other things vehicles are safer.
By: Arnold Hernandez
Personal Injury Lawyer Will Steal Your Unprotected Personal Assets
January 10th, 2010
While driving to an appointment, one of your employees remembers he needs to contact a co-worker regarding a meeting. He dials the number on his cell phone, and briefly takes his eyes off the road. In that instant, a vehicle in front of him shifts lanes, and he strikes it, seriously injuring a 78-year-old woman. Under exactly this scenario, a jury awarded a $21 million judgment against Dykes Industries of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Can you buy enough insurance to cover an unexpected business liability? NO. Insurance covers only a first legal defense and insurance only covers actual damages. Insurance does NOT cover punitive damages.
STATISTICS ON AUTO ACCIDENTS AND PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS
More than 42,000 deaths occurred in motor vehicle accidents in 2001. Could one of these have been committed by one of your employees while on company business?
There’s an army of personal injury lawyers on the Internet ready to be of service on a contingent fee basis, and more are getting educated in colleges and universities. Give it a shot, use google and type in “injury lawyer” and here’s the “Results 1 – 10 of about 1,120,000 for “injury lawyer”.
Why is being a personal injury lawyer a successful business? Because, one personal injury lawyer teaches other personal injury lawyers valuable information – they hold classes on how to pressurize and optimize more out of a given opportunity. Yes, it sounds like lawsuit abuse, but don’t blame them – it is a business.
The courts make it easy to litigate. They have learned that if they can tie you up in court for a number of years, it’s easier to settle than to fight. And if they can get sympathy out of a jury it translates to bigger fees. Whether you win or lose – you lose; at $350 per hour – it is expensive to get involved in a court battle even if you are right.
If you are a small business owner, the negligent action of one employee can cause you to lose more than just your business. You could become personally liable for assets not related to your business. This is where the personal injury lawyer gets “personal” with your personal assets!
HOW TO PREVENT PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS FROM STEALING YOUR PERSONAL ASSETS
How do you prevent these injurious lawyers from “stealing” your personal assets and keep them at bay? The key is how you own your business. If you own corporate stock or sub “S” stock, chances are that most these lawyers have figured out how to pierce the corporate veil on their way to your personal assets.
If you get a high or if you’re an adrenaline junkie and like to take chances you would not appreciate asset protection. You would think that it’s for the wealthy who have something to hide. Or alternatively if you think that you’re covered by insurance, you have not been sued by a creditor and his very clever personal lawyer…yet. You are an easy target and if they deem it’s worth the small fee to file a suit and a bit of their time then trust me they’ll come after you – maybe not today but very soon.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ASSETS FROM CONTINGENT FEE ATTORNEYS
What’s asset protection? In my definition asset protection is protecting everything you have or control against pickpocket experts (i.e. personal injury lawyers or any other contingent fee attorneys) who have perfected their profession on easy targets, like you.
Each of your assets should have a financial goal. What’s your financial goal for your personal residence, your vacation spot, your CD’s, your IRA, your investment accounts, and your other valuable assets?
With your personal residence, the bank is protected by virtue of a mortgage subject to the real estate. It’s your personal equity in your home that is wide open for a lawsuit. Do you have minor children learning to drive your car? Did you know that you assume full responsibility for their negligence? Do you own your home in your name jointly with your spouse? Did you know that if either one of you gets sued … you can lose more than just your house?
Another financial goal for your house is the tax deductions available for tax purposes on your form 1040. Tax law allows deduction for mortgage interest and real estate tax deduction. So there are two financial goals for your personal residence: protection from potential creditors and their counterpart injurious, villainous attorneys, and tax deductions for your interest on mortgage and real estate tax deductions.
USE THE LAW TO PROTECT YOUR ASSETS FROM PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS
Use “law” not secrecy. Under tax law, there’s an exception under Internal Revenue Code sections (IRC) §671-§678 that allows the original owners of the personal residence to deduct mortgage on interest and tax deductions of real estate taxes paid on your form 1040.
Under civil law if your house is owned by an independent trust with an independent trustee, you will have repositioned (transferred) you home from you and your spouse to an irrevocable trust whereby you no longer own the house.
Use “law” not secrecy to reposition your automobiles, your corporate stock, your sub “S” stock, your vacation spot, your business assets, your commercial real estate investments, your CD’s, your IRA’s, your financial investments, and so on. Each of your assets needs to have a financial asset and protection goal.
Ask yourself whom you need protection from and for what purpose do you need this protection? Then select all appropriate legal entities created by “law” such as Limited Liability Companies, “C” Corporation, “S” corporation, Limited Partnerships, Family LLCs, Family LLPs, Revocable Trusts, Irrevocable Trusts, Grantor-Type Trusts, Non Grantor Trusts, International Business Companies, International LLCs, Foreign Asset Protection Trusts, Delaware Trusts, Alaska Trusts, etc. For each asset, you should determine what is your financial goal? And then what’s the appropriate legal entity to achieve those objectives?
Beginning the thought processes to implement basic measures to thwart the evildoers of creditors and all contingent fee attorneys including our very personal injury attorneys is the first step. It always starts off with just a thought, doesn’t it? Plant that seed and then act upon it. You’ll begin to find more restful sleep and know that you’ll be making our miserable, personal attorneys find new strange bedfellows to lie with.
By: Rocco Beatrice