When a vehicle hits a pedestrian, the pedestrian usually ends up with more significant injuries than the driver of the vehicle. Laws tend to protect the pedestrian, and that makes sense. For an unprotected human being, a vehicle is akin to a guided missile. Pedestrian...
The most common form of personal injury cases is automobile accidents. It is hard to write about specific cases because they are rarely unique in the mechanism of the accident. People get rear-ended at stoplights and stop signs. They get T-boned when someone...
Early one morning, a tow truck operator was heading down Indiana interstate I-69 just south of Hamilton Town Center on a call for a broken-down box truck sitting on the right-side berm. He pulled in front of the box truck with his emergency lights flashing in the...
A business owner has a duty to make the public areas of their property reasonably safe. However, trip and fall cases are fraught with traps for the unwary. Things like: failure to report the incident; failure to get the names and contact information of...
Often, in personal injury cases, businesses and their insurance companies will try to spin the facts of a case to avoid paying the amount the injured party deserves for their suffering. Even when there is video evidence of an accident, the business may try to hide it...
If you have driven by the scene of significant impact intersection T-bone car accidents, then you know what a mess it leaves on the roadway. Many times, that messy appearance spills over into the litigation over who was at fault and whether the injuries claimed...
The Accident It’s a cold snow-swept night. A 14-year-old boy is walking his 13-year-old girlfriend from his next-door home down a narrow rural road. Snowplows have cleaned the street leaving high snow piles along each side of the road. This made it necessary they walk...
At Garrison Law Firm, we have reviewed a lot of bar fight case scenarios over the last 30 years. Bar fight cases are difficult because there is usually more than one party at fault. Candidates for fault are The bar staff for not protecting its patrons The bad actor...
Fire Pit Liability Story One: Exploding Propane Fire Pit It’s a beautiful summer holiday weekend, and your good friends have invited you to join them with others for an evening party at their home. It’s a jovial time, and you are sitting around your friend’s propane...
IMAGINE THIS: Your grandchild has been entrusted to you for a few days while his parents are away. Grandma takes her 2-year-old grandson to the neighboring grade school playground for an outing. While the child is playing on the platform atop the slide, a strange man...
