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How Can Social Media Affect Your Personal Injury Claim - the russo firm

How Can Social Media Affect Your Personal Injury Claim?

Following a personal injury accident, the victim will suffer damages, such as medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering, for which they can pursue compensation through a personal injury claim. However, social media posts can affect a personal injury victim’s ability to recover fair compensation for damages because they can contradict the damages victims pursue. They can lead to an insurance company refusing to

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How to Cope With the Mental and Emotional Issues After Car Accident - The Russo Firm

How to Cope With the Mental and Emotional Issues After Car Accident

People understand that the physical impact caused by a car accident can cause severe physical injuries like spinal cord injuries, bone fractures, and back and neck injuries. However, some of the more severe injuries a car accident victim can suffer are psychological. Those injured in a car accident can experience emotional distress, mental anguish, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Car accidents can affect victims can

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Neurological Issues Caused by Car Accidents - The Russo Firm

Neurological Issues Caused by Car Accidents

Car accidents can cause damage to the nerve when tears or stretches from a car accident impact. The nerves are cables that can carry electrical pulses from a person’s brain to the rest of the body, allowing you to feel sensation, move your muscles, breathe, sweat, and digest food. A nerve injury caused by a car accident can sever the nerve’s connection to the rest

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Knee Ligament Tears Caused by Personal Injury Accidents

Knee Ligament Tears Caused by Personal Injury Accidents

Personal injury accidents, such as car, motorcycle, and slip and fall accidents, can expose the ligaments in the victim’s knee to intense trauma. The ligaments in the knee can tear from direct trauma, pressure from the knee twisting, and landing awkwardly on the knee. Some ligament tears that can result from personal injury accidents include anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tears,

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Recovering Compensation for Pain and Suffering Damages in a Personal Injury Claim

Following a personal injury incident, a victim can suffer damages which are losses associated with the incident. Most losses that people look to first are economic losses, such as medical bills, lost wages, and property damages. However, personal injury victims can also suffer non-economic damages, such as mental anguish, loss of consortium, loss of enjoyment of life, and pain and suffering damages. These intangible losses

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How Insurance Companies Will Try to Limit Your Personal Injury Settlement

Following a personal injury incident, you might need to file a personal injury claim to pursue compensation for damages not covered by insurance. In that case, you will have to deal with an insurance company whose main goal is to keep its profits up. They will employ an insurance adjuster to find information that can limit your settlement, as well as get you to admit

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Non-Economic Damages in a Personal Injury Claim

A victim of a personal injury accident, such as a car, motorcycle, or slip and fall accident, can experience long-term damages due to the impact of their severe injury. A personal injury incident can cause a traumatic injury, such as a broken bone, neck injury, or traumatic brain injury (TBI), that could cause pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of consortium.

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Common Injuries Caused by Motorcycle Accidents

Negligent behavior while riding a motorcycle, such as distracted riding, speeding, and not obeying road rules, can lead to a motorcycle accident. These types of accidents can also result from a driver of another vehicle not paying attention and striking someone on a motorcycle. The trauma of a motorcycle accident impact can cause severe injury through blunt force trauma or from the impact of striking

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Economic Damages You Can Pursue in a Personal Injury Claim

A personal injury incident—such as a slip and fall, car accident, or truck accident—can cause damages that affect your finances. You will have damages that can cost large amounts of money that you will have to pay for, such as medical expenses. You can also miss out on making money due to the impact of a disabling injury, such as a broken leg, traumatic brain

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Common Cancer Caused by Hair Relaxer Use

Hair relaxers contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that have carcinogenic properties and can cause cancer. Recent scientific studies have found that women who use hair relaxers at least four times a year can expose themselves to a higher risk of cancer, such as uterine, breast, and ovarian cancer. People living with cancer from hair relaxers could file a hair relaxer lawsuit to pursue compensation for damages

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