Admitting your elderly mother into a nursing home is supposed to relieve stress and lift a burden from your shoulders. You believe she is going to receive the proper care she needs that you are unable to provide. Unfortunately, for Edward Lewis, tragedy happened after he made this tough decision. His 93-year old aunt, who
Wrongful death. Negligence. We hear these terms thrown out all the time when we read the newspaper or watch TV. Both terms have a similar connotation. We know something “bad” happened to someone, something that should never have happened. However, most people don’t really know what these terms mean. The legal concept of negligence means
According to a recent article in New Orleans’ Times Picayune, Kenneth Allain of Tailsheek pled guilty last month to charges that he permanently injured a 75 year old woman by ramming his car into her while under the influence of prescription drugs. The accident occurred on Louisiana 41 about three miles south of Louisiana 21
In a Louisiana courtroom, a mesothelioma diagnosis is only half the battle. To secure a settlement, the law places a heavy burden on the victim to prove specific causation. You must be able to point to a specific product, at a specific time, and show that it was a ‘substantial factor’ in your illness. Navigating
In Louisiana, the law usually gives you 365 days to seek justice. But what happens when the injury was caused by invisible fibers inhaled forty years ago? For victims of asbestos exposure, the standard ‘statute of limitations’ (known as Prescription) could be a death sentence for their legal rights. Fortunately, Louisiana courts recognize that mesothelioma
In the eyes of the law, when is a person actually ‘injured’ by asbestos. Is it the moment they inhale the first fiber in a shipyard, or the moment a doctor delivers a mesothelioma diagnosis forty years later. In Louisiana, the answer to this question determines which set of laws governs your case. By applying
Samuel Silverman Jr. was injured while working for BJ Services Company, a contractor for Bass Enterprises Production Company, hired to provide services on an oil well in Cado Parish. The injury was to Silverman’s knee and occurred because a hoist operator employed by another contractor at the site, Mike Rogers’ Drilling Company, dropped a cement
According to a recent study published by the Road Information Program (a nonprofit group that evaluates highway data), Louisiana has the second highest auto fatality rate in the nation. In 2008, Louisiana had 2.02 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled. Montana was the one state with more deaths, at 2.12 per 100 million miles.
The issue of whether a defendant breached a duty of care owed to the plaintiff in a negligence case is settled by examining the events that occurred in connection with the accident. Unfortunately for many plaintiffs, specific details about the defendant’s conduct may not be readily available and, absent some legally enforceable demand, a defendant
Under Louisiana law, store owners are required to exercise reasonable care to keep their stores free from conditions that could be hazardous to customers and visitors. When a customer is injured while browsing the aisles, the merchant’s efforts to maintain a safe premises are often given great scrutiny. To win a negligence suit against a
Jeffrey Berniard is a specialized injury attorney with over 21 years of experience fighting for Louisiana families.
Admitting your elderly mother into a nursing home is supposed to relieve stress and lift a burden from your shoulders. You believe she is going to receive the proper care she needs that you are unable to provide. Unfortunately, for Edward Lewis, tragedy happened after he made this tough decision. His 93-year old aunt, who
Wrongful death. Negligence. We hear these terms thrown out all the time when we read the newspaper or watch TV. Both terms have a similar connotation. We know something “bad” happened to someone, something that should never have happened. However, most people don’t really know what these terms mean. The legal concept of negligence means
According to a recent article in New Orleans’ Times Picayune, Kenneth Allain of Tailsheek pled guilty last month to charges that he permanently injured a 75 year old woman by ramming his car into her while under the influence of prescription drugs. The accident occurred on Louisiana 41 about three miles south of Louisiana 21
In a Louisiana courtroom, a mesothelioma diagnosis is only half the battle. To secure a settlement, the law places a heavy burden on the victim to prove specific causation. You must be able to point to a specific product, at a specific time, and show that it was a ‘substantial factor’ in your illness. Navigating
In Louisiana, the law usually gives you 365 days to seek justice. But what happens when the injury was caused by invisible fibers inhaled forty years ago? For victims of asbestos exposure, the standard ‘statute of limitations’ (known as Prescription) could be a death sentence for their legal rights. Fortunately, Louisiana courts recognize that mesothelioma
In the eyes of the law, when is a person actually ‘injured’ by asbestos. Is it the moment they inhale the first fiber in a shipyard, or the moment a doctor delivers a mesothelioma diagnosis forty years later. In Louisiana, the answer to this question determines which set of laws governs your case. By applying
Samuel Silverman Jr. was injured while working for BJ Services Company, a contractor for Bass Enterprises Production Company, hired to provide services on an oil well in Cado Parish. The injury was to Silverman’s knee and occurred because a hoist operator employed by another contractor at the site, Mike Rogers’ Drilling Company, dropped a cement
According to a recent study published by the Road Information Program (a nonprofit group that evaluates highway data), Louisiana has the second highest auto fatality rate in the nation. In 2008, Louisiana had 2.02 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled. Montana was the one state with more deaths, at 2.12 per 100 million miles.
The issue of whether a defendant breached a duty of care owed to the plaintiff in a negligence case is settled by examining the events that occurred in connection with the accident. Unfortunately for many plaintiffs, specific details about the defendant’s conduct may not be readily available and, absent some legally enforceable demand, a defendant
Under Louisiana law, store owners are required to exercise reasonable care to keep their stores free from conditions that could be hazardous to customers and visitors. When a customer is injured while browsing the aisles, the merchant’s efforts to maintain a safe premises are often given great scrutiny. To win a negligence suit against a