It’s every parent’s nightmare: an accident that leaves a small child physically and emotionally maimed. When we send our children to a daycare center, we trust that the teachers and administrators in charge have taken the necessary precautions to ensure the safety and well-being of the precious little people we place in their care. Unfortunately, …
How Malingering Claims Affect Genuine Personal Injury Victims
In most sports, football especially, you’ll hear coaches and analysts say, “The best defense is a good offense.” In the courtroom, you’ll find attorneys applying a similar strategy: going on the offensive to defend their clients. In football, that maxim means that when your team dominates play, it keeps the opponent’s offense off the field …
Credibility Abused: The Case Against Junk Science
We all enjoy a good story. But fiction has no place in the courtroom. The quest for truth is the foundation of both science and litigation. Science depends on truths that are observable, repeatable, and beyond subjective interpretation. Likewise, judges and juries depend on finding the truth through strict rules of evidence and testimony delivered …
Injured Youth: Representing Children in the Courtroom
We’ve talked before about how pain and its impact can be experienced differently, and be farther reaching for injured children and their families. As Ohio personal injury attorneys, it’s our job not only to understand the tactical legal implications of cases involving someone as vulnerable as a child, but also to responsibly and sensitively obtain …
The Far-Reaching Effects of Injuries for Child Victims
The thought of a serious or tragic accident involving children is a grim one, and dealing with the real-life consequences is downright sorrowful. Over the years, we’ve gained valuable insight into how to approach cases involving child victims with special care and consideration. As Ohio personal injury attorneys, we intimately understand the extensive and often …
Construction Errors, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, and the Death of an Unborn Child
Few things in life are more joyous than the arrival of a healthy newborn baby. But that feeling of joy quickly dissipates when parents learn the awaited day of birth will never arrive. In this case, our clients experienced that grief firsthand. Their despair was only compounded when they learned there was evidence—strong evidence—that the …
Helping Juries Measure and Calculate Pain
Getting a jury to think clearly about and fairly award damages for pain can be a complex process. In a recent article we discussed the difficulties associated with the task of placing a dollar amount on a human life, which poses similar challenges. As Ohio personal injury attorneys, it’s our duty to help people who …
Placing a Dollar Amount on Human Life
If a person dies because of someone else’s negligence— a wrongful death—it’s the victim’s family that is left to suffer the grief and loss. So what is the remedy? Determining the value of a human life is no easy task, but it’s one that we, as wrongful death attorneys, often face. One thing is certain—people …
Negotiating Confidentiality Provisions in Personal Injury Cases
One of the greatest challenges we face when dealing with personal injury cases is finding a way to effectively quantify pain experienced by our clients. The following case involves a victim who sought our help after a restaurant’s negligence left her with injuries that would potentially affect her for the rest of her life. The …
A Private Correction Facility’s Extensive Negligence Leads to a Hostage Situation
Held at gunpoint What began as a regular morning for Jackie Murdock* at the accounting office she and her husband operated in a Columbus suburb—resulted in unforgettable events. The sound of the low-flying helicopter was Jackie’s first clue that something strange was happening. Then she heard a loud bash as her front door was kicked …
Ohio Health Victimizes a Pedestrian Injured in a Car Accident
The car accident was bad enough, but what happened to the victim afterward was even worse. In this case, an Ohio hospital victimized its own patient. As Ohio personal injury attorneys, we were determined to make it right. The pedestrian car accident Freddie* was 30 years old, mentally disabled, and lived with his mother. Despite …
