Charles P. Ward Personal Injury Law Blog

Motor vehicle accidents typically cause the majority of accidental injuries in the United States, but countless other types of accidents regularly result in injuries every year, including the following:

§  Slip, trip, and fall accidents due to unsafe premises

§  Accidents caused by dangerous consumer products

Last month the Indiana Court of Appeals wrote an opinion
that may change the way personal injury cases are tried in Indiana. The opinion
addressed, for the first time in Indiana courts, whether a photo of plaintiff’s
vehicle damaged in a motor vehicle accident, could be admitted as evidence to
assist the jury in their determination of the extent and degree of an injured
party’s bodily injuries.

In the case of... Read More

If you currently drive a vehicle with factory installed
airbags, chances are good that you might already be driving with a Black Box or
Event Data Recorder (EDR) under your seat or center console. General Motors has
been installing black box technology in all of their air-bag factory-equipped
vehicles since the early 1990’s. Their main job is to serve data to other
systems, such as ABS, traction control and supplemental... Read More

Most
diagnosed whiplash injuries result from rear-end car collisions. Hollywood
often portrays the whiplash victim as the neurotic personality or the
gold-digging opportunist who is represented by the fast-talking, amoral
courthouse lawyer. And we all laugh at Hollywood’s depiction—yes, even
attorneys have a sense of humor about their profession. But the truth is that some
whiplash injuries may go undetected for a period of time... Read More

You probably wouldn’t consider opening an account with a bank that was
not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Banking insurance
premiums finance this federal insurance program; indirectly you fund this
insurance through your deposits, service charges and bank fees. Why would you
protect your liquid assets but overlook a protection vital to your family’s
personal wealth, health and... Read More