Occasionally every plaintiff’s trial lawyer will be offered the opportunity to take a case which may look good but is really a stinker. The corollary is also true: sometimes what appears to be a stinker can in reality be a good case which should be taken to court. A recent rear end collision case which…
As I wrote in an earlier blog, there are certain legal presumptions which arise when the rear car runs into a lead car. But those “presumptions” sometimes evaporate into thin air if the rear driver has a good reason to explain the collision. This blog explains how that disappearing presumption works. In the case of…
Rear end collisions have been around since cars were invented. (Funny, but I have never seen a pelican in formation fly into another one: Why not?) I was asked recently by a client whether she had any legal rights when she rear ended the car in front of her. This raises the legal issue of what happens when a driver…