Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “Can I wait a few months to pursue a personal injury claim?” If you were injured in an accident caused by someone else’s negligence, your entire life might come to an abrupt stop. While getting injured can be a life-altering…
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Ruling In New York May Give Plaintiffs Leverage
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “How do worker comps payments work?” We all know that in personal injury cases, settlement is a common end result. Though there are lots of reasons why this is the case, a big one is the degree of uncertainty on…
Johnson & Johnson Sustains Major Loss
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What can you sue for in a personal injury case?” What started years ago as a single claim against Johnson & Johnson has snowballed into a potentially multi-billion dollar legal mess. A recent jury verdict in California amounts to a…
Supreme Court Says Location Matters In Personal Injury Case
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “May I choose my own doctor in a personal injury case?” If you’ve been injured at work, you’ve likely got a lot of things on your mind. Beyond trying to recover from your injuries, you may be worrying about when…
Are Personal Injuries On Airplanes Different Than Those On Land?
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What can you sue for in a personal injury case?” United Airlines has been having a bad run of things recently. It started with the young girls denied boarding for wearing leggings, then reached a peak frenzy after dragging a…
Guardrails Under Fire From Safety Groups
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What exactly is a wrongful death claim?” Most people take comfort when they see that a road has guardrails. The barriers are supposed to be there to save lives, keeping vehicles and the people inside of them on the roadways.…
Slip-and-fall from donkey statue leads to personal injury lawsuit
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “Can I post about my injury on Social Media?” When personal injury cases make it on the front page it’s usually for one of two reasons. Either the case is a true tragedy where victims suffered unimaginable harm, or the…
Woman’s Death from Fainting into Glass Cigar Case Not Foreseeable, Judge Rules
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What can you sue for in a personal injury case?” We all know smoking can kill, but in one man’s recent wrongful death claim against a Tennessee pipe tobacco and cigar store, he did not allege that the shop’s products…
How One Woman’s Restraining Order, Criminal Complaints Led to a $15,000 Wrongful Prosecution Judgement Against Her
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “Can I post about my injury on Social Media?” Malicious prosecution just may be the hot-button lawsuit of the week. In our criminal blog this week (link here?), we discuss a South Carolina man a jury recently awarded $150,000…
Punkin Chunkin festival leads to serious injury
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What can you sue for in a personal injury case?” Any festival with a name like “Punkin Chunkin” sounds like it would have to be a good time. Unfortunately, news reports indicate the Delaware festival, where individuals sign up to…