Assigning fault for a car crash or truck accident in Virginia determines whether victims can file and collect on claims for personal injuries or wrongful deaths. Since Virginia follows the rule of contributory negligence, answering the question of who caused a collision is particularly important. Victims who materially contribute to causing their own injury forfeit…
Let’s start with some definitions, both from the authoritative Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School. Comparative negligence [is] a tort rule for allocating damages when both parties are at least somewhat at fault. In a situation where both the plaintiff and the defendant were negligent, the jury allocates fault, usually as…
Tension between bicyclists and car drivers have risen steadly for several years in Virginia Beach, VA, according to the Virginian-Pilot. Bicyclists have been urging drivers to share the roads, and people in cars and trucks have argued that bikers show little regard for traffic laws, particularly keeping right and stopping at marked intersections. Some of the problems…
An I-64 work zone in York County, Virginia (VA), was the site of a crash that illustrates nearly all of the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving recklessly through congested traffic and fleeing the scene of an accident. The DUI hit-and-run crash happened in the westbound lanes of the interstate outside of…
An injury you don’t hear or read much about occurs fairly frequently in the types of accidents that lead to personal injury lawsuits and insurance claims. People shy away from mentioning this particular problem because it is, to use a technical term, nightmarish. Degloving injuries are real-life body horror. [Trust us. Only click these links…