If a corporation or business has been negligent and attempted to maximize profits over the safety of their workers, clients, or customers, a class action lawsuit can be a powerful tool for getting justice and compensation. Filing a lawsuit as a single person against a large corporation may not only be daunting and expensive, it …
Getting hurt in a bus accident can be traumatizing and painful. Accident victims may have to deal with horrific injuries, large medical bills, and extensive property damage. However, if someone else’s negligence caused your bus accident in New Orleans, you may be able to recover compensation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) figures show that …
Head-on collisions can be fatal and may leave victims with serious injuries, even if those injuries are not life-threatening. These kinds of collisions can result from driver distraction, intoxication, and other types of negligence. You or a loved one may be able to pursue compensation for losses from a head-on collision. Whether it is the …
Environmental injustice and environmental racism are unacceptable and cause detrimental health conditions, as well as premature deaths, in communities across the United States. Unfortunately, it is often the most at-risk in society who are affected by environmental injustice, including minority and poor communities. Environmental injustice particularly affects the children living in these communities. According to …
The polluter pays principle requires that those who cause any pollution should also pay for the consequences. The principle affects any type of pollution, whether land, air, or water. If, for example, an industrial facility produces any toxic waste or chemicals as a by-product of their operations, they should ensure the safe disposal of such …
The causes of the environmental justice movement lie deep in the racial inequality that pervaded America in the 1960s and still rears its head today, 60 years later. The movement is addressing the burden of disadvantages (as well as the lack of advantages and amenities) that Black and poor communities throughout the United States have …
Several individuals, primarily people of color, who wanted to address environmental injustice, started the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice leans heavily on the principles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination against any person based on their color, race, sex, religion, or national origin. The environmental justice movement essentially wishes to remove …
Legal action involving environmental justice claims can be filed in local state or federal court. There are limited guidelines on who can bring an environmental justice claim. It largely depends on what type of claim it is. For example, there are civil claims and criminal claims. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), criminal environmental …
Environmental justice cases are important for the future of communities, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). While it may seem like it takes a special lawyer, the type of lawyers that handle environmental justice cases are personal injury lawyers. Personal injury lawyers handle tort cases, which include any case where a negligent party injures you in some …
Environmental justice is a concept that developed in response to the discrimination and alienation of minority and socioeconomic groups leading to adverse effects because of environmental factors. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), environmental justice is the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement” of everyone, no matter their race, national origin, or socioeconomic status, concerning applicable …
Pollution results from social inequality, and it can also contribute to the continuation of inequality. The two connect in a way that can make it difficult for affected communities to avoid the impacts of environmental problems. In some cases, those affected can take action with the help of environmental justice lawyers. Why Pollution Disproportionately Impacts …
For people of color and those who live in poverty, the scales of environmental justice tip steadily against their ability to live free from environmental and health hazards. The individuals who live in these communities do not have the same access to the healthy living, learning, and working environments that every other U.S. citizen enjoys …
If you accept your first workers’ compensation offer, you may not be getting the full and fair amount of workers’ compensation benefits for your claim. Even if your employer tells you otherwise, nothing requires you to accept a workers’ compensation settlement. You are in charge of your claim, and you get to decide whether to …
When a victim suffers from medical malpractice, the challenges they face are many. Who do they turn to for medical advice? How much will it cost to fix the issues? Or, in worst-case scenarios, pay for the funeral? According to an article published in StatPearls, most malpractice cases are preventable, and related costs are at …
When a medical provider’s actions or inactions fail to meet the medical standard of care, their behavior constitutes medical negligence. If their medical negligence causes their patient to suffer an injury, it becomes medical malpractice. When the patient can prove the various legal elements that add up to medical malpractice, they can take legal action …
Although standards and regulations about medical malpractice can differ among states, the basic requirements to prove medical malpractice in the United States, according to Symposium: Clinical Risk and Judicial Reasoning, involve several important legal elements, and you must be able to demonstrate all of them. Namely: A doctor-patient relationship existed: Either by agreement or treatment …
The Insurance Information Institute (III) reported that Florida had a higher percentage of uninsured motorists than any other state in the U.S. in 2015. If you get into a car accident caused by an uninsured driver in Florida, it can be challenging to obtain compensation for your losses. If an uninsured driver caused a car …
Side-impact crashes have high rates of severe injuries and fatalities because the people inside the vehicle do not have the protection of bumpers. Bumpers, located on the front and rear of cars, absorb much of the impact of collisions, but they cannot help you in a St. Louis, Missouri side-impact accident. The federal agency charged …
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 53 automobile fatalities in St. Louis in 2018, with close to half resulting from speeding. Moreover, that is just over 5% of all automobile fatalities for the whole state that year. Unfortunately, you cannot control what other drivers do, but you can take steps …
According to the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), using cellphones while driving has increased the fatality rate by 31% since 2014. However, a driver can be distracted for several reasons, and you should not have to pay the price for their negligence. If you, or someone close to you, is suffering because of a driver’s …
