Personal Injury Claim Video Evidence

Video Evidence in Accident and Personal Injury Claim In this post we explain how video evidence can help prove your personal injury claim. Personal Injury Claims Are Founded on a Duty of Care Personal injury claim requires proof of an injury resulting from the negligence of another person or legal entity. To hold the other party liable for your injuries you must first prove that they owed you a duty of care to protect you from harm. For example, operators of motor vehicle owe other drivers, passengers, and pedestrians a duty of care to operate their vehicles in a...

Slip and Fall Accident Claims Limited by Florida Law

Jeffrey Berman

Slip and Fall Accident Liability Slip and fall accidents occur often in public places. The owners of stores, restaurants, malls, and other public places have a legal duty to maintain their facilities in a safe condition. In other words, businesses are legally obligated to protect their patrons from having accident on their premises. Thus, businesses are required to keep their premises safe and warn the public of any unsafe conditions. Failing to maintain a premises safe and warn of dangerous conditions is a breach of that duty. As a result, you have a claim for personal injury if a...

Anatomy of Personal Injury Claims

Jeffrey Berman

We like to educate our clients on the legal concepts upon which their personal injury claims are based. Personal injury claims usually include a claim for negligence. To win personal injury claims for negligence there are three elements you must prove, duty, breach, and causation of damages. You can read about how to prove these elements below. Review our personal injury page to learn more about the types of personal injury claims we handle. If you suffered personal injury in an accident you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries. You should consult with a Miami personal injury lawyer....

Death by Taser Civil Rights Violation

Jeffrey Berman

In 2013, a Virginia man, Linwood Lambert,‬ was tased to death for running into a hospital emergency room that police officers drove him to. MSNBC recently obtained video footage of the incident. Click here to view the video. Lambert was not suspected of a crime and was not armed. He was only taken into custody to be transported to the emergency room for medical care. Lambert escaped from the patrol car when they arrived at the hospital and attempted to run into the emergency room. Although the officers only picked Lambert up to bring him to the emergency room, several...

Dancing Cop

Jeffrey Berman

Earlier this week a South Carolina police officer ripped a Spring Valley High School student out of her chair and threw her across the classroom for being defiant. The Washington Post reports that in another highly publicized police incident this week, a Washington D.C. police officer gained the cooperation of a teenage bystander of a street fight by challenging her to a dance off. Click here for the Washington Post article and the video of the dance off. The video has gone viral on the internet under the title “dancing cop”. Unfortunately, police misconduct and civil rights violations such as excessive use of...