Category: Accidents Abroad

Top 9 Accident Claims Blawg Legal Blogs & Pages

Accident Claims Blawg is a trusted resource for personal injury claims, offering valuable legal insights across various jurisdictions. Below are the top 9 blog posts and pages that provide essential information and tools for anyone dealing with accident claims and personal injury law. These posts offer legal information, tools, and directories for navigating accident claims […]

Driven to Distraction: Making a Foreign Car Accident Injury Claim

New contribution regarding foreign car accident injury claims – Many of us love to take our cars or our leasing car (Buzzwords, De-buzzed: 10 Other Ways to Say Ford Transit Custom Sport) with us on trips abroad, or hire one at our destination. But how many of us even know the rules of the foreign […]

Common causes of scaffolding injuries

The common causes of scaffolding injuries are carelessness and negligence by employers and sometimes by employees. That sounds rather harsh and blunt, but employers are well aware of their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the regulations that followed in the wake of that Act. One piece of legislation in […]

Sandy’s aftermath – Can all damages be rightly claimed?

The fierce Hurricane Sandy has left thousands of people in heavily damaged homes, without power, heat or hot water. Many of Sandy’s victims are still suffering, and living conditions are harsh for tens of thousands of people who have still been unable to return to their homes. Hurricane Sandy destroyed the east coast and left […]

How the Jones Act Protects Maritime Employees

The Jones Act (46 U.S.C. § 30104) is a United States federal law that was passed in 1920 to govern lawsuits related to personal injury and wrongful death claims against maritime employers. The legislation grants crew members and officers of a maritime vessel the right to sue an employer for negligence resulting in wrongful death […]

Carnival Cruise Lines Sued over Shipwreck in Italy

Passengers of the Costa Concordia and businesses affected when the Carnival cruise ship ran aground have sued the Miami-based Carnival Corporation, seeking millions of dollars in damages. Plaintiffs Believe Carnival is Responsible Investigators believe that the Costa Concordia struck a reef while passing Giglio Island, an island off of Italy’s Tuscan coast. The island is […]

Boy Injured in 2006 Baseball Game Receives $14.5 Million in Settlement

On Wednesday, August 22, Steven Domalewski was awarded $14.5 million in a settlement with Hillerich and Bradsby, Little League Baseball, Inc. and Sports Authority. The settlement followed a 2006 incident in which Domalewski, who was 12 years old at the time, suffered severe brain damage after being struck by a line drive hit in a baseball game. […]