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This page examines settlement amounts and jury awards in personal injury cases in the state of Washington. Our attorneys also provide a general overview of Washington personal injury law.

As a personal injury plaintiff in Washington, it’s natural to want to understand the potential range of settlement payouts for your claim. After all, money is ultimately the goal of a personal injury or wrongful death claim.

This page aims to explore how personal injury cases have been resolved in Washington, allowing you to compare your claim with Washington personal injury settlement statistics and examples of settlements and jury awards.

How fast am I driving?

The one thing defendants (and plaintiffs, for that matter) consistently screw up at deposition is time, speed, and distance calculations. They don’t know how fast they are driving and, if they do, they don’t screw it up with their time distance calculation.

In this post we will look at Delaware birth injury malpractice lawsuits. We will review some of the key points of Delaware law in birth injury cases and discuss the potential settlement value of these claims.

What Are Birth Injuries?

When a baby suffers some type of physical damage during the process of labor and delivery it is considered a birth injury. Childbirth is a notoriously difficult process for mother and baby and some birth injuries are a natural and unavoidable consequence of this. In many instances, however, a birth injury is something that could have easily been prevented and are the direct result of negligent medical care during labor and delivery. Some of the more common medical mistakes that cause birth injuries include:

A birth injury refers to physical damage to an infant resulting not from something that happens during the labor and delivery process. A large percentage of birth injuries are caused by avoidable mistakes or negligence by health care providers. Although some birth injuries can be minor, others can result in permanent disabilities, affecting the child’s cognitive and/or physical function. West Virginia recognizes the right of parents to obtain legal compensation when their child suffers a birth injury caused by medical negligence. This page will outline the relevant West Virginia birth injury malpractice law and the value of these cases in West Virginia.

Examples of Common West Virginia Birth Injuries

Outlined below are some of the birth injuries that we see most frequently in West Virginia birth injury malpractice lawsuits.

This page will look at Mississippi medical malpractice cases involving birth injuries. We will review the key points of law in Mississippi and look at the settlement value of Mississippi birth injury lawsuits.

For information on other types of Mississippi personal injury cases and example verdicts and settlements, see our post on Mississippi Injury Verdicts and Settlements.

What is a Birth Injury?

Victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault can often get financial compensation for their pain and suffering by bringing a civil lawsuit against the abuser or the employer/organization that enabled the abuse. Almost any type of criminal sexual conduct or unwanted sexual contact can form the basis for a sexual abuse or sexual assault lawsuit.


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If you are having a hard time contemplating how “unauthorized penis surgery” can happen, you are not alone. I had the same reaction when I first saw the headline about this case. But as explained below, unauthorized penis surgery is something that actually happened to a man in California and he got a malpractice award of $9 million.

Before getting into the details of the case, it is worth noting here that California caps damages for pain & suffering in malpractice cases at $250,000. This is one of the strictest caps on damages in the entire country, but it didn’t prevent the plaintiff in this case from getting a big award for what happened to this penis.

This post is about this case but also provides settlement and verdicts in penis injury medical malpractice cases.

TriStar electric pressure cookers have a design flaw that sometimes allows the device to pressurize without the locked lid. This defect causes the lid to explode when opened and projects scalding hot liquids over anyone nearby.

Users have suffered severe burns and facial disfigurement due to the lid defect.  These injuries are awful to deal with and they did not have to happen.

Our firm is seeking new product liability cases from anyone seriously injured by a faulty TriStar pressure cooker device. Users who suffered burns or other injuries from their TriStar instant pressure cooker may be entitled to financial compensation.

How much will a hair relaxer lawsuit be worth?  Victims have many questions about hair relaxer settlements. But the biggest question we get is what settlement payouts can victims expect.

The emergence of the hair relaxer class action lawsuit has prompted speculation on how this litigation will play out and what a hair relaxer global settlement payout might look like.

In this post, our lawyers will look at the potential settlement value of hair relaxer lawsuits involving uterine cancer, and other conditions linked to hair relaxers.

New research has shown that women who use chemical hair straighteners and/or relaxers are at a higher risk of uterine cancer. This new evidence linking hair perms and straighteners and uterus cancer has led to a wave of hair relaxer cancer uterine cancer lawsuits against cosmetic companies like L’Oreal and Revlon.

There is now a national hair relaxer class action lawsuit that houses uterine cancer claims. Our lawyers are now actively seeking women who want to seek a hair relaxer settlement for uterine cancer based on the following criteria:

  • You used chemical hair relaxers or hair straightener products at least three times per year for 7-10 years.