Tag Archive: pain

It Hurts More When It’s Your Ox That’s Gored

Let’s face it, if you have a cold, you ache, have fever, a runny nose and feel miserable, you identify with how badly others feel that have a cold.  If your back is injured or has been, you likely have a very different understanding about back pain and how debilitating it is.   You know from…

Strange But Really True

Okay, I hope that I got your attention. Pretty cool video about the white deer, isn’t it? Sometimes in lawsuits, people think something is strange and not true. One of the biggest misconceptions the public has is that you cannot be seriously hurt from a low impact rear end wreck (what people call whiplash). “Strange”…

How Well Do You Handle Suffering?

Image by Chuckumentary via Flickr The title was the punch line to a cartoon in the Wall Street Journal. The cartoon showed the man sitting before a man in personnel who was asking them that question. The clear “joke” was that they were about to suffer a great deal. In a accident injury case, a…

What If You Are Injured?

Many people wonder what they should do if they are injured.  Be sure that you seek medical treatment.  Sometimes people try to tough it out before going to the doctor.  I know that I typically do that when I have a cold.  However, when you have been injured in an automobile accident, seek professional medical…

How Is the Value of a Personal Injury Case Determined?

There is no magic formula or process by which someone can predict with certainty how much a case is worth. One of the reasons trials are necessary is when the parties cannot agree upon the value of a case. A case is worth the value of the harms and losses inflicted on the person who…