Cleveland Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

Class action lawsuits frequently get a bad rap as benefitting only the lawyers who bring them with little to no financial benefit for class members. Reports of class action attorneys receiving...

Ohio has been rocked by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Scores of families and people have lost their homes to foreclosure, and entire communities have been blighted as a result of increasing...

Choosing a lawyer to serve as your legal representative in a dispute or negotiation is a big and important decision. After all, your lawyer, in addition to advising you, acts as your face and...

By now all of us are at least marginally familiar with the problems stemming form the "Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown" in the United States. Those of us in certain areas of the counrty have seen the...

One of the things that makes the United States such a great country is our jury system. Our jury system constitutes the most direct form of self-governance in the world. Not even our votes at the...

The federal False Claims Act (FCA) authorizes a private citizen with knowledge of fraudulent claims against the government to file suit on behalf of the government against the party who submitted...

On April 16, 2008, Ohio's Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 184 which presumes that a home's resident acted in self-defense if he or shes uses force against someone who unlawfully enters his or...

Health care costs in the United States are rising at an alarming pace. Millions of Americans cannot afford adequate health care. Adding insult to injury, Ohio authorizes doctors, hospitals and...

Every day Ohioans join the ranks of the uninsured and are denied health insurance benefits because carriers allege they misrepresented their health histories on insurance applications. Indeed, many...

On January 1, 2007 Ohio’s new minimum wage law went into effect. This law raised the minimum wage to $6.85 per hour with built in yearly increases. Every year, the minimum wage changes to reflect...

Nursing home residents are particularly susceptible to being the victims of negligent and improper care. Congress and state legislatures have enacted laws designed to protect these residents who frequently cannot speak out on their own behalfs. Despite the exitence of these laws, abusive and negligent practicies persist. Residents and their loved ones should be aware of common forms of abuse...

Ohio law permits recovery against liquor permit holders for injuries caused by their intoxicated patrons under certain circumstances. Whether the injury was the result of a bar room attack perpetrated by an intoxicated customer or a traffic accident caused by a drunken driver, Ohio law may allow recovery against a bar or restaurant that negligently served alcohol to an already intoxicated...

In August of 2007, Congress passed an amendment to the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA) that will once again permit state tort law claims against negligent railroads that kill or maim citizens and pollute the environment.Prior to Congress passing the 2007 amendment expressly limiting federal preemption under the FRSA, Federal Courts had systematically curtailed citizens' rights to sue a...

The state of Florida is in a big fight with Allstate right now, and Allstate is not cooperating, refusing to turn over subpoena ordered internal documents (particularly something known as "The McKinsey Report") which demonstrates a systematic denial of claims - read the story of Allstate's potential bad faith actions in Florida.

This week the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion which affirms the heightened standards that shareholders must meet in order to prove securities fraud against a publicly held corporation or its officers in the sale of its securities. Investors that want to sue companies like Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and others who have left investors high and dry after making false and misleading...