317.582.0000Category Archives: Personal Injury
IN THE NEWS: KANSAS NO-CAPS RULING CHANGES PERSONAL INJURY CLIMATE
A recent ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court is likely to affect personal injury lawsuits all over the country, and in a way, our attorneys at Ramey & Hailey Law believe, promises to be beneficial for injured people. The ruling had to do with amounts that juries award to personal injury plaintiffs for “non-economic… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: $7.8 MILLION CONSTRUCTION INJURY SETTLMENT HIGHLIGHTS RASH OF NEW CONTRUCTION ACCIDENTS
“Statistics show accidents, injuries, and deaths are on the rise,” CBS New York reports, remarking that “construction has become the deadliest job in New York City”. Ironically, this comment was published just days following news about the collapse of the Seattle crane that left four people dead, and on the very same day news… Read More »
INDIANA RED FLAG LAW: TRYING TO STEM THE FLOOD OF GUN VIOLENCE
If someone is suicidal or an imminent threat to others, should a local judge be able to temporarily take away that person’s guns? Indiana is one of several states with a “Red Flag” law that says the answer to that question is “yes”. The Indiana Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights both recognize… Read More »
AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURIES, RECOVERY IS FAR FROM SIMPLE
The central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord, is the command center for the human body. The spinal cord is essentially the ‘motorway’ that is involved in the co-ordination of the body’s movement, with signals carried from body parts to the brain relating to heat, cold, pressure, pain and the… Read More »
PINWHEELS IN PENNSYLAVANIA, SHAMEFUL STATISTICS IN INDIANA
To spread awareness during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, officials in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania planted 554 pinwheels on the courthouse lawn, each representing an abused child in the county who had the courage to seek help. Here in Indiana, with our state described as having the second-highest child abuse rate in the nation, the General… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: COURT RULES GUNMAKER REMINGTON CAN BE SUED
The Connecticut Supreme Court has just issued a landmark ruling: gun manufacturer Remington can be the target of a wrongful death lawsuit because of the way the company marketed the Bushmaster rifle used to kill six educators and 20 students at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in 2012. Remington had argued that it could… Read More »
WHEN DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER GOES TO COURT
As personal injury attorneys in Indiana, we help victims who have been hurt through: medical malpractice nursing home elder abuse sexual abuse injury through auto accidents environmental contamination workplace discrimination unfair business practices Sometimes, though, a victim’s injury can be very severe, yet not physical in nature. According to United States law, defamation and… Read More »
EXACTLY WHO’S AT FAULT WHEN GUN VIOLENCE CAUSES INJURY AND DEATH?
There are more guns than people in the United States, a global small arms survey revealed. In fact, while Americans make up only 4% of the world’s population, the study showed, we own nearly half of the entire global stock of firearms! The bad part, as a new study in the Journal of the… Read More »
NURSING HOME NEGLECT IS A FORM OF ABUSE
“But we didn’t mean it!” simply isn’t going to cut it as an excuse when it comes to nursing home neglect. True, unlike abuse, neglect is not done out of specific intent to harm a patient or an elder in a nursing home or rehabilitation facility. But too often, intended or not, substandard care… Read More »
WHEN A LOVED ONE SUFFERS ABUSE OR NEGLECT IN A NURSING HOME
The facility may be called a nursing home, convalescent home, rest home, or elder care facility. Whichever it is, the owners of that facility can be held legally responsible when harm is caused to a patient or resident. There are actually different categories of harm, any one of which can be grounds for filing… Read More »
