Personal Injury Compensation

The families and dependents of the 11 oil rig workers killed and the 15 injured on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20th may see the personal injury compensation paid to them reduced severely if Transocean are successful in using a law from the 19th Century.

The law in question is the 1851 Limitation of liability Act which was introduced to encourage investment in shipping and keep the US fleets competitive.

Under the Act, ship owner's liability is limited to the value of the ship plus the money the ship owner would collect if the voyage/trip was completed.

Around 10,000 firefighters, construction workers, police officers and others who suffered injuries while helping with the rescue and debris removal efforts after 9/11 could receive up to $712.5 million in a new personal injury compensation settlement revealed yesterday.

This revised compensation pact address a long standing legal issue where some of the helpers from the rescue mission were excluded from receiving compensation as their injuries/problems arose after the initial compensation fund had closed in 2003.

Victoria Little, 53, of Harford County was awarded a $3.5 million settlement at the conclusion of her case against two surgeons and their firm, Vascular Surgery Associates, whom she had bee suing for medical malpractice.

Mrs. Little had undergone surgery for blocked arteries. Her lawyers, James Cardea and Scott Kurlander, claim the two surgeons had used an improper grafting technique during the surgery.

Doctor Soma Mandil was yesterday awarded $7.2 million in personal injury settlement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Doctor Mandil fell and sustained a broken elbow in March 2007. She had been walking and then slipped on a rubber mat on a walkway in the Newport-Pavonia PATH station.

The accident has prevented her from returning to work at New York's NYU Medical Center, where she worked as an attending physician.

Dionne Bolton, a 21 year old from Edinburgh, Scotland, has been ordered to pay £200 in personal injury compensation($290 approx) to a police officer for ordering her dog to bite him.

The dog bit Consatble McGee on the backside, resulting in puncture wounds which required Consatble McGee to go to the hospital.

Constable Andrew McGee was one of 9 officers to enter Ms. Bolton's house, having obtained a search warrant to enter it.

Ms. Bolton apparently repeatedly shouted at her dog to "bite him", pointing at Constable McGee.

Michial Jacobs today has been awarded $1.5 million in compensation, the largest ever settlement in a personal injury case in Yolo County.

The record setting settlement is the final outcome from an accident which took place in October 2004, where Mr. Jacobs's vehicle was rammed into by a rig carrying 40,000 pounds of sugar. The rig upended Mr.jacob's vehicle and the trailer it was towing.

The sugar carrying rig was working for both Pacific Transportation Services and Ernie Newland, both out of Washington.

Survivors of the Oil rig explosion which took place on April 20th and has led to an underwater oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico have urged memebrs of a House committee to hold BP and Transocean accountable for the accident, according to CNN.com

Workers on the rig said that they had consistently been asking for more help and that the explosion was 'hardly the first thing to go wrong' on the oil rig.

Jeffery Yates, a former barge worker, has been awarded a $14 million settlement from his former employer, Hercules Offshore.

Mr. Yates was struck by a falling pipe which had been temporarily tacked to the barge's derrick. When normal work began on the ship again, the vibrations caused the pipe to become loose and fall 90 feet before striking Mr.Yates in the head.

Mr. Yates was represented by Houston, Texas personal injury firm Arnold & Itkin LLC.

Judge James V. Seina today ordered that Toyota had to hand ove thousands of pages of internal documents from government probes to class action attorneys who are representing Toyota customers bringing wrongful death and othe personal injury charges against the car manufacturing giant.

Personal Injury cases,also referred to as tort law cases, cover a wide range of issuesa list of which can be found on our here.

The principal connecting theme in these cases is that the injured person suffers the injury as a result of the actions of another person, whether these actions be intentional or non-intentional.

In order to successfully bring your Personal Injury claim to court, you must first prove that the injury you suffered was not your fault.