Personal Injury News & Developments

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All personal injury cases will use the same defined legal terms when it comes to the test that is used to determine whether someone else should be financially responsible for your injuries.

It is the same four-part test that is used every single time. For every personal injury case, you will hear the term “duty of care” used. When someone breaches this duty, and it causes your injury, the defendant can be made to pay for your injuries.

How Does Personal Injury Law Treat the Duty of Care?

One of the questions that we are asked as an attorney is do you have to pay taxes on insurance settlements.

Our clients want to plan after their insurance settlement, and they need to know how much money they may have to put aside from their accident settlement.

In addition, this would impact negotiations with the insurance company, because a tax liability may require that they negotiate more in their injury settlements.

You might experience significant personal injury in an accident that requires extensive medical treatment in an emergency room, hospital, or long-term facility. Medical bills can rack up quickly and you may choose to file a personal injury lawsuit or multiple personal injury cases with a personal injury lawyer to make up the cost of the medical care.

However, if you choose to do that, and if a personal injury settlement materializes, you must know that the insurance or medical provider may have already or may in the future file a medical lien on that compensation.

This is a legal right of claim (a lien is a demand) stating that they are owed money because they performed services for you, did not get paid, and the defendant should legally pay for them through the settlement.