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Los Angeles Accident Lawyers Help Prevent Harm

Posted on February 17, 2010
This is part two in a two part series relating to social benefits from personal injury lawsuits. Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died on February 12, 2010. He should not have. Lawsuits remind people to take the care necessary to make...

San Fernando Valley Personal Injury Lawyers Benefits Highlighted by Olympic Luge Tragedy

Posted on February 13, 2010
This is part one in a two part series relating to social benefits from personal injury lawsuits. People in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California are hurt in auto accidents and through the negligent of others all the time....

Southern California Doctors' Medical Malpractice Causing Erb's Palsy

Posted on February 01, 2010
This is the third in a three-part series about birth injuries in Los Angeles County. Macrosomia is a condition in which a fetus? birth weight is much greater than is normal during pregnancy. Generally, macrosomia is defined as a birth...

Southern California Cerebral Palsey Resulting from Medical Malpractice

Posted on January 15, 2010
This is part two in a series of three relating to birth injuries in Los Angeles County. Cerebral palsy, or CP, is a term that is used to describe a group of chronic conditions that result from injury to the...

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Los Angeles Labor and Delivery Errors May Cause Birth Injuries

Posted on January 08, 2010
This is the first in a series of three relating to birth injuries in Southern California Every year, hundreds of babies in Los Angeles County are born into the world seriously handicapped because of medical negligence. Birth injuries are among...

Pedestrians Hit in California Crosswalks Must Be Compensated for Injuries

Posted on October 10, 2009
This is part four in a series of posts regarding why someone hurt in a car accident should make a claim with the insurance company. I recently told the story of a friend that called me because her sister was...

Compensating Los Angeles Area Auto Accident Victims Is Part of the Purpose of Insurance

Posted on September 12, 2009
This is part 3 in a series of posts explaining benefits of lawsuits and insurance claims when people in Southern California are injured in an accident. People buy insurance for several reasons. Some buy insurance because the law says they...

San Fernando Valley Car Crash Victims Should Be Compensated for their Injuries

Posted on June 05, 2009
This is part 2 in a series relating to San Fernando Valley Car Crash Claims as a benefit to everyone I was recently contacted by a friend asking for help. Her sister was crossing the street in Woodland Hills, in...

Los Angeles Lawsuits Help Keep People Safe: Compensating People Who are Hurt

Posted on May 08, 2009
This is part one in a series on why Los Angeles car accident victims should be compensated for their injuries. There are a lot of lawsuits filed every year in Los Angeles County. Many of those cases stem from auto...

How Much Insurance Do You Need If You Are in a Car Accident in Los Angeles? Basic Liability Coverage

Posted on April 21, 2009
As car accident lawyers located in Woodland Hills, we review our client?s auto insurance policies all the time. By the time we do so, it is because someone has been in a car accident and has been injured. As personal...

Significant Risk of Elder Abuse in Los Angeles

Posted on March 29, 2009
The San Fernando Valley?s elderly population is in serious danger. Of the 419 nursing homes in Los Angeles, only 17 facilities were in full compliance with federal safety standards. Many nursing homes violate standards that create a real risk...

San Fernando Valley Motorists Are Prohibited from Using a Cell Phone While Driving

Posted on March 25, 2009
Driving in Los Angeles while holding a cell phone is a bad idea. Holding a cell phone to your head not only affects your concentration, but also restricts your ability to check your blind spots and turn the wheel. It...

Woodland Hills Employees Wrongfully Terminated Must Face At-Will Employment Limitations

Posted on March 24, 2009
In Los Angeles, and across California, when people lose their jobs, they are often concerned that they have been wrongfully terminated. We get many phone calls from these people seeking to find out if they might have a legal case...

Southern California Rain Causes Many Accidents

Posted on February 23, 2009
As personal injury attorneys in Woodland Hills, we get too many phone calls from people injured in automobile collisions in the rain. Certainly there is nothing good about being in a crash. When it rains here in Southern California, you...

In Los Angeles, Can I Sue a Grocery Store Where I Fall, If I Do Not Know Why I Fell?

Posted on February 18, 2009
As a personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, this is a question we get quite often. The answer is, it depends. Slip and fall cases, or trip and fall cases, are referred to as premises liability cases. Like most accident...

Driver's in Woodland Hills Must Cooperate to Keep Kid's Safe

Posted on October 20, 2008
Too many Encino auto accident's result from Los Angeles driver's being selfish. Saving a minute for yourself may put someone else, or their children at risk. Yesterday was the Halloween carnival at my children's elementary school. The school is at...

Los Angeles Driver's Insurance Still Safe with AIG

Posted on September 19, 2008
San Fernando Valley drivers who have been involved in accidents, who are insured with AIG probably have little need to worry about their coverage. The comfort should also go to all Southern California drivers who were injured when hit by...

Los Angeles Metrolink Crash Caused by Driver's Negligence

Posted on September 14, 2008
The death toll in the Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train crash has risen to 24 with scores hospitalized. Negligence on the part of the Metrolink engineer, who failed to stop the train at a red signal, is the likely cause...

Rice & Bloomfield Joins Chatsworth Metrolink Train Crash Investigation

Posted on September 14, 2008
As rescue efforts are completed, the process of carefully investigating the cause and blame for the September 12, 2008, Chatsworth Metrolink crash begin. To ensure that its clients and future clients are protected, Rice & Bloomfield has already joined in...

Los Angeles Metrolink Commuting: Is it Safe?

Posted on September 13, 2008
The Chatsworth crash between a Metrolink commuter train and freight train, which has killed at least eighteen and injured more than 130, is not the first deadly accident to occur since Metrolink began operating in 1992. In 2005, eleven people...

Los Angeles Metrolink Train Crash: Death and Injury

Posted on September 13, 2008
September 12, 2008, in Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley, eighteen people were killed and scores injured because a Metrolink train failed to yield the right-of-way to a freight train in Chatsworth. The commuter train, which had become more popular...

Selecting a Lawyer When Injured in a Los Angeles Car Accident

Posted on September 10, 2008
There are many auto accidents in the San Fernando Valley, and throughout Los Angeles. Every day, unsuspecting people are injured in a car crash. These are people that never thought about hiring a personal injury lawyer and now must quickly...

Los Angeles Rains Cause Increase in Collisions

Posted on January 29, 2008
It has been a couple of weeks of heavy rain in Los Angeles. Here in the San Fernando Valley, we had days of wet weather. Although the sun is finally shining, there was a significant increase in the number of...

Southern California Residents Hit by a Car Can Get Compensation for Injuries from Many Sources

Posted on January 25, 2008
In Los Angeles, there are many things that can cause a car accident. It is particularly distressing when you are injured because of a drunk driver. At Rice & Bloomfield, it is our job to ensure that you are properly...

Los Angeles May Not Be the Safest Place to Get in a Car Accident

Posted on December 18, 2007
Here in Los Angeles, Tort reform is the term that has been adopted by groups that reject the notion of personal responsibility. They feel that people should not be held accountable for their actions. If they hurt someone else, they...

Hospital Operates on Wrong Part of Body for 3rd Time

Posted on November 27, 2007
A Rhode Island Hospital has been fined for the 3rd instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of the patient's head. Last Friday, a chief resident started operating on the wrong side of an...

Woodland Hills Insurer Fined $1 Million by State

Posted on November 16, 2007
Last Thursday, the state slapped Health Net, Inc. with a $1 Million fine. Ironically, Health Net is our neighbor here in Woodlands Hills although our only connection with them is in representing insureds with claims against them. The insurance company...

Los Angeles Times Prints Correction by Rice & Bloomfield

Posted on November 14, 2007
Last Sunday the Los Angeles Times printed an article indicating that a family was seeking $45 million from King Harbor hospital for medical malpractice causing death of a patient. The story was misleading, leaving readers with the impression that medical...

Law Stops Disclosure of Medical Mistakes

Posted on October 31, 2007
Over the past year, hospitals in Washington left "foreign objects? in 36 surgery patients. 21 patients got surgery on the wrong body part. A Washington law passed last year prevents public disclosure of these types of medical negligence. The law...

Los Angeles Families Will Need Lawyers to Make Sure They Get Fair Insurance Settlements

Posted on October 25, 2007
Many Southern California families suffered the horrifying loss of their homes in the recent Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego wild fires. Nearly 1,500 homes have been destroyed and hundreds more have been damaged. The process of adjusting homeowners' claim...

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