Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Don’t Make These 3 Mistakes After a Slip and Fall
Let’s say that you fall in a store or on someone else’s property. You are the victim. They did something wrong, to cause you to fall. It can be hard to imagine that you could do anything wrong to harm a case, should you choose to bring one later on to compensate you for… Read More »
Accident Victims Can Suffer From PTSD-Know the Symptoms
There once was a time when people thought that PTSD was a condition that was not legitimate—that it was just people “overreacting” to situations. As time went on, we tended to believe that PTSD was real, but was nothing more than a more serious form of anxiety. Now, however, the medical community finally realizes… Read More »
Who is Liable When You are Injured in an Airport?
Airports can be dangerous places to be. If you really think about it, an airport is the perfect mix of things that could cause injuries to people. In an airport you have people unfamiliar with the layout of the airport. These people are often carrying luggage, bags, or young children (or all of these),… Read More »
Danger From Above: Injuries When Objects Fall on Your Head
There are, or at least used to be, children’s cartoons, where large objects fall from tall buildings onto cartoon character’s heads. And while it is unlikely in real life that a giant piano will fall from the top of a building on your head, it is much more likely that a more common item… Read More »
How You Can Help Your Injury Attorney Win Your Case
When you go to a competent personal injury attorney, you may not even think that there are ways that you can help your attorney. After all, your attorney is the attorney, and you are the victim. While it’s true that you may not have the legal expertise your attorney does, there are things that… Read More »
Remembering the McDonald’s “Hot Coffee” Case
A jury recently awarded a girl money for burns she sustained when a McDonalds Chicken McNugget fell on her lap and burned her. The case has brought back many memories of the much-misunderstood but very infamous “Hot Coffee” case. The case became the poster child for a broken personal injury system, and for calls… Read More »
How Much Do You Know About Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect?
There are a lot of things about nursing home abuse that people are generally aware of, like the right of patients to be safe, to be taken care of, and to generally have the freedom to live their lives. But there are also many things, particularly statistics, that may in fact surprise you about… Read More »
What is Your Case Worth? That’s a Difficult Question
Do you have a great case? Is your case “worth a lot of money?” These are questions that a lot of accident victims have, and questions that are asked often of personal injury attorneys. They are not asked out of greed, but rather, out of concern for a future; when you are out of… Read More »
ATVs are Not Toys and Can Cause Serious Injury
All Terrain Vehicles, or ATVs, are meant to be rugged. So rugged in fact that many people just assume that they are safe; that they are built for the terrain we are taking them on, and built to be driven the way that people often drive them. But that actually turns out not to… Read More »
Why a Lawyer’s “Win Loss” Record is Not Very Informative
In sports, we judge the quality of a team or an athlete on won loss records. These numbers are easy to digest and understand, and tell us whether there is success or failure in very easy quick terms. Many law firms have now turned to marketing their services in much the same way. Ads… Read More »
