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How do you know who to pick as your injury attorney? It’s a legitimate question for sure. What I would like to do in this blog is to give you a sense of what our Law Firm does when we represent an injured victim. Usually the first contact we have with the injured person is […]
THE DEATH PENALTY IN PENNSYLVANIA – YOUR OPINION
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has imposed a moratorium on implementation of the death penalty. Governor Wolf recently granted a reprieve or stay of an individual who was convicted of first degree murder, and was on death row. Pennsylvania has only had 3 executions in the last 30 years or so. The question for today’s blog […]
WHY WRONGFUL DEATH CASES SETTLE
A lot of times clients ask Pittsburgh wrongful death, Medical malpractice, car accident and slip and fall attorney Bernie Tully if wrongful death claims are limited to certain situations. The answer is no. A Wrongful Death claim can arise under ANY situation. Here is an example of the virtually unlimited circumstances in which a wrongful […]
How Do You Know Its Christmas In the Law?
Answer:because the attorneys are actually being nice to each other! Haha and Merry Christmas to everyone! I don’t know if this is the best day of the year for you but it is for me. It’s the one day of the year when people go out of their way to be nice to each other. Not […]
WHAT KEEPS US FREE?
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin was suspended with pay from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for sending and receiving e-mails that mocked blacks, Asians, and battered women. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, a 3 judge panel of the Court of Judicial Discipline in Easton, Pennsylvania decided Tuesday to place Justice Eakin on interim […]
$$ VALUE OF A STAY-AT-HOME MOM
In a wrongful death and survival action, the Estate of the deceased has a right to make a claim for injuries to the family and its survivors because of the wrongful death of the mother or wife of the primary wage earner. But how do you determine the $ value of a wife who was […]
3 Points About Car Accident Wrongful Deaths Claims
There are three important points to know about car accident fatality cases. They are extremely emotional cases. Why? Because by its very definition, a wrongful death case involves a family members DEATH. The family wants answers to what happened. They deserve those answers from the attorney quickly and professionally. In any wrongful death claim, you […]
SIGN YOUR LIFE AWAY
Everyone knows about waivers you sign when you go to certain events. If you are going on a ski lift you sign a waiver of your right to sue. If you go to a Pirate game, somewhere on that ticket it will talk about a waiver of any injuries sustained from incidents like a baseball […]
WRONGFUL DEATH and Penn State University(PSU)
The father of a deceased Penn State Altoona student and fraternity member is suing the university, the national Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, two officers of the Altoona campus fraternity – Eric Traister and Andrew O’Connor – and others in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. Well that was the headline from the Altoona Mirror newspaper a few […]
THE ONE BIG DIFFERENCE
Do you know there is 1 huge difference between an auto accident case and a pedestrian accident case? Want to know what it is? To me the most important difference between a car accident and a pedestrian accident, where the person is hit by a car, is this: If you are a pedestrian hit by […]