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As you might imagine, dog bite wounds have a high chance of becoming infected compared with many other types of injuries. A dog’s mouth is filled with bacteria, and a dog’s teeth can puncture your flesh deeply, transferring bacteria deep into your body. Even if you clean your dog bite wound, it can be difficult […]

This week, we covered the tragic story of Billie Padilla, a Long Beach woman who suffered a fatal fall at the Superior Super Warehouse in 2008. The accident, which occurred when Padilla was attempting to pull two stuck shopping carts apart, resulted in a California slip and fall lawsuit and wrongful death lawsuit. Although a […]

Although the car accident rate in California has dropped significantly in recent years due to better safety technology and increased seatbelt usage, thousands still die on our roads and highways each year, while hundreds of thousands of people across the state suffer serious injuries in traffic accidents. To truly understand why fatal car accidents happen—and […]

A recent study conducted by the California Office of Traffic Safety found that just 53 percent of state residents knew that lane splitting—when a motorcycle drives on the white line between two designated lanes of traffic—is legal. More shockingly, almost ten percent of drivers admitted to blocking lane splitting attempts with their car. California Lane […]

Very simply speaking, states take two different approaches to dog bite laws: strict liability, and the one bite rule. Under the one bite rule, dog owners are not held responsible for the actions of their pet unless the animal has a history of aggressive or harmful behavior. Under strict liability, a dog’s owner is always […]