If a person is injured due to the careless or negligent actions of somebody else, they will be dealing with an incredible amount of stress. One of the most important things that a personal injury victim in Lexington, Kentucky needs...

No, a negligent pedestrian could share in the fault for a car-pedestrian accident. The duties of pedestrians are set out in the Kentucky statutes at KRS 189.570. Pedestrians have to obey traffic control devices, use sidewalks and crosswalks when provided,...

Generally speaking, under American law a police agency is entitled to sovereign immunity (or governmental immunity) from lawsuits. You can’t sue the king or his servants, as the idea goes, without the king’s permission. Depending upon jurisdiction, however, there is...

Unless the case is being brought by the estate of a deceased patient, a medical-malpractice plaintiff who is mentally competent will normally testify and will usually do so twice: once during a discovery deposition taken before trial, and also during...

Just as in an everyday fender bender, it comes from insurance. In a tort case, the tortfeasor will almost always have liability insurance to pay a successful plaintiff, although larger companies may be sometimes be self-insured. Let’s say your family...