A Serious Car Accident Can Change Your Life Forever A motor vehicle accident usually involves at least one motorized vehicle like a car, truck, tractor-trailer, bus or motorcycle. Yet, serious single and multiple-car accidents can also happen when a car or truck, for example, collides with a pedestrian, cyclist or animal crossing a road. The…
Read MoreWorkplace Accidents Are All Too Common Accidents happen, despite the best precautions you and your employer may take to avoid them. Fortunately, there are many schemes at the local, state and federal levels designed to protect workers. This includes those who are injured in the workplace, including commuting to their job sites, or who have…
Read MoreWhen Does a Personal Injury Become Personal? How Not to Take Your Personal Injury Personally A Personal Injury is Not a Personal Matter but a Legal One Just What Exactly Is a Personal Injury? Put simply, a personal injury arises when you’ve been affected by someone’s actions in a way that has caused physical or…
Read MoreThe NSW Government is introducing new rules and fines for bicycle riders. New rules are being introduced in an effort to save lives and limit the serious injuries that occur to bicycle riders on our roads. In NSW, approximately 11 bike riders are killed each year and approximately 1,500 are severely injured. Bike riders –…
Read MoreNew rules will apply to bike riders from 1st March 2016. If you are riding a bicycle and you are over 18 years of age, you will be required to carry photo ID (bike riders will have twelve months to adjust to this new rule before fines will be imposed). If after 1st March 2017…
Read MoreIncrease in Fines There will be a dramatic increase in fines here in NSW for bicycle riders who breach the following offences: Not wear helmet, current fine $71. This will increase to $319. Not stopping at a red light, was $71. This will increase to $425. Riding your bike in a dangerous manner, was $71….
Read MoreFrom 1st March 2016, drivers of motor vehicles here in NSW must maintain a distance of at least 1 metre when attempting to pass a bike rider where the speed limit is 60 k.p.h or less. They must maintain a distance of 1.5 metres when the speed limit is more than 60 k.p.h. If you…
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Recently Simon Meigan, Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, concluded a claim on behalf of a client who had been attacked by a dog at a friend’s barbeque. The owners of the dog had invited several friends to a backyard barbeque. During the barbeque the owner invited his friends to have their photo taken with the dog. At one…
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Our client, the mother of a child born in 2008, was a Russian national. The father of the child, her former husband, lived in Australia but was also born overseas and travelled extensively for work. Throughout their marriage, the parties spent significant periods apart from each other and at times lived in different countries. Indeed,…
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Our client was a service technician sent out by his boss to do a job on a building site. In order to access the site, he had to walk down a pathway. Whilst doing so, a 4-wheel drive came along the pathway and struck our client. The driver admitted that he wasn’t keeping a proper…
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