Personal Injury Law Blog

Sometimes accidents happen on the road outside the scope of legal liability–no one, legally, is to blame. In other cases, the party at fault is another driver, and sometimes a third party can be found to be the cause of an accident and its resulting injuries. The Maine Supreme Court recently examined such an issue in the case of McIlroy v.

Six Portland, Maine residents died when their apartment building caught fire in the wee hours of the morning on November 1st. In addition to the deceased, one person was seriously burned and three other occupants escaped by jumping through a second-story window.

The Maine elder abuse lawyers of Hardy, Wolf & Downing have made the fight against elder exploitation and abuse a top priority at their offices. Now, talk of additional legislation to protect seniors has made this team hopeful that seniors will have more financial protection from federal and state government.

As Mainers know, winter can present dangerous situations for pedestrians. Icy sidewalks and parking lots can cause people to slip and fall, often leading to severe injuries. This is exactly what happened to Mainer Marilyn Davis when she slipped and fell in the parking lot of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) where she worked.

Two Florida doctors are working hard to change the way that burn victims are treated. The University of Miami team is currently conducting stem cell clinical trials to develop new techniques to use donor stem cells to restore tissue and reduce long-term scarring from burns.

A collision between a propane truck and an SUV ended with the death of a Livermore woman after the crash caused the truck to flip and crush the SUV with the driver inside. The accident occurred on Route 17 at about 8 am on Monday, January 19. Diane Gould, 45, was trapped in her Subaru SUV beneath the propane truck for over an hour before police managed to free her.

We’ve all heard a story about someone who is injured or becomes sick because they found something in their food that shouldn’t be there. But when it comes to liability, does it matter whether the injury-causing ingredient is a foreign object, or if it’s a natural part of the product? In Estate of Pinkham v. Cargill the Maine Supreme Court provided us with an answer to that very question.

In a potentially groundbreaking development, researchers have identified a heretofore unknown, yet extremely helpful immune response which occurs following an injury to the body’s central nervous system.

A tragic crash in Casco recently illustrates the dangers of frontal collisions. The crash took the life of two and seriously injured one other motorist, as well as a service dog riding in one of the vehicles, according to local media outlets.

In August of 2002, nineteen-month old Daisy Ryder was tragically killed while exiting a parked car when she was struck by an oncoming vehicle. Both her mother and two-and-a-half year old brother witnessed the accident. Following her death, Daisy’s parents (the Ryders) filed suit against the driver of the vehicle.