Personal Injury Law Blog

Maine’s roadways this time of year are perilous for all drivers, who must remain alert and ready to react quickly when icy conditions prevail. Those who have been unfortunate enough to be involved in a collision are encouraged to speak with a Maine tractor trailer accident lawyer about their legal rights and liability issues.

Results of two recent studies imply that progesterone does not help patients recover from a traumatic brain injury ─ although prior findings concluded the hormone was an effective treatment method. The findings from the studies are published in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Hardy, Wolf & Downing advocate on behalf of motorcycle accident victims in the Lewiston, Portland and Central and Southern Maine regions, making sure bikers and their families secure the compensation they deserve in the wake of an injury caused by negligent drivers.

Historically, when someone died minimal remedies were available to the loved ones left behind. Thankfully Maine, like many other states, changed this rule by enacting Death and Survival Statutes. In Maine, we have both a Wrongful Death and a Survival statute, and although both are triggered by death, Wrongful Death claims and Survival claims are largely distinct from one another.

We all know that accidents can cause injuries. While in some cases accidents create new injuries, other times an accident may cause an existing injury to get worse. So what happens when a person has been previously injured and then that injury is subsequently aggravated by a negligent defendant?  In the case of Lovely v.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. What should be a time to celebrate family and togetherness is for too many families a time to dread and to endure the tragic anniversary of the death of a loved one due to drunk driving. Sadly, the death toll will rise again this year as more Mainers become victims of drunk driving accidents.

The product liability attorneys at Hardy, Wolf & Downing would like to alert Maine families to a recall announced by Keurig Green Mountain. The company has recalled its Keurig MINI Plus Brewing Systems, a single-serve hot beverage brewer that has found a place in millions of American homes. The recall affects about 6.6 million brewing systems sold in the U.S.

Can frat houses be sued for crimes committed on their property? A Maine court debates this very question, as attorneys duke it out over a 2010 incident that occurred at the Delta Tau Delta’s Gamma Nu Chapter fraternity house at 111 East College Avenue in Orono. The victim’s lawyer argued that his client should be allowed to sue, given that the incident appears to have been premeditated.

In Maine, landowners can often be held liable when someone is injured on their property. But what happens when a third party causes your injury on someone else’s property? In the premises liability case of Colvin v. A R Cable Company the Maine Supreme Court provided an answer to that very question.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently upheld a jury award obtained by a Maine lawyer on behalf of a bicycle accident victim. A jury had awarded Monica Semian $750,000 for her losses stemming from a 2010 bicycle accident. The then-20-year-old Romanian exchange student was riding her bicycle when she was struck by a school bus owned by Ledgemere Transportation.