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About one-in-eight drivers across the country didn’t have car insurance in 2019. In California, the number is even higher. That’s according to a 2021 study from the Insurance Research Council ...
Requirements for reporting accidents to your insurance provider vary. Every state has a different statute of limitations when it comes to how long you have to report a car accident. The standard ...
Personal injury. Car collisions are a major cause of personal injury cases. Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. [ 1] In common law jurisdictions the term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit in which the person bringing the suit (the plaintiff in ...
Lizzie Nealon. February 13, 2024 at 3:52 PM. After a car accident, one of the first orders of business is determining fault. Fault refers to who is deemed responsible for causing the incident. Car ...
In law and insurance, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the result would not have happened ...
In strict liability situations, although the plaintiff does not have to prove fault, the defendant can raise a defense of absence of fault, especially in cases of product liability, where the defense may argue that the defect was the result of the plaintiff's actions and not of the product, that is, no inference of defect should be drawn solely ...
Fault refers to the party who caused a car accident. In some accidents, fault is easier to assign than in others, but will typically be ‘officially’ determined by the police and/or insurance ...
The California Consumers Legal Remedies Act ("CLRA") is the name for California Civil Code §§ 1750 et seq. [1] The CLRA declares unlawful several "methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer". [2]