One quarter of workers will experience a disability before reaching retirement age, disrupting their ability to work and provide for their families. For those who suffer from injury or illness and cannot work, disability insurance can provide an important source ...

Getting injured can turn your life upside down and, depending on the severity of the injury, it can be a struggle to get back to normal. Protecting your legal rights is not usually the first thing you think of in ...

_____ Your Medical Records. If you are suing someone because of an illness, disease, or required hospitalization, your medical records will speak louder than words in many cases. For example, if you claim that the nursing staff improperly cared for you ...

Negligence Most medical malpractice cases proceed under the theory that a medical professional was negligent in treating the patient. To establish medical negligence, an injured patient, the plaintiff, must prove: The existence of a duty owed by the health care ...

A birth injury or medical malpractice claim is not limited to the conduct of medical doctors, but applies also to nurses, anesthesiologists, health care facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and others that provide health care services. Hospitals Hospitals are corporations that are either public ...

Even though the majority of health care providers aim to exercise the highest standard of care for all of their patients, there are times when things go wrong. If you or someone close to you has had a bad medical ...

Statutory rape refers to sexual relations involving someone below the "age of consent." People who are underage cannot legally consent to having sex, so any form of sexual activity with them violates the law. This is true even in situations ...

The crime of solicitation is requesting, encouraging or demanding someone to engage in criminal conduct, with the intent to facilitate or contribute to the commission of that crime. Commonly, solicitation often is linked to prostitution with the crime being the request of ...

Sexual assaults affect millions of Americans annually. The term encompasses various actions that involve behavior or contact toward another person without their consent. The actions are defined by state law and can therefore differ by jurisdiction. However, some common examples of ...

Consent can be expressed in several ways, and states often have different statutes (laws) defining what they consider to be legally valid consent and, conversely, what constitutes a non-consensual act. For example, Texas law lists many ways that an act ...