Personal Injury Blog

Motorcycle crashes rarely come down to a simple story. After a wreck on Highway 90, Grand Caillou Road, or anywhere across Terrebonne and Lafourche, the other driver’s insurance company usually has one goal: pin as much blame on the rider as possible. In Louisiana, how fault gets assigned is often what decides whether an injured...

If you were hurt on someone else’s property in Louisiana — a fall in a store, an injury in a poorly lit parking lot, a stairway with no handrail — you may be wondering whether the property owner is legally responsible. The answer depends on Louisiana’s premises liability law, which sets specific rules for when...

A wreck with an 18-wheeler is not just a bigger version of a car accident. A loaded tractor-trailer can weigh 20 to 30 times what your vehicle does, the injuries tend to be more serious, and the people on the other side — the trucking company and its insurer — usually start building their defense...

Losing a family member because of someone else’s carelessness is one of the hardest things a Louisiana family can go through — and in the middle of the grief, most people have no idea what their legal rights are or how little time they may have to act. This guide explains, in plain language, who...

If you work offshore, on a vessel, or around the water anywhere along the Louisiana coast, the law that protects you after an injury is probably not the workers’ compensation system your friends on land rely on. It’s a federal law called the Jones Act — and it gives injured maritime workers rights that are,...

If you were hurt working offshore or on a vessel out of Houma, you may have heard the phrase “maintenance and cure” from a co-worker, a claims adjuster, or the company. It sounds like insurance jargon, but it is one of the oldest and most important protections an injured maritime worker has. In plain English,...

Injured offshore in Louisiana? Whether the Jones Act, the Longshore Act, or state workers comp covers you decides what you can recover. A plain-English Houma guide.