Products are required to be safe. When they are not, you can expect the manufacturer to pay for your injuries. Of course, they probably won't do that without a fight. Here are 3 things that can make a product defective. Bad Design – the way that the product was...
Allen Ritchie
When Tragedy Destroys Your World
After a serious accident, you can never go back to before. For my legal clients, some will never celebrate a Christmas the same way or drive past a specific intersection without feeling sadness, fear, and perhaps regret – all because of a horrifying accident....
Ask Your Legal Questions Live!
Join us live on Sunday, January 17, 2021. Football season is over (Roll, Tide), and it is time to return to our 30-minute legal call-in format for NBC 15 LawCall, here in Mobile, AL. As it has been for roughly a decade, the show is on at 10:30 Sunday nights,...
Signs of nursing home abuse
When you make the difficult decision to admit a loved to a nursing home, you do so with the assumption that he or she will receive excellent care from a dedicated staff of health care workers. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Family members of nursing home...
Should I Handle My Own Injury Case?
One of the questions I get most often is, “Can I just handle my case myself?” Well, you can. But you shouldn’t. Now, it is true that I have been known to tell potential clients that the offer an insurance company has presented them is fair. In that case, they...
Nursing home neglect soars amid Covid-19 pandemic
The Coronavirus outbreak was the all-consuming story of 2020, and nursing home residents were often at the center of it. Those Americans who were most susceptible to the disease were getting sick and dying at unprecedented rates. Before a vaccine was available, there...
Mistakes you need to avoid if you get into a car accident
Depending on the severity of the crash, getting into motor vehicle accidents can be life-changing for Alabama residents. You may be dealing with injuries that could affect you financially after the accident or the financial repercussions that car accidents can cause....
Avoid That AL Trooper Ticket
Because of less traffic but the same number of troopers on the road this Christmas and New Year’s, my prediction is you will see more tickets being given for what are considered minor infractions. So, to keep you safe and ticket free, here are some reminders of...
Is it Legal? Christmas Lights on Cars
I like Christmas lights. But what do you think of the car pictured above? The Royal Canadian Mounties tweeted this photo after pulling over the car and issuing the driver a warning. The tweet included, “Please don't do this, it can be dangerous if they [the...
Flaky skin: Cancer or something else?
According to the CDC, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer that Americans in Alabama and across the country will see. It is this fact that sometimes makes people mistake their flaky skin for cancer. Fortunately, a cancer diagnosis is not always the case. How...