Safety Rules for Commercial Vehicle Operation Part 2 https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-256-Safety-Rules-for-Commercial-Vehicle-Operation-Part-2.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. As noted in our last podcast we often are faced with having to educate people serving on a jury about the safety rules governing commercial motor vehicles. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regu ..read more

Safety Rules for Commercial Vehicle Operation Part 1 https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-255-Safety-Rules-for-Commercial-Vehicle-Operation-Part-1.mp3 I’m Katelyn Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. Often, we are faced with having to educate people serving on a jury about the safety rules governing commercial motor vehicles. Sometimes we have to even inform judges. Everyone who drives a ..read more

Injured on a Water Slide https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-254-Injured-on-a-Water-Slide.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. Today’s question comes from a caller who said she was hurt at a waterpark. She was using a slide sitting in a tube. Users slide down the waterslide into a pool at the bottom of the slide, where employees catch them and direct them safely into a wadi ..read more

Difference Between Warnings and Instructions https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-253-Difference-Between-Warnings-and-Instructions.mp3 I’m Katelyn Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. We’ve previously discussed warnings and instructions regarding product liability claims. But I don’t know if we explained the difference between product warnings and instructions. A warning is a message inte ..read more

Fire Cause and Origin Determination https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-252-Fire-Cause-and-Origin.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. Whenever there is a fire, it usually becomes vital to determine the cause and origin of that fire. It may be a case to collect fire loss insurance or a claim to recover for an injury caused by carelessness. But in either case, the cause and ..read more

Injury Causation in Auto Collision Cases https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-251-Injury-Causation-in-Auto-Collision-Cases.mp3 I’m Katelyn Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. One of the most significant areas of dispute in auto crash cases involves whether the crash caused a specific injury. Sometimes this is an easy question to answer, and other times it’s not. When there is a broken bo ..read more

Tires Fly Off Truck Causing a Crash https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-250-Tires-Fly-Off-a-Truck-Causing-a-Crash.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. Today’s question comes from a caller who said he was driving along the highway when two tires broke off a semi-tractor trailer truck ahead of him on the road. He said the pieces of tires flew off, smashing his windshield and ..read more

New Trial Ordered Due to Attorney Misconduct https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-247-New-Trial-Ordered-Due-to-Attorney-Misconduct.mp3 I’m Katelyn Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. In an earlier podcast, we discussed how an attorney and his client were penalized for destroying social media information. The penalty issued by the court cut a jury award in half. Misconduct by counsel can ..read more

Penalized for Deleting Social Media Account https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-246-Penalty-for-Deleting-Social-Media-Account.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. If you are a follower of this podcast, the odds are you also use social media. Many people are addicted to surfing social media and posting to social media. If you are not addicted to this podcast; why not? There ..read more

Injured on a Water Slide https://personalinjuryprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast-254-Injured-on-a-Water-Slide.mp3 I’m David Holub, an attorney focusing on personal injury law in northwest Indiana. Welcome to Personal Injury Primer, where we break down the law into simple terms, provide legal tips, and discuss personal injury law topics. Today’s question comes from a caller who said she was hurt at a waterpark. She was using a slide sitting in a tube. Users slide down the waterslide into a pool at the bottom of the slide, where employees catch them and direct them safely into a wadi ..read more