AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT LAWYERS

Click here to learn more:

Best information and tips about injury claim car accident, automobile accident lawyers and personal injuries claim

This is going to be long, but it’s a somewhat desperate cry for help, and I really have no idea where else to go with it.

I am a 24-year-old college student on my third major; I decided to switch from something I knew how to do, to pursue a lucrative job I’d probably hate (computers), to something I like and will continue to love to do, though it’s not as lucrative (teaching literature). Last year, I moved on from a community college to a University, and I’m now broke.

Last year, I moved back in with my mother; my parents have been divorced for 6 years. My father quit his medical practice in my hometown, moved across the country, quit his job there, and is now filing for bankruptcy and does not pay my mother alimony. My mother lost her job a couple of weeks ago working for a land company, and cannot file for unemployment. She has a master’s degree in business, but her degree is "old", and at 52, she is having difficulty competing with younger people. She does not have a lot of money, since in the divorce, my father took most of our "stuff", and she was left with our property – which isn’t selling.

Just after the divorce, I sold most of my stuff – movies, books, DVDs, video games, computer equipment, even furniture – to save money for college expenses. For a couple of years, it was just fine – I had just enough spending money and a steady enough job that paid enough and had enough hours that I could focus on my classes and not have much to worry about while I lived at home and helped pay for groceries and such.

Well, that all changed pretty quickly.

Last summer, my car broke down – the transmission blew while pulling out of a parking lot. I had to wind up buying a new car. There goes a lot of money, right there.

After that, a theater group I’m in went to Salem, Massachusetts to do some research on the Salem Witch Trials for the play, The Crucible. I wound up having to take my car, because I was the only other person with a reliable automobile for the long trip besides the one car we had already planned to be taking. Which meant that I needed to buy new tires. Some people pitched in for gas, and everyone paid for their hotel room, but as the trip went on, I wound up covering a lot of expenses. I spent 00 in a single weekend buying tires, gas, food, drinks, tours, books, and props for the play. I was paid for about worth of props and a fair amount of the gas from everyone. Not a single person paid me back for the food and drinks I wound up buying, or the tour tickets I bought them. Some people bought me dinner at later dates and such, but I didn’t get paid back. I’m a college student, I can’t afford to throw that kind of money down on a weekend excursion. But, I did. I have since not trusted anyone to borrow money from me.

Later that summer, I was in a car accident with my (now-ex) girlfriend. I spent a week in the hospital and suffered a closed head injury that has affected and continues to affect my memory and attention, to the point where I basically read at a snail’s pace. Doesn’t bode well for classes, especially for classes in my particular field of study (English/Education/Literature).
Worst part is, my insurance didn’t initially pay for anything at all. I was airlifted from the accident – cost 0. My anesthesia still hasn’t been paid for, don’t remember how much that was. One of my surgeries wasn’t even initially covered – I wound up ponying up for a lawyer, with my mother’s help, which helped us to get them to pay for most of it, finally – then we had to pay the lawyer, of course. It’s still ongoing. Anesthesia still isn’t paid for. We still can’t afford it ourselves, either.

After the accident, I had a hard time going back to real life. I couldn’t move to where I had planned because I couldn’t take a full load of classes that semester, move, and find a new job without being completely overwhelmed, so I stayed at home and took 2 classes and went back to work as I had been.

As far as work goes, my workplace was told by one of my doctors to only have me work 8 hours per week, because of my mental condition (I still tend to get pretty overwhelmed by things) – at 8.50 an hour, that’s not a lot of money. I received a month of lost wages, and am supposedly to be paid 80% of the difference between my 8-hour weeks and what I would otherwise be working since that month, but I haven’t seen a dime.
I’m also buying audiobooks and cliff’s notes to help with my reading and retention, which my insurance company is supposed to help pay for. They haven’t done that, either.

I used to work as an English tutor for local high school students; I still get calls about it every so often, and I still try to do a little bit of work. It pays pretty well (/hour sometimes) for the short periods of time I get to do it, but it takes a lot out of me. I buy copies of all the required readings at the local high schools and keep up on those books, on top of the own that I have for my classes.

1. I am going to court for Automobile Insurance fraud, court is stating that an accident i had in 2003 never happened and i supposedly set it up as a " paper accident " with a friend who served 8months in prison for pleading guilty to 6 staged accidents that he helped set up.
2. Well all my court appointed lawyers in superior court have withdrawn from representing me, because all of them been having a " Conflict of interest" in my case.

Question
A. This is a joint trial with others , chiropractors, and laywer. Does this mean that my new lawyer is going to need months to read all of my case, they are six boxes.
B. I have been going to court since March 2008, when i was 28years old, now i am 30 and the court appointed lawyer i had just withdrew 3 times.

What are my options right now? i have no idea on what i should do, i have no money to get a private attorney. My last lawyer told me, that i have another year until i go to trial. I feel like working extra hard and hiring a private lawyer. I took out a 5k loan, but i need more because my case a lawyer wants to charge 15k
1. Both lawyers i had in the court, had to withdraw. because 1. lawyer that was given to me, knew the indicted lawyer.
2. The second court appointed lawyer , the judge asked him to withdraw because he had interviewed a witness, that will testify. not against me, but who know’s.. so the court asked him in the past to interview him, so he is my lawyer now and there is a conflict of interest.

Is this a cover-up?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html

For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual.

Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.

I have to write a 350 word paragraph about the term ‘litigation’ explaining and illustrating what the term means.
Below, is what I’ve got so far. Could anyone help me on this. I need to give theoratical support (sources) as well.

A controversy before a court or a "lawsuit" is commonly referred to as “litigation”.
Litigation is the legal system’s mechanism for resolving disputes between private parties. (Law 101, Everything you need to know about the American Legal System, pg. 24)
It begins with a dispute between people, companies, or institutions. Any kind of dispute can get the process going: an automobile accident or a broken contract for example.
If the people who are involved cannot solve the problem themselves, they can hire lawyers to negotiate, threaten, or otherwise try to resolve the dispute. If that doesn’t work either, then it’s off to court.

82. A researcher gave identical puzzles to five-year-old children in two groups, group A and group B. The children in group A were promised candy if they completed the puzzles quickly and well. The children in group B were not promised a reward but were encouraged to do the best that they would. If the researcher argues that overjustification occurred, which of the following most likely happened during the experiment?
a. Group A worked harder and better than group B.
b. Both groups worked equally hard and well.
c. Group B felt angry at not receiving the promise of a reward and therefore did not work at all.
d. Group A did not work as hard or as well as group B and would be less likely to spontaneously work on similar puzzles in the future.
e. Group B worked equally well as group A but would quickly argue that they would have doen better if offered a reward.

I think it’s A?

87. The semicircular canals, located in the inner ear, provide important information about the
a. apparent distance of sound
b. air pressure of the surrounding area
c. body’s posture and head position
d. frequency of sound waves
e. amplitude of sound waves

I think it’s C?

89. Which of the following is the best example of social inhibition?
a. A child refuses to imitate the modeled behavior of an adult
b. An intelligent, charming person acts aloof and sullen at a party
c. A person who is very good at “ring toss” carnival games performs even better as a crowd gathers
d. A person declines to contribute to a church group even though a gift is offered in return
e A person who is a poor bowler begins to bowl even worse than usual when several friends are watching

I think it’s A?

90. The news of a plane crash causes a couple to cancel their plane reservation and drive 1000 miles in their car instead, even though they know that fatal automobile accidents are much more common than airplane accidents. The couple’s decision mainly involves
a. the overconfidence effect
b. confirmation bias
c. belief bias
d. the availability heuristic
e. the representativeness heuristic

I think it’s c?

92. The quotation below is consistent with the views of which of the following schools of psychology?

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and theif…”

a.Existentialism
b.Structuralism
c.Humanism
d.Gestalt
e.Behaviorism

I think it’s E?

94. Which of the following best describes the representativeness heuristic?
a. An estimate of the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches a typical example
b. An estimate of the likelihood of an event based on how easily it can be recalled
c. Biased decision making based on the way a question is framed
d. The tendency to believe something after it has been discredited
e. The tendency to use an initial value as a reference point in making new estimates

I think it’s E?

98. A researcher studying the effect of noise level on concentration randomly assigns student participants to either a noisy room or a quiet room to take a problem-solving test. The researcher subsequently compares the two groups’ test scores using a t-test and concludes p=0.5.
The researcher’s conclusion that p=0.5 most likely indicates
a.That the difference in the two groups’ scores is likely due to chance
b.That a loss of concentration is common among students
c.The presence of a confounding variable
d.That the difference between the two groups is statistically significant
e.That noise has no effect on concentration

I think it’s D?

100. Computer-generated color images of the brain that provide information about glucose metabolism are produced by which of the following techniques?
a. EEG
b. EMB
c. MRI
d. PET
e. CAT

I have no idea? LOL
Falmaata: Are you blind or illiterate? It says "VERIFY" my answers so I DID do the homework and want confirmation.

Here is the problem: I was in an automobile accident almost 2 years ago(2008). It was clearly my fault and yes I was insured(with 1000000 3rd party liability) and my insurance company dealt with it. Today, a process server notified me of a statement of claim of injury from 3rd party. It’s been almost 2 years before the statue of limitations expires and I’ve switch insurance companies since the accident. What happens next?? Will they still represent me even if I am with another insurance company? What if they resfuse? Will I have to go to court? Do I need to talk to lawyers? I HAVE NO MONEY. HELP!!

any lawyers who wouldn mind me emailing them to ask about an automobile accident and the insurance company not cooraperating with, me and let me ask a few questions let me know

On june 23, 2008 me and my mother were in an automobile accident. An edlerly woman ran a stop sign and hit us in the front driver’s side of our car. She hit us hard enough the her car swung around and hit us in the back end also. On my side of the car we got pushed into a cadillac escalade, so we got smushed between the two cars for a second because she kept driving and never hit the brakes. She got about 100yrds away until her car died. The airbags deployed and our car was totaled. Together we suffered whiplash and chest contusions. I hit the dash with my knees and had bilateral knee strain. I got sent to physical therapy for three months and that was the rest of my summer. I had to stop because of school. My mom on the other hand had physical therapy for a month but they refused to do anymore treatment because her shoulder which they did an MRI on.

Our lawyer contacted us and told us that the insurance co. needed an independent medical exam on my spine. The orthopedic surgeon concluded the I was in the 20% of people that will never recover from whiplash and I will live with it for the rest of my life. My chiroprator released me from treatment to expedite our insurance claim. My mom is still receiving treatment.
Now the question is…
What is the estimate amount that we will get out of the settlement?
Will it be possible for me to get an openended settlement since I will need treatment for the rest of my life as needed?
We barely hear from him…
That would make since… what do you think the minimum would be though?

This is rather lengthy, and I certainly understand if you don’t want to read so much.

I’m 35, white male, never been married, no girlfriend, no kids. I have no debt, and graduated in college with a B.A. and gained a license to teach Spanish 7-12. I graduated at the very top of my college class, although going to college in my 30s was extremely psychologically stressful for me.

When I was a young person, I had a phobia about talking with girls my own age (and still do most of the time), due to something that happened to me when I was nine years old. So, basically, I could not have any relationships with girls, and had few friends, if any, in school. As a high school and junior high school student, I was lonely and severely depressed much of the time, and I remember feeling empty most of the time throughout my high school years.

I went to work for my father’s small business, and at 18 years old, I was accused of causing an automobile accident while on the job. I was sued for half a million dollars, and the lawsuit lasted seven years. During that time, I became severely depressed, fearing the worst – that I’d lose everything that I owned (even though we had insurance), and that my father would lose his business because of me being sued (we were both named as defendants). I continued working for my dad in his business, even though I hated it more than anything, because I felt obligated to stick with him and not to leave him while this damn lawsuit was ongoing. Seven years of hell went by in my life, and there were days and weeks in which I simply did not want to live anymore. The lawsuit finally went to trial, and a jury determined that I was not at fault, and we didn’t have to pay anything because I honestly was not at fault; however, that did nothing to remedy the seven years of hell that I was put through. When the jury read the verdict, I sobbed uncontrollably, and felt like I was about to lose my mind, because such an incredible weight had been lifted from my mind. The jury looked at me as if I had lost my mind, and my lawyer did not understand why I was crying with incredible feelings depression when the foreman read the verdict in my favor. Only my mother understood how I felt, and she doesn’t like talking about it, because it reminds her of how extremely depressed I was during that period of my life.

Afterwards, I went onto college. I decided to become a teacher, because I wanted to do something rewarding and help young people. However, now that it has been a year and a half since I graduated from college, I still cannot buy a job. I fill out resumes, get to the interviews, and a different person is always chosen after the interview process every time. I don’t know what it is that people hate about me. Maybe I just don’t look like a typical teacher.

Nevertheless, I feel like I am at a point right now where I am almost unable to do anything, sinking in quicksand with the pressures of parents and family to get a job, and still living with my parents. I feel like I have failed in life in nearly every way, and wish I knew what is wrong with me. I feel stupid, disliked by most, and like I can’t do anything right, expect for getting excellent grades in college.

Yet, I feel like it is hard for me to form social relationships with people, and there are some days when it is very difficult, psychologically speaking, to do things that require social interaction. Some days, I am open to about anything, and then all of the sudden, the walls are erected, and I retreat to my psychological cave of isolation, to so speak. I am "frozen," and cannot do much of anything of meaning until I come out of that state, which can be a few hours, or a few days, or sometimes on occasion longer.

If you are or have felt this way for a significant length of time, please share your story, and what steps you took to remedy it.

Thanks.