How to Value Personal Injury Case
Inexperienced lawyers and recent Law School graduates have no training in attaching a value to a personal injury claim. Frequently demands are pulled out of thin air with no thought process or logic. There are many ingredients which go into the recipe for making an appropriate demand on an insurance company and getting an appropriate […]
5 Things To Do If Involved in a Motor Vehicle Accident
1) Secure your safety– Don’t compound a bad situation by making it worse. If you had a motor vehicle accident in your car or from a rideshare platform like Uber or Lyft, pull the vehicles to a shoulder or out of the way of harm if at all possible. Do not get out of a […]
Dangerous Winter Conditions That Can Lead to Serious Injuries
Winter, at least for now, seems to finally be upon us in New Jersey! Along with snow and ice brings the potential for dangerous conditions that can lead to serious injuries if not properly addressed. In the last six months, we have resolved multiple slip and fall cases (on ice) that include settlements for $450,000.00, […]
Legal Actions for Dog Bites
The law with respect to Dog bites is an exception to normal “negligence law.” To prove a negligence case it is necessary to show that a defendant breached a “standard of care” or “duty”- that is, a defendant failed to stop for a red light or failed to maintain property which caused an injury etc. […]
Litigating Traumatic Brain Injuries
Brain injuries can develop from a bump, blow or jolt to the head. There need not be a direct impact to the head for a brain injury to occur. A hit to the body (such as that involving a car accident) can cause the head and brain to move quickly back and forth. This is […]
Give Thanks and Volunteer Like Mitch & Kyle
All of us at The Law Office of Mitchell H. Portnoi, P.C. would like to wish our clients, friends, and colleagues a very happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving holiday! We cannot express our gratitude enough to all of the loyal clients we had the privilege to represent this past year, and to all of the […]