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If you have been injured in an accident, seeking medical treatment is essential to your recovery and your personal injury claim. A gap in medical treatment can affect your claim and insurance adjusters will use this as a way to devalue your claim. Therefore, it is important to attend all your follow up appointments.

Bicycling can be a great way to get around and enjoy the outdoors. A huge spike in bicycle sales due to the COVID pandemic gave this form of exercise, pastime, and transportation a new life. With more bicycle riders on the road, it is more important than ever to be vigilant when driving around town. Though it is typically a safe activity, a fun bike ride could turn into a severe injury when both bicyclists and drivers do not pay proper attention on the road.

Don’t forget is this weekend is Daylight Savings Time. On Sunday, March 14th at 2 a.m., Californians will shift their clocks forward one hour. That means everyone loses one hour of sleep. Once they wake, however, drivers will have to be aware that the roads are half as safe as they were when they feel asleep on Saturday night.

It has been announced that Personal Injury Attorney, Payam Y. Poursalimi, has been selected to the 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers List. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Whether you are an Uber driver, passenger, driver on the road, or pedestrian, it is important to be aware of the legal and insurance steps involved in a rideshare accident and the steps to take after an accident occurs. Accidents involving Ubers happen almost every hour of every day so it is important to educate yourself on these types of cases.

Motorcycle accidents are far too common and often results in serious injuries. It is wise to understand all of the ways that you can keep yourself and others safe when you are riding a motorcycle. Here are 7 tips to help you ride safely and some tips to help you choose the best attorney for you if you do happen to get involved in a motorcycle accident.

Lane splitting, also commonly referred to as white lining or stripe riding, occurs when a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or the operator of another two-wheeled vehicle drives between lanes of slow-moving cars that are moving in the same direction

Motor vehicle accidents are a major impetus behind traumatic brain injury (TBI) related hospital visits. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most emergency room stays, hospitalizations, and deaths that can be attributed to TBIs for people ages 15 to 44 involve car crashes.

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When California truck accidents occur, it is often the smaller vehicle (and its inhabitants) that suffers the most. That is bad news for passenger vehicles that engage with larger vehicles such as vans, trucks and semis.Government statistics show that large trucks and buses involved in fatal collisions are again on the upward trend across the nation and in California.

TBI involves a chain of events that determines the severity of the damage. The location and level of damage, and the time-lapse between the injury and the treatment are crucial, regardless of whether the patient loses consciousness. A closed head injury, one of three types of TBI, is often overlooked because there is no bleeding.

Lane splitting may seem like a dangerous maneuver, but it's a legal and common driving practice in many different countries across the globe. But is it legal in the U.S.? It might surprise you to learn that as of 2016, California is the only state in the U.S. in which lane splitting is explicitly legal for motorcyclists. However, even today, there is no conclusive data on whether lane splitting is safe or risky.