Johnson Law Firm Injury Blog

Athletics can teach kids great lessons about good sportsmanship, discipline, and teamwork. Physically and socially beneficial, participation in sports while you’re young can make memories that last a lifetime. It can also leave children with injuries, both temporary and permanent. Consider these statistics: More than 3.5 million children under the age of 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year. ...

Sometimes confused with the delicious cake called a “torte,” a “tort” is a broad legal term for a wrongful act that causes injury. Negligence is one of the main types of torts and includes areas such as traffic accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and slips or falls. A key part of any tort action revolves around fault, and the method for assigning responsibility varies from state to state under four basi...

Halloween is right around the corner. Here at The Johnson Law Firm in Pikeville, KY, we are devoted to keeping our Kentucky families safe not only on Halloween, but every day of the year. Halloween brings lots of exciting opportunities: choosing, making, or buying costumes planning Halloween parties going to haunted houses decorating the house frightfully anticipating bags full of delectable candy. But in the...

Would you believe that a survey of 665 motorists found that 5.6 percent of both genders admitted to changing their clothes while behind the wheel, and 5.5 percent of men and 2.1 percent of women admitted to shaving while driving? Such behavior certainly falls under the label of distracted driving, which contributes to 16 percent of all fatal crashes every year. In fact, it has been estimated that drivers spend more than 50...

It is common practice these days for arbitration clauses to be tucked into the dense language of business contracts. Many people don’t even know what they’ve agreed to unless a quarrel arises -- then they find out the hard way that they signed away their right to litigate disputes. Arbitration is popular with businesses because it tends to favor them while also operating to deny individuals their day in court. For e...