Tips for Making Your Kansas Home Safe for Baby
Babies spend a lot of time in their cribs. The crib should have a label showing that its construction is safe and approved. Check that the slats are no more than 2 3/8 inches apart and that there is a tight fit where the mattress and the crib wall meet. Be sure the mechanism operating […]
Kansas Cerebral Palsy Victims Need Someone to Represent Them
Cerebral palsy is a permanent and irreversibly crippling condition that affects the central nervous system. Most victims develop the disability before birth or shortly after. While cerebral palsy can occur under the best medical care, many cases are caused by negligence at the time of birth or during the newborn period before the child leaves […]
Asbestos Can Cause Serious Health Problems in Kansas Victims
For over 100 years, asbestos had been used in building products, shipyards, and factories. It has been an airborne presence affecting millions of workers. Even those who do not work in an area where asbestos fibers are found can be affected by fibers brought home on clothing by other family members. With a latency period […]
In Kansas Serious Threats or Bodily Harm can Result in the Recovery of Money Damages.
Included within the scope of personal injury law is that of “assault”, an intentional threat which places fear of imminent physical harm in an individual. No actual touching needs to occur for an assault to take place: The threat alone is sufficient to be covered by Kansas personal injury laws. If the threat actually becomes […]
You Can be Hurt by Emotional Distress: Kansas Law Can Help
When one person purposefully engages in behavior that is intended to and does cause severe mental anguish in another, he or she is subject to the laws regarding the intentional infliction of emotional distress. There are several factors which determine the extent to which a wrong doer may be liable in such a claim. First, […]
A Serious Offense: Intentional Harm to People or Property
One type of personal injury involves the intentional harm to another person or their property property. The person responsible for such an act has committed an intentional tort and is liable for any damages caused by the act. In general, intentional torts are divided into two categories: Intentional torts against people (such as assault) and […]
Pesticides and Your Health: When Kansas Residents Get Sick
Pesticides are commonly used throughout the United States. Unfortunately, the very chemicals that prevent harmful pests from causing damage to our property have been proven detrimental to animal and human health by numerous and continuing scientific studies. Some of the more common and minor side effects in humans of pesticide usage are eye and skin […]
Children Must Be Protected from Pesticide Exposure in Kansas
Just like adults, children are exposed to commonly-used pesticides every day in their homes and schools. There are several factors, however, that lead to an increased risk of harmful exposure in children compared to adults. Since a child’s body is still growing, they may be susceptible to pesticides which prevent the absorption of nutrients needed […]
Kansas Pesticides Overview: Warning, Hazardous to Your Health
A pesticide is an agent used to repel any microorganism, plant, insect, or animal that is harmful in some way to humans. These chemical combinations are not only common in environmental applications, such as to control weeds and destructive insects in our yards and crop fields, but are also widely used in households. Some examples […]
When Addiction Overcomes Common Sense in Kansas Smokers
It is now generally accepted that tobacco-smoking is directly responsible for more than 80% of lung cancer cases, as well as being a major contributor to emphysema, chronic bronchitis, coronary heart disease and stroke, as well as respiratory tract infections in children exposed to second-hand smoke. Mothers who smoke have a higher incidence of poor […]
Temporarily Taking Someone Else’s Property in Kansas Can Get You in Hot Water
“Chattel” refers to items of personal property. A person commits trespass to chattel if he or she intentionally possesses someone else’s property without their consent, even if only for a brief period of time. Courts require that some sort of actual harm results from the trespass to chattel in order for it to be actionable. […]
Kansas Trespassers Can Be Sued: Trespass to Land Law
The law against trespass protects the interest in the exclusive possession of land. This is different from the law against “nuisance” which protects one’s interest in the free and unhindered use and enjoyment of land. A person is subject to liability for trespass, irrespective of whether he causes harm, if he intentionally: Enters the land […]
Better Safe Than Sorry: Fire Prevention in Your Kansas Home
Fire is the most devastating thing that can happen to your home. You can minimize the risk of fire by using the following tips. Use the information to build a plan of escape to keep you and your loved ones safe if a fire does occur. Fire Prevention Tips Prevention Around the House Check your […]
When What You Use Hurts You: Kansas Product Liability Law Explained
Product liability deals with cases involving defective or unsafe products. Manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of products can be held liable for damages arising from the use of defective products. Products covered by this area of law, include food, drugs, and real estate, as well as virtually all consumer products. The user who is injured and […]
Hazardous Products Explained: Product Liability and Kansas Law
Product liability deals with cases involving defective or unsafe products. Manufacturers of products can be held liable for damages arising from the use of defective products. Products covered by this area of law, include food and drugs, as well as virtually all consumer products. The person who is injured and seeks damages does not need […]
Learn More About Your Kansas Spinal Cord Injury
Over 10,000 people in the US suffer a spinal cord injury. Every year spinal cord injury, also called SCI, is defined as any damage to the spinal cord that results in loss of function or mobility. Such injuries can be caused by trauma or disease and can result in temporary or permanent loss of sensation, […]
Your Kansas Accident Could Have Been Caused by Negligence
Under Kansas law negligence is the failure to use ordinary care to avoid a foreseeable harm to person or property. To prove negligence, several criteria must be met: First, you must show that there was a duty owed from one person to another. The nature of that duty may change depending on the relationship of […]
Personal Injury Damages and Your Kansas Accident
When a person is injured by another, the law provides a means of seeking compensation, known as damages, for those injuries and the detrimental effects they have caused in the victim’s life. In a case of personal injury, a judge or jury may find the defendant liable for several types of damages for varying amounts […]
Yet Another Cause for Parkinson’s: Welding Rod and Kansas Law
A recent study from scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, has discovered data that relates Parkinson’s disease to exposure to fumes from welding rods. Scientific studies have related Parkinson’s disease to welding in the past through exposure to manganese in the welding rods and materials have sometimes referred to […]
What You Should Know About Kansas Slip and Fall Cases
Who wants to read Kansas premises liability law? Instead read this article for a summary by a Kansas injury lawyer.
