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What to Do If You Get Hurt After Tripping On a Public Sidewalk

Our nation’s crumbling infrastructure is routinely a topic of debate among politicians, including those in local governments, state representatives, and Senators that work closely with the federal government. While most of the attention seems to be directed towards the conditions of highways and freeways, many pedestrians encounter dangers caused by cracked, uneven, or raised portions of the sidewalks in their neighborhoods.

In the blink of an eye, someone just walking down the street can trip, fall, and suffer a serious injury.

Injuries often reported in sidewalk trip and fall accidents include:

The elderly and young children are especially susceptible to serious injury from a sudden fall. For this reason and so many more, it is crucial that the sidewalks of our communities are well-maintained throughout the year.

Who is Accountable for Sidewalk Trip & Fall Injuries?

The sidewalk is a public walkway. Even when a person stumbles directly in front of a retail location or home, it is incredibly difficult to assign liability to that store or household. The question is raised, “Who is actually liable for sidewalk trip and fall injuries?”

In many cases, the city, county, or municipality directly in charge of maintaining sidewalks and streets can be held accountable in a sidewalk trip and fall accident. Locals depend on these groups to provide a safe living environment. Failing to uphold that intrinsic duty can shift liability to governmental councils.

However, trouble often arises when someone tries to sue a city for not fixing a dangerous sidewalk. After all, the lawsuit is going to target people in power and those with potential connections to the court system. KP Law specializes in representing clients who have suffered serious trip and fall injuries caused by damaged sidewalks. If you’ve been injured as a result of a sidewalk trip and fall, do not suffer in silence – learn about how you may be entitled under the law to file a claim for damages and obtain compensation for your medical bills as well as your pain and suffering.

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Is Your Employer Violating Your Employee Rights Due to Your Illness or Disability?

When someone becomes seriously injured or suffers a debilitating illness, it can impact all facets of their day-to-day life, including or especially their careers. Employers are not supposed to view a disabled employee or applicant differently due to that condition alone, but this ends up being the case more often than not. Even when the employee’s disability does not affect their job at all – such as a leg injury suffered by someone who works at a computer all day – an employer could subtly or obviously begin to treat them negatively or with disruptive “special” attention.

What is Disability Discrimination?

Disability discrimination occurs when an employee or applicant for a job is treated unfavorably or unfairly by an employer because of his or her disability or medical condition, or because he or she has a history of a disability or medical condition. Some employers have good intentions in mind when treating an employee differently, as in they do not want to overwork or stress out the injured employee. However, this is still considered disability discrimination unless the employee specifically asked for the reduced workload or special treatment.

Many other employers in California and elsewhere intentionally discriminate against employees with an illness or disability, though. This is clearly an issue that violates the employee’s rights, but a dishonest employer may try to find ways to circumvent the system and get away with it.

Some negative actions employers use against disabled employees include:

  • Terminating their employment
  • Demoting injured workers
  • Refusing to accommodate their disability
  • Forcing unpaid leave-of-absence when unneeded
  • Cutting pay
  • Reducing benefits

Laws Meant to Stop Disability Discrimination

Disability discrimination is illegal under both California and federal law. In addition to outright saying that disability discrimination, intentional or inadvertent, is illegal, the law also requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities. This is perhaps the most important statute within these sets of protective laws, as it disallows an employer from simply firing an injured employee and gives a disabled employee a chance to continue pursuing a gainful career. For many people who are injured, going to work and helping out their coworkers is actually remedial.

Reasonable accommodations an employer may need to make for a disabled employee could include:

  • Making a wheelchair accessible office space
  • Assigning new tasks that do not worsen the employee’s injury
  • Providing training for a new job position when necessary
  • Allowing extra breaks throughout the day for rest

If you think you have been the victim of disability discrimination in California, it is important to remember your own rights and to take legal action in order to protect them. Workplace discrimination due to a disability can take on many forms, and so it can be difficult to figure out whether or not you have been impacted by discrimination due to your disability or medical condition. To get to the bottom of the issue, consult with our experienced Pasadena personal injury attorneys at KP Law, who are known for dedicating themselves to the fights of employees targeted by their employers’ unfair and discriminatory actions. We proudly put ourselves at front lines for our clients, never backing down from a case, no matter the size of the opposition.

Contact our team and ask for your free case consultation today.

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Have you suffered a burn injury as a result of a defective aluminum pan?

Most consumers have purchased disposable aluminum pans sold in grocery stores and supermarkets. These disposable aluminum pans can range in size, design, and price, and are commonly advertised as a convenient means of baking and roasting, including turkeys, chickens, and pot roast. But unfortunately, the convenience and low price may come at the cost of a severe burn injury. Consumers should be aware that disposable aluminum pans can be defectively designed and/or manufactured and may not be sturdy enough to support the weight of the food items placed in the pans. As a result, they pose a serious hazard of burns during use. Consumers should be especially careful when removing such pans from the oven, as they may collapse due to their inability to properly support the weight of the food, causing the juices accumulated in the pan to spill onto the consumer. This can cause severe first, second and third-degree burns.KP Law has extensive experience fighting for clients who have suffered burn injuries as a result of disposable aluminum pans. We believe it is our job to hold companies accountable for cutting corners in the design and manufacture of such pans and causing burn injuries to consumers by putting profits before people. KP Law wishes to alert the public regarding the dangers posed by disposable aluminum pans, and to let every consumer know that, if you have suffered a burn injury when using such a pan, we stand ready to fight for you!

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Have You Been Injured from Ninja Blenders? If So, We Can Help.

Ninja Blender Recall

We currently represent a consumer who was severely injured from one of these defective Ninja blenders and can help you if you have been injured.

Both the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) and Health Canada have issued a recall involving 12 models of Ninja professional blenders with model numbers that start with BL 660, BL 663, or BL 665. The model number is in the rating label that is molded into the bottom of the motor base.

Which Ninja Blender Models Are Affected?

The 12 affected model numbers are:

BL 660’s: BL660, BL660B, BL660C, BL660QCN, BL660QPL, BL660W, BL660WM
BL 663’s: BL663, BL663CO
BL 665’s: BL665QBK, BL665QCN, and BL665QWH

Recalled Ninja Blender Features

All of these models have:

  • A clear 72 ounce pitcher with a removable gray or black lid that opens and locks closed
  • A stacked blade assembly
  • And one or more Nutri Ninja cups

All recalled models have a motor base that is:

  • Gray
  • White
  • Black
  • Cinnamon
  • Or platinum

The recalled models may have been sold with additional accessories, including:

  • A 40 or 64-ounce bowl
  • A chopping blade assembly
  • Or a dull dough blade assembly

Ninja Blender Injuries

There have been 53 reports of lacerations. Unlike all the other blenders in the market, the stacked blade assembly is poorly designed in that it cannot attach to the base of these Ninja blenders. Even worse, according to Ninja, the blades have “Total Crushing Technology.”

Thus, if consumers empty the blender’s pitcher after removing the lid or do not remove the blade assembly from the blender before pouring, the blade assembly falls out of the pitcher and can severely injure consumers.

This recall is different from most in the U.S. in that Ninja is not actually telling consumers to stop using their blenders, nor is it issuing a stop-sale with retailers. Instead, it is only giving customers revised instructions.

Specifically, the recall revises the instructions to reflect that consumers should empty the blender’s pitcher through the locked lid’s pour spout or by removing both the lid and the stacked blade assembly from the pitcher before pouring.

How We Can Help

The product liability lawyers at KP LAW are experts in personal injury and pursuing compensation on behalf of people injured or killed by defective blenders and other household appliances. We represent clients nationally and internationally against manufacturers of defective or dangerous products.

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Volkswagen AG Failed to Report at Least One Death and Three Injuries

Volkwagen AG failed to report at least one death and three injuries involving its vehicles to the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) database, which is designed to save lives by spotting possible defects and dangerous conditions with vehicles. Lawsuits concerning the Volkswagen AG accidents, filed over the last eight years, were not found in records kept by the NHTSA in searches by multiple media sources. Automakers, such as Volkswagen AG, are required by law to report all claims of possible vehicle defects to the NHTSA database.

The product liability lawyers at KP LAW are experts in personal injury and pursuing compensation on behalf of people injured or killed by defective cars and trucks.

We represent clients nationally and internationally against manufacturers of defective or dangerous products. If you or your loved one has been injured as a result of using or interacting with any defective product such as a defective car or truck, you should call the experienced product liability attorneys at KP LAW today for a free consultation to discuss your legal rights. In addition, you can always report a defective or dangerous product directly to the proper U.S. regulatory authority.

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U-Haul Truck Driver Crashes Into Pedestrians and Motorcyclist

 

The pedestrian and motorcycle accident lawyers at KP LAW are experts in personal injury and pursuing compensation on behalf of those injured or killed by trucks or other motor vehicle accidents.According to LA Times, On November 1, 2015 a U-Haul truck drove onto a sidewalk full of pedestrians celebrating Halloween in downtown LA. The driver hit two vehicles and injured ten people, police said.

The driver has been identified by witnesses and police as 40-year-old Michael Maurice Wilson. Witnesses claim they saw the driver walk away from the vehicle, apparently unharmed, toward Main Street. Additionally, Wilson admitted that he was under the influence of marijuana, and police confirm that an additional substance was found in his pocket. A blood sample was taken to determine the extent of Wilson’s intoxication.

Wilson was arrested for driving under the influence and told the police that he did not remember much about the incident. The U-Haul truck was empty and did not appear to be stolen.

The ten individuals who were injured in the accident include five pedestrians, a motorcyclist, and four passengers of a struck vehicle. Three individuals remain in the hospital for treatment, although it appears that no life-threatening injuries were sustained.

Contact the experienced pedestrian and motorcycle accident attorneys at KP LAW at (866) 973-5691 to schedule a free and confidential case evaluation. You don’t pay us unless we win. Our Pasadena office is here to assist you.

More information about this accident can be found here.

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Pasadena Personal Injury Lawyer

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Pedestrians Killed in Car Accident on Los Angeles Highway

The pedestrian and car accident lawyers at KP LAW are experts in personal injury and pursuing compensation on behalf of those injured or killed by cars or other motor vehicle accident.According to KTLA News and other news outlets, authorities identified the second of two men killed when a car struck him and two other men as they stood near a stopped vehicle that was on fire on the right shoulder of the northbound Hollywood (170) Freeway. The crash occurred October 2015 in North Hollywood, California. Patrick Josaphat, 21, of Valley Village died at a hospital the morning after the accident, which occurred about 12:15 p.m. Thursday south of Sherman Way, according to the coroner’s office and the California Highway Patrol. Lavante Cox, 22, of Hemet died at the scene, said coroner’s Lt. Ryan Hays.

CHP Officer Leland Tang said a vehicle was pulled onto the right shoulder because of an engine fire. The driver got out, and the fire department was notified. Another vehicle then pulled onto the shoulder nearby, and its four occupants got out, Tang said. At that time, the driver of a 2000 Toyota that was traveling northbound in the No. 3 lane at about 70 mph swerved to the right, apparently to avoid an unrelated accident that had occurred in the Nos. 3 and 4 lanes, Tang said.

The Toyota then struck the three men, who were occupants of the vehicle that had pulled up behind the burning vehicle, Tang said. The Toyota, with one man lodged in its windshield, continued onto the Sherman Way offramp and crashed on an embankment, Tang said. The driver of the Toyota, identified as 41-year-old Ronnie Catap, was taken to a hospital for treatment of moderate injuries and was not arrested, Tang said.

The crash occurred as firefighters were arriving on scene, and they rendered aid to the injured people, Tang said.

Contact the experienced pedestrian and Pasadena car accident attorneys at KP LAW at (866) 973-5691 to schedule a free and confidential case evaluation. You don’t pay us unless we win. Our Pasadena office is here to assist you.

More information about this accident can be found here.

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Pasadena Car Accident Lawyer

Knowledge and Skill for When Results Matter

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Pursuing Compensation for Pedestrian Accident Victims

The pedestrian accident lawyers at KP LAW are experts in personal injury and pursuing compensation on behalf of those injured or killed by truck and other motor vehicle accidents.According to LA Times, an elderly woman was struck by a city trash truck October 22, 2015 in front of Glendale Adventist Medical Center. The collision occurred in the 1500 block of East Chevy Chase Drive at the entrance of Glendale Adventist Hospital about 12:20 p.m., leaving the woman with serious injuries, including a broken hip, said Glendale Police spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.

Lightfoot later said the victim suffered “at least a broken arm.”

“A city of Glendale Integrated Waste vehicle had just serviced a refuse container on the north curb as the traffic signal cycled to green,” Lightfoot said. “The driver proceeded forward, striking the female.” The cause of the collision is under investigation, she said.

The pedestrian accident lawyers at KP LAW are experts in the handling of pedestrian accident matters and we represent victims of pedestrian accidents due to driver negligence. The lawyers at our firm handle all manner of car v. pedestrian accident actions throughout California and nationally.

Contact the experienced pedestrian accident attorneys at KP LAW at (866) 973-5691 to schedule a free and confidential case evaluation. You don’t pay us unless we win. Our Pasadena office is here to assist you.

More information about this accident can be found here.

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