by Bettina Altizer | Mar 26, 2020 | Personal Injury
Special and General damages are the two primary classifications of damages awarded in a personal injury settlement or lawsuit. Damages (amounts of money) are paid to the plaintiff who was harmed due to the illegal or negligent actions of the defendant. These two...
by Bettina Altizer | Jan 29, 2020 | Pedestrian Involved Accident
Despite the continuing decline in the number of traffic accident fatalities, the number of pedestrian fatalities is still rising in Virginia and in the nation. After representing pedestrians injured in vehicle accidents for 30 years, I see clear patterns in the causes...
by Bettina Altizer | Sep 26, 2019 | Auto accident, Automobile Collision, Distracted Driving, Drunk or Drugged Driver, Safety, Wrongful Death
When it comes to your safety and the safety of your passengers, how much can you expect of a car? Although we seem to expect automakers to protect us from ourselves, there is a limit to what our vehicles can do to protect us. Yet some automakers are still working to...
by Bettina Altizer | Jun 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
When an ER doctor runs no tests on a patient, despite recent surgery, and the patient dies, a wrongful death verdict may be imminent. A visited an Urgent Care center. A 39-year-old woman (plaintiff) had worked at a local nursing home as a Certified Nursing Aide for a...
by Bettina Altizer | May 28, 2019 | Auto accident, Wrongful Death
The legal facts of an auto accident case were not what they seemed in a crash settled earlier this year. In cases of this sort, most people need an attorney with the diligence and determination to investigate every detail of a case to ensure that the facts of the case...
