Running a business comes with specific responsibilities. First, you must treat your customers, your staff, and the general public ethically at all times. For the most part, this is easy. However, ...

You’ve probably heard before now that if you sustain a personal injury or experience a consequential ailment as a result of a medical practitioner’s negligence, you have the right to file a lawsuit ...

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), 31.2% of US physicians have been sued or faced legal action against them. Though accidents happen every day, some can result in serious harm.

Companies or business owners can buy insurance policies to protect them from the negligent acts of their own employees, but the issue of willful misconduct is much less clear. While an insurance ...

To be liable for something, under the law, means to be responsible in some way for an outcome that results in a violation of the law (criminal liability) or in an injury to others (civil liability).

Comparative-negligence laws can limit your payout after an accident, even if another driver is mostly to blame ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up its rhetoric against BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of ...