Even from one city to another, there is the possibility of encountering minor differences in law, and you are almost certain to run into differing dispositions and attitudes from one jurisdictional region to the next. As such, an Idaho personal injury lawyer that has experience practicing in the area where you were injured would be the best act to take upon being injured in Idaho.

Types of Personal Injuries

The term “personal injury” is pretty broad and includes several types of injuries. Specifically (and legally), it includes all injuries that occur to you personally and includes both physical and psychological (including emotional damage) injury and applies whether the injury was sustained through another intentionally, negligently, or by accident.

In other words, personal injury includes both physical injury to your body, as well as emotional injury resulting from distress, humiliation, depression, and other similar situations that are caused through the actions of others or through the negligence of others.

Negligence cases will most often involve a form of physical injury, though psychological damages will often be claimed in association with the physical.

As an example, if you were attending a public event (concert, sports event, or simply shopping at the local grocery store) then slipped and fell due to a failure to maintain the grounds (ice or snow that hasn’t been cleared, banana peels or other garbage that hasn’t been cleared, etc.) and break your arm, then personal injury could include both the broken arm as well as the humiliation suffered from falling in public.

If you were to break your watch or tear up your new boots however, this would not be included as part of any claim of personal injury.

Emotional harm can further include slander, false arrest, libel, character defamation and more.

Variations of this law that pertain to Idaho can be reviewed by an Idaho personal injury lawyer to ensure that you are able to take full advantage of any and all claims of personal injury and have the full force of the law on your side.

Preparing to Meet Your Idaho Personal Injury Lawyer

In many personal injury cases where the fault is very clear or an attorney feels highly confident about winning, they may work out an agreement that give them a percentage of the money won in a personal-injury lawsuit (usually around 33 percent) rather than charging you for time.

However, if that is not the case, you will be charged by time. Whether you are contacting your lawyer for the first time, asking for simple advice, or asking what to bring for a meeting, you will likely be charged an attorney’s fee. Minimizing your costs will be beneficial to you as you will receive a larger amount of the claim the less you use up your attorney’s time.

One of the most important things you can do to save both yourself and your attorney time (which will save you money) is write up a detailed story that describes exactly how you sustained your physical injuries as well as any distress or other psychological effects that you have suffered as a result.

Be sure to include details leading up to the event, and pertinent details that happen afterward (especially anything that caused emotional distress such harassing phone calls after the injury took place, undue pressure to settle from the party at fault, humiliation you felt due to the injury being witnessed, etc.) and all details that you can think of, even if you think it might hurt your case.

Your lawyer will do everything he or she can, and withholding anything at all can hurt your case or come back to bite you later. Your lawyer is interested only in helping you with the legal aspect and isn’t there to judge you or your motives.

Beck & Poorman, Attorneys at Law (http://www.beck-poorman.com/injury_law.html) specialize in Idaho state law, and retains the services of Idaho personal injury lawyers that both understand the law and the attitudes of the community where they practice.

Definitions of criminal harassment, for example, may have slight variations state-to-state. This article focuses specifically on the laws in Idaho, especially the “panhandle” area of North Idaho which is often viewed as a separate area than the lower section of Idaho.

Before going any further, the first thing you should always do when you believe that harassment has taken place is to report it, preferably to a lawyer that specializes in this type of prosecution. This is especially true if the crime takes place at work, and you worry that reporting it to your superiors will result in little or no action, or put your employment at risk.

If you live in North Idaho, then obviously you’ll want to get a North Idaho lawyer that specializes in sexual harassment law.

Idaho Sexual Harassment Laws

As in all states, in Idaho workplace discrimination based on race, creed, sex, or disability is illegal. Furthermore, in Idaho it is also illegal to discriminate based on sexual preference.

In highly conservative areas (such as North Idaho) where homosexuality is considered taboo or otherwise unacceptable, those who are gay will often try to hide the fact out of fear for their jobs. And if word ever gets out, persecution can explode as ignorant coworkers play pranks, make comments, or harass in other ways as a method of making the workplace so miserable that the target of the attacks can no longer stand to work there.

The same can happen when women enter a male-dominated workforce (or vice versa), or even when a conservative straight man takes on a job at a gay-friendly company. What many people don’t realize is that what can seem at first to be discrimination against a disabled person can also be construed as sexual harassment if the discrimination involves any kind of sexual connotation (for example, coworkers wondering out loud how a disabled person “does it” or the use of crutches in sexual acts, and so forth).

In any case, sexual harassment happens when any type of unwelcome sexual advance occurs, whether verbal, physical, or implied. This can include any type of request for a sexual favor, any unwanted sexually explicit talk (which can be construed as verbal sexual abuse), or any kind of unwanted physical contact, and even the suggestion that somebody might advance faster or be favored for promotion if any type of sexual act is performed.

This type of crime, as interpreted by the law, can happen even by unwanted comments that have any sexual connotation at all.

In a conservative area such as North Idaho, being out of the norm can result in a hostile work environment for anybody who isn’t “normal” or has ideas outside of the norm. If it results in any type of harassment, then the best thing to do is contact North Idaho sexual harassment lawyers that understand the community where you live, and have experience dealing with this type of criminal prosecution in that area.

Beck & Poorman, Attorneys at Law (http://www.beck-poorman.com/sexual_harassment.html) specialize in Idaho state law, and retain in the services of North Idaho sexual harassment lawyers that both understand the law and the attitudes of the community where they practice.

Cell Phones are a Leading Cause of Driver Distraction

A joint study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Virginia Tech
Transportation Institute in April 2006 concluded that nearly 80 percent of car crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes occur within three seconds of some kind of driver distraction. Dialing a cell phone ranked among the most dangerous distractions, tripling the risk of being involved in an auto accident. Unlike the danger presented by dialing, the study found that talking on a cell phone was less dangerous than drowsiness or reaching for a falling object. However, the prevalence of cell phone use by drivers makes it one of the most common and therefore most dangerous factors in car and truck crashes. According to the NHTSA, there are over 10 million U.S. drivers talking on cellular phones at any given moment, an alarming figure given the link between cell phones and distracted driving.

Cell Phones Bans on the Rise

In response to the increasing evidence linking cellular phone use and auto accidents, a number of states have started to ban their use on the roads. States with legislation restricting cell phone use while driving include New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Connecticut. In 2008, California will join the ranks of states banning hand-held phone use by drivers. In addition, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 14 states have banned mobile phone use by minors as of November 2006.

Hands-Free Is No Safety Guarantee

Many drivers have switched to hands-free mobile phone devices in an effort to cut down on their risk of being involved in car accidents. However, recent evidence suggests that even a hands-free cell phone presents a danger on the road. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study conducted in Perth, Australia in 2005, switching from hand-held cell phones to hands-free devices does not reduce the risk of car crashes. A recent study conducted by the University of Utah and published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors also concludes that hands-free cellular phones carry the same risk as hand-held phones. Evidence on hands-free phones continues to indicate that talking on the phone is a dangerous distraction, reducing driver alertness and reaction time, regardless of the type of cell phone being used.

In the event that you are involved in a car or truck accident in which a cellular phone has played a part, contact a knowledgeable personal injury attorney right away. Your auto accident lawyer can help you file a suit, if appropriate, and possibly recover damages to which you may be entitled.

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In 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two important decisions that put the ball in the employer’s court in sexual harassment cases. Basically, they gave employers an “affirmative defense”, provided that they have a policy that makes it clear that the company does not tolerate sexual harassment. This article will briefly summarize 7 secrets to keeping your company out of court in 2008.

#1 Have a Written Sexual Harassment Policy
All employers should have a written sexual harassment policy, which at a minimum provides: what sexual harassment is; sets forth a mechanism for reporting it; states that all complaints will be promptly and thoroughly investigated; that there will be no retaliation for making the complaint; and that if a violation is found, that prompt and effective remedial action will be taken.

#2 Communicate Your Sexual Harassment Policy to All of Your Employees

It does no good to merely have a sexual harassment policy that is sitting gathering dust in the Human Resources department or in an employee handbook, the policy must be communicated to all of your employees. It should be distributed to employees at the time of hire, explained to them, and have them sign acknowledging receipt and agreeing to abide by it. It should be posted on the wall and where appropriate, translated into Spanish. It should be discussed at employee meetings.

#3 Implement Your Sexual Harassment Policy

Most importantly, your policy must be enforced and taken seriously, so that employees feel comfortable using it. It is not enough to have a policy and communicate it, if you don’t implement it.

#4 Provide Training for All of Your Supervisors

Under a new law, AB 1825, California now requires all employers with 50 or more employees to provide a minimum of 2 hours of training to all of their supervisors. Connecticut has a similar law and other states are expected to follow.

While it isn’t required for employers with less than 50 employees, it still is an excellent idea, since it improves employee morale by preventing problems in the first place; teaches supervisors how to nip the problem in the bud; and if an employer is ever sued the first question that they will be asked is: “what have you done to train your supervisors about sexual harassment prevention?” The employer can respond by providing the attendance sign-in sheet from the training seminar.

#5 Investigate All Complaints Promptly and Thoroughly

As soon as an employer receives a complaint, it must immediately start investigating, even if it isn’t a formal written complaint. Remember, there is no such thing as an “off the record complaint”. Once a supervisor finds out about a complaint, the employer is deemed to be put on notice and must start its investigation. All relevant witnesses should be interviewed and the alleged harasser should be given an opportunity to respond to the allegations made Action.

#6 Take Prompt and Effective Remedial

Once the employer completes its investigation, it should take prompt and effective remedial action. What that is depends upon the facts of the specific case and could range from a written warning, to a suspension, to termination, depending upon the circumstances. In making its determination, the employer should consider the severity of the alleged conduct, and the prior work history of the alleged harasser. The results of the investigation should always be well documented and communicated to both the complaining party and to the alleged harasser.

#7 Follow-up with the Complainant

After the investigation has been completed and remedial action, if any, taken, the employer should always follow-up with the complainant within two weeks, to make sure that the situation has been satisfactorily resolved. Don’t wait for the employee to come to you to tell you that the problem has not gone away or that they are now being retaliated against for complaining, by then you may already have been sued.

For a free evaluation of your existing sexual harassment policy or to schedule a training seminar contact Eli Kantor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 at (310) 274-8216 or email here.
Sexual Harassment Prevention
Beverly Hills Immigration Law

Employers must use the amended Form I-9 (Rev. 06/05/07) for all employees hired on or after November 7, 2007. Employers who fail to use the new form after December 26.2007 may be subject to penalties by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Note, employers only need to complete the new version of Form I-9 for new employees. They do not need to complete new forms for existing employees. However, they must use the new I-9 Form when their employees require re-verification.

This is all part of ICE’s new aggressive workplace enforcement strategy, which has included a huge upsurge in workplace raids by ICE in response to growing political pressure. They are aggressively enforcing laws that are already on the books, which prohibit an employer from “knowingly” employing an unauthorized alien.

Consequently, employers need to get ready now, so that they will be prepared when Immigration knocks on the door. Here are seven secrets to surviving an Immigration Audit:

#1 Do An Internal I-9 Audit Now. Don’t wait for Immigration to raid your workplace or to send you a letter demanding to inspect your I-9 Forms within 72 hours to first review them. Do it now. Compare your payroll with your I-9 forms and make sure that you have an I-9 Form for all employees. Make sure that they all have been filled out correctly and completely and that you have started to use the new revised I-9 Form (Rev. (06/05/07).

#2 Centralize the I-9 Process. Train 1 or 2 employees in the technical process of filling out I-9 forms. Then have them always be in charge of completing the I-9’s , instead of random supervisors, who may or may not be familiar with the process.

#3 Do Not Put the I-9’s in the Employee’s Personnel file. Keep the I-9 forms in a separate file. You don’t want to have to turn over your employee’s personnel files to Immigration, since they contain privileged information. (You can put a copy of the I-9 in the employee’s personnel file, if you want, but keep the originals separate.)

#4 Always Examine the Original Documents – Not Copies. It is critical that you examine the original document, “green card”, drivers license or social security card, not a copy. Make sure that you are using the revised list of approved documents, effective December 26, 2007.

#5 Copy the Front and Back of All Documents that were Examined, and Attach to the I-9. Although employers are not legally required to make a photocopy of the documents that they examined, doing so, demonstrates the employer’s good faith, and if questioned, the employer can point to what documents they relied upon, even if they ultimately prove to be fraudulent.

#6 Establish a Written Policy that Fraud in the Employment Application Process, Will be Grounds for Termination. By doing so, the employer will clearly have the right to terminate an employee if it later discovers that he submitted fraudulent documents to obtain employment.

#7 If you Receive a Social Security Mismatch Letter, Contact Your Attorney First, Before Responding. The Social Security Administration is sending thousands of Social Security Mismatch Letters to Employers, informing them that there is a “mismatch” in the names and social security numbers of some of the employer’s employees. Although a Federal Court Judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from sending letters together with the SSA, there may be serious legal consequences for the employer. Therefore, immediately contact experienced legal counsel before responding.

Eli Kantor is an attorney in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA representing employers in all aspects of labor, employment and immigration law. For more information contact Eli at (310) 274-8216 or visit his websites: Sexual Harassment Prevention and Beverly Hills Immigration Law

If a driver is involved in an automobile accident with another driver who is uninsured or underinsured, the driver would be compensated by their insurance company if they had purchased uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage in their insurance policy. This covers property damage–such as car repairs, bodily injury–such as medical expenses, and other compensatory damages–such as pain and suffering. Uninsured motorist coverage also comes into play when injuries are sustained due to a hit-and-run automobile accident. Uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage can also be used if a person is hit by a vehicle as a pedestrian.

It is extremely risky to drive without insurance or without proper insurance, so always be sure that your insurance is up to date and covers all of your motor vehicles’ needs. If you are properly covered, then your insurance should cover the costs of an accident, should you be at fault. If the other driver is at fault, then their insurance should pay. However, in the case that the other driver does not have insurance or their insurance is not sufficient, it is wise to have an insurance plan that covers you even if you are hit by someone without insurance.

Although a driver can possibly sue a uninsured/underinsured motorist if their insurance does not include uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, there is no guarantee that the uninsured/underinsured motorist will have the money or assets to pay the judgment. Therefore, including uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage in an insurance policy simply makes sense.

If you have been in an automobile accident and have suffered injuries, you may have a legal case. If you would like to contact a lawyer, please use the Find Attorney button at the top of the page.

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This goes for anything “underneath” too, so if any crude oil or natural gas is buried beneath, the land owner has first rights to the resource.

With property ownership, or the prospect of owning, there come risks. Most of this is liability, liability to the state and those who border the property. For instance, when purchasing a lot within the city, there are zoning restrictions.

A city may designate a certain size structure on the land, and if the owner decided to assemble a four-story goliath mansion home, the other owners of single floor rancher-style houses on that block might not be so pleased, the same goes with the city.

There is a great deal of ownership liability that goes to third-parties as well, such as land owners paying mortgage on a house to a lender. This is probably the most common liability that is known. If the owner does not pay, then they default on the loan and the lender, such as a bank can claim the property as payment.

State Law

Property laws trace its history back to the monarchs who ruled much of the continent of Europe. This was brought to America and from there has evolved a great deal. Real estate law, like most all law type, is still constantly evolving today as new cases are brought to courts.

Because events are often relating to geography and local cultures and law, there are a lot of aspects of real estate law that reflect this and are divided up by states.

For instance, if you were having a land dispute with a neighbor and you owned a tract of land near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho you would ideally want to consult with Coeur d’Alene real estate attorneys — even if you retain an attorney in Pittsburgh or some other city where you make your residence — to know what is fully involved regarding that specific city’s statutes.

A Coeur d’Alene real estate attorney can advise you on the specifics with Idaho’s real property laws and can give you a heads up on what your rights are as a land owner pertaining to that tract of land you own and the dwelling that reside within.

Hiring a real estate attorney’s group, no matter where you plan to buy land, would lend you piece of mind and a defense or litigations counsel if that dispute with the neighbor ends up in court.

Beck & Poorman (http://www.beck-poorman.com/real_estate_law.html) is a legal firm that advises in varied legal matters. Among their staff are Coeur d’Alene real estate attorneys working in both private and public sectors. Located in Hayden, Idaho, they have a combined work experience of 35 years.

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