Idaho wrongful death claims are a unique type of legal case. Special rules adopted by the legislature apply to these cases. Leading Idaho injury attorney John Janis explains Idaho wrongful death cases and the issues they present. You can click here to listen to...
Idaho personal injury law involves civil claims for money damages (as opposed to criminal claims). The claims arise when a person is injured through the negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct of another person, a company, or property owner. Idaho...
Lost Income Damages Can Be a Complex Part of Your Injury Claim If you’ve sustained injuries from a motor vehicle accident caused by another person that affected your ability to earn an income, you are entitled to recover compensatory damages. This includes...
Emotional distress claims are among the most difficult injuries to prove in a court case. Unlike a broken bone, or a spinal disk injury, there is no test or X-ray to show the jury. As the defense lawyers always like to say there is no “objective” proof of the...
Available Money Damages In Injury Cases People often wonder what money damages they can recover in an injury case, that is what is their injury claim value. A person injured by another’s negligence has the right to recover both the economic losses (lost earnings,...
When a person is killed because of another person’s neglect or a company’s recklessness, Idaho law allows a lawsuit to be brought for wrongful death. Until Idaho Code section 5-311 was passed, a negligent person had no responsibility if they caused an injury so...
Lawsuits get resolved in a number of ways, one of which is mediation. While many Idaho injury claims can be fairly settled without a lawsuit being brought, sometimes a case needs to be filed. After filing a lawsuit the parties engage in litigation. The litigation...
You put your life and those of strangers at risk every time you try to text while driving. Texting while driving kills. Distracted Driving Increases Your Risk of Injury Of all the distracted driving problems, texting is by far the most dangerous. It increases your...
