June 2nd, 2008
How does Personal Injury Law work? An explanation of the Civil Justice System
Posted by Stephen G. Schwarz, Managing Partner, Faraci LangeWhen you are injured due to someone’s negligence in an auto accident, truck accident, fall on defective stairs, or by a medical mistake or by toxic contamination released from a nearby manufacturing plant or by a defective drug or product, your remedy to recover damages is to make a claim within the civil justice system.
Introduction and background
The rules followed in this system are based upon a combination of statutory law (laws passed by the legislature) and what is referred to as common law, the law we inherited from the judicial precedents of English law, which have evolved through the judicial decisions of judges in the State of New York over the past few hundred years.
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