Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research Cyclists share the road with vehicles that weigh a hundred times more than they do. When a crash happens, the cyclist almost always takes the worst of it. Yet bicycle accident claims are often handled poorly: police reports may rely mainly on the driver’s
Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research Construction is one of the most dangerous industries in the United States. Workers operate at height, around heavy equipment, live electrical lines and open trenches, often for several different companies on the same site. When someone is hurt, the legal picture is more complicated
Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research Search online for the “average slip and fall settlement” and you’ll find confident figures that rarely say where they come from. The truth is less tidy: there is no official national database of slip and fall settlements, because most are confidential agreements between injured
Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research Falling in a store, an apartment building or a parking lot doesn’t automatically mean someone else is responsible. Property owners aren’t required to guarantee that nobody ever slips. They are required to act reasonably: to inspect their property, fix dangerous conditions and warn visitors
Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research Ask “what is the average motorcycle accident settlement?” and you’ll find numbers all over the internet, few of them with a source. Motorcycle settlements are mostly confidential, and no public agency tracks them. What we can say with confidence is that motorcycle claims tend
Last reviewed: October 2026 · How we research: How We Research You’re stopped at a red light and the car behind you slams into your bumper. Who’s at fault seems obvious, and usually it is: in rear-end collisions, the driver behind is presumed to be at fault in most cases, because every driver is expected