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Holiday injuries in Valley Center and elsewhere in Southern California can be devastating. They can lead to emergency room visits during the busy holiday season, which is supposed to be a joyful time of the year. Even worse, holiday injuries can sometimes result in serious and permanent disabilities, as well as fatalities. How can you seek compensation for a severe holiday injury? It will be important to discuss the details of your case with an experienced Valley Center personal injury attorney who can work with you to determine liability and file a claim for financial compensation.

Common Holiday Injuries

Many different types of injuries can occur during the holiday season, but most of them are preventable. When an injury does occur, however, another party may be liable due to negligence or as a result of a product defect. What are some of the most common types of holiday injuries? UCLA Health identifies the following as the most frequently reported injuries during the holiday season:

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The City of San Marcos, California, emphasizes that electric bicycles, or e-bikes for short, have become “more popular than ever and allow people of many ages and abilities to enjoy cycling with assistance from an electric motor.” Indeed, e-bikes have become so popular that many Southern California cities have instituted specific rules concerning e-bikes, including where and how they can be used. Yet as e-bikes gain in popularity throughout California and the country, emergency departments are also seeing increasingly more injuries from e-bike accidents. 

While many Californians and visitors to the state have been reading about potential e-bike dangers for a few years now, are e-bikes actually much more dangerous than we thought? According to an article in Fortune, trauma specialists are concerned that “we’re on the front edge of a new order of danger on both bike paths and roadways.” What do you need to know about recent assessments of e-bike safety risks? Our San Marcos injury attorneys can say more.

E-Bike Injuries Increase Alongside Rise in Sales

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Whether you and your family are swimming in a pool or the ocean in Carlsbad or another location in Southern California, it is important to understand the seriousness of drowning risks. In addition to drowning risks, you should also learn more about the different types of drowning — drowning, as well as dry drowning or secondary drowning — and possible sources of liability for these serious and deadly accidents. While children are often the ones who suffer serious and life-threatening harm in drowning incidents, it is important to know that anyone can drown or suffer from dry drowning, including adults who are seasoned swimmers. Our Carlsbad drowning injury lawyers can tell you more.

Drowning: What is it and How Does it Happen?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drowning is “the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquid.” It can be nonfatal or fatal. The CDC reports that for children aged 1 to 4, drowning is the leading cause of death, and it is the second-leading cause of death among children aged 5 to 14. Drowning can also occur in adult swimmers, even those with experience, due to dangerous tides, intoxication, and other injuries in the water.

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Who is at fault when a sexual assault occurs in Oceanside or elsewhere in Southern California? Obviously, it may be possible to file a claim against the perpetrator of the assault in addition to any criminal charges that occur, but in some cases, third parties can also be liable. Indeed, sexual assaults occur with an alarming frequency in the state, and it is important to understand that it may be possible to hold a third party civilly liable for harm. According to a UC San Diego Health report, “reported incidences of sexual harassment are 5% higher for women and 10% higher for men than the national average.” Indeed, the report found that “more than 86% of women in California (compared with 81% nationally) and 53% of men (compared with 43% nationally) report having experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime.

When can you potentially hold a third party liable for sexual assault in Oceanside or another part of Southern California? It will depend on the circumstances, but our San Diego County injury lawyers can provide more information.

Hotel/Motel, Night Club, and Retail Store Owner Liability for Sexual Assault

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If you get behind the wheel of a car in Escondido or elsewhere in Southern California, you should not have to worry that you will be at risk of getting hurt in a serious crash caused by a motorist who is texting while driving. Yet despite California’s ban on texting while driving, many motorists continue to engage in this dangerous practice, putting themselves and other vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and bicyclists on the road at risk of injury. According to a recent press release from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, it can help to underscore the severe accident risks that come with texting while driving by thinking about this type of distracted driving as “intexticated” driving. Indeed, the press release urges motorists: “Don’t drive intexticated.” 

As you can see, AAA takes the idea of intoxicated driving — a behavior that everyone knows can often be deadly — and uses similar language to describe texting while driving. What do you need to know about intexticated driving and seeking compensation after a crash?

What is “Intexticated” Driving?

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The holiday season is approaching, which means that certain types of injury risks will increase in Carlsbad and throughout Southern California. While the holiday season brings an opportunity for recreational activities and gatherings with friends and family, various aspects of the holiday season also bring safety hazards. Who is liable for holiday injuries, and how can you seek compensation after an accident? Our Carlsbad personal injury lawyers can provide you with the information you need.

Wide Range of Accidents and Injuries Occur During the Holidays

A wide range of accidents and injuries result from holiday activities and excursions. According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), nearly 6,000 people require treatment in emergency departments each year for injuries resulting from falls while hanging holiday decorations. That number rises when you take into account holiday travel and motor vehicle collisions, home fires and burn injuries, and product defect injuries. The following are some of the more common causes of holiday injuries each year:

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After suffering a personal injury in Valley Center or elsewhere in Southern California, it can be difficult to know how to proceed with a claim for compensation. If you discuss your injury with friends or family members, or with trustworthy co-workers, you might hear differing perspectives on filing an insurance claim or suing the at-fault party in a personal injury lawsuit. Conducting some preliminary research on the internet might reveal that personal injuries result in both insurance claims and personal injury lawsuits, and you may be unsure if you are required to follow one path over the other or if you have options. 

Our Valley Center personal injury lawyers can provide you with more information about insurance claims versus personal injury lawsuits after a serious accident or injury in San Diego County.

How and Where Did Your Injury Happen?

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The summer months in Valley Center are often times for vacations and recreation, but it is important to know that certain kinds of personal injuries can occur with frequency during warm weather. As such, it is essential to understand various summer injury risks, to take precautions to avoid harm, and to seek advice from an experienced Valley Center personal injury attorney if you or your child sustains a serious or life-threatening injury as a result of another party’s negligence. The following are among the most common injuries that affect people in Southern California from June through September.

Heatstroke

When a person is outdoors in the summer heat for too long without adequate hydration, heat exhaustion can occur, and heat exhaustion can eventually lead to heatstroke. Many workers who do construction work and related jobs outdoors can be at particular risk for heatstroke.

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In recent months and years, e-scooters have been growing in popularity among residents of Rancho Bernardo and throughout Southern California. While e-scooters can serve as a convenient mode of transportation and can be exciting for recreation, e-scooters have also proven to be extremely dangerous. According to a recent study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One, the injury rate for riders of e-scooters in certain parts of Southern California “was higher than the national rates for riders of motorcycles, bicycles and cars, and pedestrians.” In other words, the overall rate of e-scooter accidents has been extremely high.

What do you need to know about e-scooter injuries and filing a personal injury claim after an e-scooter accident?

E-Scooters Continue to “Proliferate,” According to Study

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While most of us do not think about the risks of getting hurt when we step into an elevator or onto an escalator in Escondido, it is important to know that escalators and elevators can actually cause serious and fatal injuries in many different circumstances. Elevator and escalator accidents can be caused by many different factors, and people can sustain various types of injuries. Depending upon the cause of the elevator or escalator accident, and whether or not the injured person was working at the time of the elevator or escalator accident, multiple parties may be liable for injuries and various routes to compensation may exist. What do you ultimately need to know about these types of accidents and injuries? The following are some of the top things to know about escalator and elevator injuries in Escondido.

Elevator and Escalator Accidents Have Many Different Causes

There are many different causes for elevator and escalator accidents and injuries, such as:

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