Jasper Personal Injury Law Blog

When you send your loved one to a nursing home facility in Alabama, you are entrusting the care, safety, health and wellbeing of your family member to staff that has received training to help them provide undivided care to each resident in their establishment. Unfortunately, there may be times when you feel the need to complain about the service that has been received. However, before doing so, there are things that you can do to prevent causing unnecessary tension that may result from a false accusation. 

According to AARP, one of the best things that you can do from the day you move your loved one into the facility is to become actively involved. Visit often and get to know the other residents, as well as the nursing staff. Develop good relationships with the people who are caring for your loved one. Be an active participant in your loved one's health and in making decisions that will affect his or her experience in the nursing home. 

Underground mining has always been an extremely hazardous occupation, and despite technological advances, it remains dangerous. Whenever mining accidents occur, investigators usually determine the cause to be a combination of various hazards. Although safety authorities expect employers in the mining industry in Alabama to protect the health and safety of employees, you and your co-workers will remain at risk of suffering severe injuries during every underground shift you work.

The list of risks you face is endless, and along with accidents involving shuttle cars, forklifts, rock trucks and other equipment used in coal mines, you will always have to deal with the threat of a mine collapse. Such collapses do not just happen; they typically follow incidents involving fire, toxic atmospheric contaminants, gas or dust explosions, floods, or combinations of these hazards.

It can be hard to watch your parents get older, especially if they develop a cognitive disorder, such as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. When making preparations to safeguard their aging, vulnerable parents from injuries when they become reliant on caregivers, Alabama residents need to remember that wandering and getting lost or injured is one of many risks their loved ones can face.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, wandering is far from uncommon for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. In fact, six out of every 10 patients with one of these disorders will wander from their homes or nursing facilities. If this happens to your loved one, he or she risks getting struck by a car, robbed or assaulted, or could suffer from a weather-related injury or illness. People with dementia or Alzheimer’s might not remember their address, phone number or relatives’ contact information and they could get disoriented or lost in minutes, even in a familiar place like the end of their driveway.

Even with all of the efforts made to make Walker's roads safer, car accidents continue to be a constant problem. If and when you are involved in one, you might be understanding that such incidents may not be able to be avoided. Your opinion may quickly change, however, if you find out that the person that hit you had a history of reckless driving. Not only might your frustration focus on such a driver, but it also might extend to whomever allowed the driver access to a car. 

The legal principle of negligent entrustment allows you to hold a third party responsible if said party allowed a reckless or incompetent driver access to a vehicle, and then that driver subsequently causes an accident. The basis of this principle is that vehicle owners should know the driving tendencies of those they loan their vehicles to.