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AUTO ACCIDENTS - truck wrecks, bus accidents, motorcycle accidents, car crash accidents, and pedestrian accidents
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - against negligent doctors, hospitals, chiropractors, surgeons, dentists, and other medical care providers
PREMISES LIABILITY - including slip and fall and trip and fall injuries, dog bites and animal attacks, and other dangerous conditions of premises cases
DOG BITES / ANIMAL ATTACKS - claims against owners
GENERAL NEGLIGENCE - traffic accidents of all kinds, including auto accidents, truck accidents, bus accidents, motorcycle accidents, car accidents, and pedestrian accidents
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY - Construction, industrial and other California workplace accidents as well as chronic heart or lung problems, AIDS, depression and other similar problems -- or disabilities that are drug or alcohol related
WORKERS COMPENSATION - construction accidents and work related injuries, whether under California personal injury law, California workers compensation law, or both. Such work injuries include back injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, neck injuries, knee injuries and all other orthopedic injuries
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Glossary of Car Accidents Law Terms

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Legal Glossaries Index

Service: Delivery of a legal document to the opposite party.

Set aside: Annul or void as in "setting aside" a judgment. 

Settlement: Conclusion of a legal matter. 

Settlement conference: A meeting between parties of a lawsuit, their counsel and a judge to attempt a resolution of the dispute without trial. 

Statute: A law created by the Legislature. 

Statute of limitations: Law which specifies the time within which parties must take judicial action to enforce their rights. 

Stay: Halting of a judicial proceeding by order of the court. 

Stipulation: Agreement by the attorneys or parties on opposite sides of a case regarding any matter in the trial proceedings. 

Subpoena: Document issued by the authority of the court to compel a witness to appear and give testimony or produce documentary evidence in a proceeding. Failure to appear or produce is punishable by contempt of court. 

Subpoena duces tecum: "Under penalty you shall take it with you." A process by which the court commands a witness to produce specific documents or records in a trial. 

Suit: Any court proceeding in which an individual seeks a decision. 

Summons: Document or writ directing the sheriff or other officer to notify a person that an action has been commenced against him in court and that he is required to appear, on a certain day, and answer the complaint in such action.

 

 
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