North County Injury Lawyers

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Seat Belts and Injuries: What You Should Know Wherever you're involved in a motor vehicle accident, you likely already know just how important seat belts are to preventing serious and fatal injuries. Yet many vehicle occupants still do not buckle up, especially when they are sitting in the back seat of a car or SUV. A recent article in Bankrate addresses the history of seat belts and motor vehicle safety and considers who far we have come by 2021. We want to discuss some of t...Continue reading

How Can I Identify Psychological Abuse in a Nursing Home? Elder abuse in a nursing home can be difficult to identify no matter what form the abuse takes. Yet some types of nursing home abuse are even more difficult to identify than others because they do not have obvious physical signs and symptoms. There are many different forms of nursing home abuse, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, willful deprivation, passive neglect, and psychological or emotional abuse. With many...Continue reading

Nursing Home Patients Could Suffer From Nurse-to-Patient Ratios The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major disruptions and serious illness concerns throughout Southern California. Nursing home residents, many of whom are elderly, are not only in a vulnerable age group when it comes to serious COVID-19 infections, but many nursing home residents also have underlying conditions that put them at greater risk for severe infection and even death. To prevent COVID-19 infections in nurs...Continue reading

Nursing home abuse and neglect can take many different forms, from physical abuse to emotional or psychological abuse. While many families know the warning signs of physical abuse or passive neglect, such as restraint marks, bruises, or bedsores, knowledge about sexual abuse in the nursing home setting is less common. Yet a recent case in El Cajon serves as a warning about nursing home sexual abuse and the serious risks that seniors face. According to a recent report from KPB...Continue reading

This is why corporate America, including the insurance industry, spends so much money electing Republicans and corporate Dems. Just last week we learned that supervisors at a Tyson chicken plant, as a game, were betting on which floor workers would get Covid-19. Imagine employees like that having no legal recourse if they got sick or injured.

California, and North County San Diego specifically, is home to an ever-growing construction industry. Workers in this industry are subjected to heavy manual labor for hours on end, often in high heat. Aside from the laborious nature of the job, workers run a high risk of suffering an injury on the job. Heavy equipment accidents are only one subset of injuries sustained on the job, but these injuries are often the most serious. Heavy equipment accidents can happen for a numbe...r of reasons. From machinery defects to an operator error, even a small mistake could lead to a serious accident. The consequences can be grave and devastating. When looking at workplace accidents, there are several types of machinery and heavy equipment that are most-commonly involved, these include: Bulldozers Loaders Scrapers Back Hoes Dozers Cherry pickers Cranes Combines and other farming equipment Dump trucks Electric hand trucks Excavators Forklifts Industrial and factory machines Mixers Trenchers Logging equipment Warehouse equipment and machinery Some of the most common factors/incidents involved in heavy equipment and machinery accidents include: Backing up (or getting caught between vehicles backing up) Colliding with a stationary object Getting pinned by heavy equipment/machinery Dropped loads Machinery entanglement Getting crushed under a collapsing structure Failure to check blind spots Objects falling from forklifts and other equipment If you believe you have sustained a heavy equipment accident either on the job or off, contact Walton Law Firm to speak with one of our experienced staff members about your case. Read more about heavy equipment accidents, and how we can help, at the link below. https://www.sandiegoaccidentinjurylawyer.com/san-diego-heav

Stories like these are a reminder of the grave consequences that nursing home abuse and neglect can have, especially as COVID-19 displays new challenges for nursing homes and their residents. For two decades, Walton Law Firm has been representing nursing home residents and their families when subjected to the devastating impacts of nursing home abuse or neglect. Poor care, negligent treatment, or physical abuse, should not be ignored. Our San Diego County nursing home abuse lawyers have brought legal action against several San Diego County nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and have created this resource page for those looking to learn more about what to do if neglect is suspected. https://www.sandiegoaccidentinjurylawyer.com/san-diego-coun

Oceanside Highway 5 Accidents Traffic accidents and fatalities occur more often than one may expect, and our lawyers have seen that many of these crashes occur on Highway 5 as it travels through Oceanside. It is well known that I-5 is a heavily used highway throughout North County that begins down at the border of Mexico, and runs to the northernmost parts of the state. Large trucks rely on the highway to transport goods, while it is also a primary route for commuters as well... as travelers within the state of California. In San Diego, the I-5 intersects with several state routes, including SR 78 and the SR 76 expressway in North County. Oceanside Highway 5 accidents are prevalent. A car or motorcycle accident on the freeway in Oceanside can involve many different factors, but most accidents happen because someone is operating a vehicle negligently, whether it’s inattentiveness, aggressive driving, or driving under the influence. In many cases, another driver’s failure to act, or careless actions, is what causes a serious crash on Highway 5. When Highway 5 accidents occur, it is important that the injured party consult a qualified accident attorney in Oceanside to determine whether there is a case, and, if so, to pursue that case zealously. Lawyer Randy Walton has been doing just that for North County residents for 20 years, and has helped many of them obtain the compensation they deserve. https://www.sandiegoaccidentinjurylawyer.com/oceanside-high

PREP Act and Product Liability Claims If you are injured by a defective product, you most likely will be eligible to file a product liability lawsuit. Depending upon the defect associated with the product and the way in which you got hurt, you could be able to file a design defect claim, a manufacturing defect lawsuit, or a marketing defect case. However, in some situations, product designers, manufacturers, and sellers may have immunity from certain types of claims. In the e...Continue reading

Have you recently been involved in an auto accident? Do you suspect the other driver was engaging in risky behavior? Do you have questions about filing a claim with your insurance provider, or the provider of the other driver? We'd be happy to help. Contact Walton Law Firm for more information.

What Should I do if I am Partially at Fault for a Slip and Fall Injury? Slips and falls can happen in many ways and for many different reasons. Whether you got hurt in a slip and fall accident due to a liquid spill at a restaurant, or your child suffered a concussion in a slip and fall injury on a pool deck, it is important to speak with an experienced personal injury lawyer to learn more about your options for filing a claim for financial compensation. Yet you may be concern...Continue reading

Kevin was injured in not one, but two accidents less than 120 days apart. Neither accident was Kevin's fault, and in both accidents the negligent driver had inadequate insurance coverage. Kevin is a self-employed, award winning and nationally recognized wildlife artist and photographer. Because of the insurance issues, he was forced to pay for a significant amount of medical care out of his own pocket. This was a burden, because Kevin eventually underwent two surgeries because of his injuries. Walton Law Firm made claims against Kevin's underinsured motorist coverage, triggering two separate policy limits, and was able to collect a sum of money that covered Kevin's medical bills and lost earnings, and put a substantial sum into his pocket for the pain and suffering he endured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkT71lNJ2NQ

Physical abuse or neglect in the nursing home or assisted living setting is a growing problem in San Diego and throughout Southern California. Walton Law Firm is one of a handful of law firms in the region dedicates a significant portion of its law practice to the representation of individuals and families whose loved one has been abused or neglected in the nursing home, residential care, assisted living, or homehealth environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jzcEYeV58o

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For more than 20 years, Walton Law Firm has been representing good people who find themselves in bad situations. Though every case is different, in every case our clients are our top priority.

Representing North County San Diego accident victims for almost 20 years.

When private equity purchases a business it has one goal, to make profit. In the healthcare field, that can be a very dangerous proposition. Here at Walton Law Firm we have seen what happens when nursing home patient health and safety is not the highest priority, and it not pretty and usually fatal. https://www.washingtonpost.com//09089a4a-ed14-11e8-baac-2a

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When elderly residents of Valley Center or another area of San Diego County learn that the nursing home they live in has been the subject of elder abuse and neglect violations and is closing down, what ultimately happens to those residents? That question was posed recently in an article in The Sacramento Bee. While the article largely addresses the fates of nursing home residents at problematic facilities in Northern California, the lessons the article teaches are just as relevant for residents of Southern California. [ 527 more words ] https://www.nursinghomeabuselawyerblog.com//nursing-home-a