Slate’s Law Blog
Different Types of Personal Injury Cases
Personal injury law is a broad area of the law, and it encapsulates many different types of claims. It is a kind of umbrella term that houses many kinds of accidents and injuries. Given the wide variety of personal injury lawsuits, it can be difficult to understand...
Breach of Contract: What Should I Do?
Businesses in the Santa Fe area rely on business contracts with many different parties and for numerous purposes. For example, your business may have contracts with employees pertaining to the terms of their employment, with clients concerning your services and their...
Preventing Medication Mistakes With an App
Researchers are often looking for new ways to prevent serious injuries due to medical malpractice. Medical mistakes occur with some frequency in emergency medicine settings, particularly among children, and many of those errors involve the administration of...
Elements of a Personal Injury Lawsuit
When you have been seriously injured in an accident or as a result of another party’s fault, you may be thinking about filing a personal injury lawsuit. Yet filing a personal injury claim can be complicated, and it can be difficult to understand with certainty the...
Santa Fe Bicycle Accident Lawyer
When a car hits a person on a bicycle, it can be a terrifying experience that leaves the bicyclist with serious and potentially fatal injuries. If a motorist’s negligence caused the collision, the bicyclist has the right to demand compensation for the harm that...
What Counts as a Personal Injury?
If you recently got hurt because of another party’s negligence or intentional act, or if you got hurt after using a defective product, you might be thinking about filing a personal injury lawsuit in order to seek financial compensation for your losses. Yet you might...
Wrong-Site Surgery and Surgical Errors
Have you recently undergone surgery as a result of an emergency medical situation or following plans to have an operation under the terms of what is sometimes known as elective surgery? Regardless of the conditions under which you had an operation, you should be able...
Medical Errors and Medical Malpractice: “July Effect”
Medical errors can happen at any time of the year and in all aspects of the healthcare system. Yet some times of the year may put patients at greater risk of injury from a medical error than others. Indeed, numerous studies have documented the so-called “July Effect”...
Tips for Avoiding Contract Disputes
Business disputes or contract disputes can arise in Santa Fe for a wide variety of reasons, from employment claims to disputes between partners. Many business disputes are also contract disputes, meaning that the parties are in disagreement about the terms of a...
Workplace Injuries: Three Things to Know
Personal injuries occur at work more often than you might think, and employees in New Mexico can sustain serious and debilitating injuries that require substantial medical treatment and that prevent them from returning to work in a meaningful capacity. If you sustain...