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Arkansas Attorneys and Lawyers

Every year in Arkansas, people file more than 5,000 personal injury cases, and that doesn’t include automobile injury claims, which account for more than 600,000 cases.

Arkansas has a variety of personal injury laws that protect its residents. For example, under Arkansas law, pregnant women are protected from employment discrimination. This means that it is illegal to treat them differently because of the pregnancy. It is also illegal to treat employees differently because of age, sex, race, religion, nationality, or disability. However, it is sometimes difficult to decipher these hundreds of laws, and that is why it is important to consult a specialist. To find out if you have been discriminated against or to have your case reviewed at no cost to you, contact a personal injury lawyer.
It is also important to remember that Arkansas limits the time you have to file a claim. Some personal injury claims, like slander cases, must be filed within one year of the event. Others, like medical malpractice claims, must be filed within two years, and wrongful death must be filed within three. Once the time limit has expired, courts will not hear the case, making it very important to contact an attorney as quickly as possible.


Emotional Injuries

People often think emotional injuries aren’t as damaging as physical injuries, but that’s not true. Emotional injuries can cause extreme suffering and serious financial loss. Emotional injuries are caused by:

  • defamation
  • slander
  • libel
  • abuse
  • neglect
  • stress caused by events that are out of our control
Emotional injuries can be very expensive both in terms of treatment and recovery of damages caused by inability to work or loss of business due to defamation. Unfortunately, many people think that unless their injury is physically visible, they aren’t able to file a personal injury claim. High profile defamation cases usually involve celebrities, but private individuals can file defamation claims as well.
 
Researchers say that the number of people who are being defamed online is increasing because of the number of blogs being written. Blogs are daily journals that can be written by anyone who has Internet access, and some writers include harmful and even false information about people they know, resulting in defamation cases.
 
Emotional injuries often take years and even decades to heal, and some injuries can never be completely healed. Seeking the advice of a legal professional allows many people to begin the healing process.
 
 


Slander Defamation

Slander and libel are easy to confuse. While slander means someone has verbally said something or made gestures that harm a reputation, libel means it is published in a more permanent form. Libel can occur in the form of a radio broadcast, a newspaper article, a flyer, and even an announcement. Both slander and libel defame someone’s character and are often statements that are not true, and this results in the person’s reputation being damaged in the community. For example, slander could be:
  • untrue remarks that result in someone losing a job
  • gestures that belittle and embarrass a person to the point of emotional breakdown
Libel could be:
  • a newspaper article that makes a mistake so large that a business goes bankrupt
  • a radio announcement that announces untrue statements about a person that result in financial loss and emotional stress
What is important in these cases is that famous people and people in high government positions cannot be slandered or libeled. The reasoning behind this is that famous people like actors, sports stars and musicians have knowingly put themselves in the public spotlight, and therefore should expect criticism, parodies and gossip. This is why certain magazines and TV shows can ridicule movie stars and spread gossip and not get in trouble. Government officials have also knowingly put themselves in the public spotlight, and because Americans have a right to participate in a democracy, discussion about these officials is allowed even when it is untrue and hurtful. In fact, many people believe that heating discussion and name-calling is sometimes what helps determine the best candidates. Many also believe that releasing anger about certain laws or governmental decisions is important, and that if it wasn’t legal to name-call and direct verbal anger toward government officials, people would resort to violence.  However, everyone else has recourse if they are slandered or libeled. Contact a personal injury attorney who specializes in defamation cases if your reputation has been damaged. Slander and libel can result in financial loss, bankruptcy, loss of property, loss of standing in the community, emotional injury and embarrassment.


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Beware of Wrap Rage This Holiday Season

When families get together for the holidays and exchange presents, the difficulty of opening the present usually is not considered. However, the term “wrap rage” has become commonly accepted, according to Wikipedia, to describe heightened levels of anger, frustration, and violence resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging. Wrap rage is something everyone experiences during the holidays, but we have never been able to put a name to it.

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