Westhoff, TX Personal Injury Law Firms & Lawyers

I would have to read your Mass Policy to tell you how to collect on it. You mention Personal Injury Protection. Most PIP policies pay up to a small amount (1,500 to 5,000) for a personal injury regardless of who is at fault. As far as collecting for you significant damages, including pain and suffering, you may have to hire an attorney in the country where the accident occurred and hope they have laws that allow accident victims to recover damages from negligent drivers like we have in the USA. Laws that many special interest groups, including the Chamber of Commerce are trying to water down, if not abolish!

Assuming it is a public school you need to make sure and file a government tort claim w/I 180 days of the incident, namely the physical altercation in the office which sounds like only the tip of the iceberg. It sounds as if the situation has been on-going for a while so would make sense that you file Government Code 910 claim with the school district as soon as possible. If you review California Government Code 910 online you will see how basic the contents of such a claim is, but understand it is critical and a necessary prerequisite to pursuing a claim against the school, principal, teacher and school district. Also, understand that it is pretty typical that once you submit that form that the school district either ignores it and therefore as a matter of law after 45 days it is deemed rejected or they expressly deny claim within that 45 day period. Without getting too overly legal, there is a Federal Constitutional right under USCA 1983, in that under the California Constitution, article I, 28(c) students have right to attend schools that are safe, secure and peaceful and school districts, teachers, principals or other school employees are prohibited from taking any actions that violate that right. Bottom line it is a difficult area, but one that needs to be addressed.

If the truck is titled in the name of the trust, then the trust could be sued if the truck causes bodily or property damage in an accident. Your wife as beneficiary of the trust should not be liable. With this said, you should have the trust document reviewed by legal counsel to obtain a determinable answer.