Utah Bars Recovery at the Halfway Point Utah follows a modified comparative negligence system with a firm cutoff. Under Utah Code Section 78B-5-818, a claimant whose own fault is equal to or greater than the combined fault of all other parties is barred from recovering any damages at all. In practice, this means a claimant…
After a bike crash involving a motor vehicle in Salt Lake City, the insurance question is more complicated than most people expect. Multiple policies may be relevant, the at-fault driver’s coverage may be inadequate, and the cyclist’s own policies may provide recovery options they did not know they had. Understanding how these coverage layers interact…
State officials have announced a stepped-up effort to reduce impaired driving during two busy holiday weekends. Drivers across Utah should understand what that means before they get behind the wheel. A single stop can carry consequences that last long after the holiday ends. What the State Announced The Utah Highway Patrol, the Utah Department of…
A cyclist who sustains a traumatic brain injury in a collision with a motor vehicle faces challenges that extend well beyond the initial hospital stay. TBIs range in severity from concussions that resolve over weeks to injuries that produce permanent cognitive, physical, or behavioral impairment. The difficulty with brain injuries in the legal context is…
Hospital staffing decisions are made in executive suites. Patients on the floor bear the consequences when those decisions produce nurse-to-patient ratios that no reasonable person could safely manage. Understaffing isn’t just an operational problem — it’s a patient safety problem. When a patient is harmed because an overwhelmed nurse couldn’t provide the care the standard…
This is one of the hardest things to hear when you or someone you love has been seriously harmed by medical care. But it’s an important distinction to understand before anything else. Medicine is genuinely complicated. Doctors make judgment calls under pressure, with incomplete information, in situations where multiple reasonable approaches exist. Not every complication,…
