Splitting The Blame: Who Pays When No One Is Fully To Blame?
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Compensation can be reduced if your own actions contributed to the accident, even when someone else was primarily at fault.
In personal injury claims, outside the typical RTAs, contributory negligence is cropping up more frequently.
The focus is often on each party’s share of responsibility, not just who caused the accident.
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🧠Wilson’s Weekly Wisdom
Graduation is a time of celebration, but it also brings big questions about “what’s next?” For some, it’s exciting; for others, overwhelming, being faced with decisions that can shape your future.
I remember being in my final year and facing some tough choices: Should I accept an in-house internship? Take a paralegal role and study the LPC part-time? Or go all in and study the LPC full-time? I felt lucky to have options, but that didn’t make the decisions any easier. Each option came with uncertainty. Would I enjoy working in-house? Could I handle working full-time and studying part-time? And if I chose to study full-time, there was no job guarantee waiting at the end.
Ultimately, I chose to work as a paralegal and study the LPC part-time. It was challenging, but worth it. The truth is, no path is certain. Sometimes you just have to make a choice, take it step by step, and trust that things will work out. And they often do.
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