Written by Scott Mansfield, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. The question almost every rideshare passenger asks after a crash isn’t about fault. It’s simpler than that: what is an uber accident settlement actually worth? The honest answer in New Orleans is that it depends heavily on which insurance layer applies. Rideshare crashes […]
Read more...Written by Seth Mansfield, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. It happens fast. A deer breaks from the tree line along a rural highway outside Lafayette. You’ve got a fraction of a second to decide: brake, swerve, or brace for impact. If you hit a deer this season, what happens next depends heavily […]
Read more...Written by Seth Mansfield, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. The call families in Acadiana dread most often comes from a supervisor, not a hospital. There’s been an incident on the rig, at the plant, or on the job site, and it’s serious. A wrongful death lawyer in Lafayette hears this call often, […]
Read more...Written by Brad Cranmer, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Wet floor signs are supposed to warn you. On Black Friday, a Baton Rouge store runs triple its normal foot traffic on half its normal staff. Those signs often don’t go up in time, or at all. Maybe you slipped on a spilled […]
Read more...Written by Scott Mansfield, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Your front wheel catches a streetcar rail at the wrong angle on St. Charles Avenue, and before you register what happened, you’re on the pavement. A New Orleans bicycle accident lawyer sees this exact scenario often, because this city’s cyclists deal with a […]
Read more...Written by Collin Melancon, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. The doors open, the crowd surges, and somewhere in the crush someone goes down. If you were hurt in a Black Friday stampede, a doorbuster crowd, or a poorly staffed holiday event this year, a Louisiana negligent security lawyer can help you find […]
Read more...Written by Collin Melancon, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Halloween weekend produces more DUI arrests than almost any other weekend of the fall in Louisiana, and if you were hurt by an impaired driver this weekend, you’re probably getting conflicting information about what happens next. Here’s the short answer: a DUI triggers […]
Read more...Written by Scott Mansfield, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Halloween weekend turns the French Quarter and the CBD into one of the densest crowds New Orleans sees all year, second maybe only to Mardi Gras. Bars overserve, venues pack in more people than a normal Friday, and uneven Quarter sidewalks become genuinely […]
Read more...Written by Brad Cranmer, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Halloween night sends more children into the street after dark than any other night of the year, and national safety data consistently shows it carries a higher rate of pedestrian deaths than an ordinary evening. Costumes limit peripheral vision and cross-walk awareness for […]
Read more...Written by Kelley Dick, personal injury attorney at Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers. Festival season, football weekends, and Halloween crowds all bring more cars, more pedestrians, and more chaos to Louisiana streets in October — and with that comes a predictable rise in drivers who cause a crash and simply leave. Louisiana law makes leaving the […]
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Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers was founded to protect the rights of accident victims in Louisiana. Since our founding, we have become a recognized leader in personal injury law, recovering tens of millions for our injured clients. Our legal team boasts decades of combined experience and is known for taking on complex catastrophic injury and accident cases.
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Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers serve injured clients throughout Louisiana. We have office locations in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette to better serve accident victims across the state, including Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, and Lafayette Parish.