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Living in Madison Mississippi

The Diaz Law Firm is privileged and proud to provide legal services to the Madison City and County community as well as the wider Jackson community. Madison is the location of the Diaz Law Firm’s office and the city and surrounding county have been confirmed by numerous sources of evidence to be the safest, happiest ...

Is an Employer Liable for an Employee Involved in an Accident?

If you are an employee involved in an accident and you were told by your employer to depart from work early to run a work-related errand, your employer could be held liable for any injuries you have caused. This sort of accident in Mississippi comes under the vicarious liability theory. What is vicarious liability? Respondeat ...

Motorcycle Riding is Great Until an Accident Happens

Mississippi can be a great place for motorcyclists. In fact, motorcycling has become more and more popular in the state, despite the increased risk of using a two-wheeled vehicle. Motorcycling is statistically more dangerous than any other motorized form of transport, not just because of the greater inherent instability on a motorcycle but because the ...

Johnson & Johnson Insists Baby Powder is Safe

The huge pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson, insists that its talc-based baby powder, sold for decades, is completely safe as long as it was used appropriately, despite the fact that it withdrew the product last year and has now had to settle more than a thousand individual lawsuits against it. It has agreed to pay ...

A Third of Mississippi’s Nursing Homes are Not Safe

Many families turn to use a nursing home for an elderly relative when medical attention is needed and the burden of day-to-day care becomes too much. Unfortunately, far too many of our elders are being subject to substandard care and, in some cases, neglect and physical and mental abuse. A study that took place recently ...

Mississippi’s Premises Liability Laws Intend to Keep You Safe

Accidents could happen just about anywhere, even in your own home. If you are a careful homeowner you will make sure your own home and surroundings are as safe as possible. If you do slip over or a fire starts somewhere in your home and you are injured, you will probably not be able to ...

Toxic Hand Sanitizers May Be Sold Near You | What to Look For

Using hand sanitizers regularly is an important tool in the fight against Covid-19. In many stores around Jackson, you should be able to find a hand sanitizer dispenser at the front of the store or distributed around a shopping mall. Many careful people have their own hand sanitizer which they keep in their car or ...

Firefighter Foam Under the Spotlight for its Cancer Causing Chemicals

U.S. firefighters, like many of their counterparts all around the world, have used a type of firefighter foam which has been a huge success in fighting fires, especially those caused by petrochemical compounds. Only recently, it has been discovered that the foam’s chemical makeup has been responsible for causing cancers in the very people who ...

Still No Mississippi Wide Ban on Dangerous Dogs

While there is still no state-wide ban on dangerous breeds of dogs in Mississippi, dog attacks still take place on a regular basis. Most dog attacks tend to be on young children who don’t always have the common sense or experience to keep away from a strange dog or one that is behaving aggressively. However, ...

Is Bayer Ready to Settle Roundup Lawsuits?

Thousands of people in Mississippi, possibly tens of thousands, have used glyphosate-based weedkillers in their jobs or around their homes over the last few decades. These weedkillers, when first introduced to the market in 1974 by agrochemical giant Monsanto, were hailed as revolutionary. They are a very effective herbicide and are touted as helping to ...

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