Today marks the single most heavily trafficked day of the year. Highways will be jammed with family members making, sometimes long, treks to visit each other for the Holiday. It is a weekend in which our office receives a lot of calls for auto accidents. Don’t let it detract from the Holiday but be careful out there because the sheer volume of cars increases the likelihood of car accidents, minor or serious.
If you live in a State other than Rhode Island or Massachusetts and areinvolved in a car crash or slip and fall while visiting family in these States, you should know that you will need to hire a local attorney licensed in Rhode Island and/or Massachusetts. The State in which the accident occurred holds the applicable law and is the State in which a lawsuit, if necessary, would need to be filed. You will not be able to return to your home State and hire a lawyer unless they are also licensed in Rhode Island or Massachusetts. My office has represented many long distance clients who happened to be injured while visiting Rhode Island or Massachusetts, and the process is not difficult. With email, fax, Skype and other applications, my office can represent you as if you lived 1 mile away rather than 1000.
Business aside, I want to wish everyone reading this post, including past and future clients, a happy and safe Holiday.