Geneva, NY Personal Injury Law Firms & Lawyers

You were stopped without a license? You drove without a licence. You appeared young to the officer. After you stopped and parked the police approached and asked for ID. You did not have your license. Your mother, knowing you do not have a license, allowed you to drive to school. Under the those facts, you should expect to spend time in jail.

A breach of contract occurs when a bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance. Washington has a six-year statute of limitation for causes of actions arising out of a written contract. In some instances, the contract itself may spell out the remedies for a breach by the parties to it. Without knowing the specifics of your claim ( or writing an essay on all contract remedies possible, generally the remedy for breach of a services contract is monetary damages which puts the non breaching party in the position he or she would have been in prior to entering the contract, I.e., return of your money, likely with interest from the date the money was paid. Also note that a negligence action may be possible if in the performance of the contract, here for skydiving, the breaching party actually causes injury despite supposed "waivers" in the contract. The waiver may apply to the inherent risk of the activity causing injury without negligence but, again generally speaking, one cannot contractually waive his or her own negligence. For example, if instead of a parachute the vendor gave the participant a backpack with camping gear in it, the vendor will be liable for injuries incurred no matter how many waivers are contained in the contract. If the contractual dames are $5000 or less, you can represent yourself in small claims court.

Whom to sue depends upon whose negligence helped cause the problem. Probably the golf club, for failing to maintain proper fences to protect the public; very likely also the bloke who hit the golf ball or balls. Be sure to gather all the bills for the damage, and the cancelled checks or other proofs of payment. Your insurance agent would probably need to be a witness, and so will you, both to tell your story and to introduce the photograph into evidence.