Alan G. Stone

• All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Accidents
• Aviation
• Bad Faith Insurance Claim
• Birth Injuries
• Boat Accidents
• Car Accidents
• Consumer Safety
• Defective Products
• Electrical Malfunctions
• Hospital Negligence
• Maritime Accidents
• Medical Device Recalls
• Misdiagnosis
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Nursing Home Negligence
• Pharmaceutical Litigation
• Physician Error
• Skiing Accidents
• Snowmobile Accidents
• Surgical Complications
• Trucking Accidents
• Workplace Injuries

• ATV Accidents
• Boat Accidents
• Car Accidents
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Snowmobile Accidents
• Truck Accidents

• Workplace Injuries
• Construction Accidents
• Maritime Accidents

• Defective Products
• Children's Toys
• Medical Device Recalls
• Consumer Safety

Appointments to review potential cases are free.

If the person is hurt at work, they are entitled to benefits of workers’ compensation insurance.

One hundred fifty years ago in most states, if a person died, any claim they had for their death died with them. This created a perverse motive to kill anyone that you badly injured. As a consequence of the unfairness of this, all states, including Maine, passed statutes to change that law.

Many cases we take involve fault by our clients. In Maine, the fault of the injured person and the wrongdoer are compared. If the two are equally at fault, no legal recovery is allowed. If the wrongdoer’s fault is greater than the injured person’s, then a jury is asked to reduce the injured party’s recovery to an amount that is "just and equitable."

One of the issues we see a couple times a year are questions about why airbags do not deploy in accidents. The fact that an airbag does not deploy does not mean that the airbags are defective. Much work is required to analyze a crash before knowing whether an airbag is defective.

We commonly take a percentage of the recovery as our fee so that the client does not have to front any money, consequently if we do not win there is no fee.

It is impossible in this space to set forth all the rules that apply in all cases. Different statute of limitations govern different types of cases.

The majority of claims handled by our office settle before trial. Statewide, approximately 9 out of 10 cases settle without a jury trial.

Although Maine motorists are required to have insurance, the fact of the matter is that some drivers do not have insurance or do not have much insurance. Depending on the nature and extent of their coverage, you may have a claim against your own automobile insurer if the person who hurts you in a car accident either does not have insurance or does not have enough insurance.

In Maine, doctors and hospitals are protected by special rules which limit both when cases can be brought against them and how the cases are presented. One of the most significant limitations is that before a case can go to court, it has to proceed through a medical malpractice screening panel.

Many of our cases involve children including babies. Children present special issues for several reasons. First and foremost, analyzing and presenting claims that will impact them sixty or eighty years in the future or more have special challenges.

Claims against state entities are subject to the Maine Torts Claim Act. This statute imposes special requirements. Notice must be filed within six months, a case must be filed within two years, and special statutory immunities and other limitations apply. The state statutes and cases interpreting it are thousands of pages long and for that reason, it is impossible to describe in detail all the peculiarities of making claims against public entities.