Important: When any signs of elder abuse are detected, Adult Protective Services should be contacted. Adult Protective Services is operated by county governments, similar to Child Protective Services. Reach your county office for Adult Protective Services’ contact information. Elder abuse is a devastating and common problem in the United States, affecting one in ten Americans […]
The Darlus Silman Humphreys Memorial Scholarship was established by James F. Humphreys, owner of James F. Humphreys & Associates, L.C. in honor of his late mother, who wished to attend college but was financially unable to obtain a college degree. Now a successful personal injury attorney, James Humphreys wants to ensure that other young women […]
By July 29, 2020, there were more than 150,000 reported deaths from Covid-19 in the United States, significantly more Americans than died during World War I. Thousands of additional people were dying every day, with no sign of this horrific loss of life abating. America, with less than 5% of the global population, accounted for […]
America weakened and dismantled institutions created to respond to pandemics. Covid-19 was not the first global pandemic in modern times. In 1918, the “Spanish flu” swept around the world, killing more than 600,000 people in the United States, which at the time had a population of approximately 100 million citizens. This pandemic was the greatest […]
The highest levels of government minimized the threat and spread misinformation. The Trump administration initially dismissed the pandemic as a hoax, compared it to the seasonal flu, asserted that the problem was under control, blamed rising case numbers on increased testing, and declared that one day the virus would “magically” disappear, perhaps when the weather […]
A public health crisis was politicized in order to enhance the chances of a sitting President’s re-election. The administration repeatedly pressured state governments to re-open businesses and schools even when experts warned that it was too soon, and even when re-opening was contrary to guidelines issued by the government itself. The President even went so […]
Traditional personal injury litigation usually involved one or two persons suing one or two defendants. For example, someone who was injured in a car wreck might sue the driver of the other car. But what happens when big companies sell defective products that injure hundreds or thousands of people who use them, or release toxic […]
In recent years, there has been increasing concern over PFAS (Per- and Polyfluorakyl Substances) materials, sometimes known as “Forever Chemicals,” because of their persistence in the environment and living things. These concerns have resulted in a large and growing number of lawsuits against companies which manufactured and sold such chemicals, or used them to manufacture […]
Seven days after his inauguration, the President signed a controversial “Muslim travel ban” that targeted people seeking to enter the United States from several countries with majority Muslim populations. This ban was modified after a number of court challenges, and Venezuela and North Korea were added to the list of affected countries, while Chad was […]
At James F. Humphreys & Associates, L.C., we represent people who have been sexually abused and assaulted, and seek to obtain compensation for their injuries. We understand that the criminal justice system often fails to adequately protect vulnerable individuals and deter wrong doers. In part, this failure stems from statutes of limitation (time period within […]
