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• Brian, your book is a "what to do, and what not to do" guide.  Your book was a real eye-opener.  My company turned on me as soon as they realized I was seriously injured.  If I had read your book sooner, I would have avoided a lot of costly mistakes.  They really have a "bag" of tricks waiting on an injured worker.  I found everything in your book to be true.  These companies have a "kennel of pit bull attorneys" who attack injured workers legally, and use every trick in the book to keep from paying medical bills.  Captain Jim VickersMississippi

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What is the Pennsylvania Rule?

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The Pennsylvania Rule commonly applies to cases of vessel collisions. The Rule presumes that if a party violates a statute aimed at preventing collisions, that party must demonstrate that not only was the violation not responsible for causing the accident, but that it could not have contributed to the cause.

The Rule often applies to Rules of the Road cases and has been expanded to cover many kinds of Coast Guard regulations as is used in personal boating and jet ski cases.

The Rule comes from the collision of a steamship and a sailing vessel off the coast of New Jersey. Six of the ten sail boat crew members died.