Editorial standards
How these guides are written, sourced and corrected.
CWC LAW publishes plain-language commentary on American civil law: torts, personal injury, litigation, insurance disputes, and related contract and lawyer questions. These standards describe how the guides are written. They are a statement of practice, not a claim about anyone’s individual case.
Sources
Each guide lists its sources at the end and links them beside the claims they support. Primary law and official guidance come first: statutes, court rules, and material published by courts and government agencies. Educational references, such as the Cornell Legal Information Institute’s Wex encyclopedia, are labeled as secondary explanation, not as law.
Jurisdiction
Most civil law in the United States is state law, and federal courts have their own procedure. Sources are labeled with the jurisdiction they cover. A California court guide is used as a California example, a Texas regulator’s process as a Texas process, and federal court guidance as federal. Specific deadlines are given only with the jurisdiction that sets them, never as a national rule.
Examples and limits
Worked examples are labeled as hypotheticals and do not describe real people or cases. Guides do not estimate what a claim is worth, do not predict the outcome of anyone’s case, and do not treat an insurer’s denial, by itself, as proof of wrongdoing. Quotations are reproduced from the cited source and linked to it.
Information, not advice
Reading a guide does not create a lawyer–client relationship, and nothing here is legal advice about your situation. A guide is not described as attorney-reviewed unless a named reviewer is credited on that page; none is credited at present. Guides carry no byline or publication date unless one can be stated accurately.
Corrections
When an error is found, the affected guide is corrected against its primary sources. This site has no contact form; corrections come from reviewing the guides against the sources they cite.