While motorcycles capture the heart of the rebel on the open road, they are dangerous and in the event of a crash, many bikers don’t survive.
Just taking a good hard look at a motorcycle is enough to point out that they have no protection for the rider. No seatbelts, airbags, bumpers like on cars or [...]
It’s a simple fact of life that when a big rig collides with another passenger vehicle, the passenger vehicle and the occupants do not fare well.
Most big rig accidents result in either serious injuries or death. There is no other outcome when something that large runs into another vehicle or a stationary object. “Even if [...]
Ever been in a situation where you slipped, then tripped and then fell hard, sustaining an injury? You may be eligible to file a personal injury lawsuit.
Everyone does fall now and then, sometimes through no fault of their own, but due to a wet patch on a floor, ice on a sidewalk or something lying [...]
When you buy something at a store, you expect that it will work, work properly and not cause you or others any harm.
It’s not too much of a stretch to expect things that you buy at a store to work. After all, you’re paying for a working product that is supposed to do its job [...]
The more big rigs there are on the highways, the greater the chances for a sharp rise in 18-wheeler accidents.
Despite more and better training, trucking companies are still facing an increase in the number of accidents involving their vehicles. “The media used to be rife with reports about tired truckers losing control of their rigs [...]
Whenever there is a collision with a big rig, the results are usually devastating to all those involved. Those who live to tell the tale may have to deal with permanent disabilities for the rest of their lives.
Usually during the course of our lives the average person will witness at least one major accident involving [...]
It’s a fact. Car crash statistics are particularly dismal, with an estimated over 6 million collisions a year in America. Close to 3 million people sustain personal injuries as a result of these accidents.
Searching for car crash statistics on the Internet is depressing when you realize just how many Americans are hurt or killed annually. [...]
It appears that close to 45% of all car crashes tend to take place in or close to an intersection.
While you may think that if two cars collide, one of them is obviously at fault because they did not obey the rules of the road, many times there are other reasons involved. In other words, [...]
Traumatic brain injury is more commonly known by its medical name as either a coup and/or contrecoup injury – the initial impact and the counter impact.
One of the leading causes of death in the U.S. for people under the age of 45 is traumatic brain injury. In fact, a TBI happens every 15 seconds. “Furthermore, [...]
While there are many reasons why big rig truck accidents happen, one of the more common cited reasons is being dead tired at the wheel and still trucking.
It’s hard to imagine that one of the more common causes of large commercial truck accidents is fatigue, although it makes sense when the whole picture of the [...]
In early December, the CLASS, or Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, survived a vote aimed at removing it from the Senate health reform bill. The House and Senate bills both contain a version of the act.
Although the CLASS Act is buried deep in both bills and has garnered little media attention, its potential [...]
As the cost of health care increases, many people are turning to the internet. Using health insurance comparison services, many people and families are lowering costs.
During tough economic times, many individuals and families start looking at their monthly budget to determine where they can cut costs. Unfortunately, for families that do not have group health [...]
Wrongful death verdicts are rarely less than $1 million, no matter what the precipitating circumstances.
Wrongful deaths are the saddest events of all, so it makes sense that the ensuing verdicts arising from these invariably emotionally devastating cases are the most fruitful as to settlements and awards. No matter who dies “wrongfully” as precipitated by negligence [...]
