Posts tagged injury

• Katmai Sinks in Aleutians Off Amchitka Pass

  Mike Schneider | October 25, 2008 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The Katmai lost its steering and was rolled by two story high waves. Dead are Cedric Smith and Glenn Harper of Portland, Oregon. Dead as well are their shipmates, Jake Gilman, on his first voyage...

• Airplane Crash Kills Senator Ted Stevens & Friends-What's Next for Survivors?

  Ward Merdes | September 08, 2010 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Hearts across the country go out to the survivors, and to the family and friends of those who died in the tragic airplane crash that claimed the lives of former Senator “Uncle Ted”...

• Motorcycle Crash Causes Serious Injury

  Mike Schneider | September 09, 2008 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Just after midnight September first, David U. Roemer, 24, lost control of his motorcycle on the Glenn/Parks Highway Interchange. Christopher L. Squires, 26, was following close behind on a...

• The Statute of Limitations For Auto Wrecks is Two Years

  Ward Merdes | April 11, 2012 12:44 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We are constantly called by folks who have been in car crashes. The most important piece of advice we give them is to get better: Keep you focus on getting better. Only then should you worry...

• Driver’s Exam Practice Test 01– Impaired Driving Category

  Ward Merdes | January 23, 2011 2:26 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Preparing to take your written driver’s exam? Good news. Here is a mini-practice test to help you prepare. It is one in a series of tests designed to provide safe driving tips as well as...

• Slip-sliding into the New Year

  Ward Merdes | January 22, 2011 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Slip-sliding into the New Year Every year during the holiday season, we at Merdes & Merdes, P.C., record a holiday voice mail that starts something like, “Happy holidays from the Law...

• Recent Shooting Could Lead to Civil Claims

  Mike Schneider | April 05, 2009 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  March 15, 2009, a party at a warehouse in South Anchorage went bad. Chad Zurfluh tried to break up a fight, was assaulted himself, and thrown out of the warehouse where the party was going on....

• Fairbanks Alaska Boating Accident Injures Two Women - Here's The Law They Need To Know...

  Ward Merdes | June 11, 2008 1:23 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Fairbanks Alaska Chena River boating accident. What the two injured women need to know - to protect their legal rights.

• Critically Injured Child May Have Insurance Claim

  Jane Schneider | November 14, 2007 12:14 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Police claim that Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007, and Anchorage man, Joshua Sagayo, 23, so violently abused a 22 month old toddler in his care, that the child is still hospitalized with serious, and possibly fatal, injuries. Sagayo is in jail facing first and second degree assault charges. Conviction of assault often requires a finding by the jury that the conduct was "reckless" or "criminally...

• Alaska Commercial Fishing Involves Death & Injury

  Jane Schneider | October 22, 2007 12:55 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Statistics show that commercial fishing in Alaska, particularly the notoriously dangerous King crab fishery, is among the most dangerous occupations in America today. Death and serious injury are the result of constant exposure to risks of the business; slippery, wet, heaving decks, heavy equipment, moving lines, and ferocious weather. When death or serious injury is caused in a fishing...