Posts tagged personal injury

• Driver’s Exam Practice Test 02 – Impaired Driving Category

  Ward Merdes | January 23, 2011 3:02 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  More good news for folks preparing to take their written driver’s exam. Here is another mini-practice test to help you prepare. These tests are designed to provide safe driving tips as...

• 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...

• 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”...

• 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....

• Wrongful Death and Serious Injury Claims Likely Follow Parks Highway Crash

  Mike Schneider | October 26, 2008 12:22 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 15 year old driver, with three teenage passengers on board, crossed the center line at mile 51 of the Parks Highway around 4:10 p.m. on September 20, 2008. The young driver of the Chevrolet...

• 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...

• Fire Deaths May Result In Lawsuits

  Jane Schneider | April 04, 2008 12:08 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There have been many deaths and serious injuries this winter from fires where smoke alarms were apparently not in use. Where these events happen in private homes and the dead and injured are the...

• How To Find a Personal Injury Attorney

  Jane Schneider | March 14, 2008 12:12 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There are many ways to find a good attorney to help with a personal injury or wrongful death case. Rating companies like Martindale-Hubbell or "Best Lawyers in America" can be consulted. Ask court system personnel or retired or sitting judges who is capable of taking on such a case. Your attorney must know a lot more than the law...he or she much have a sense of the practical, be able to try...

• Stabbing Could Lead to Personal Injury Suit

  Jane Schneider | March 12, 2008 12:04 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to charging documents, a pool game at Klondike Mike's in Palmer lead to a stabbing. Jonathon Gilliam, 21, is charged with assault, attempted murder, and evidence tampering for the alleged stabbing of Richard Beck, 42. But if Beck is seriously injured or has big bills and lost wages, he should hire a good personal injury attorney to investigate the case. I Gilliam owns a home, or is...