Posts tagged motor

• Motorcycle Design Issues

  Larry Coben | April 13, 2011 9:41 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  With a huge increase in motorcycle use to compensate for rising gas prices, the number of motorcycle accidents has sky rocketed. Most serious accidents are associated with poor conspicuity despite...

• A Troubling Trend in the Super Cheap Bus Entry

  James Ronca | March 23, 2011 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A rash of recent fatal accidents have brought into focus a troubling and dangerous trend in the motor bus industry. Many people are astonished that you can travel from Philadelphia to New York...

• Does our Safety Equipment Really Keep us Safe?

  Jackie Lecher | October 28, 2010 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Larry E. Coben, who recently joined the Products Liability Department of Anapol Schwartz as a shareholder, has more than 35 years experience representing individuals who have been catastrophically...

• Safety Tips For Cyclists: By Guest Blogger Manny I. Diaz

  Christy Thompson | December 14, 2009 10:12 PM | 8 CommentsChandler, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle on the open road knows—or rather should know—that the term riding defensively takes on a whole new meaning on highways and rural freeways. To me,...

• States Incentivized to Ban Texting While Driving

  Christy Thompson | November 04, 2009 7:27 PM | 0 CommentsChandler, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two new bills introduced in the US Senate, the ALERT Drivers Act of 2009, and the Distracted Driving Prevention Act of 2009, propose to incentivize individual states to illegalize texting while...

• No Personal Jurisdiction Over Across-the-Border Bar That Overserves Patron Killing Arizona Pedestrian

  Geoff Trachtenberg | February 29, 2008 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Interesting and disappointing personal jurisdiction memo opinion from Division One, Womack v. KC Arena. In short, KC operates a bar on the Nevada side of the Arizona-Nevada border, over served a patron who then drove across the state line and killed an Arizona pedestrian. Moreover, plaintiffs asserted that KC employees knew the patron lived in Bullhead City and that he would return there after...

• Arizona Supreme Court Finds No Workers' Compensation Offset for Underinsured Motorist Coverage

  Geoff Trachtenberg | January 10, 2008 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Today the Arizona Supreme Court issued an opinion in Cundiff v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. which dealt with workers' compensation offsets in underinsured motorist (UIM) claims.Pima County Deputy Sheriff Jean Cundiff was injured by a third-party while on the job, in her patrol car. Although she was paid certain workers' compensation benefits, the third-party only carried $15,000 in...

• Assignments vs. Liens In the Personal Injury Context

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 09, 2007 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A large number of people, attorneys included, don't know the difference between "assignments" and "liens."Why does it matter, you ask? For a number of reasons that will be more obvious when the difference is understood.An assignment is the easier of the two to understand since, as the name implies, it is an transfer of all or some rights or property to a third-party. Although an assignor...

• Supreme Scrooge: Arizona's Supreme Court Delivers a Serious Blow to Products Liability

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 09, 2007 6:32 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Worried about lead in your toys this Christmas? You now have something else to worry about - if those toys harm or kill your children, your rights and remedies in the state of Arizona are under serious attack.This week, in State Farm Ins. Co. v. Premier Mfg. Sys. Inc., the Arizona Supreme Court held that, despite centuries-old common law "strict liability" in product liability cases, Arizona's...

• Failure to Plead Sufficient Facts - The New Legal Malpractice?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | October 21, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There's a new case out this week from Division Two, Cullen v. Koty-Leavitt Insurance, which deals with the reasonable expectations doctrine in the UIM setting. The case is not particularly fascinating from a substantive perspective, but it raises questions about potential legal malpractice exposure.In sum, Cullen filed a UIM claim based upon the fact that his family was given the right to...