Motorcycle Accidents

• A jury verdict in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Alabama has a law called the Dram Shop Act that makes it a civil wrong for a bar to sell liquor to a person who is visibly intoxicated. While a good number of other states have similar statutes, some don't. Mississippi happens to fall in the latter category. But, a Jones County circuit court jury has ordered Applebee's, a restaurant that served alcohol to a man who ran over two people, to pay...

• A good reason to help MADD

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  While this is primarily for our Alabama readers, I suspect the message applies to some degree for all of our readers. While drunken driving deaths declined in 32 states last year, the numbers actually rose in Alabama. Federal traffic safety officials say there were 341 such deaths in Alabama two years ago and 367 last year. That's an 8% increase and certainly not good news. The National...

• Appeals court in Indiana upholds $39 Million Judgement

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld the $39 million judgment against Outback Steakhouse Inc. in an Indiana couple's lawsuit alleging they were severely injured in a crash caused by a drunk driver who got drunk at a restaurant's grand opening. In June 2003, a circuit court jury found in favor of David and Lisa Markley, whose motorcycle was struck by a drunk driver on July 21, 1997. The...