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• Insurance Adjuster Being Unfair?

  Ward Merdes | March 06, 2008 7:01 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  After a motor vehicle wreck in Alaska, many folks try to deal with insurance adjusters on the phone. The problem is that insurance adjusters are trained to always say "No." It's in their blood. Don't feel bad when they tell you "No" - or if they tell you that your injury "just isn't worth that much..." It doesn't matter how badly you are hurt - if it's a head injury, broken / fractured bones,...

• Palmer Jury Finds for GEICO Insured

  Mike Schneider | October 10, 2007 12:32 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Geico insured the mother of two...now three...a homemaker, who was 26 YOA on March 10 2001 when a Gieco-insured, 65 yoa male, now deceased, turned in front of her. She told the Dr. She was going 50 (in a 45) and had no seat belt on. Injury was cervical sprain with head turned to right to check on her kids in the back seat at the point of impact. After two years, Geico paid its $50,000...

• 13 Year Old Alaskan Killed By Handgun. Here's Law The Parents Need To Know...

  Ward Merdes | September 27, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The AP reports that 13-year-old Gruening Middle School student Elijah Harrison in the head and neck area while at Ft. Richardson birthday celebration at an Alaska residence. Here are the legal issues that Elijah's family should be considering:First, cooperate with the police. Find out: (1) who brought the gun to the residence; and (2) how the shooting took place. Get the final police report and...

• Medical Malpractice Awareness Needed

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Fellow blogger David Lowe points out that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America was campaining last week to bring attention the death toll from medical errors in America's hospitals. National Patient Safety Awareness Week spread the word that "Congress Should Protect Patients, Not Those Guilty of Medical Negligence."David also directs his readers to a fact sheet provided by the National...

• Update on Christmas Eve Crash

  James Cool | January 05, 2009 11:49 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  We recently blogged a Christmas Eve crash on the Seward Highway at O'Malley road. The post can be found here. Sadly, this is an update to that post. The Anchorage Daily News reports that 7 year...

• Alaska Rollover Kills 3, injures 2. Alcohol Involved. Here's the Tort Law...

  Ward Merdes | July 08, 2008 2:18 PM | 2 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Alaskan Roll-Over Auto Crash Kills 3 and injures 2. Here is the Alaskan law the occupants need to know...

• Jeffrey Morgan Dies of Crash Injuries

  Mike Schneider | May 31, 2008 11:42 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  At 17, Jeffrey Morgan likely thought he would live forever. But his life and dreams were stolen from him last Tuesday night. At mile 95 of the Seward Highway, the 15 year old driver of the vehicle...

• Linda Honeycutt Killed. Daniel Cox and Another Injured on Sterling Highway, Alaska.

  Ward Merdes | August 24, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Death and Injury on the Stirling Highway in Alaska. Honeycutt killed. Cox injured. Take these legal steps.The Alaska State Troopers reported today that the Sterling Highway in Alaska claimed another victim and injured two more in a head-on collision. Linda Honeycutt, 52 of Kasilof was apparently driving one of the two vehicles involved. She was killed. Daniel Cox, 64, of Eagle River was also...

• No Justice For Victims of Nome Manlift Fatality

  Mike Schneider | August 11, 2008 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Tyler Kahle, of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, was only 19, and his co-worker, Craig Bagley of Anchorage, only 27, when carelessness ended their lives at Rock Creek Mine close to Nome. They were descending...

• Helicopter Medivac Crash Leaves No Survivors

  Jane Schneider | December 10, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Monday, December 3, 2007, a helicopter carrying John Stumpf, flight nurse, Cameron Carter, paramedic, Gaye McDowell, patient, and flown by Lance Brabham went missing less than half way through a 90 minute flight between Cordova and Anchorage. Saturday, Stumpf's body was found with some wreckage along the flight path that would have taken the flight through Portage Pass on its way to Anchorage. ...