Automobile Accidents

• I'm a Lawyer. I Love What I Do...

  Ward Merdes | December 19, 2006 5:34 PM | 1 CommentFairbanks, AK

  Lawyer jokes. Every time I hear a lawyer joke, I feel like asking a very simple question: "Why?" What entitles you to talk smack about a whole group of people - simply because they chose to spend three grueling years in law school? Why are you free to carry on against a whole group of people who exist to serve. How can you demonstrate such flaming ignorance and bigotry? If you answer: "Because a...

• Five Fairbanks Intersections To Avoid...

  Ward Merdes | April 10, 2006 11:13 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Like most cities, Fairbanks has its share of bad intersections. But, some just stand out as particularly dangerous. Here is the Top Five List of Fairbanks intersections to avoid...Number 5: Airport Rd. and Cushman St. For some reason, folks just haven't learned to slow down on Airport Rd. Furthermore, as a main four-lane, it seems to draw drunks and lead-footed kids in loud pickup trucks. Over...

• Ward Merdes, P.C.

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2005 6:45 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Ward Merdes is a Board Certified Specialist. We focus our practice on injury/death claims arising from car accidents, airplane crashes and industrial accidents and have extensive experience with brain injury claims. The bottom line is that we help injured people. We fight insurance companies. We're honest, hard-working, fully computerized and Insured and have extensive trial experience across...

• Five Fatalities Signal a Brutal End to an Unusually Safe Year for Alaskan Drivers

  James Cool | January 09, 2009 2:01 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The Alaska Department of Transportation recently revealed its year-end report regarding traffic accidents. The report notes that this year there were fewer traffic accident fatalities than in...

• Gene Burch's Claims Against Adam Milazzo - Alaska Drunk Driving Death

  Ward Merdes | May 17, 2008 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  File Claims against Drunk Driver Milazzo

• Crash On Glenn Highway Kills Three

  Jane Schneider | January 14, 2008 12:37 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Allan Chase Sr., 71, His wife Sophia, 68, and their granddaughter, Melissa Pike, 16, all died of their serious injuries suffered in a three-car crash, about a mile north of the Parks Highway intersection, Saturday. The crash was caused by Joshua Swigart, 26, of Anchorage, who, like his passenger, was uninjured. Swigart's pickup crossed the center line and sideswiped the Chase vehicle, causing...

• Drunk Driver Kills Fairbanks Man

  Jane Schneider | December 03, 2007 6:22 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Trent Knutson is alleged to have been over three times the legal alcohol limit when he drove through a red light Friday night at 36th and A in Anchorage. The resulting crash put the other driver, Jack Body, in the hospital and took the life of Body's passenger, Timothy Oates, of Fairbanks. Knutson faces DUI, first degree assault and second degree murder charges. But his conviction won't be...

• What Horace Field's Family Needs To Do, Now.

  Ward Merdes | November 19, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  KTUU of Anchorage reports that Horace Field, 45 of Noorvik may have been drinking when he was struck, dragged and killed by a semi-truck last week. While this sounds bad for any related claims, Mr. Field's family needs to immediately...1. Find an Accident Reconstruction (AR) expert. That expert will view the scene, the statement, the police report and surveillance footage from the nearby FBI...

• Condry and Palmer Injured by Fox's Negligence. Here Are Their Claims...

  Ward Merdes | October 27, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Palmer and Condry Need An Attorney - Now...The News-Miner reports that Jason L. Fox fell asleep at the wheel while driving a government vehicle on the Richardson, drove through a concrete barrier, and smashed into a vehicle driven by Thomas C. Palmer. Here is what Condry (Fox's passenger) and Palmer need to do about it:Come on, folks. This one is easy. When a person falls asleep at the wheel and...

• Richardson Highway Accident. At Least One Dead

  Ward Merdes | October 19, 2007 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Victim of Brand accident on Richardson Hwy. needs to call a lawyer, now.The Fairbanks Police Report that 16 year old Riley August Brand of Fairbanks died in the Sunday night car crash on the Richardson Highway. It is believed that his (yet identified) passenger was also badly injured. Though Mr. Brand appears to be at fault, here is what his passenger (or his family) need to know about Alaska's...