Automobile Accidents

• Car accident pain can last longer than anticipated

  Anneke Kurt | March 20, 2008 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys urge those suffering personal injury resulting from a car accident to seek treatment immediately. Follow all doctors' orders and do not stop treatment before you are completely healed. Be open with all physicians, physical therapists and other health care providers to ensure that the pain and suffering from a personal injury accident can be eased...

• Hit-and-Run Accident Knocks 13-Year-Old Cyclist Unconscious

  RLF Staff | March 20, 2008 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A young teen driver fled the scene after striking a 13-year-old boy who was riding his bike in Rowlett Wednesday. According to a witness, the driver stopped a few blocks away and was later arrested on a charge of failure to stop and render aid. The boy was knocked unconscious by the blow. A helicopter flew the victim to Parkland Memorial Hospital, and his condition was not available at the time...

• Courts weaken uninsured motorist coverage

  Don Jacobs | March 20, 2008 8:12 AM | 0 CommentsVancouver, WA

  Smart consumers purchase uninsured motorist coverage when they buy insurance for their car. With so many uninsured drivers on the road this coverage is a must. Not only are there more uninsured drivers on the road now than in the past, many who do carry insurance buy the cheapest coverage possible. Most states set thresholds for the lowest coverage you can purchase and still legally drive. ...

• Making Uninsured Motorist Coverage Pay First Dollar

  Jeremy Thurman | March 20, 2008 7:50 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Here is an interesting legal secret that I have done for clients. In Oklahoma, you can make your uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier pay first in a car wreck or trucking wreck. This is often faster than dealing with the negligent parties insurance and can at times pay more since your UM carrier has a good faith duty to you, its insured.36 Okla. Stat. § 3636 specifically states that "for...

• Baseball Player Hurt in Car Wreck

  Jeremy Thurman | March 19, 2008 11:46 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I'm about to make a confession. I am a huge baseball fan. Even worse, I'm a Texas Ranger baseball fan. So while looking over what this season is going to be like, I noticed that one of my favorte players was involved in a car wreck. Dallasnews.com is reporting that third baseman Hank Blalock's car was rear ended March 3 as he came home from lunch (at Chuck E. Cheese) with his wife and one of...

• Fatal Train Crash Caused by Human Error

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A crash that occurred last year was found to be caused by human error and failure to follow safety procedures by the National Transportation Safety Board. The collision of a commuter train and a maintenance truck took the lives of two track workers in Woburn.The crash occurred on Jan. 9, 2007, when the engineer of southbound Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Train 322 received a clear signal...

• Prevent long-lasting pain after a car accident

  Anneke Kurt | March 19, 2008 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Of those suffering personal injury from a car accident or other type of traumatic experience, majority of the pain lasting over a year is found in the joints and limbs. Other spots of pain included the back, head and neck.A recent study published in the Archives of Surgery found that pain experienced by those involved in a personal injury accident, such as a car accident, lasts more than a year...

• Personal injury pain can linger long after a car accident

  Anneke Kurt | March 19, 2008 6:02 PM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  A recent study published in the Archives of Surgery found that pain experienced by those involved in a personal injury accident, such as a car accident, lasts more than a year for roughly 60 percent of those injured, according to Reuters. Of those suffering personal injury from a car accident or other type of traumatic experience, majority of the pain lasting over a year was found in the joints...

• Pros and Cons of Sturdier Cars

  RLF Staff | March 19, 2008 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  While reinforced alloys, impact-absorbing crumple zones and dozens of air bags in today's passenger vehicles certainly help save lives, the newer designs are also hindering rescue efforts. Hydraulic cutters commonly used by rescue crews to remove injured persons from a vehicle are less effective and sometimes worthless on the stronger car frames, making such efforts take much longer than before...

• 1 Dead, 2 Injured in Single Car Crash

  Mike Damaso | March 19, 2008 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The Orlando Sentinel reported on a crash occurring early Sunday morning in East Orange County. Around 2:30 a.m., a woman was driving a '98 Ford Mustang south on West Christmas Road near Fort Christmas when she failed to negotiate a curve and struck a concrete culvert on the east shoulder. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers were ejected and suffered injuries, one minor and...