Automobile Accidents

• Elderly Drivers a Growing Problem?

  Randy Walton | November 03, 2007 8:33 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  We're all aware that the aging baby-boomer generation is creating all kinds of societal concerns such as the solvency of social security, the increase in health care costs, and the availability of nursing home care. But what about all the elderly drivers that will be on the road?A few months about I counseled a client in her 80s who was being prosecuted for vehicular manslaughter. She had run...

• 22nd Pedestrian San Francisco Death This Year

  Claude Wyle | September 17, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  An elderly Asian woman was killed last Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by a black Chevrolet sedan on Geary Boulevard, just across from St. Mary's Cathedral. This is the 22nd pedestrian death on the streets of San Francisco this year, a markedly deadly year for seniors, and a sharp increase from the 2006 pedestrian fatalities. Although this woman may have been jaywalking, according to an...

• Medpay and Health Insurance Coverage in accidents

  Ed Smith | August 19, 2007 6:50 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Many people in accidents have 2 types of insurance, the Medpay insurance on their auto policy as well as their health insurance at work. My fellow Injuryboard Attorney John Cooper recently wrote a great article on Medpay coveragethat explains that concept well and encourages clients to obtain high medpay limits.Medpay insurance is very cheap and I always encouarge my clients to elect minimally...

• More Seat Belt Use Has Reduced Wrongful Deaths

  Claude Wyle | October 23, 2009 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  I am happy to report that more Americans are buckling up than ever before, with 83 percent of vehicle occupants using seatbelts during daylight hours, according to the U.S. Secretary of...

• The Deer Warns "I'm Here," Helpful?

  Todd Slaughter | June 23, 2009 1:18 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA

  FORT JONES, Calif. - This summer Cal Trans is installing a deer detection system in a remote area of far northern California. The system involves the radar detection of deer and other large mammals...

• Modesto Woman Killed In Car Crash Near Oakland

  Chrissie Cole | February 14, 2009 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsModesto, CA

  A Modesto woman, 24, was killed in car accident on Friday when her vehicle veered of the road, spun out and crashed into an abandoned home on Patterson Road, according to California Highway...

• Good News: Traffic Fatalities Down and Caltrans Employee Honored

  John Demas | December 18, 2008 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  In our business, it seems like all we hear about is when things go wrong. Well the good news is, some things have gone right this year. Every year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

• Crazy Encinitas Car Accident is Like Law School Exam

  Walton Barber, LLP | July 10, 2008 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  All law students are required to take a class called Torts, which is basically the wrongs that can happen in society such as car accidents, assaults and batteries, malpractice, etc. As part of...

• Inn of Court Los Angeles

  Paul Kiesel | June 05, 2008 12:57 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Inn of Court Los Angeles Kiesel Robie Redcay

• Gambling Bus Accident Causes Wrongful Death

  Claude Wyle | December 04, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A gambling tour bus from U.S. Asia Tours, bound for San Francisco on Highway 88, crashed head-on into a pick up truck on Sunday night, killing the driver of the pick-up. At first the CHP believed that the pick up driver's conduct was the cause of the crash, however now they believe that a second car which was trying to pass the bus, might have hit the bus and caused this deadly five car pile up....