Posts tagged vehicle

• When Can A Designated Driver Be Liable For His Passenger’s Conduct?

  Michael Bogdanow | November 04, 2011 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For millenia, people have asked Am I my brother’s keeper? (Genesis 4:9). Throughout my career, it is one of the most recurring questions I have received. Can I be liable for someone’s...

• How Your Motor vehicle Liability Coverage Helps You

  Bruce Bierhans | December 07, 2010 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Everyone wants to save money, and everyone wants to save money on their car insurance. However, we often find that policy holders try to save money in ways that may result in a substantial loss of...

• A $12Million Verdict and Negligent Entrustment

  Bruce Bierhans | September 09, 2010 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For those of us that have represented plaintiffs' in personal injury cases in Norfolk County, we know before we open our mouths, that the odds are 9-1 against us. Those have been the statistics for...

• Managed Competition and Your Personal Injury Coverage

  Bruce Bierhans | May 29, 2009 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With Managed Competition now here in Mass; and liability carrier commercials flooding the airwaves, I thought a little motor vehicle insurance primer was in order. In this economy, I find that many...

• Managed Competition and Your Liability Coverage

  Bruce Bierhans | May 29, 2009 11:08 AM | 1 CommentCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With Managed Competition now here in Mass; and liability carrier commercials flooding the airwaves, I thought a little motor vehicle insurance primer was in order. In this economy, I find that many...

• Cell Phones, Texting and Car Accidents

  Bruce Bierhans | September 07, 2008 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  OK. Be honest. How many times in recent memory have you been driving down the highway and seen someone (most frequently a teen age girl) with two hands on the steering wheel with two thumbs texting...

• Cape Cod Motor Vehicle Accidents Continue

  Bruce Bierhans | September 04, 2008 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Unfortunately, the annual Labor Day tourist exodus did not bring a halt to Cape Cod motor vehicle accidents. The Cape Cod Times reported today that a three vehicle accident occurred yesterday...

• Teen Cell Phone Ban

  Ken Margolin | September 14, 2007 3:35 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  California has banned cell phone use by drivers ages 16 & 17. The ban will include text messaging. Older drivers will be allowed to use hands free phones, but the ban for the teenagers will be total. While the legislation is positive and regrettably, too rare, it is insufficient. A number of studies have shown that even during conversations on hands free cell phones, drivers' reactions times...

• Cell Phone Driving Fatalities

  Ken Margolin | August 07, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If the sight of the driver to your right on the interstate, chatting away on his cell phone gets you angry, you've got a right to be. Various studies have shown that driving while talking on a cell phone can be as dangerous as driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit. Estimates of the number of U.S. traffic fatalities caused by cell phone talking while driving are generally in the...

• A Victory Against Trucking Fatalities

  Ken Margolin | July 25, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The federal Appeals Court of the D.C. Circuit, struck down new rules of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, that would have allowed big rig truckers to drive many more consecutive hours. The case was brought by Public Citizen, a public safety advocacy group, and other groups formed to protect the public against tired truckers. The Appeals Court held that the federal agency had not...