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You’re heading home from a long day at the office, driving in rush hour traffic, when someone tries to run a red light – everyone’s in a hurry at 5:30 – and hits your car. Your physical injuries are significant, but they’ll heal.While you may deserve compensation for your medical bills, pain and suffering,...

Every morning before work, you wake up to log some miles on your road bike. You have been training for the last few months for the annual century ride in the spring. Usually, traffic is not very heavy, so you have become a little too complacent about the risk of cycling every morning.Why should...

Last month, AAA released a study titled, Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries, and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age: United States, 1995-2010. I was surprised to learn from motor vehicle crash death statistics that deaths are on the decline. In 2008, nationwide annual motor vehicle deaths fell to its lowest level since 1961. The study...

An interesting new ride-sharing/carpooling/taxi service is emerging in the form of apps that can be used to help you find a ride from point A to point B. It’s a very innovative idea, but as a personal injury lawyer, I can’t help but look at this from a liability perspective. This new phenomenon reminded...

When I read about a woman who was caught driving on a sidewalk to avoid a school bus, I didn’t know whether I should laugh or be appalled. Honestly, I often find myself scratching my head wondering what people are thinking. Apparently a 32-year-old woman in Cleveland, Shena Hardin, pulled her car up onto...

There has been a long time debate over who is the best driver, but who do studies show to be the riskiest drivers on the road?A majority would probably guess teenagers and elderly drivers are the riskiest to share the road with and they would be right. While this is not to say that...