Both workers’ compensation and the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) provide financial protections for people who suffer work-related injuries, develop occupational illnesses or die in workplace accidents. The similarities pretty much end there. Still, having spent four decades advising and representing people who have FELA claims, I find even myself sometimes calling FELA “workers’ comp…
The car accident attorneys at our North Carolina personal injury firm handle all types of car crash cases – from minor fender benders to fatal crashes. We understand that even those minor accidents can result in painful injuries for a victim. We also understand that more serious crashes can leave a victim with severe and…
Allow me to go full spoiler right from the jump. Distracted driving kills because it takes your eyes off the road ahead, disengages your brain from the complicated task of controlling a car or truck, and, often, causes you to remove your hands from the steering wheel. Studies show that a distraction of as…
A semi-truck barrels down a rural highway at 60 mph. The driver, acting more like he was sitting on his couch at home instead of behind the wheel of a 40-ton vehicle, reaches for the cell phone he just dropped. Moments later, the tractor-trailer slammed into the back of a school bus that stopped to…
Rice University researchers reported in 2019 reported that “data in the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and CrashStats before and after ridesharing companies showed up in cities in the U.S., [revealed] that accidents involving a fatality increased by 2- to 4% each year, even after they controlled for other…