My colleagues Rick Shapiro, John C., and Jim Lewis bestowed some of their extensive legal knowledge (each has been practicing law for over 20 years) in a seminar focused on injury law. This material is now available on our web site and is a must-read for anyone who is in the midst of a lawsuit…
The talk surrounding health care reform has criticized injury lawyers as swindling doctors and insurance companies out of millions of dollars due to “frivolous” lawsuits. However, the facts don’t support such accusations. In fact, reports indicate medical malpractice insurers are heaping in major profits. In 2008, the average profit of the top ten malpractice insurers…
The police in Cary, North Carolina have reported that an Amtrak passenger train struck and killed a man along its railroad tracks near East Chatham and Trinity Roads early last Saturday morning. Evidently the Wake County man whom Cary police describe as in his late 30’s had died at the scene on the tracks. According…
Randall Hellwig, a motorcyclist from Sioux Falls, was badly injured after a semitrailer rear ended him. The truck driver was encouraged to use a hand-held communication device by his trucking company – the Virginia (VA) based Old Dominion Freight Line, according to the Argus Leader. The police report states Jeff Peterson, the truck driver, perused…
My colleague Jim Lewis recently wrote about the porous safety measures taken by truck companies with their vehicles in an article entitled “Safety Last: Thousands of Trucks on the Road Fail Basic Safety Standards.” What’s even more distressing is that trucking companies aren’t taking action. All the while, nearly 5,000 people were killed in 2007 due to trucking accidents….