An 18-year-old lost her life in a head-on collision on I-40 near Asheville, North Carolina (NC), during the early morning hours of October 2, 2017. The deadly crash happened at around 2:20 am close to the Hendersonville Road exit. According to the Asheville Police Department, a pickup truck driver from Florida was traveling…
One of the most devastating injuries an accident victim can sustain is a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The injury itself can have irreversible and life-long effects. There can be mood alterations, resulting in either reduction in motivation or an increase in aggression. There can also be damage to a person’s cognitive capacity, such as the…
Honda has reached a $605 million economic loss settlement which will cover up to 16.5 million vehicles that were built with the defective Takata airbags. This settlement is meant to cover different types of economic damages caused by the airbags, such as consumers overpaying for vehicles that had substandard or defective airbags. It also covers…
Dehydration is a common form of nursing home neglect and can lead to serious and long-term injuries in elderly individuals. In fact, one study found that more seniors in nursing homes suffer from dehydration than those who live on their own. While dehydration is easily remedied, it often goes unnoticed and untreated at nursing homes,…
According to statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 136,000 unintentional injury deaths and another 14,000 in unintentional deaths from falls each year in this country. Many families of victims killed in accidents choose to file wrongful death claims against the party or parties What Is a Wrongful Death Claim?…