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Personal injury cases are part of tort law, which covers many issues other than personal injury claims. Personal injury cases involve a physical, emotional, or psychological harm to someone, usually due to their negligence or intentional act. That’s not necessarily true of other kinds of tort cases which may involve just financial losses. What is …

An estimated 42,915 people were killed in US traffic accidents in 2021, the highest number in 16 years. That’s nearly twice the capacity of the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville. Kentucky contributed 806 of those deaths that year. Most of these deaths were preventable and senseless. Death by the Numbers The National Highway Traffic Safety …

A company wants to cut costs and boost profits by ignoring good safety practices. As a result, people are seriously injured and killed. As long as there have been businesses, this story repeats over and over. The US Post Office’s use of trucking companies indifferent to the safety of others is one of the newer …

Grant Brace was a junior at the University of the Cumberlands and a wrestling team member when he died. The university calls him talented and well-liked and says that he had a bright future ahead of him before his 2020 death from heat stroke. Before that death, he was told he didn’t deserve to be …

You can’t truly multitask as much as you would like to think so. That includes doing other things while driving. Creating distractions endangers you, your passengers, and everyone else on or near the road. Highway fatalities were up to 46,000 in the U.S. in 2022, an increase of 22% from 2021. How many were caused …

No one likes seeing a business struggle and close unless you’re the competition. It’s especially concerning when that business is a nursing home. Residents will suffer neglect, accidents, and injuries without sufficient staff and resources. If you or a loved one are in a nursing home, you must be very watchful of the level of …

Commercial truck drivers undergo regular drug tests. Results from last year show a sharp increase in positive marijuana tests, though that doesn’t necessarily mean they were impaired while driving. Given how stressful the job is, the high turnover rate, and low job satisfaction, drug use among commercial drivers shouldn’t come as a surprise. Why is …

Pickup truck sales are increasingly driven by how buyers want others to perceive them, less by how useful and capable they are. The results are bigger, heavier trucks with smaller beds that are more lethal to pedestrians and car drivers when collisions occur. Does America Love Pickup Trucks? Pickup trucks are some of the most …

Wrongful death cases involve personal injury claims when the injury is fatal. If another party’s negligence or intentional act kills someone, their estate may be able to file a wrongful death claim. The deceased’s next of kin would benefit from the case. The situations that lead to these cases can involve virtually any negligent or …

Railroad crossings are notoriously dangerous for many reasons. The main one is physics, but crossings are risky because making them safe costs money that railroads don’t want to spend. They deny responsibility for incidents involving their trains that travel on tracks they own. A fully loaded freight train may weigh 18,000 tons. If one crashes …

Autonomous vehicles have been discussed for years, but they’re still unavailable. But given advances in hardware, software, and the number of transportation-related industries’ desire to get rid of drivers, it’s just a matter of time before the truck next to you is driven by a computer. Given commercial trucks’ size (up to 80,000 pounds) and …

Americans are apparently more likely to injure and seriously hurt each other while driving. We seem to have a real knack for carnage while driving our vehicles. In 2020, for every 100,000 Americans, there were 11.4 killed in traffic accidents, according to an opinion piece published by Bloomberg. That compares to: Unlike most developed nations, …

We represent people injured in vehicle accidents. Sometimes another party is entirely at fault. Sometimes our client is partially to blame. You can share responsibility and recover from an insurance company, but you want to avoid mistakes to keep yourself, passengers, and others safe. Drivers need to handle the challenges winter presents. Prepare Your Vehicle …

Federal prosecutors are investigating possible fraud charges against the company for exaggerating the abilities of its Autopilot feature, which allows the vehicle to partially drive itself. These claims may have resulted in drivers not paying attention to what was happening before an accident. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) started the probe last year after …

Wearing a motorcycle helmet is optional for most motorcyclists in Kentucky. It’s mandatory if you want the greatest chances of riding home alive at the end of the day. One 66-year-old Florida attorney famous for changing state law to allow helmetless riders rode without one himself, and it probably cost him his life. He and …

The trucking industry faces many challenges, including the fact that most long-haul commercial truck drivers don’t stay on the job very long. Because of this turnover, many companies rely on inexperienced drivers and those with poor driving records. Amazon relies on trucking companies that bend the rules and are less safe than the industry average. …

Is making trips longer worth saving lives? The Mayor of the District of Columbia thinks so. In September, Muriel E. Bowser announced the speed limits on some of the city’s major streets will go from 30 to 25 miles per hour. The goal is to reduce the number of severe vehicle crashes as well as …

Most commercial truck drivers go out of their way to avoid accidents, but others can be careless or aggressive, posing a risk to everyone else on the road. If you can do so safely, reporting this driver may result in the police getting involved and preventing an accident before it happens. If the employer receives …