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As Tucson car accident attorneys, we hope that both students and their passengers are recovering quickly after being involved in a crash on January 18, 2012. The crash occurred on Mountain Avenue and Speedway Boulevard at 1 p.m. and caused one of the cars to be forced head-on into a light pole, according to a report from the Arizona Daily Wildcat. The two cars originally hit each ot [...]

As experienced Mesa drunk driving injury lawyers, we cannot stress enough the dangers of drinking and driving. When caught, the punishment for drinking and driving in Arizona is very serious. Based on reports from ABC15, there was a car accident last year and while everyone was being attended to, another vehicle driven by a drunk driver drove through the accident scene. This impedes [...]

As Sierra Vista car accident lawyers, we were happy to hear that the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) will conduct a study as to why there are so many pedestrian collisions on East Highway 90 and determine what can be done to make the area safer. According to the Sierra Vista Herald, police report there have been three pedestrian deaths since 2009 and many more injuries. Causes of Sierra Vista Car Accid [...]

Tweet With Halloween upon us, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has released a three-step safety checklist to help people of all ages prevent injury this holiday. Families in Rhode Island and around the nation are getting ready for a night of frights and fun, but every year there are many reports of serious injuries involving Halloween costumes, decorations, and lig [...]

In the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure there is such a thing allowed called an Independent Medical Examination, or IME. As experienced Arizona personal injury lawyers, we know that an “Independent” Medical Examination is a misnomer. Both insurance defense attorneys and injury lawyers with experience know better. It is too often the Arizona victims of a terrible accident who [...]

It looks as if Arizona wrongful death and personal injury claims for collisions involving tractor trailers may increase soon. We hope that this will not be the case, but recently, truckers are taking on unprofitable loads just to fill their trucks will make it likely that more truck drivers will increase the number of hours they drive beyond what federal regulations allow and thus d [...]

A motorist is in critical condition following a New York truck accident on Interstate 684 in Bedford. The Journal News reports that the crash occurred on the interstate on Route 172 near exit 4. The car was crushed against a guardrail by a tractor-trailer and the driver of the car was critically injured. Police are trying to determine what may have caused this serious New York truck accident. Victims of New York t [...]

Civil juries in the Bronx awarded a total of more than $80 million in damages to plaintiffs in cases heard throughout 2011, according to a recent article in The New York Daily News. These cases included one $18 million verdict for a worker who suffered severe burns in a Bronx workplace accident. About 20,000 lawsuits were filed in courts in the Bronx last year. The most common claims involved construction accident [...]

Truck accidents can have horrifying consequences, especially when a large, fully-loaded tractor trailer collides with a small passenger vehicle. In 2010, however, most truck accidents left no one injured and caused only property damage, according to a recent report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Accidents involving single- or multi-unit tractor-trailers caused property damage in 7,898 separate situations i [...]

A fatal construction accident occurred on February 8 in Gardiner, NY which took the lives of two steel workers after they fell 65 feet down an elevator shaft, according to an article in The Daily Freeman. The two men, ages 51 and 49, were installing steel and were working on expanding a church building. When asked whether or not proper safety precautions had been taken at the construction site, the business manager [...]