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As Arizona drunk driving accident injury attorneys, we were glad that the American Automobile Association (AAA) went to such lengths to protect drivers from alcohol-related crashes on New Year’s Eve. According to a news report in Fox 10, AAA gave free tows of up to 10 miles starting at 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve until 6 a.m. the following morning. This “Tipsy Tow” service was [...]

The rate of car-accident-related deaths in Missouri each year is almost half of what it was in 1990 and is falling after several years of increases, according to recent data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1990, Missouri saw a total of 1,09 [...]

Three individuals riding on motorcycles were killed in two separate accidents in the New York City area, according to CBS New York. An 18 year old riding a Suzuki motorcycle was killed in lower Manhattan around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 22. His passenger was also killed. Only 22 minutes later, a 36 year old motorcycle rider in Queens was killed when he hit a guard rail and then struck another motorcycle. The ot [...]

Auto accidents constitute one of the leading causes of traumatic brain injuries in the United States. What is traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Basically, it is damage to the brain caused by a blow to the head. Coping with the life-changing consequences of a traumatic brain injury presents a great challenge not only for injury victims and their families, but also to doctors, therapists and society at large. According [...]

“It’s a tragedy in the making.” That’s what one parent of a high school student says in an Orlando Sentinel story about the fact that students who live within two miles of their Central Florida school are not eligible for school bus services. Now, 15-year-old Tabitha Freeman has to don a reflective vest and carry a flashlight as she walks against 6 a.m. traffic on County Road 565A in Clermont with no sidew [...]

A number of studies have estimated that there are about 98,000 preventable and fatal medical errors performed by healthcare personnel every year. Whether a medication error, a failure to diagnose and treat, or a wrong diagnosis, sometimes people are killed when they put their trust in hospitals, doctors, and nurses. Beside medication errors, medical malpractice can occur at the hands of doctors-in-training, called [...]

Many believe that there’s a high level of murder, terror, and mayhem in Arizona; however, records show that there is a decrease in crime rates and in other border states. According to the FBI’s preliminary UCR (Uniform Crime Report) for 2009, violent crimes in Arizona were down for the third year in a row by 15% since 2006. An approximate number of crimes in 2006 was 30,916 and [...]

As Phoenix personal injury attorneys, we were pleased that there were no state highway or valley freeway construction closures during New Year’s weekend, which likely helped free up any traffic in the area and likely cut down on the number of crashes in the area. However, according to AZ Central, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) still warned drivers to “expect the [...]

In an article out this week in The Boston Globe, it was revealed that 75% of escalators in shopping malls across Massachusetts were not thoroughly or even regularly inspected over the past 3 years. According to the Globe, a mere 44 out of the 188 mall escalators in the Commonwealth were inspected over 2008 through 2010. Escalators were found to be passed over for an entire year and some weren’t inspected for 2 [...]

pOver the last year, we have received reports from clients who have been “friended “ on Facebook by individuals that they cannot identify and we always advise all of our clients to never accept “a friend” that they do not know on any social media as more likely than not there is probably not a good purpose to this “meeting”. As a matter of fact, we recommend that any of our clients involved in a catast [...]