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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 [...]

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pAs an experienced a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1315525.html"Philadelphia car accident lawyer/a, I salute the Pennsylvania Senate for passing a bill that would make texting while driving a crime. Unfortunately, although I have been a crusader against texting and talking on a cell phone while driving, 17-year old Alexis Summers was killed just hours after the Senate passage of the bill when sh [...]

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As I write this, a 1-year old boy remains in critical condition in a Philadelphia hospital after he fell from a moving vehicle and was run over by another car. According to news sources, the unrestrained 1-year child was sitting in the rear seat when the back door somehow opened causing the infant to fall out of the moving SUV, after which point the baby was run over by another vehicle behind the SUV. While it rema [...]

Over the past few years as an experienced Philadelphia car accident lawyer and philadelphia trucking accident attorney, during the discovery phase of several catastrophic car accident and truck accident cases, we were able to note that the offending driver was texting at the time of the accident. Several of these texting “just once” events resulted in fatalities to other innocent and unknowing drivers. Textin [...]

Over a year ago, a detached utility trailer caused a crash on Interstate 95 in Anderson, South Carolina that killed the parents of two young children. The trailer was not licensed and the driver kept going and has yet to step forward taking responsibility for causing a multi-vehicle accident car accident as well as multiple wrongful deaths. Defective trailer accident and consumer advocate Ron Melacon of Virginia [...]

Philadelphia is recently noted as having some of the most accident prone drivers among the 200 largest cities in America according to a recent report issued by All-state Insurance Company. The typical U.S. driver is involved in a car accident approximately once every ten years yet Pennsylvania residents were found to get into collisions at an alarmingly greater rate. Each year in America, more than 32,000 individu [...]