The American Bar Association notes several recent cases where children were able to recover wrongful death damages even when their parents were killed before the child was born. The case cited involved a doctor who worked at a pain management clinic. The doctor allegedly prescribed a deadly dose of painkillers resulting in the death of a father shortly before his child was born.
This week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just issued a press release stating that the Takata airbag recall will grow to include an additional 40 million inflators. The move signals and expansion and acceleration of the recall. Prior to this week’s recall, 28.8 inflators were covered. The NHTSA’s move increases the recall significantly to include all Takata airbags without a chemical drying agent.
Medical insurance and car accident insurance often limits the amount of physical therapy sessions that individuals can claim or receive in a given span of time. For some individuals who have been hurt in car accidents, these limits can be both frustrating, and some claim, harmful.
Boise State Public Radio reported recently on the practice that places dangerous inmates in solitary confinement, only to then turn around and give him a cellmate when overcrowded conditions leave officers with no other choice. With overcrowding in prisons, officers who send inmates to solitary, often send them to cells that are solitary only in name. This means that more than one prisoner may be in a cell labeled “solitary” at a time. When conflicts arise in these small cells where inmates are forced to eat, sleep, and defecate in front of one another, these conflicts can often end in injury or death.
Every year, individuals are hurt or killed in accidents involving trucks. When truck accidents take place, they tend to be serious due to the sheer loads that trucks carry. If you or a loved one has been hurt in a truck accident in Nampa or Boise, Idaho, you and your family may be entitled to compensation to pay for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, and rehabilitation fees. A truck accident lawyer can assess your circumstances and determine the value of your claim. Trucks are subject to strict federal and state regulations. Drivers are required to abide by hours of service laws and to keep log books. A personal injury lawyer qualified to handle truck accident claims can determine whether a driver or company broke the law and make sure that you receive the compensation you deserve.
We hear often about the dangers of texting and driving. But, have you heard about the danger of texting and walking? Texting and walking accounts for more injuries than those sustained from texting and driving, though texting and driving injuries remain more serious.
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, approximately 4,000 people die in truck accidents every year. 100,000 more suffer injuries as a result of these accidents. A recent CNBC article put the crisis into perspective. The kinds of injuries Americans suffer every year as a result of the trucking industry is comparable to the kind of damages that would be caused if a major jet crashed every single week for a whole year. There would certainly be a large American outcry against the aviation industry if airplane crashes were in the news every day. Yet, truck accident injuries and deaths are accepted as if they were inevitable.
While drivers often hear about the serious consequences of driving while distracted, experiencing the effects first-hand often means tragedy, personal injury, and sorrow for everyone involved. Yet, AT&T has recently released a texting and driving simulator that teen drivers and others can download. The simulator offers individuals the firsthand experience of the serious consequences of texting and driving.
In one YouTube video, everything seems ordinary. The driver trails a white car on the highway and, for a while, it could be just any other day on the road. Then, out of nowhere, an object flies in through the window, sending a spider’s web of splinters across the glass. Road debris doesn’t need to fly in through the windshield to be deadly. Debris in the road can put motorcyclists and other drivers in danger. According to the Globe and Mail, road debris can lead to blown tires. When this happens, a driver is at risk of losing control of his or her car.
Boise, Idaho lawmakers are poised to sign a bill into law that would allow trucks to carry loads up to 129,000 pounds on Idaho roads. The law would put Idaho’s truck load limits on par with Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada—but will the new law put drivers at risk?
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We work with people throughout the Treasure Valley on cases of personal injury: Automobile accidents, slips and falls, dog bites, etc. We take cases on a contingent fee basis meaning you pay no attorney fee unless we recover money for you.