If you have recently been in a car accident and now suffer from symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, numbness in your hands and feet, and/or balance problems, your accident may have caused an anatomical change in your brain called Chiari malformation (CM). Some people are born with CM and it was once believed that it […]
FTC Allows Dealerships to Market Defective Cars as ‘Safe’
April 14, 2017 By
Auto safety advocates have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleging that a settlement between the regulatory agency, General Motors and two used car dealers puts car buyers at “the risk of injury or death caused by the defective vehicles.” The settlement, announced last year, allows used car dealers to advertise cars […]
Eye Injury Claims After Car Accidents
April 10, 2017 By
Air bag deployment, shattered glass, other debris, and blunt force trauma from the crash itself can all cause serious eye injuries in car wrecks. Some result in permanent vision loss or loss of the eye. Even when vision loss is minimal, it can mean giving up activities you once enjoyed, affect your job performance, and […]
FTC Sued for Allowing Dealers to Sell Cars with Deadly Defects
March 24, 2017 By
When you go to the dealership and see that a car has been certified as safe or has been subject to a “rigorous inspection”, you assume that any recall issues have been taken care of. In fact, even without the safety claims, you probably assume that dealerships are not allowed to sell vehicles with unfixed […]
How to Gain Compensation For a Back Injury: When You Can and Can’t Sue
March 15, 2017 By
Back injuries are among the most debilitating injuries anyone can sustain. Whether your injury is a ruptured disk or a fractured vertebrae, it is likely that you will suffer from pain, restricted movement and expensive medical treatment. For that reason, it is important to understand when and how you can determine if you are owed […]
Liability for a Vehicle Mishap on the Road – What You Need to Know
March 10, 2017 By
In car crashes, most car accident attorneys look at the liability that falls almost only on the drivers, private individuals. In consequence, insurance companies settle up. Some states have no-fault systems. In the rest of the states, damages depend on how much insurance the at-fault driver has. It’s rare that a component of the car […]
Recent Traffic Fatality Statistics Show Reverse In Forty Year Trend
March 1, 2017 By
Until recently, the rates of traffic-related deaths have been declining, In fact, since the 1970s, the rates of traffic deaths have dropped from 50,000 per year to nearly 30,000. However, in 2015 this trend reversed when traffic fatality rates spiked by 7.2 percent, the largest jump in nearly 40 years. The fatality rates were even […]
Can We Combine Technology and Common Sense to Speed Up Pedestrian Safety?
February 13, 2017 By
There is a worldwide movement to eliminate traffic fatalities, it’s called Vision Zero. An important piece of the puzzle is improving pedestrian safety. To do that we must focus on intersection design. So far that has been an insanely slow and costly process that relies on people dying so that the data can be collected. […]
The Ten Most Dangerous Roads in America
January 30, 2017 By
You’ve likely heard the phrase “driving is the most dangerous thing you will do every day.” Every driver has had close calls, and a large majority of drivers have or will be involved in a car wreck within their lifetime. Thankfully, advances in motor vehicle technology has reduced the number of traffic-related fatalities exponentially and […]
