Imagine This: Your brother-in-law or a neighbor asks you to borrow your car, truck, or another road-worthy vehicle. You have all allowed someone else to borrow our car before because you trust them or have sympathy for the jam they are in. This time, the...
You would think motor vehicles getting struck by trains would not be a common occurrence these days, but they still happen more often than you would think. Obviously, a train hitting a car at high speed usually ends in the death of the vehicle’s occupants....
Imagine This: You are on your way to work. Today is just like any other day. You turn on your favorite music or podcast and take the same route you have taken hundreds of times to get to work. You pull up to a stop sign, look, and proceed when it’s your turn....
At Garrison Law Firm, we handle many serious injury cases. However, what if your injury is not debilitating, not permanent? What if it is just a hassle over a period of a few weeks as you recover from a sore neck or back, a stiff knee or elbow, or any other temporary...
Much of the following information is derived from an article in the Chinese Journal of Traumatology 2009. Whiplash injuries are generally considered soft tissue injuries of the neck with symptoms such as neck pain and stiffness, shoulder weakness, dizziness, headache,...
You are driving down a two-lane highway when an oncoming car enters your lane. Enough to force you off the road causing you to hit a tree or light pole head-on. Your life is saved by your front airbag, but you are still injured sufficiently enough to go to the...
After you have been involved in a motor vehicle accident, you are likely dealing with a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions. For some, your pain and injuries are significant enough to accept treatment at the scene, whether a simple evaluation and minor treatment from...
When a vehicle hits a pedestrian, the pedestrian usually ends up with more significant injuries than the driver of the vehicle. Laws tend to protect the pedestrian, and that makes sense. For an unprotected human being, a vehicle is akin to a guided missile. Pedestrian...
The most common form of personal injury cases is automobile accidents. It is hard to write about specific cases because they are rarely unique in the mechanism of the accident. People get rear-ended at stoplights and stop signs. They get T-boned when someone...
Early one morning, a tow truck operator was heading down Indiana interstate I-69 just south of Hamilton Town Center on a call for a broken-down box truck sitting on the right-side berm. He pulled in front of the box truck with his emergency lights flashing in the...
