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...
A business owner has a duty to make the public areas of their property reasonably safe. However, trip and fall cases are fraught with traps for the unwary. Things like: failure to report the incident; failure to get the names and contact information of...
If you have driven by the scene of significant impact intersection T-bone car accidents, then you know what a mess it leaves on the roadway. Many times, that messy appearance spills over into the litigation over who was at fault and whether the injuries claimed...
The Accident It’s a cold snow-swept night. A 14-year-old boy is walking his 13-year-old girlfriend from his next-door home down a narrow rural road. Snowplows have cleaned the street leaving high snow piles along each side of the road. This made it necessary they walk...