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November 1, 2011
Speed Kills; The Consequences Are Forever
Via Andrew Sullivan (h/t Dave Hoffman), an arresting graphic about how a small difference in speed can multiply severalfold a pedestrian’s likelihood of dying in a car accident: This is fact that could be played up a bit more by the public safety community. I’m aware of only one locale in the US where this [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Car Crash
December 15, 2010
Why You Should Steer Clear Of A “Settlement Mill” If You Have A Serious Car Accident Case And Tips On How To Spot One
A recent article by law professor Nora Freeman Engstrom in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics explains why personal injury “settlement mills” exist and why, if you have a serious personal injury case, you should make sure that your lawyer is not running a settlement mill (hat tip Point of Law and Drug and Device [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Car Crash
June 22, 2010
Massachusetts House Approves Texting While Driving Ban
With this week’s approval of a bill in the Massachusetts House that would ban texting while driving, Massachusetts is poised to become the twenty-ninth state to impose such a ban. Why it took Massachusetts so long to get a texting ban passed is almost beyond comprehension. The cell phone companies are not lobbying against these [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Motorcycle Accidents
June 20, 2010
Study Shows That Massachusetts Personal Injury Plaintiffs Are Losing Vast Majority Of Trials: Is That A Problem, And What’s The Solution?
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports in its June 14, 2010 issue that personal injury plaintiffs lost in the vast majority of cases tried in Massachusetts courts in 2009. Under Mass Lawyers Weekly’s rather generous methodology, a “win” for a plaintiff was defined as a case in which the plaintiff received any money at all, even if [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Medical Malpractice, Motorcycle Accidents
March 3, 2010
Massachusetts Senate Approves Texting Ban, Restrictions On Elderly Drivers
The passage yesterday in the Senate of a bill banning text messaging while driving and imposing visual and other medical tests on drivers over 75 years old is good news inasmuch as it presages a ban on hand-held texts, but the potential ban on hands-free devices and the medical review of seniors raise a lot [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Motorcycle Accidents
January 31, 2010
Report: Laws Banning Cell Phone Use While Driving Doesn’t Lower Accident Rates
Orin Kerr, at the libertarian legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy, points to a new study claiming that laws prohibiting cell phone use while driving have not succeeded in reducing car crashes. Kerr seems to suggest that, in light of the study’s data, such laws should be repealed. It seems to me that the data, if [...]
Also posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Motorcycle Accidents
January 29, 2010
Federal Law Now Prohibits Truckers From Driving While Texting
In a move that the Department of Transportation should have made long ago, a new regulation will prohibit truckers from driving while texting. The move follows on the heels of President Obama’s October executive order prohibiting federal employees from texting while driving. As the satirical newspaper The Onion jokes, the text messaging ban might be [...]
