When most people think of car accidents they think of one car colliding with another in some fashion. Pedestrian accidents, where a vehicle runs into a person on foot, rarely come to mind. Amazingly, 11 percent of fatalities caused by motor vehicles involve pedestrians. In...
This week Donald Creed, a 76-year old man from Missouri, was charged with 10 misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide for a maximum of 10 years jail time for crashing his tractor trailer into stopped traffic on an Oklahoma turnpike. The crash happened last June. Out...
Although nothing has been confirmed, it appears as though prominent pitchman Billy Mays from symptoms linking to a traumatic brain injury. If confirmed, this will be the second case of TBI to have led to the death of a famous personality. Upon his arrival into...
Warning: Your Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter profile may keep you from getting the money you deserve after an injury. Consider this: Information is flowing faster and more effectively than ever before — all without your explicit consent. While you may set your own profile privacy, other...
Watch our interview with Chris Hawes Thursday, June 23 at 10pm on WFAA Channel 8 - we're discussing one of our current cases involving a disruption of service for a senior citizen's medical alert system. Tune in and then let us know what...
From time to time, we receive reports from not only our clients about current personal injury news, but from friends of the law firm as well. John Bisnar and Brian Chase, of the Orange County, California law firm Bisnar | Chase sent out a...
Let's talk about tort reform. It's not quite as sexy as Salt-N-Pepa, but just as important regardless of who you are and what you stand for. Tort reform refers to the modification of the tort law system to achieve three main goals: to reduce...
The Dallas Morning News is reporting several local school closures due to swine flu, including high schools, elementary schools, and preschool programs across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In addition to school closures, the CDC is advising those with flu-like symptoms - fever, cough, sore throat,...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently released statistics regarding customer complaints against insurance companies and agencies. The stats are unsettling ? yet predictable. In 2008, a whopping 195,669 confirmed complaints were lodged against insurance companies. The reasons? Delays in service (19%), denials...
We've been talking with colleagues around the United States, and one thing remains crystal clear these days: Facebook and Myspace, as wonderful as they are, can be dangerous for legal cases. Increasingly, attorneys are using social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and personal blogs...
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