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Mar

Initial Results of the New Texas Law Prohibiting Use of Cell Phones When Driving

2018 was the first full year of the Texas law banning non-handsfree cell phone use while driving a vehicle. Since the law's inception, thousands of warning tickets have been handed out, and the insurance industry and trial lawyers have made a sustained push to publicize the...

Mar

Preventing Dangerous Repairs to Vehicles after Wrecks

A bill recently filed in the Texas Legislature by Representative Travis Clardy (R- Nacogdoches) seeks to correct the problem of insurance companies dictating what repairs they will and will not pay for after a wreck. It turns out that some of their approved repairs conflict with...

Mar

Serious Scooter Accidents on the Rise

Last week I spent some time in Austin, protecting Texas families from bad bills and advocating for good bills. It is a biennial tradition beginning in January every odd numbered year and lasting for the next 140 days. The work is necessary and interesting. Over the years I have n...

Mar

Giving a Statement to an Insurance Company Cannot hurt me, Can it?

Just this morning our office received a smug call from an adjuster. In a wreck that happened less than a week ago, she was indicating that before hiring our firm, the client had released her claim because our client gave a recorded statement in which she had agreed to take some n...

Mar

Ride Shares Create Insurance Quandary

A local news station in Dallas, WFAA, ran a story yesterday about three women who were injured in a hit and run wreck in which an unknown truck smashed into their Lyft driver, causing the three women an insurance nightmare as they attempt to navigate the complexities of insurance...

Mar

The Safety Costs of the Federal Government Shutdown

Have you ever been to a foreign country with a non-functioning or barely functioning government? If you have you are very likely to have that unsettled feeling that you are not safe as you are in the United States. Lack of safety rails, super-dangerous roads, people riding on the...

Mar

The Use of Cell Phones While Driving in Houston

A recent article in the Houston Chronicle again highlights a problem that every driver on our roads sees every day… Use of cell phones while driving. The article cites a study that shows cell phone use by drivers was monitored as high as 1 out of 12 drivers at the location...

Mar

Go Vote!

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 is the date, now is the time to have your voice heard. At the McCraw Law Group, we have clients, friends and referral partners of all political stripes and persuasions. To us, each of you is important regardless of your political beliefs. To the politici...

Mar

States Where Marijuana is Legal are Having Increased Car Crashes

Today I read a study that is interesting but unsurprising. It turns out that according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, crash frequency from states where recreational marijuana is legal is 6 percent higher than neighboring states where recreational use of marijuana...

Mar

Fraud and Healthcare

Several months ago I wrote a blog about a Medicare fraud committed by a local Frisco company, Novus Health Services and Optim Health Services, known collectively as Novus. An Arlington doctor plead guilty on Tuesday in Federal Court in Dallas for his role in defrauding the govern...

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