01

Aug

Is Lockdown Keeping You from Medical Care after a Car Accident?

In these times of a global pandemic caused by the coronavirus, we are all trying to maintain social distancing. With 90% of Americans staying home during this crisis, most people are staying in place. And the results have been dramatic in some places with “safer at home&rdq...

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01

Aug

Texas Has Had The Most Fatal Holiday Crashes in the U.S. for Five Consecutive Years

In December 2021, Dallas Observer wrote this eye-opening article about Texas holiday traffic fatalities. According to a study by HelpAdvisor, each year approximately 40,000 people die in the United States due to car crashes. Between 2015 and 2019, Texas had the most fatal traffic...

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01

Aug

Texas Roads Play a Significant Role in Serious Injuries and Fatalities

Houston Chronicle wrote on November 21, 2021, on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, calling for the leaders of TxDOT to accept responsibility for the death toll on Texas roads, and to renew funding and staffing accordingly. In 2019 TxDOT launched a program to reduc...

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01

Aug

Texas Lawmakers look To End Swoop and Settle Tactics After Accidents

Car accidents can result in a variety of economic and non-economic losses. These losses, or damages, include medical bills, vehicle damage costs, pain and suffering, mental suffering, and more. As such, the total recoverable damages is often substantial. However, a defendant driv...

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01

Aug

Amazon Subcontractors Discouraging Safety?

Amazon subs out its delivery drivers to a number of subcontractors. To promote safe driving within the fleet, Amazon created an app called Mentor to track how a driver deals with various driving situations and gives the drivers a safety score.   Sounds good right?  ...

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01

Aug

Swoop and Settle: Time for the Abuse of Our Injured to End

It has long been against the law for a lawyer to swoop in after an injury and use pressure tactics to gain new clients. If a lawyer or a representative of a law firm does so, and does not have a prior or existing relationship with the client, the lawyer can go to jail, lose...

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01

Aug

Tesla Autopilot Technology Causes More Distracted Drivers

MIT researchers released a study that found that Tesla drivers are more distracted when they use the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot feature that are in these vehicles. According to the study “drivers glanced more frequently away from the road, and thus...

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01

Aug

What Is the Worst Month to Drive?

If you were to guess which month is the riskiest to drive, would you think it is January, when revelers tend to crash on New Year's Day? Or perhaps July, when the same thing happens on Independence Day? Is it November or December when people hit the road for Thanksgiving an...

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01

Aug

Lower Traffic Count Does Not Affect the Death Count as Expected in Texas

A story in the Houston Chronicle recently took an in depth look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the rate of serious injuries and deaths on highways throughout the state of Texas. Everyone expected the rate of death and serious injuries caused by vehicle wrecks to...

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01

Aug

Car Accidents are the Leading Cause of Death Among Healthy US Citizens

I have a confession to make. When it comes to facts, figures and statistics, I am a real nerd.   It seems throughout my whole life I have been looking for facts that contradict or support theories or statements that we all take as true.   Contradicting beliefs with...

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