Slipping or tripping on a slippery surface can lead to serious accidents. It is imperative that you use proper safety techniques to try to prevent these falls from occurring.While there are some options to keep yourself safe, some aspects of safety don't depend on...
Year: 2017
Best Lawyers of the Year Award for 2018
Best Lawyers, a peer review magazine, announced on November 3, 2017 the 2018 "Lawyer of the Year" Awards for Northern California. R. Lewis Van Blois of the in Oakland, California was selected as the Plaintiff Product Liability "Lawyer of...
Why are Large Truck Crashes on the Rise?
The most common causes of large truck accidents are driving too fast for road conditions, straying from the lane of travel, failure to keep a proper lookout, following too closely, driver fatigue, mechanical defects, tire blowouts and shifting cargo caused by...
Santa Rosa Fire Burn Victims Face Lengthy Recovery
The fires ignited in Northern California on the windy night of October 8, 2017 killed 43 people and left several burn victims who face long painful recoveries. The wine country burn victims were taken to the Bothin Burn Center at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San...
Big rig accidents happen for many reasons
As one of our California readers, living in a state where traveling on the roads is, arguably, the mainstay of transportation and commutation, we know that you may have some fears about driving in close proximity to large commercial trucks. These big rigs don't always...
Federal Officials Fail to Protect Public from Fatigued Drivers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) are abandoning planned regulations that require testing for fatigue-inducing disorders for truck drivers and train engineers. Safety experts say that millions of...
Deadly Truck Underride Crashes Continue to Occur
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that half of the fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles involve underride accidents where the top half of the car is sheared off. Airbags and safety harnesses provide no protection in underride...
Serious Dangers When Buying Used Tires
About 35 million used tires are sold in the United States each year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over 11,000 car accidents are caused by tire defects each year and a minimum of 500 deaths occur each year because of...
Broken bones can result in more complicated medical issues
People get into terrible car accidents every day in California. There are some fatalities and often some serious injuries. If you recently experienced a severe car accident, you may consider yourself lucky to have only suffered a broken bone. In some cases, however,...
Distracted Driving is an Increasingly Deadly Problem
Fatalities from distracted driving increased from 2014 to 2015 at a faster rate than any other category attributed to human choices, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NHTSA estimated that 3,500 people were killed in crashes...