Q. What if you get shoved off the road by a motorist who never even stops? Tennessee law is very specific about how you can recover from your Uninsured Motorists (UM) Insurance Coverage on your car in the event of …
Texting While Driving
The New Era Of Car Accident Causes If you are rear ended there’s a good chance that texting and driving is to blame. 20 years ago, when I first started practicing injury law, rear end accidents looked pretty well the …
Eyewitnesses and Liars
As an injury attorney for almost 25 years, I have taken more depositions and testimony of eyewitnesses than I care to remember. It is surprising to many how the stories of parties or eyewitnesses often vary from one another. When …
Making Semis Safer?
MAKING SEMIS SAFER? My biggest cases monetarily have been trucking crashes. Fully loaded 18 wheelers weigh around 80,000 lbs. compared to your 3,500 lbs. car. In a recent article called “Navigating Through the Era of Reptile Theory” Edwin S. Norris, …
Don’t Dodge Deer
This is the time of year I remind you and yours to watch out for deer during their mating season, known as the “rut.” Deer become single-minded during their romantic season, and are unlikely to notice your car. The same …
Seven Hidden Car Accident Injuries
After a car crash, you may be able to walk around and feel little more than “tightness.” But, the next 2 days, you may be unable to even get out of bed! No one is more surprised than you. Of …
What is Pain and Suffering Worth?
It may seem strange to ask what value to assign to pain and suffering, yet it is a major component of personal injury cases. Over the years, great trial lawyers have tried many varied approaches to assign a value to …
A City Without Street Signs?
The coming wave of autonomous cars, if things go as predicted, will make many drastic changes: But a change that follows this revolution may not come immediately to mind: the extinction of the street sign. Autonomous vehicles have no need …
What Your Auto Insurance Actually Covers
Who: your policy covers you, the members of your household, and usually anyone else you give permission to drive the car. Others: Liability insurance Liability insurance pays for damage and injuries you or your car cause to others in accidents. Two …
PTSD From Accidents
When you listen to songs from your childhood , you’ll find that the melodies take you back to your youth. When you smell hot apple pie, you might remember grandmother’s house. When “Magic Carpet Ride” plays, I’m back in the …
Bad Injuries Don’t Always Make Good Cases
After handling catastrophic injuries for more than two decades, we have seen our share of terrible trauma. But, it is easy to miss that the severity of trauma does not automatically make the other guy more at fault. In all …
Avoid Being Driven To Distraction
Texting while driving is among the most dangerous activity. This is thought to be because it requires your eyes, your fingers and your mental attention. It is thus impossible not to look away from the road on a non-hands-free system. …