One of the issues that is sure to come up in a death case or a serious injury case is that getting a check from the defendant will not bring the dead person back. And it will not make the …
Settling Injury Cases For Children
As the father of three, I especially enjoy working with children who are recovering from injuries from accidents. Tennessee requires children’s cases to be court approved to be final and binding. (a) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the …
Craziest Will Provisions
Most peoples’ Last Will and Testaments simply indicate that whatever they own is to be passed on to their family members. Occasionally, problematic people may be disinherited. Or, sometimes conditions are set up on recovering money, such as graduating college. …
WHAT’S WITH ALL THE POTHOLES?
Potholes seem to be everywhere in the Memphis area. Dodging potholes may well become a winter Olympic sport (as if driving 240 is not challenging enough already). This year we have had a “perfect storm” of sorts for creating terrible, …
TEACH YOUR TEENS HOW TO RUN OFF THE ROAD!
That sounds like strange safety advice from an accident attorney and parent of teens. But it is critical. Teens have great reflexes, lightning-quick reaction times, and better hand-eye coordination than any of us old folks, yet they are much worse …
PEDESTRIAN DEATHS ON THE RISE
A pedestrian is injured every 8 minutes, and killed every 2 hours in traffic crashes. 14% of all traffic fatalities in traffic crashes were those on foot. They account for less total crashes, but as expected, crashes prove much more …
How Did We Survive As Kids?
If you are over 40, think of things we lived through. How on earth did we survive growing up?! No car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags. Riding in the back of a pick-up truck was …
Head Injuries Creating The Walking Wounded
Some head injuries following car accidents and other events are not properly diagnosed. These folks may be called “the walking wounded.” They have difficulties from the impact that they themselves are unable to appreciate. Most commonly, we see personality change, irritability, …
Our Brave New World
We now live in a world where a teenage girl encouraged with many text messages a teenage boy to kill himself and is now going to jail. We now live in a new world where an electric self-driving car is …
MURPHY’S LAW
I am constantly attending–and occasionally speaking at–legal seminars and symposiums to become more accomplished in my areas of injury law. I heard about a case that so illustrates the so-called, “Murphy’s Law.” That is our name for the idea that …
Power Windows Can Be Deadly
You may never of thought about it, but the motor that causes your power windows to raise is much stronger than it needs to be to do the job. Now there’s a logical reason for this. It has to have …
Safety In Everyday Life
According to the Report on Injuries in America, 2003, Published as part of Injury Facts®, 2004 edition, by the National Safety Council, there were about 27 million visits to hospital emergency departments for injuries. About 20.7 million injuries resulted in …