According to Prevent Blindness America, each year there are about 6,000 eye injuries caused from auto batteries. That does not even take into account skin burns, hand injuries, and other possible injuries from improper use of car batteries. To bring awareness of the dangers of car batteries and share important tips to prevent fatal injuries, […]
Learn More About October: Auto Battery Safety MonthCalifornia Gov. Edmund Brown signed the autonomous-vehicle bill, SB 1298, into law on September 25, 2012 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. So far Florida, Nevada, and California are the only three U.S. states that have passed laws regarding autonomous vehicles. The bill will allow Google to test driverless cars on public roadways in […]
Learn More About California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars: Google DrivesSending or reading text messages while driving is one of the most dangerous types of distracted driving, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA estimates that the average text takes the driver’s eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds – long enough for a vehicle going 55 miles per hour […]
Learn More About The Personal Costs of Texting and DrivingA study of 24,085 situations involving teen drivers by the AAA Foundation recently found that loud conversations with passengers are the number one source of teen driver distraction. Using cell phones or other handheld devices came second, followed by horseplay in the vehicle. About 17 percent of the analyzed situations showed teen drivers distracted by […]
Learn More About Study Finds Common Teen Driving Distractions Include Conversation, Cell PhonesThe wealthy French Riviera city state of Monaco was the home of a multiple-car pileup involving five luxury carswith an estimated value of more than $1.1 million in late July 2011. The collision started when a female driver in a blue Bentley Azure (worth an estimated $400,000) scraped the side of a Mercedes S Class […]
Learn More About World’s Most Expensive Car Accident I San Diego Auto Accident LawyersYou may be surprised to know that a good personal injury lawyer uses the skills of a salesman to approach negotiations with the insurance company. In fact‚ your attorney is usually a better salesman than is the insurance claims adjuster‚ both because of his legal education and his prior experience in dealing with adjusters. Your […]
Learn More About Your San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Should Approach Negotiations with the Insurance Company As If It Were a SaleInsurance adjusters are the “middle-man” in the personal injury settlement process. Although they are the person a San Diego personal injury attorney will negotiate with for a settlement‚ the adjuster must get the authority to settle from someone. Many experienced adjusters‚ including supervisors and managers‚ are fully aware of the value of a case‚ even […]
Learn More About How Insurers Stall Injury Settlements by Claiming to Need AuthorityWe have previously written about the very important California Court of Appeals decision handed down in the case of Howell v. Hamilton Meats and Provisions‚ Inc. which clarified that the collateral source rule is still the law in California‚ thereby permitting injured people to recover the full amounts of their medical bills from the negligent […]
Learn More About CA Supreme Court Appears Poised to Side with Insurance CompaniesLast year‚ we wrote about a story where an insurance agent failed to sell an auto insurance policy upgrade to a client of Northern Virginia personal injury attorney Ben Glass. The result? It cost his client $900‚000 in underinsured settlement funds while an increase in the policy limits up to the $1‚000‚000 case value would […]
Learn More About Agents Still Not Selling UM/UIM Insurance | San Diego Injury AttorneyIn my profession as a car accident attorney in a San Diego personal injury law firm‚ I am all too familiar with the statistics: 6 million auto accidents in the United States every year- and your chances of being involved in a fatal accident at some point in your life—1 in 75. With these types […]
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