The United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched an initiative to enhance safety in trucking and lower crash risks. The initiative is called Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) and measures a driver’s safety score by analyzing seven Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories, or BASICS. Though certain aspects of the program have been scrutinized …
How Mechanical Failure Can Cause Truck Accidents
Semi-truck accidents that involve passenger vehicles can often result in serious injuries, often to the occupants of the smaller vehicles involved. When these accidents are the result of mechanical failure, victims may be able to recover from their losses through a Georgia truck accident lawsuit. Some of the types of losses that may be compensable …
Commercial Truck Accidents and DUIs
An estimated half million commercial truck accident take place across the country on an annual basis, resulting in approximately 5,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of serious bodily injuries. A large portion of these accidents occur because the commercial truck driver decided to drive while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. When truck drivers …
Common Car Accident Injuries
Car accidents affect millions of Americans each year, sometimes causing serious injuries. One of the most dangerous kinds of car accidents in which a person can be involved is that of a rear-end collision. These accidents occur when one vehicle hits another from behind, often when the vehicle in front is at a stop or …
How is Liability Determined in Rear-End Accidents?
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were about 2.24 million people injured in car accidents in 2010 alone. Accidents can occur in many different ways, with some posing a greater risk of injury than others. One of the most unavoidable types of accidents for victims is rear-end accidents. These accidents occur when …
Commercial Truck Driver Qualifications
Commercial truck drivers have to fulfill more requirements to receive their licenses than drivers of regular passenger vehicles. This is important because if a driver is unqualified and causes an accident, the damage and injuries caused by a large, heavy commercial truck are usually much more extensive and serious than accidents involving only smaller vehicles. …
How to Get Damages for Serious Slip and Fall Injuries
Whether you suffered a wrist fracture, elbow injury, shoulder dislocation, or another type of injury to your hand or arm in a Georgia slip and fall accident, you most likely are in pain, unable to work and earn a living, and in need of serious compensation for your serious hand and wrist injuries. If unsafe …
Common Hand and Wrist Injuries From Slip and Falls
Slip and fall accidents in Georgia can happen anywhere, but most often they take place in grocery stores due to spilled liquid. When people are walking along and suddenly slip, they generally attempt to break their fall with their hands. However, this quick reaction of throwing out their hands directs the impact of the fall …
How to Deal With a Store After a Slip and Fall
You may have entered a store to pick up groceries, buy clothes, or purchase household goods when suddenly your feet slipped out from underneath you, and down you went. While you know you fell, you are not sure how you got there. You then noticed the wet surface that caused you to come face to …
Country Music Group Sued for Negligence
Georgia law requires commercial and private property owners to maintain safe properties for people who are legally on the premises. Most properties are subject to safety codes or regulations requiring the property owner or manager to prevent negligent exposure to harmful or injurious situations. Premises liability claims may hold these property owners or managers liable …
Speeding Tractor Trailer Causes Fatal Accident
According to the United States Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety, at least 77,000 of the approximately 141,000 truck crashes in 2011 could be blamed on driver error. Truck accident injuries are often severe due to a truck’s size and weight and are difficult to avoid because of the long stopping distances required by …
Causes of TBIs in Older Adults
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can occur to anyone and for numerous reasons such as falling, getting into a car accident, or anything else that causes a person to hit or bump one’s head. However, falls are the leading cause of TBIs and account for over 60 percent of all traumatic brain injuries in elderly …
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