I read about this case in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly today, and wanted to share the Lawyers Weekly article because it touches nicely on a fairly esoteric legal point. In this case, a large tow truck was illegally parked overnight. A driver hit the illegally parked vehicle, killing his passenger. The passenger’s estate sued the owner of the tow […]
If you were a passenger in a one car accident, then the accident was not your fault. It was your driver’s. Your driver owes you the same duty of care that your driver owes to everybody else on the road. Therefore, if you are injured and your driver is at fault, and in a one
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I plan to blog more on the subject of distracted driving, because I see it becoming an ever larger issue. Most of my auto accident cases now involve people who are getting slammed into while stopped in places they should obviously be stopped (red lights, stop signs, traffic jams). The only possible explanation would appear to
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Among the most common injuries arising from motor vehicle accidents, such as car accidents and truck accidents, are what are called “soft tissue injuries”. These include neck sprains, back strains, pulled muscles in the knees and arms, and what the insurance companies like to call “whiplash”. When you fill out your Operator’s Report for the
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I receive daily email of the hot court decisions of the day. In today’s email, I received a notice about a case of mine. The irony of this decision is that it is a Bankruptcy Court opinion in which I nominally represent the “Creditor”. In this case, I represent a pedestrian who was struck by
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My friends say to me that I must love the snow because it causes so many accidents. Putting aside the idea that the whole concept of loving accidents is reprehensible, I advise them that it is the summer that is the busy season, because there are simply more cars on the road and people are
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People have wondered why it is that lately I have been pounding my blog and pounding Facebook with various posts about tax preparation. People say to me ‘Louis, you are the accident lawyer, what is with all this tax preparation stuff?’. They are concerned that I am giving up my bread and butter practice in
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I recently was driving on Interstate 495, in freezing rain, when I was passed by a car doing the sixty-five mile per hour speed limit. Fortunately, nothing bad happened. This is a particularly good thing, because had that car have lost control and hit me, I have no doubt that the insurance adjuster would have
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Motorcycle accidents are a form of motor vehicle accident. In many ways, motorcycle cases are easier than car and truck accident cases, although they do present some of their own unique issues, especially where the payment of medical bills is concerned. There are some legal differences between motorcycle accident and car and truck accidents. This
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