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When You Need to Hire a Car Accident Attorney Whether you’ve suffered a minor or serious accident, it’s smart to hire a lawyer, especially if you have medical bills or accidentally admitted fault. -
Understanding Virginia’s Car Seat Laws Virginia law outlines the proper use of car seats, booster seats, and adult seat belts by children—which includes specific age, weight, and height requirements. -
Elderly Drivers Create Danger on U.S. Roadways Elderly drivers experience more physical, cognitive, and medical changes, as well as changes in driving habits. These factors may lead to a car accident. -
Alarm Fatigue Risks the Lives of Patients Alarm fatigue may cause a healthcare worker to tune out an alert noise, turn down alarm volume, or power off an alarm—which can have serious consequences. -
Aggressive Driving Is Not Uncommon Factors like stress and perceptions of wrongdoing can contribute to both overtly aggressive and passive-aggressive behaviors in some drivers. -
Science Highlights the Real Dangers of Distracted Driving Despite the known dangers of all forms of distracted driving, research shows that too many people still engage in risky distracted driving behaviors. -
How Taking Charge of Medical Care Can Help Your Injury Claim By helping your doctors understand your medical history and by following doctors' orders, you can help your car accident injury claim. Learn how here. -
Patient Tips for Avoiding Medical Malpractice By acting as their own advocates, conducting thorough research, and being honest about medical history, patients can help prevent medical malpractice. -
What You Should Know Before Talking to an Insurance Adjustor Insurance reps use manipulation, recordings, and high-pressure conversations to devalue car wreck injury claims. Know your rights before an adjuster calls you. -
How Posting to Social Media Could Devalue Your Claim After suffering a car accident injury, refraining from social media is the safest option. Otherwise, an insurance adjuster might use your posts against you. -
Common Insurance Company Surveillance Tactics If you’ve suffered car accident injuries recently, you need to know how insurance companies try to avoid payouts using surveillance tactics. -
Riding Your Motorcycle Safely This Winter If you choose to ride during the winter, you’ll need to practice cold-weather safety measures to reduce your risk of injury. -
Signs of a Drowsy Truck Driver Are you about to get into an accident with a drowsy truck driver? We discuss the signs that the trucker next to you may be nodding off here. -
Tracy Morgan Gives Interview Following Tragic Truck Crash Tracy Morgan gives an interview following his tragic encounter with a Walmart tractor trailer in June of 2014. Find out what he had to say, here. -
Suing Your Noisy Neighbor Suing your neighbor for being noisy may sound excessive, but it may be the only way to get the results you want. Find out more here. -
Dangers of the Dehydrated Alcohol Product Called Palcohol A powdered alcohol substance called Palcohol will be available for purchase this summer. Find out the potential dangers of the product here. -
Common Emergency Room Errors When you check into an emergency room, you expect to get better. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case when the staff makes mistakes. -
Failing to Diagnose a Life-Threatening Aortic Dissection Aortic dissection is a serious condition that could be easily diagnosed with common tests. When misdiagnosed or missed, this condition can lead to death. -
Signs of Placental Abruption After a Car Accident If you’re pregnant and involved in a car accident, you could experience placental abruption. Knowing the symptoms could save your baby’s life. -
What You Didn’t Know About Seatbelt Use Seatbelts save millions of lives each year, yet some passengers and motorists still refuse to wear them. Find out other startling information, here.