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Ohio Supreme Court Rules That Bluffton University Baseball Team Members in Bus Crash Can Reach School’s Liability Coverage
Johnson & Ward Team

In my truck and bus accident law practice in Atlanta, one of the more newsworthy cases in which I have participated arose from the crash of the Bluffton Univeristy tour buss in Atlanta in 2007. In predawn darkness, a bus took a confusingly marked exit ramp and crashed off a bridge, killing the bus driver,…

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How Insurance Adjusters Lull You into Complacency in Order to Take Advantage of You
Johnson & Ward Team

When you or a loved one have been badly hurt in a catastrophic trucking accident, you may expect someone from the trucking company or its insurer to try to lull you into complacency. The objective is to avoid paying the value of the case, which they recognize is substantial. The tactics may remind you of…

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Insurance Coverage for Truck Drivers Hurt or Killed by Other Drivers
Johnson & Ward Team

Trucking is among the more dangerous occupations. A significant percentage of my work as a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta is representation of injured truck drivers and their survivors when a crash is caused not by the trucker, but by another motorist. Many lawyers in such situations may overlook the fact that many trucking…

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Time to Adjust Motor Carrier Insurance Requirements for 29 Years of Inflation
Johnson & Ward Team

Handling truck accident injury and death cases in Georgia, I have often seen how inadequate the levels of insurance coverage can be for the havoc created by large truck crashes. Now there are efforts to catch up the levels of coverage for 29 years of inflation. The current levels of insurance coverage required for interstate…

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Impact of the Wall Street Crisis on Trucking and Insurance
Johnson & Ward Team

As a truck accident trial lawyer in Atlanta, I’m puzzling over how the falling dominoes in the current crisis on Wall Street will impact the trucking and insurance industries. High fuel prices, hurricanes, dependence on foreign oil, the subprime mortgage mess, the economic rise of China and India, the cost of war in Iraq and…

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Trucking Accident Victims Protected by Mcs-90 Endorsement on Truckers’ Insurance Polcies
Johnson & Ward Team

As a lawyer handling both sides of injury and death cases for decades, I can’t count the times I have searched for sufficient insurance coverage to cover a client’s loss. In trucking, there is at least an endorsement on the trucking company’s insurance policy that protects the public, even though the insurer may have a…

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