A article in eTrucker.com reports conflict on the effectiveness of the new Hours of Service rules that went into effect last year. An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study says truck drivers’ sleep time had increased under the new rule, but they reported slightly more instances than when the old rule was in effect of…
Continue reading ›Senate Bill 3 amended 9-10-31 to bring back a “vanishing venue” rule as follows: (d) If all defendants who reside in the county in which an action is pending are discharged from liability before or upon the return of a verdict by the jury or the court hearing the case without a jury, a nonresident…
Continue reading ›Patrick Hindert over at his blog Beyond Structured Settlements has an interesting post that lists some recommended articles and resources relating to personal injury settlement planning. Among these are: – Getting To Yes: Helping Reluctant Clients See The Benefits Of Settlement, Elaine McArdle, Lawyers Weekly USA (11/2004) offers up tips on bringing clients around to…
Continue reading ›The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the following product recalls in recent days: – Portable cribs from Delta Enterprises — crib slats can separate from the headboard, posing an entrapment risk to young children. – Rear projection TV from JVC – fire risk. — Carpet from Shaw Industries — fire risk due to uneven…
Continue reading ›Driver fatigue and trucking safety are not just an American concern. On 3/11/05, a truck driver and his passenger died when the semi-trailer they were travelling in crashed on the New South Wales north coast in Australia. The men were killed when the vehicle crashed on the Pacific Highway near Karuah at 3:40 AM. No…
Continue reading ›In Marion County, TN, early on the morning of 3/9/05, a tractor-trailer swerved off I-24 for several hundred yards before slamming into the bridge abutment near the Nickajack dam. The load of apples and pears disconnected from the rig, and the cab itself ended up hanging precariously from the bridge. After workers stabilized the cab,…
Continue reading ›We’ve never said there weren’t abuses on both sides of the tort system, or that there wasn’t room for improvement, but a lot of the “crisis” arguments for trashing the civil justice system seemed clearly overstated insurance industry propaganda. Now, a study of Texas Department of Insurance records dating back to 1988 debunks the argument…
Continue reading ›More than 1,500 people a year die in crashes in Georgia, and more than 135,000 are injured. The concern is greatest perhaps in metro Atlanta counties, which exceed the national average crash rate of 5 percent per year among all registered vehicles. In fact, the crash rate is almost 10 percent in Fulton County, the…
Continue reading ›These 2000 statistics are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System. 1,541 people died in motor vehicle crashes. 63 percent of these deaths did not involve alcohol-related fatal crashes. 93 percent of these deaths did not involve drivers ages 16 or 17. The fatality rate was highest for the contributing factor…
Continue reading ›The McKesson – HBOC merger led to a legal morass due to allegations of accounting irregularies at HBOC. A few months later, McKesson discovered that, due to accounting fraud, HBOC’s common stock had been overvalued and that, consequently, McKesson had paid too much for it. McKesson hired a law firm and accounting firm to investigate…
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