Category: Personal Injury

Today, General Motors has agreed to a $900 million settlement and agreed to admit to misleading the public about vehicle safety amid defective ignition switches within some of their vehicles. This criminal settlement is just the latest announced by the Justice Department against corporations; which also includes Toyota and JPMorgan Chase. Tied to over 120 deaths, problems with the ignition switch could shut off the car

Often, motor vehicle accidents in Centre County involving tractor trailers occur when commercial trucking companies force tractor trailer truck drivers to work long hours while experiencing fatigue or sleep deprivation. The results can be deadly. Sleep deprivation is to blame for 100,000 motor vehicle accidents and 1,550 deaths every year. Studies suggest that up to

For many of us, our cell phones are necessary requirements for work, home life, and fun and serve as an essential means of communication in our society. We all use our phones as not just a way to communicate, but now as a way to surf the web, send email, check our bank accounts and

Clients often come into our office after sustaining personal injuries in a car accident and exclaim, “I am fully insured, so my insurance company is going to take care of everything.” Unfortunately, when we look at our clients’ car insurance policies, we learn that the client lacks the single most important insurance coverage that money

Many of our country’s shipments are made using large trucks and tractor trailers, and often, drivers of these large vehicles are working long, demanding hours on the road to deliver and transport products across the country. In Pennsylvania and almost every other state, the highways and roads provide direct access for truckers, but this access

Often personal injury client’s contact our law firm who believe that they are covered by their full tort selection on their own auto insurance policy only to come to find out that they are bound by the limited tort selection of the driver of the vehicle they were a passenger in. For an in depth

When I ask the majority of my clients if they have full tort insurance coverage, the number one I answer I receive is, “yes, I full coverage car insurance.” Later, when I look at the client’s car insurance policy, I find at that they have full comprehensive auto insurance coverage but are not fully insured. Full comprehensive

A time-honored tradition among college students is the frat party where students gather to drink, play games, and make friends at a university fraternity house. While frat parties are great places to enjoy cheap (or even free) drinks and hang out with friends, the potential for consuming too much alcohol is great, especially for incoming

In the age of sharing everything is caring, we have come to incorrectly believe that everything that we put out on the Internet is not available for all to see. Unfortunately, as the recently settled Federal Trade Commission Lawsuit against Snapchat and its founders have shown, your photographs and videos may still exist, in spite

Most people think to call the police when there is catastrophic injury or extensive property damage to their car or truck. All too often, car accident victims do not contact the police when they think that their injuries are not severe or the property damage to their car or truck is minor. I have made