When you suffer an injury on someone else’s property, such as slipping and falling in a puddle of water in a store, it’s normally fairly easy to assign liability. In most cases, the property owner — i.e., the corporation that owns the store — will be liable for your injuries. […]
Category: Personal Injury
For many, riding a motorcycle is one of the most exhilarating experiences possible, as well as an efficient and cost-effective form of transportation. However, motorcycles lack almost all of the safety features — such as seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones — that are standard issue for passenger vehicles, putting their […]
Accidents between trucks and passenger vehicles present a serious risk of injury and death due to the differences in the size and weight of the vehicles involved. The vast majority of truck accidents — 87%, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — are due to human error, but […]
Accidents between two passenger vehicles are dangerous enough, but accidents between a passenger vehicle and a large semi-truck can be devastating. This is because trucks are much larger and heavier than passenger vehicles. They also take much more time to stop, which reduces a truck driver’s ability to quickly and […]
Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, there were 34,247 fatal motor vehicle crashes nationwide, resulting in 37,133 deaths — a fatality rate of 1.16 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. In Maryland, there were […]