Distracted driving and impaired driving rank among the top causes of crashes in the U.S. Both are illegal under California law. But have you ever noticed that even though they are both deadly, their penalties are very different? The Centers for Disease Control report that distracted driving is involved in about 18 percent of traffic […]
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Here’s How It Went Down: A GM Defective Switch Timeline
The story of GM’s defective ignition switches is one of neglect and poor judgment. The ignition switch problem caused the switches to turn from “on” to “accessory” while the car was in operation. This would cause affected cars to turn off, disabling power steering and power brakes. Worse yet, because the engine was off, the […]
Pennsylvania Family of Five Horribly Affected after Fatal GM Switch Crash
In November of 2013, a young Pennsylvania father of five, James Yingling, III, died after he spent 17 days in a coma caused by a crash in a GM vehicle. At the time, the Yingling family could not understand why or how the accident occurred. “No one understood why Yingling had failed to turn when […]
The 4 Major Causes of Bad Burn Injuries
Many of us remember, from our high school science classes, rules and precautions for working with chemicals safely. Chemicals can start fires, and some even inflict burns without a fire. Even so, chemical burns are only one of the four major causes of burns. The four major causes of burns are chemical, electrical, radiological, and […]
Families of Police Shooting Victims Sometimes Recover Millions
Since the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, people across the country are particularly tuned into the topic of police brutality. It seems that not a week goes by that we do not hear about the latest confrontation between a police agency and criminal suspects. This is a developing area of the law […]
