Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Car versus Truck Accidents Far More Dangerous

  Ken Margolin | December 06, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to the American Automobile Association ("AAA"), American motorists share a fear of being involved in accidents with large trucks. That communal fear is not unreasonable. Approximately 5000 people are killed annually in accidents involving passenger cars and commercial trucks. Fatal car-truck crashes are all too common. While many states have placed limits on the size of trucks' rigs,...

• Traffic Injuries are Not Inevitable

  Ken Margolin | December 04, 2006 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A recent article on traffic injuries, written by researchers at a non-profit organization affiliated with Emory University, states that worldwide, traffic accidents cause 1 million fatalities and over 20 million injuries per year. The authors (Lauren P. Giles, B.A.; Elisabeth S. Hayes, M.B.A.; and Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P., Road Traffic Injuries: Can we Stop a Global Epidemic?), draw the...

• Detecting Brain Injury

  Ken Margolin | November 15, 2006 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability among Americans. TBI kills 50,000 people per year and it is estimated that over 5 million Americans are afflicted with TBI-related health problems. TBI most commonly occurs from traffic or sports accidents and falls. In any personal injury case involving definite or potential trauma to the head, the possibility of brain...

• Drunk Driving Accidents

  Ken Margolin | November 13, 2006 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The federal Center for Disease Control estimates that alcohol is involved in car crashes that kill someone in the United States every 13 minutes. That equals more than 15,000 deaths per year due to drunk driving accidents. The government has made a number of recommendations to reduce alcohol-related deaths and injuries on the roadway.It pressured states - with the threat of losing federal money...

• Car Accidents and the Cell Phone Menace

  Ken Margolin | November 10, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A friend of mine joked recently that he had a vision of his demise - run over by a minivan driven by someone talking on a cell phone. He may be right. The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society estimates that drivers distracted by cell phones cause 2,600 highway deaths and 330,000 injuries each year. Since everyone knows they shouldn't talk on a cell phone while driving, it remains a mystery why...

• Catastrophic Injury Cases and the Day in the Life Video

  Ken Margolin | November 08, 2006 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  When attorneys handle a case involving paralysis or other catastrophic injuries, one of the biggest challenges is effectively portraying their impact on the client's life. Words are powerful, but go only so far. One of the most effective tools available to the trial lawyer is the day in the life video. These videos show more dramatically than any verbal description, the difficulties posed by the...

• The Voir Dire Debate

  Ken Margolin | November 08, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Voir dire is the process whereby potential jurors are questioned before they are selected, to probe for biases that might impair their ability to impartially judge the facts. Voir dire has been described in a "Law Day" outline of the American Bar Association, as "one of the most important aspects of any trial." Massachusetts is one of only a few states in the country in which voir dire is not...

• Spinal Cord Injuries

  Ken Margolin | November 07, 2006 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Severe spinal cord injuries fall into the category of injuries that can be described as life-altering. Enormous strides have been made in the last decade to help individuals paralyzed by spinal cord trauma live longer with a higher quality of life. Naturally, the greater the damage to the spinal cord and the more severe the limitation on movement and self-sufficiency, the greater the supports...

• Large Trucks - Danger on our Roadways

  Ken Margolin | October 05, 2006 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Is there anyone who drives regularly on the highways who has not had a perilous encounter with a large tractor trailer truck? Unlikely. Maybe when seeing an 18 wheeler in your rear view mirror closing fast, or watching a double tractor trailer weaving in and out of lanes or passing traffic at 80 miles an hour, you wondered whether large trucks really cause much death and injury in addition to...

• A Synopsis of Boston's Big Dig Tragic Tunnel Collapse

  Staff Writer | July 29, 2006 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On July 10, 2006, Melina Del Valle (38) of Boston was killed when a nearly 3000 pound ceiling panel feel from the recently completed I 90/Ted William's Connector Tunnel in Boston's Central Artery. The tragedy follows a decade of concerns over escalating costs related to the tunnel, which included at least one indictment and conviction for false plan submission. Massachusetts Governor, Mitt...