According to the SPCA, Americans own 78 million dogs and 85.8 million cats. Most of them are well-behaved, but accidental bites and scratches happen. What happens when the bite is not entirely accidental? Most people have a story about the one dog in the neighborhood that everyone avoids. Often, neighbors are frustrated by the local [...]
Drunk driving accidents claim the lives of over 10,000 people per year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Another 3500 people were killed in distracted driving crashes. Although many states outlaw texting or even talking on cell phones while driving, cell phone use accounts for many incidents each year and continues to increase. What [...]
Although we depend on tractor trailers to haul the food and other goods that we all need, the presence of so many large, heavy vehicles on the roads inevitably leads to accidents. Unfortunately, in a tractor-trailer accident, drivers or passengers in smaller, lighter vehicles are more likely to be seriously injured or killed than in [...]
Workers' Compensation laws exist in every state and are designed to allow injured workers to receive compensation for medical expenses and lost wages without having to sue their employers. Workers' Compensation laws are no-fault, meaning that an injured employee does not have to prove that his employer was negligent in order to be compensated for [...]
There are several ways to recover damages against the owner of a dog who injures a person in North Carolina. The first is by proving that the owner of the dog was negligent in some way, for example, that the owner had some reason to believe that the dog could cause harm and still allowed [...]
Self Driving Uber Accident The first gasoline-powered automobile was invented by Karl Friedrich Benz in 1885 – the first recorded automobile accident occurred soon after, in 1891, when a car ran into a tree. Legend has it that the only two automobiles in Ohio collided with each other for the entire year in [...]