Rear-end collisions may someday be a thing of the past. This would be very good news. In November 2012, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that 28% of all crashes are rear-end collisions. Many thousands of lives could be saved and...
It seems like haunted houses have always been one of the tried-and-true traditions associated with the Halloween season. These days they're more popular than ever, with increasingly technically-advanced effects to add to the fright level. According to a haunted house...
When talking about automobile insurance, everyone has heard the term "full coverage." Even insurance agents mistakenly tell their clients all the time that they have "full coverage." As a lawyer who files lawsuits all the time in automobile accidents, let me set the...
When most people hear about nursing home abuse, they think about an elderly person being harmed by a caregiver. However, in some cases the abuser is another resident at the facility. In fact, this has become an increasingly serious issue as people with behavioral and...
On May 12, 2015, a major train crash left eight people dead and over two hundred injured. An article from the New York Times discusses these devastating accidents and tells about a couple who experienced the accident first hand. The woman, Kathryn Varnum, only 33...
Basic physics explains that large heavy objects moving at high speed need more distance to stop than smaller, lighter objects. Otherwise, the large heavy object can damage or destroy the smaller object. This isn't only true in the classroom, it is very true in real...
Every person I talk to naturally assumes that if they go to a store and are injured while shopping there, that the store is automatically responsible for their medical bills and injuries. In reality, these types of cases are often some of the hardest to prove. There...
A young Indiana beauty queen was killed just after midnight on Saturday, Aug. 1, when the car in which she was a passenger struck several trees before rolling over. The one-car accident occurred in Palmyra in Harrison County. The vehicle reportedly went off the road...
A friend recently asked me, "What is the most common medical mistake you see?" The truth is, there are many, many ways people are harmed in our health care system. It is difficult to believe, but medical mistakes kill and injure hundreds of thousands of people a year....
A former high ranking employee of IU Health has come forward and filed a lawsuit alleging that the largest healthcare provider in Indiana has put profits over the care provided to low income patients. Dr. Judith Robinson was fired from her position as medical director...