By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published May 9, 2022 | Posted in Workers Compensation | Tagged Tags: car injury, car wreck, train injury |
Alabama Car Wreck Lawyers Trains and Cars Huntsville Car Accident Attorney Trains and Cars: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a motorist is approximately 40 TIMES more likely to die in a wreck involving an automobile and a train than a wreck between two cars. Alabama ranks 13th in the U.S. for highway-railroad Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In this week’s “From the Files of Powell and Denny” blog, I am reviewing a Social Security Disability claim we had in North Alabama. Our client lived in Limestone County, Alabama, and in 2003 he suffered a back injury after falling from a ladder at work and had Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Drowsy Driving Drowsy Driving: According to a 2012 report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, two of every five drivers (41%) admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel. Furthermore, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that an estimated 100,000 wrecks occur yearly as a result of driver fatigue, Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Distracted Driving Distracted Driving: In 2012, Alabama became the 37th State to pass a law banning texting while driving. To date, 46 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have similar laws, reflecting the concern and damage caused by distracted driving. According to the National Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny Today in “From the Files of Powell and Denny” I want to briefly recount a medical malpractice case I had in the mid 90’s. I was in the Huntsville office on an otherwise nondescript day when I received a phone call from someone who said they had recently Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Speed Speed leads to worse accidents, it’s basic physics; an increase in the velocity of an object will increase its kinetic energy and thus its mass resulting in a more powerful crash. Of course, you don’t have to be a physicist to understand how speed can be dangerous. The faster a Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Alabama High Traffic Fatality Statistics Alabama High Traffic Fatality Statistics: The other morning I was reading a newspaper article and noticed a headline stating Alabama was one of the most dangerous States to operate a car in. According to a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alabama Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In the next “From the Files of Powell and Denny,” I am going to briefly go over the facts from one of our Central Alabama workers compensation trials in St. Clair County, Alabama. Our client was a younger individual who suffered a serious shock at his worksite. Initially Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers How much money am I entitled to receive How much money am I entitled to receive? It is not uncommon for potential clients to ask us this question during our initial meeting to discuss their claim for personal injuries sustained during an automobile accident. We do not try to avoid the Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers What to do after a Wreck According to the Alabama Department of Transportation (Al DOT), in 2020 there was a car wreck reported on average every 3 minutes and 55 seconds. 932 people died on Alabama roads in automobile accidents that year-which breaks down to a traffic accident-related death occurring on Read More
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