Posts by Clay Martin
Subrogation in Car Accident Claims
When you’re hurt in an accident, you need immediate medical care. Most patients go to their local emergency room. There, the doctors provide a diagnosis and may suggest or apply an initial treatment. In serious cases, you may be admitted to the hospital. Victims of car accidents, slips and falls, construction accidents, and other accidents…
Read MoreStudy Reveals Nearly Half of Truck Drivers Are Prone to Sleep Apnea
A recent study out of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows that up to 49 percent of commercial truck drivers could be at risk for a condition called obstructive sleep apnea, which can cause drowsiness and fatigue while driving. Previously, experts believed the number of drivers with diagnosed or undiagnosed sleep apnea ranged between seven…
Read MoreThe Facts About Drugged Driving
People are unaware of the dangers of driving under the influence of any substance, but that does not stop many from doing it anyway. This leads to thousands of tragic accidents a year as they endanger not only their own lives, but the lives of everyone else on the road as well. To lower the…
Read MoreSettling Your Car Accident Too Soon Can Be a Mistake
There’s a natural order to things when you have been in a car accident. You talk to the police, get medical attention and hire an attorney when you’ve been injured, file an insurance claim to get your car fixed, and at some point you try to settle the personal injury side to your claim. Unfortunately,…
Read MoreTruck Tire Blowouts Can Have Deadly Consequences
Truck tires are a much larger than the tires that go on the average passenger vehicle or even SUV. It just makes sense that when they blow out, there’s a bigger explosion. That means more force and when you’re already dealing with oversized vehicles, that can mean a catastrophic outcome with multiple injured drivers. There’s…
Read MoreThe Rise of Usage-Based Car Insurance Policies
For years, insurance companies based their rates on criteria like age, sex, and credit score. Over the past decade, more and more companies started offering a “safe driver discount” for policyholders whose driving records were clean. Now, it appears that the newest wave of policies will be based on driving data collected in real time.…
Read MoreAre “Stress Baking” and Pandemic Cooking Leading to a Surge in Burn Injuries?
The holiday season always sees a rise in the number of kitchen-related injuries. People suffer with burns, or cut themselves on sharp knives, or set the back half of the house on fire when they forget to defrost the turkey before they drop it in the deep fryer. This year, however, is different. Now, the…
Read MoreAvoiding Financial Strain While Waiting for an Injury Settlement
We’ve all seen the television commercials aimed at injury victims who are in financial trouble. They offer a quick solution to your problems through a miracle advance that requires no credit approval. When you’ve been injured in an accident and you’re struggling financially, financial help based on your personal injury claim can appear to be…
Read MoreViral Myths and Hoaxes about Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is a heinous crime that has gained more attention in recent years and can threaten the lives of the very young and the older as well. Some of the major risk factors among those vulnerable to being trafficked for sex include recent relocation or migration, mental health issues, substance abuse, homelessness as a…
Read MoreWhy Some Dangerous Drivers Can Legally Stay on the Road
The Driver’s License Compact (DLC) – also called the Interstate Driver’s License Compact – is an agreement between 45 states in the U.S. plus the District of Columbia. The obligations of the member states under the Compact are to share and report between the states’ information related to traffic offenses of a serious nature, including…
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