There has been a troubling increase in car accident fatalities involving teenage drivers. The Governors’ Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reported on the increase in teen crash deaths, as well as on a new report that is focused on the risks for older teen drivers. As car accident rates with teens climb, understanding the dangers becomes increasingly important. It is also essential to understand your rights if you are hurt or if someone you love is killed in a collision with a teen driver. New York injury attorneys can provide insight into what your options are for pursuing a claim for compensation if a young motorist

Falls account for more than 8 million hospital emergency department visits, which represent 21.3% cause of death. More than 1 million visits involve slips and falls. As per the Consumer Product Safety Commission, floors and materials on floors directly contribute to more than 2 million fall injuries every year. Falls are the cause of 50% of all accidental deaths in the home and most occur at ground level and not from an elevation. Many slip, trip, and fall accidents happen in stores or businesses. If this happens to you, how do you find out if you can sue? And who is liable for your auto

The National Safety Council (NSC) has set a “moon shot goal,” which it announced during its opening sessions for 2016. The goal is to eliminate accidental deaths in our lifetime.  The CEO of the National Safety Council has also urged companies and individuals to create their own personal “moon shot,” which employers could do by setting a goal of zero worker deaths.  The term “moon shot” is in reference to the goal set by President Kennedy to send a man to the moon safely before the end of the 1960’s. That goal was met and the NSC hopes that both its goal and the individual

In the United States, about 5% of personal injury cases go to trial. Roughly 95% of these cases are settled before a trial. In another statistic, it says that 90% of personal injury cases that do go to trial end in a loss. Those that win get a better settlement when they have a trial judge rather than a jury. Trial judges seem to pay off at a higher rate and for a larger sum of money as well. One reason that so many cases get settled is the length of time lawyers take to begin negotiating settlement amounts. If you hire a personal injury

According to researchers, it has been estimated that, as of 2015, there are 12,500 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) annually and between 240,000 and 337,000 people in the United States are currently living with SCI. Extreme sports is one of the main causes of SCI and cause more than 40,000 head and neck injuries each year. How a Potential Case is Valued When there is a personal injury case involving neck injury, there are too many unique factors to create a formula that can provide an accurate value for a neck injury claim. In this context, “valuing” a case means guessing as best

According to the American Burn Association, each year, approximately 450,000 patients receive emergency room and hospital treatment for burns. This number does not account for burn injuries that are treated at community health centers, private medical offices, or hospital clinics. Of these burn injuries, about 3,400 deaths due to burn injury occur each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that fires and burns are the third leading cause of sudden deaths at home. It is reported that in the year 2010, there was a fire-related death every 169 minutes. A fire injury is said to have occurred every 30 minutes, the