Automobile Accidents

• AMA Guidelines For Permanent Partial Impairment Ratings Are An Important Piece Of The Personal Injury Puzzle

  John Cooper | April 04, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  As a personal injury lawyer, it is important to use the AMA guides to permanent partial impairment to your client's advantage. AMA is the American Medical Association, which is the primary national professional group for doctors. They publish and periodically revise a book that sets forth how to quantify permanent partial impairments of various parts of the body after an injury. Most...

• Med Pay - The Forgotten Insurance Coverage

  John Cooper | September 05, 2006 4:02 PM | 2 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Medical payments ("med pay" for short) coverage, an option on automobile insurance, is extremely important to getting a good result in a personal injury case arising out of a car crash.Many people forget about med pay. Because it is an optional coverage on your automobile insurance, people do not always buy it. Medical payments coverage says that if you or anyone else gets hurt arising out of...

• A Trillion Text Messages in the Next Two Years?

  Rick Shapiro | November 12, 2009 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  There were 800 billion text messages sent in 2008, according to the Strategic Mirror Report. This increased by four times compared to 2006. If we continue on this trajectory, we’ll hit one...

• Deer: A Major Danger and Expense on Virginia Roadways

  Jim Lewis | November 07, 2009 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Close to 50,000 Virginians will file insurance claims for deer-related accidents at an estimated cost of nearly $15 million, according to the Fairfax Times. Virginia (VA) is currently ranked...

• Fatal Accident on I-664 in Chesapeake, Virginia

  Jim Lewis | October 16, 2009 6:17 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Webster Keck of Suffolk, Virginia (VA) was driving his Dodge pickup truck along Interstate 664 (I-664) near the intersection of Interstate 64 (I-64) in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) when Seth Arnold...

• Driver Fatigue Contributes to Serious Car Accidents

  Jim Lewis | November 05, 2009 8:56 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Millions of people were reportedly involved in car accidents, or came very close to getting into a serious car accident, due to driver fatigue, according to a study conducted by the National...

• Seatbelts Reduce Death and Serious Injury in Car Crashes

  John Cooper | June 27, 2007 9:00 AM | 1 CommentNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  In May, 2007, another annual click it or ticket campaign occurred. The Virginia click it or ticket program is trying to improve statewide safety belt compliance which is currently 78.6%. The goal for Virginia (VA) is to get the rate of people wearing their seatbelts up to 82%. North Carolina (NC) has been ahead of Virginia (VA) on seatbelt usage, having a rate of 86.7% of its motorist...

• The High Rise Bridge in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) is a Scary Place for a Car Accident

  John Cooper | January 14, 2009 11:06 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Anyone who drives around Hampton Roads, Virginia has probably crossed the high rise bridge on Interstate 64 (I-64) near the intersection of the highway with Route 17, Deep Creek/Portsmouth exit....

• Unfair Law of Contributory Negligence Still King in Virginia

  John Cooper | November 28, 2006 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Many people do not realize that Virginia keeps an ancient English law on the books for car wreck cases and other torts saying that if the injured person is 1% at fault, they shall recover nothing.The rule of contributory negligence says that the injured person has to have acted reasonably for his own safety or he gets nothing. If the person who was hurt by the clear negligence of another is...

• Driver's ed returning to public high schools

  Rick Shapiro | September 30, 2009 8:56 AM | 3 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  USA TODAY had an interesting story Thursday about how driver’s education, on the wane in public schools for many years, is becoming more popular. A generation ago, driver’s ed was in...