A car accident insurance policy is a must-buy for every driver. It covers you and your passengers in the event that you get involved in a road crash. Getting into a car that does not have this type of insurance or even driving one yourself is a big risk.

Many times after an accident, there will be not just car repairs to sort but also medical expenses for bodily injuries. These can run into thousands of dollars which would be difficult to pay in cash. A car accident insurance policy takes care of such expenses, thus eliminating the financial burden an accident brings.

The rates and coverage given to a motorist differ from one insurance company to another. A number of factors influence this, from the car model to the motorist’s perceived risk.

Most of these factors are unique to each driver and insurance companies evaluate them differently, which explains the unique rates each driver gets from one company to another. For instance, drivers who have a tendency of getting into accidents generally get higher rates but the figure varies from company to company.

Should you get involved in an accident and the police are brought in, the effect on your rates will be more severe. If the accident is minor and both parties agree on a settlement, you can negotiate and pay the agreed amount. Such an incident may not require any police involvement, especially if the car suffers a few scratches or dents and no one is injured. In any case, it is very important that you inform the insurance company immediately, even before agreeing on any settlement.

Your insurer may increase your car accident rates if you are found to be at fault in an accident, the extent of the fault, how serious the accident is if you earn a ticket for a traffic violation, and the type of claim filed after the accident. If you have filed a claim following a car accident in the recent past, you will be given higher rates indefinitely. Many companies focus on the past 12 months. If your claim was made earlier than that, it may not affect your rates. However, if you have filed at least two or three claims in a span of five years or so, companies will be wary of dealing with you and when they do, they will give you much higher quotes.

To always be on the safe side, understand the company’s terms and conditions, and maintain all traffic rules.

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Boat Accident Lawyer

Boat accidents are a leading cause of unnecessary deaths and therefore the number one source of personal injury. Many of the accidents occurred due to negligence on the part of one of the drivers involved. When a boat accident is caused by another party’s negligence, people who are harmed often reach settlements with the liable party which provides compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering as well as other damages. This requires the service of a boat accident attorney. Locating the best boat accident attorney is not that difficult a process under normal circumstances. However, finding one when you or a loved one have been seriously injured in a boat accident can be significantly more troublesome. There are qualified Personal Injury Attorneys that specialize in personal injury cases. They have the expertise and skills necessary to obtain a fair financial compensation for the damage to property caused by the accident, along with all physical injuries that the accident victims have had to endure.

Any driver that was not at fault for an accident should expect to be fully compensated, for all of his or her medical bills. In addition to that, the victimized driver should receive recompense for all the repairs necessary to bring their damaged boat back to the condition it was in before the accident.

However, the process of doing that can be extremely lengthy, with moments of frustration and anxiety, especially when an insurance company refuses to pay medical bills or send the funds to have the Boat repaired. This is why it is necessary to hire a competent Boat Accident Lawyer. He or she will represent their clients to achieve the compensation that every victim of the accident is entitled to

Settling the Case

A boat accident attorney will build the case strong enough to take it to trial in a court of law. However, long before the trial is scheduled, each represented party (the attorneys) usually will meet with the opposing side to discuss settling the case out of court. Both sides typically calculate the amount of pain and suffering that has been endured by the victim along with the seriousness of the damage inflicted on the vehicle or other property.

If a settlement can be reached, then both sides will avoid an expensive and lengthy process of trying the case in open court. However, if the plaintiff is dissatisfied with the amount offered during the settlement, he or she can always instruct the boat accident attorney to take the case to trial.

Before selecting the best boat Accident Attorney, it is important to consider the fee that will be extracted from the total amount awarded during the settlement phase, or after the case has been won in court. Typically, for a personal injury case, an attorney can charge anywhere between 25% and 40%, based on the specific circumstances of the case. While this number might appear to be high, research indicates that cases involving an attorney typically have much higher settlement amounts than those that are achieved without the skills of an attorney, or a law firm.

Any driver that has been in an accident where the other driver is at fault or he is at fault should seek out a competent and skilled boat accident attorney. They will handle all the details to represent him or her in the case.

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Plane Accident Lawyer

Do you need a plane accident lawyer? If your answer is yes, there is no doubt that you understand how an accident can affect you. Perhaps, what is more, daunting is your quest of finding the right plane accident attorney. That is where a plane accident lawyer comes to your aid.

At our Law Firm, we not only offer you that required legal representation but also stick with you until you achieve all that you desire from insurance adjusters. During this challenging moment in your life, our plane accident attorney will give you practical advice that will be of help in the future in case you plunge into such a nasty scenario. Why, though, choose our plane accident lawyers?

The Law Firm You Can Trust

Our Law Firm has been in operation for over 25 years of offering plane, bike, and train drivers legal representation. You can be assured of their vast experience in these areas.

With many years of practice, our attorneys have canvassed the entire state and beyond. What this translates to, it that our plane accident attorneys know virtually every area your plane may be involved in an accident. This will help you in the quest of explaining to them how it happened.

Our lawyers have had an exemplary legal representation record throughout the years of practice.

How Much Do We Charge?

Do not be worried about the amount it will cost you for our plane accident attorneys to represent you In fact, our mission is that you get what you deserve first! Our commission is solely based on the contingent fee.

What that simply means, is that until you settle on your award, our attorneys will be patiently waiting with you. Upon receiving your award, then our attorneys will deduct their commission for the services they have rendered to you

Why Should You Choose Us

There is no doubt that you will be impressed by our down-to-earth services that are aimed at helping you receive the award that you rightfully deserve. Our plane accident attorney will be willing to listen to you attentively when you explain what you recall about the accident before giving their opinion. Additionally, our promise under oath is to do whatever legal thing that can as long as it is within their reach.

Here are some of the notable reasons why many plane owners decide to contact us. You too will find that we emerge the top in service delivery:

We offer free consultations
We have experienced and dedicated plane accident attorneys
Apart from English, consultations are also done in Spanish (there is a full-time Spanish-speaking staff). We offer hassle-free and private parking to our clients
Our experience is well over 25 years
We work for long hours during weekdays to offer you the best services that you deserve (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM on most weekdays)

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The way we, as patients, view our medical providers has always been a source of amazement to me. If someone walks into a lawyer’s office with a serious tax problem and the lawyer says that he considers the problem serious enough to require several days of research by a team of attorneys in consultation with specialists in the field, the client walks out thinking “What a clever and careful attorney I have.” On the other hand, the same client when put in the situation of being a medical patient, who after being examined by his doctor, if told by the physician “Your problem is serious. I want to make sure that I come to the right diagnosis so I will spend some time researching the problem and consult with others” is apt to think “What a terrible doctor. Why doesn’t he know what is wrong with me?”

We have created a myth in our society that doctors are infallible, that they don’t make errors, don’t have to look things up, and have a compendium of knowledge that incorporates every disease, every treatment, and every consequence of treatment in their field and know it all by heart! Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. Doctors do make mistakes, do forget, and don’t know everything. How did the myth of infallibility have its inception? I believe it has been fostered by doctors themselves. Doctors are taught from their first day in medical school that they are supposed to be infallible and when they do not live up to this impossible goal they are so embarrassed and are shamed that errors are rarely reported and, therefore, even more rarely corrected. I am not the first one to come to this conclusion. An excellent article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled Error in Medicine by Dr. Lucian L. Leape. Dr. Leape is a Harvard Medical Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Harvard School of Public Health. The article is a reasoned approach to what causes errors in medicine and what can be done to reduce them. When the article was published in December of 1994 it gained little notice except for the notoriety which it produced by reporting about the 180,000 people who die each year as the result of doctor-induced injury and that that is the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every two days. That statistic and characterization have been often quoted. The important part of the article is about what causes medical errors and what, if anything, is being done to prevent them. Dr. Leape’s hypothesis is that the infallibility myth fostered by medical training results in fear, guilt, anger, embarrassment, and humiliation when an error occurs. As a consequence, errors are rarely reported. When an error comes to light, usually because a serious injury has occurred, hospital and physician groups fail to correct the problem and instead punish or eliminate the perpetrator of the error rather than reviewing the underlying causes. When a resident cuts off the wrong appendage, the resident is disciplined, retrained, or drummed out of the program rather than analyzing why we have residents work for 36 hours in a row without sleep so they are prone to make those kinds of errors.

Most errors in medicine deal with medication errors. Yet the same safeguards exist with respect to the dispensing of medicine that has been in place since the time of Hippocrates. The ultimate end-user, in the form of a single nurse, is given the responsibility of making sure that the right medication in the right dosage goes to the right patient, hundreds if not thousands of times every day. There is no planned redundancy. A simple bar code mechanism could dispense the medications quicker and probably more economically with far fewer errors. Medicine is so steeped in tradition that it is as if it cannot get out of its own way to come up with imaginative solutions to problems such as these.

Comparing the error rate in medicine to that of almost any other industry where human life is at stake leaves medicine far back in the pack. If medical statistics are to be believed, somewhere between 1% and 20% of patients admitted to hospitals suffer a serious injury at the hands of a doctor or a nurse. If that statistic applied to the airline industry, no one would ever get on a flight. It isn’t that pilots are any smarter than doctors or that their job is any less complex, it is just that systems have been analyzed in the aviation industry on an institutional basis to prevent disasters. Every aviation accident is investigated by the National Transportation and Safety Board. Pilots are encouraged to report mistakes through a system of Aviation Safety Reporting which is both confidential and free of punishment. Pilots recognize that they are fallible and as a consequence have to follow routine checklists with the backup of a co-pilot. Airplanes are designed with multiple redundant systems. It is expected and anticipated that pilots will make errors. In fact, studies show that errors are made routinely on every flight. A system is in effect to absorb and respond to those errors instantaneously. Lights go off, horns sound, air traffic controllers correct the problem, co-pilots point out the mistake followed by a simple thank you on behalf of the pilot and a routine continuation of the flight without fear of punishment or social ostracism. Aviation recognizes that everyone makes mistakes and has built-in mechanisms necessary to anticipate them and correct them before harm is done. While pilots cannot start an aircraft or even shut it off without a complicated written checklist that has to be followed the same way every time, the most complex of brain or heart surgeries take place every day without a written protocol. Manufacturers of aircraft publish pilot operating handbooks which must be rigidly followed by every pilot who flies that make and model of aircraft regardless of whether it’s in Florida, Kentucky, or Timbuktu. Yet the same operation is performed dozens of different ways in different sequences even in the same hospital by different doctors and even by the same doctor at different times. It is as if we do not dare to question our physicians for fear of disrupting the myth of infallibility. Everyone thinks that their doctor is error-free. Only other people’s doctors make the kind of mistakes that end up in lawsuits. The reality is that all doctors make mistakes and by holding physicians to an impossible standard, which they themselves not only tolerate but insist upon, the system never changes and the same mistakes are made over and over again at different places at different times. Because they occur routinely at 5,000 hospitals across the country, they do not make the newspapers and there is no public outcry for reform as occurs when 300 people die at once when 747 crashes.

It is way past the time for all of us, including our medical providers, to realize that, the myth of infallibility is just that, a myth. People make mistakes, and doctors are people. If someone is injured or killed as a result, their family is entitled to be compensated. In addition, analysis ought to take place as to what caused the mistake in the first place. System errors ought to be corrected if they exist, and systems ought to be designed in advance to accept the inevitability of error, plan for it and, if possible, avoid its occurrence.

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Disability Benefits

Filing for federal disability benefits after a severe and life-changing injury can involve bureaucratic red tape and complicated paperwork and documentation that may prove challenging to individuals and families who are just beginning to recover after a traumatic accident.

Our Law Firm is dedicated to cutting through the red tape to help our clients obtain the full value of any federal disability benefits to which they may be entitled, including:

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI)
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Survivors’ benefits
ERISA
Any long term disability insurance benefits
We are here to help you get the care and support you need to make the most out of life. Contact us today to receive a free consultation.

Attorneys Fighting Denied Disability Claims
Approximately 60 percent of initial claims for Social Security disability benefits are initially denied. Our experienced attorneys have a substantial record of success in convincing the government to reconsider disability claims and grant eventual approval.

We are ideally qualified to identify, develop and manage disability benefits claims for clients who have suffered the most serious injuries or life-altering conditions, including:

Spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis, paraplegia, or quadriplegia
Brain injury resulting in permanent cognitive deficits
Amputation
Heart attack, heart disease, and stroke
Blindness
To learn more about your options in filing for disability benefits or challenging a denied benefits claim, please call our office toll-free to receive a free case evaluation. You may also e-mail us now for a rapid response.

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Insurance Disputes
Insurance Claims Issues in Personal Injury Cases

At our personal injury law firm, our team of accomplished attorneys has demonstrated exceptional skill in the management of insurance claims and negotiation of substantial settlements after a serious personal injury or wrongful death in a fatal accident.

As an elite personal injury firm, we have the knowledge and resources to take immediate and decisive action following a car accident or any other accident which results in severe injuries, such as:

Spinal cord injury and paralysis
Brain injury resulting in temporary or permanent disability
Amputation resulting in an inability to work in a former profession
We will act to preserve the physical evidence and can launch an immediate investigation with the help of a team of independent experts such as accident recreation specialists and medical professionals.

Our goal is to firmly establish liability and to obtain the full coverage to which you are entitled in any insurance claim. Please contact us today to schedule a free consultation.

Bad Faith in Insurance Claims
Some insurance companies routinely deny claims or attempt to shortchange accident victims in other ways as part of an intentional strategy of maximizing profits by minimizing insurance payouts.

The dedicated lawyers of our Law Firm will fight to make certain that the insurance company lives up to its legal obligation to pay valid claims fully and promptly. We will aggressively seek every legal remedy available in cases of bad faith insurance practices, such as:

Denial of valid insurance claims
Partial or delayed payment of claims
Failure to promptly investigate claims

If you are having difficulty in obtaining the payment you deserve on an insurance claim for an auto accident or serious injury, please call our office toll-free today. You may also e-mail us now for a rapid response.

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Defective Products Liability
Product Liability Lawyers, Advocates for Consumer Safety

Our Law Firm provides intelligent legal advice and highly experienced representation to the survivors of accidents and injuries caused by dangerous and defective products.

Product liability cases generally involve complicated legal and regulatory issues. Even before the trial begins, your lawyer may have to examine and understand literally thousands of documents and pieces of evidence. Product liability cases are not suited to any but the most highly experienced attorneys.

The team at our Law Firm combines over 25 years of service to clients with the substantial resources and proven legal skill necessary to manage even the most complex product liability litigation. Please contact us today to schedule a free and informative consultation.

Experienced Representation in Claims of Defective Product Liability
These are high-profile and high-stakes cases. Many manufacturers have a team of high-paid lawyers to represent their interests when one of their products causes injury or wrongful death.

You deserve the same level of professional representation and dedicated advocacy. Our Law Firm is a leader in the fight to protect consumer safety from negligent manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of dangerous and deadly products, such as:

Dangerous toys, clothing, playground equipment, and other products for children
Dangerous home appliances and garden equipment
Defective industrial equipment and machinery
Tire defects, seat belt injuries, and other cases involving faulty automotive parts and products
If you believe your injury or the loss of a loved one was caused by a faulty consumer product or a defective piece of commercial equipment, please contact our office today to schedule an informative consultation.

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Elder Abuse & Nursing Home Neglect

If you suspect that your loved one is a victim of intentional abuse or negligence at a nursing home or managed care facility, it is extremely important to act now. Filing a well-crafted formal complaint with the ombudsman can fulfill two purposes: to put the facility on notice that they must take action to remedy the situation, and to establish your legal right to seek maximum compensation in a lawsuit claiming elder abuse or nursing home neglect.

If we can show willful disregard on the part of the nursing home for your claims of elder abuse or neglect, we can seek attorney’s fees and legal costs in addition to the financial damages available in a personal injury suit.

Elder abuse claims may survive your loved one. If you need experienced legal advice and highly professional representation to explore your options for stopping elder abuse and making the perpetrators pay, please contact the experienced trial lawyers at our Law Firm today for a free consultation.

Lawyers Telling the Truth about Elder Abuse and Neglect
Many people are reluctant to file a complaint when they suspect that an elderly loved one is being abused or neglected. Often the staff and administration at the managed care or assisted living facility have convenient answers to any suspicion.

Do not let fear or embarrassment keep you from protecting your loved one. Contact us immediately if you see signs or have any suspicions of any form of elder abuse or neglect, including:

Battery
Sexual assault
Bedsores, dehydration, or malnutrition due to nursing home neglect
Broken bones from a fall due to negligent supervision or from violent elder abuse

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Child Sexual Abuse & Molestation
Advocates for Survivors of Child Molestation and Sexual Abuse

The criminal justice system represents “the people”. In cases of sexual abuse or statutory rape, the goal of police and prosecutors is to obtain a conviction.

We represent the interests of the child and the family who have been victimized by an abuser. We are proud of our record of success in making perpetrators of child molestation, child sexual abuse, and statutory rape pay and pay dearly for the harm they have caused.

If you need the help of an experienced and dedicated legal advocate to seek real justice and real recovery for your child, please contact us today.

A Lifelong Commitment to Survivors of Child Abuse and Molestation

Sexual abuse and exploitation can leave deep psychological scars on a child. The capable attorneys at our Law Firm understand that in order for recovery to proceed, professional counseling will often be required for the victim and for the entire family.

We know that a thorough evaluation by a respected mental health professional — one with extensive experience in the specific issues that affect the victims of child sexual abuse and their families — is an essential first step in any plan of recovery.

We will apply our substantial resources, professional dedication, and proven litigation skill to the task of securing the maximum financial compensation and professional support your child and your family deserves.

Please contact our office today to discuss your case in a free and completely confidential consultation.

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Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys: Paralysis and Permanent Disability

If you were rendered paraplegic or quadriplegic or suffered temporary or permanent partial paralysis of any kind following a spinal cord injury, our Law Firm can help you obtain the financial compensation you deserve.

We offer high-quality service, dedicated advocacy, and experienced trial representation you can trust. Our respected attorneys are passionate about helping people with spinal cord injuries obtain real recovery through powerful negotiation or trial litigation.

If you or a loved one suffered a spinal cord injury, severed nerves, or any substantial nerve damage that resulted in a life-changing disability, please contact us today to receive a free case evaluation.

Life-Altering Injuries Require a Lifetime Recovery Plan
At our Law Firm, we have established a reputation for producing real results and real financial recovery in serious personal injury cases. We are trial lawyers. We are highly skilled in the negotiation of insurance settlements and in the prosecution of lawsuits against the negligent parties who cause spinal cord injury.

Our primary goal is to help our clients obtain maximum financial recovery after an accident or negligent injury that results in lifelong disability. We take our service to survivors of spinal cord injury very seriously. We go beyond seeking compensation for immediate medical bills, pain and suffering, and lost wages. We focus on ensuring that future costs are figured into the settlement calculations or trial award, including:

Mobility needs (vehicle conversions, wheelchairs, scooters, etc.)
Renovations to your home (ramps, lowered countertops, etc.)
Long-term physical therapy
Occupational rehabilitation
Home health care, if necessary
With the help of our team of attorneys and leading independent experts (economists, life care planners, accident reconstruction specialists, etc.) we can help you develop a plan for obtaining the support you deserve over your lifetime, including any disability benefits to which you may be entitled.

When you contact us, you will have an opportunity to discuss your circumstances with one of our experienced paralegals who can provide you with an accurate assessment of your case and discuss whether our skills meet your needs.

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Fractures & Broken Bones
We Take Broken Bones and Damaged Joints Seriously

From the pain of a broken collar bone or rib to the long-term disability that may result from a severe knee injury, the experienced attorneys at our personal injury law firm can help you seek maximum financial compensation for broken bones and damaged joints sustained in an accident or through another’s negligence.

Broken bones and damaged joints can severely limit your ability to work during the healing process and may even result in lasting disability. Our law firm has the experience and resources to provide you with the sound legal advice and experienced representation you need in seeking full financial compensation in a personal injury claim against those responsible for your accident and injury, including:

Car accidents caused by a negligent or careless driver as well as fractures or joint damage caused by the failure of car safety devices such as airbags or seatbelts
Bicycle and pedestrian accidents, especially knee injuries and broken bones resulting from a vehicle striking a pedestrian or biker
Accidents on commercial premises caused by negligent maintenance or failure to provide adequate warning of dangerous situations
On-the-job injury, such as falls due to faulty ladders or scaffolding at a construction site
If you suffered a broken bone or injury to your knee, shoulder, elbow, or any other joint, an experienced personal injury trial lawyer at our Law Firm can help you seek the full financial compensation you deserve. Please contact us.

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Amputation

As a leading force in assisting injured Texans in the pursuit of full financial compensation after an accident and injury, we focus our efforts on providing dedicated service to those who have suffered a lifetime personal injury such as the amputation of a leg, arm, foot, or hand. We also assist clients who are disabled due to permanent loss of function in a limb.

Covering the Real Cost of Amputation
Like any other lifetime injury, the loss or disfigurement of a limb can cost much more than emergency care, hospitalization, and rehabilitation in the weeks and months following the accident and injury. When filing a personal injury claim or lawsuit, there is also the long-term loss of earning potential, the future cost of medical treatment, and mobility issues to consider.

The team of accomplished trial lawyers at our Law Firm has the experience, resources, and access to leading independent experts — life care planners, accident reconstruction professionals, specialists in prosthetic limb technology, etc. — to thoroughly document and aggressively pursue the compensation you deserve for the medical costs and personal suffering resulting from an amputation. We can also act immediately to help you obtain any disability benefits you may be due.

Contact Us Today
Without the help of a highly experienced attorney, you may not be able to establish to the court’s or insurance company’s satisfaction the full amount of financial compensation you should receive after an amputation or loss of function in a limb. Contact us today to learn more and to receive a free evaluation of your case.

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Teaching your children how to avoid bicycle accidents and injuries

In addition to making sure your children are wearing bike helmets, the second major area of concern with cycling is road safety. Most experts agree that children shouldn’t be riding in traffic until, developmentally, they can handle such a complex task. Until a child hits about 12 years old, they’re not mentally capable of judging speed and distance to be able to be let out in traffic by themselves. But don’t let the warning against traffic lead you to assume that the sidewalk is completely safe. Serious collisions with motor vehicles can occur even on sidewalks.

Here are some tips for sidewalk bike riding for your kids:

• Check the law in your jurisdiction to make sure sidewalk-riding is allowed.

• Watch for vehicles coming out of or turning into driveways.

• Stop at corners of sidewalks and streets to look for cars and to make sure the drivers see you before crossing.

• Enter a street at a corner and not between parked cars. Alert pedestrians that you are nearby saying, “Excuse me,” or, “Passing on your left,” or use a bell or horn.

• And, most importantly, stay with your children while they are riding, on the sidewalk, or in the roadway.

If you don’t feel comfortable enough with your kids to let them out on the road unattended, then they shouldn’t be riding unattended on the sidewalk, either. Every study done shows that riding on the sidewalk is two and a half times more dangerous than riding on the road. So, children under 12 should be supervised when they’re on their bikes, preferably riding on quiet side streets with a minimum amount of traffic.

Biking is a great activity. But, as a bicycle accident attorney, I know that in order to prevent bicycle accidents parents must be vigilant. So, supervise children, have them take lessons in road safety, wear helmets, and ride only on roadways appropriate for their age and capabilities.

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Bicycle Safety

Bicycles aren’t just for kids anymore. More adults are riding bikes for recreation and exercise. Whether child or adult, the safety rules for bicycles are the same and are often ignored by bike riders. Here are a few safety tips to keep in mind when you or your child rides a bicycle.

Obey all traffic laws
Remember that a bicycle is no different from a car when traffic laws are concerned. You must stop at stop signs and stoplights and must signal for turns and lane changes.

Always wear a helmet
Never ride a bike without an approved safety helmet. Never let your children ride alone or with you unless they also wear helmets.

Be sure motorists can see you
Wear light-colored clothes so you will be more visible to motorists. Never ride your bike at night without proper lighting. It is safer to walk your bike home at night than to ride in the dark without lights.

Always stay on the right side of the street
It is never safe to ride against traffic, even for short distances.

Stop before entering the street
Many collisions occur when cyclists ride into the street from a driveway or parking lot without first stopping to check the traffic.

Perhaps the most important rule of bicycle safety is to use common sense. Don’t do anything unpredictable when you are near automobiles. Remember that a car cannot stop as quickly as a bicycle. Always be prepared to yield the right of way to an automobile if necessary.

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As drivers, we all share the responsibility of knowing and practicing correct driving behaviors. One of the most important rules of the road deals with yielding the right of way to emergency vehicles. When driving, you must yield the right-of-way to police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles that are sounding sirens or flashing lights. To do this:

• Remain calm and move your vehicle appropriately.

• Safely pull your vehicle to the right edge of the roadway and stop.

• If you are in the left lane, pull into the right lane as the traffic to your right moves over.

• If you cannot move to the right because of stopped vehicles, move as far to the right as possible, stop and leave a clear path for the emergency vehicle.

• Remain stopped until the emergency vehicles have passed.

• If an emergency vehicle approaches while your vehicle is stopped at an intersection, do not move unless you can move to the right without blocking the intersection.

• Once the emergency vehicle has passed, you must not follow within 500 feet of that vehicle.

By practicing these correct driving behaviors, seconds, and even minutes can be dropped from the time it takes an emergency vehicle to reach its destination. Drive safely and be aware.

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While there are many ways to locate a personal injury lawyer, the best way almost always is to rely on the recommendation of a friend. If someone you know has used a lawyer before and was satisfied with the lawyer’s work, you probably will be satisfied also.

Don’t choose a lawyer based only on advertisements. That doesn’t tell you whether the law firm is good – just that they have good marketing.

Try to find a law firm that includes lawyers who are Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. There are many excellent lawyers who are not Board Certified, but certification tells you that lawyer has met certain requirements in the field.

Be sure the lawyer you choose offers free consultation on the initial visit. Good personal injury lawyers will not charge you for your first conference.

Never hire a lawyer who contacts you following an injury, whether the lawyer makes the contact directly or through a go-between. It is a felony in the State of Texas for a lawyer to solicit business in this manner. Surely you do not want a felon as a lawyer!

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Air Bag Injury Claims
Contact Us Today For a Free Consultation

We are airbag lawyers (airbag lawyers). Call us if you have been the victim of an airbag incident or if a loved one has suffered wrongful death or serious injury because of airbags. Whatever legal problem you may have, our Texas airbag attorneys want to help you. You can see us for free. Please call us now. You may be entitled to compensation for your injuries.

A serious airbag injury requires a serious airbag lawyer. Call us now and you can get the help of an airbag attorney.

Airbags have been highly effective in reducing fatalities from frontal crashes. However, while airbags have saved an increasing number of people in moderate to high-speed crashes, they have also been causing fatalities and injuries in relatively low-speed crashes. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s Special Crash Investigation (SCI) has confirmed many fatalities induced by airbag deployment.

Faced with a wave of product liability lawsuits, the industry responded in the following ways:

First, warnings were issued to parents to ensure that their children were always put in the back seat. Second, NHTSA pushed the use of advanced airbag technology, which resulted in depowering of airbags in the 1998 model year. The so-called “Second Generation” of airbags has reduced the frequency of fatalities, but inflation-induced injuries continue to occur. The injuries are principally caused by the following defects.

Airbag Thresholds

Airbag injuries are frequently caused because the airbag should not have been deployed in the crash. Airbag systems are controlled principally by design thresholds which dictate when and under what circumstances the bags are to deploy. Frontal airbags are designed to only deploy in frontal crashes, not side impacts, rear impacts, or rollovers. First Generation frontal airbags were designed to never deploy at speeds generally below six-and-a-half mph, the so-called no-fire threshold, and always deploy at speeds generally above 13 mph, the so-called must-fire threshold. The gray zone, the difference between the no-fire and must-fire threshold, was built into the system to allow variability. As a result of the airbag thresholds and variability of the manufacturing and quality control, airbags are frequently deployed in crashes when they should not have been.

Late Deployment

The airbags frequently cause injuries because they deploy late. Manufacturers have known for at least 25 years that the airbag must be fully inflated before there is an interaction with the occupant. However, because of sensor designs, the location of sensors, and the wiring systems utilized by manufacturers, airbags frequently do not deploy in a timely manner. As a result, the airbag partially inflates into the occupant, causing inflation-induced injuries.

Late deployments can be proven by downloading the black box to airbags. The black box is a computer database on each car, called the Sensing Diagnostic Control Module. It records information concerning the accident. In particular, it will show when the airbag decided to fire and at what time the bag fired. A print-out of this data can reliably show that the airbag was not fully inflated when it interacted with the occupant.

Aggressive Airbags

Airbag systems have been causing inflation-induced injuries because they are overly aggressive. As noted above, First Generation airbags were deploying with great velocity because they were principally intended to minimize serious injuries and deaths in high-speed collisions.

As a result, the bags were designed to deploy with force needed to minimize injuries in high-speed accidents. But since the bags were deploying in relatively minor crashes, the force of inflating the bag was causing injuries that would not have otherwise occurred. As a result, single-stage inflators were replaced with dual and/or two-stage inflators, or depowered inflators, which typically deployed with less force. The Second and Third Generation airbags, utilize these designs and have greatly minimized the risk of serious injury or death in low-speed accidents.

Non-Deployments

Airbags sometimes can cause injuries by failing to deploy. Failure-to-deploy cases are becoming more common because the manufacturers have attempted to cut costs associated with their airbag systems. As a result, the quality and quantity of sensors have been reduced. As a result, airbags are not deploying in crashes as they should, and preventable injuries are occurring on a more frequent basis.

Failure to Equip Cases

Airbag injuries are being caused by the failure to equip airbags in vehicles. A tremendous amount of press has recently been focused on side impacts involving light trucks and passenger cars. In these accidents, the near-sided occupant is exposed to injury from the striking high bumper vehicles. The manufacturers have known for at least a decade that these injuries could be minimized or prevented with the use of side airbags. In particular, the use of torso, head, and curtain-type airbags would minimize or prevent many of the side-impact injuries. In addition, manufacturers, such as Volvo and Mercedes, have incorporated rollover type airbags to minimize head and neck injuries in rollover collisions.

For more information about vehicle injuries caused by defective airbags, please contact our law firm by telephone or e-mail. There is never a fee for the initial consultation.

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