Automobile Accidents

• Insurance Coverage for Automobile Accidents

  Staff Writer | February 04, 2006 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Arizona's mandatory automobile insurance law requires that all drivers have at least a minimum amount of liability insurance in case of an accident. This means that drivers must have minimum liability coverage of at least $15,000 per person and $30,000 per accident. Due to the transient nature of our state, however, what the law requires often varies from what drivers actually have. When it...

• More News About Teenage Drivers

  Staff Writer | January 20, 2006 4:38 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Legislative proposals continue to flow in response to a recent AAA Study suggesting that teenage drivers in Arizona are accident prone. The most recent legislative proposal relates to teenagers and cellphones. The East Valley tribune just reported about legislation introduced by Tucson Representative Tom Prezelski seeking to ban all cellphone use by teenage drivers under the age of eighteen. ...

• Scottsdale Tests Photo Radar to Reduce Accidents

  Staff Writer | January 11, 2006 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  The City of Scottsdale has decided to do what no other City or state has done. Beginning February 21, 2006, the City will Start a pilot photo radar project on stretch of high speed state freeway dubbed the "highway of tears." The City of Scottsdale has in the past maintained that it has no responsibility to oversee investigations on the Loop 101 Freeway running through greater Scottsdale. ...

• Drunk Driver's Bond Reduced After Fatal Accident

  Staff Writer | January 06, 2006 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  A Phoenix Judge reduced the bond of a man who pled guilty to three counts of manslaughter, two counts of aggravated assault and four counts of endangerment after a drunk driving acident that killed three people.Rigoberto Arrazola's bond was reduced from $180,000 to $35,000 January 4th.According to paysonroundup.com:If Arrazola is allowed to plea bargain, it would be in direct contrast to a...

• Kentucky Train Fire Shuts Down Roadways

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2007 3:03 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  This morning a CSX company train hauling hazardous materials derailed and exploded causing street closures, home evacuations and general problems within an eighteen mile radius of the derailment. Originally the trains were thought to be hauling liquid propane gas. However, the chemical fire actually resulted from ignition of cyclohexane, the chemical stored in the derailed train cars. Many...

• Insurance Institute Vehicle Safety Statistics

  Staff Writer | November 12, 2006 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  In September, 2006, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety came out with a report about the safety of various new cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles. Data from crash, theft and injury reports show actual safety performance for newer vehicles. According to the vehicle safety report:The results show that insurance losses for injuries, vehicle damage, and theft vary widely. Vehicle size...

• Cell Phone use and Automobile Safety

  Staff Writer | September 01, 2006 5:24 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  In a prior entry onto this forum, I cited research from the National Highway Safety Administration concerning inattentiveness as a major cause of motor vehicle collisions. According to this organization, driver inattentiveness while talking on a cellphone can be one characteristic of inattentiveness.As cellphone use rises each year, one question which comes to mind is whether hands free devices...

• Automobile Safety

  Staff Writer | August 23, 2006 11:07 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  As I traveled into work today, I was reminded about how vigilant we need to be when we drive. I saw a car veering in and out of traffic at speeds of about ninety miles per hour. The driver had both hands on a cell phone rather than the steering wheel. Unfortunately, shortly after zipping by me and further up the roadway, this motorist had to be extricated from his car by the city fire...

• Why Buy Uninsured Motorist Coverage?

  Andrew Defusco | February 16, 2006 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  I read an article in the Tucson Weekly recently in which Lanny Hair, executive vice president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Arizona, estimated that fewer than 20 percent of Arizona motorists are uninsured. If that statistic is accurate, then we should all save money by not purchasing uninsured motorist coverage in our automobile insurance policies, right? WRONG! ! ! Here's...

• Seminars on Injury Litigation in Hawaii

  Staff Writer | February 09, 2006 5:28 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  This year I will have the difficult task of having to attend a litigation-related conference in Honolulu, Hawaii of all places. We booked our tickets and I will soon participate in convention seminars at the Winter Convention of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. I hope the convention seminars will improve our firm's ability to represent our clients with care and passion. One of the...