The bridges of southern Louisiana live up to their storied reputation. Driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, where neither shore of the lake is visible for a 10-mile stretch in the middle is a rite of passage, especially since, depending on which direction you drive, you either end up in Covington, where an unassuming roadside… Read More
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SUV Rollover Accidents Are as Bad as They Sound
The car-versus-SUV debate has been going on since the 90s when SUVs supplanted minivans as the preferred way for suburban parents to transport their children and their untold amounts of stuff. The debate seems to grow especially heated when it takes the form of choosing a vehicle for a newly licensed driver. Should the kid… Read More
Drivers’ Ed Teachers Know Just What Caused Your Car Accident, Even if the Insurance Companies Do Not
Ask the attendees at a 20-year high school reunion to write the quadratic formula from memory or to create a quadratic equation from memory, and most of them cannot do it. The only ones who can are the ones whose jobs require them to teach math or to calculate the motion of falling objects. For… Read More
The Worst Time of Week for Car Accidents
In certain parts of Louisiana, the pace of life is so relaxed that it is easy to lose track of what time it is. The summertime in Houma feels like one long, lazy afternoon punctuated by fishing trips. During Mardi Gras season, you think more about whose turn it is to buy the next King… Read More
Rollover Accidents
Earlier this summer, a car overturned at an intersection on Northshore Boulevard in Slidell and blocked both southbound lanes of traffic. Media images showed ambulances and firetrucks next to an upside-down car in the middle of the road. The occupants of the car sustained only minor injuries, which is the kind of miracle that only… Read More
Is It Good or Bad If Your Personal Injury Case Goes to Trial?
Trials, or dramatizations of them, make for interesting viewing. The climactic scenes of many Hollywood films take place in a courtroom, and even before the advent of YouTube, there were entire TV channels dedicated to documentaries about criminal investigations and the ensuing trials. Now, if you want to binge documentaries and podcasts about trials, the… Read More
New Drunk Driving Prevention Laws Go Into Effect in Louisiana
Alcohol remains one of the greatest risk factors regarding car accidents that result in injuries or fatalities. Approximately a third of fatal collisions involve a driver who was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the accident. Louisiana residents have long been saying that stricter drunk driving laws could prevent many… Read More
Louisiana Considers Requiring Drunk Drivers to Pay Child Support if Their DWI Caused the Death of the Parent of a Minor Child
Personal injury lawsuits are not the only way injured people can receive compensation for their accident-related medical bills, and wrongful death lawsuits are not the only ways that the families of people killed in accidents can get compensation for the financial support they would have gotten from the victim if he or she had recovered… Read More
Where Does the Money Come From to Compensate People Injured in Car Accidents?
When you see TV commercials for personal injury lawyers, they promise to get you the money you need to pay your medical bills and your living expenses while you are unable to work, but they are usually not specific about where the money will come from. Is there a lever inside the law firm that… Read More
Louisiana Court Rules That Man Exposed to Mesothelioma Throughout the 1970s Can Proceed With Lawsuit Against His Employer
Many of us have spent the first few days of 2022 thinking that 2019 seems like an extraordinarily long time ago. If this is the case, then 1975 seems like ancient history, especially when you consider that the Internet is constantly teasing people born in the 1980s about being old. Despite this, a law that… Read More