Columbia Personal Injury Lawyers

Sometimes we do learn from our past, as we have with traumatic sports injuries such as brain injuries among professional football players. A strict “concussion protocol” is now in place in the football world. We’ve also learned that injuries to our youth caused by playing…

One of Uber’s autonomous vehicles in Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb) struck and killed a 49-year-old pedestrian on March 18, 2018. A “safety” driver was in the driver’s seat and was found to be unimpaired, though they did not take the wheel to avoid the…

If you are hurt as the result of someone else’s bad behavior or negligence, you are entitled to file a personal injury claim. Not only can a claim help you move past the incident and find peace, it can help you get your medical bills…

Believe it or not, your best defense against getting killed in a crash is simply wearing your seat belt. We may not take them seriously at times because we’ve used them in cars for over half a century—possibly longer than you’ve been alive. But seat…

More than 40,000 people died in U.S. traffic-related accidents during 2017, according to the National Safety Council (NSC), a private non-profit organization founded in 1913. What’s worse, about the same number of traffic-related fatalities occurred in 2016, meaning that more than 80,000 persons died in…

Until recently, the official numbers from the U.S government labeled drowsy driving as a factor in only 1 to 2 percent of all crashes. But a new research method called PERCLOS indicates that the older statistics woefully underestimated the incidence of drowsy driving in vehicular…

Sometimes a seemingly high-powered legal firm that handles personal injury cases is nothing more than what is known as a “settlement mill.” A settlement mill is a high-volume personal injury practice that rarely takes a case to trial because they make more money by settling…

The February 4, 2018, train crash near Cayce, SC, between an Amtrak train and a parked CSX freight train, killed two people and injured scores of others. Both the engineer and the conductor on the Amtrak train died, and over 100 passengers were taken to…

You may not think much about your tires because they generally last for years without giving you problems, but they are critical to a safe ride. Around 11,000 accidents occur annually because of bad tires, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Faulty…