Miscellaneous

• America Loses Battle Against Drunk Drivers

  Brent Adams | October 04, 2007 8:58 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, death from drunk drivers increased in twenty-two states during 2006. There were 13,470 deaths from drunk driving nationwide in 2006. This number is down only slightly from the 13,582 deaths that occurred from drunk drivers in 2005. In 2006, Texas led the country with the most deaths from drunk drivers (1,354 in 2006). This was...

• Long Delays For Social Security Disability Claimants

  Brent Adams | October 02, 2007 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Social Security Disability claimants should file their claims for Social Security Disability at the first indication that they may be disabled. The backlog of disability cases is so great that there is a long wait for cases to be heard and decided.The long delays have caused a great hardship on disabled claimants who are financially strapped and have no savings and are now out of work.The number...

• Daimler-Chrysler Settles Death Claim for Dodge Ram 2500 Defect

  Brent Adams | October 02, 2007 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Daimler-Chrysler has settled a wrongful death claim brought by the family of Felix Lassiter who was killed as the result of a defect in his 2004 Dodge Ram 2500.On March 20, 2004, Mr. Lassiter, a farmer in South Montgomery County, Alabama, parked his defective truck in order to get out and open a gate on his farm. As he got out of the truck, the vehicle started backing up suddenly and ran over...

• Football Player Sues Coach and School

  Brent Adams | October 01, 2007 6:26 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A former high school football player is suing the town of Coventry, Connecticut and his former coach over a leg injury that was the alleged result of carrying a player twice his size in a practice drill in 2005. The personal injury suit, filed in Rockville's Superior Court, alleges that Peter John Francis Murphy, a junior at Coventry High School at the time of the incident, was injured as a...

• American workers do not have enough disability insurance

  Brent Adams | September 30, 2007 10:51 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  According to the Social Security Administration, the odds are very high that an estimated 30 percent of American workers will be affected by a disability in their lifetime. However, in spite of these high odds, Americans are making no plans for income alternatives. According to a recent survey by Country Insurance & Financial Services only 3 percent of workers have paid for enough disability...

• Black & Decker Trimmers Recalled

  Brent Adams | September 28, 2007 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  America continues to have problems with products bearing the name of American manufacturers which are actually manufactured in China.One recent example is dangerous trimmers, manufactured in China. These trimmers were recalled after pieces of the product came loose during use.These recalls included models GH1000 and GH1000-CA Grasshog XP String Trimmers\\Edgers.This dangerous defect can subject...

• What Protection do we Have from Slow Drivers?

  Brent Adams | September 19, 2007 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  We have all seen hazardous situations on the highways caused by exceedingly slow drivers. Slow drivers count for a huge number of traffic collisions and fatalities.The question arises then as to what protection we have from exceedingly slow drivers.The answer, surprisingly, is very little.North Carolina General Statute Section 20-141© provides certain prohibitions against slow driving. It...

• Who Decides if Car is Totaled?

  Brent Adams | September 12, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  When a claim for damages to a car is made, the insurance adjuster often uses the term "totaled." That term means, in the opinion of the insurance adjuster, it would cost more to fix the car than the car was worth immediately before the wreck.Who decides whether a car is totaled in a collision and what is the significance of that determination?Insurance companies like to declare that a car is...

• What if my Collision Occurs Outside the State of North Carolina ?

  Brent Adams | September 10, 2007 11:44 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  If you have been injured in a motor vehicle collision while traveling outside the state of North Carolina, there are several factors you should keep in mind. The law which would generally be applied in a motor vehicle collision is the law of the state in which the collision occurred. If a North Carolina citizen is traveling through Virginia and has a collision, the law of the state of Virginia...

• Man Killed by Low-Hanging Telephone Pole Wires

  Brent Adams | September 07, 2007 8:37 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Two insurance companies for a trucking company paid $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death claim brought by a man who was struck by telephone pole wires in a freak accident that caused his death.The deceased, Ronnie Dyson, had stopped his vehicle on the way home to help someone who had run off the highway and had collided with a telephone pole.The broken pole caused guide wires supporting road...