Car accidents make feel people particularly vulnerable, because there’s little to nothing you can do to control the driving habits of other people. One of the main causes of car accidents is distracted driving: when a person performs another action or task while operating a motor vehicle. We usually think of cell phone usage, but [...]
Personal injury lawyers always talk about their clients being entitled to compensation for their injuries – but what, exactly, does that include? What kind of injuries can you actually claim compensation for in a lawsuit? We’ve created a list of the types of compensation an injury victim can claim after an accident. It’s important to [...]
Personal injury lawsuits sometimes get a bad reputation because most people don’t really know what “counts” as a personal injury. After all, sometimes an accident really is just an accident. The defining element of a personal injury lawsuit is fault: whose actions (or inactions) resulted in your injury? And were those actions (or inactions) caused [...]
It’s generally common knowledge that personal injury victims can sue for certain kinds of damages. Those damages fall into two main categories: economic damages, and non-economic damages. Economic damages relate to your expenses – medical bills, lost wages, car repair bills, funeral bills or future earning capacity are some examples – and in Tennessee, you [...]
Even though we call Nashville home, we have a soft spot in our hearts for Knoxville. (It was our first capital, after all.) We love the operas and the bluegrass, and we’ll root for our Volunteers no matter what city they play in. Knoxville has suffered a terrible loss; a young man named Andre Sterling [...]
Only a few days ago a school bus carrying 40 students from Bolton High School swerved over a lane and side-swiped into a tractor-trailer. The report from News Channel 3 claims that the driver is now facing charges for the accident, and that the tractor-trailer driver is not implicated in any wrongdoing. The driver and [...]
When a personal injury victim files a lawsuit for compensation, that person’s lawyer may use an accident reconstructionist to help build your case. Though they’re primarily used in cases involving motor vehicle crashes, an accident reconstructionist could help build a plaintiff’s case regardless of what kind of incident occurred. What a reconstructionist does It can [...]
In the second Harry Potter book, Mrs. Weasley tells her daughter, Ginny, to “never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” It’s pretty good advice; but what do you do when the object is your car, and its “brain” is what handles the act of driving? [...]
Hyundai is recalling 883,000 late model Sonatas because of a problem with the transmission shifters. Let’s dissect this issue, shall we? First – that’s close to a million cars. Second – they’re late model cars, which means that this has been a problem for YEARS: since 2011, to be exact. Third – the problem relates [...]
