Archives: May 2018

Each year, there are thousands of car accidents throughout the LA area, with many resulting in physical and emotional damage to drivers and passengers. In seconds, victims’ lives can change, prompting them to deal, not only with a badly damaged car, but high medical expenses, missed work and wages, and pain and suffering as well. If this sounds like you, you may need to hire a car accident attorney to help you recover losses stemming from a motor vehicle accident and decrease the large amount of paperwork and hassle that’s usually a part of a car accident insurance claim. If [...]

Losing a loved one is always distressing and traumatic, to be sure. The resulting wrongful death cases are often very difficult to navigate as well. If you are considering filing a wrongful death claim on behalf of a loved one, you need the assistance of an experienced Los Angeles wrongful death lawyer. An experienced and capable lawyer can bolster your odds of success in many ways. A wrongful death attorney can: 1.        Help During the Healing and Grieving Process Dealing with the death of someone you care about is not easy. It consumes you. The last thing you want to [...]

While the focus usually centers on motor vehicle deaths, the rate of pedestrian-related traffic deaths is much higher than you might think. It deserves noting that the number of pedestrian-related traffic deaths rose across the nation by 11 percent in 2017 to six-thousand fatalities, representing the deadliest year for walkers in the previous two decades. Slightly good news: pedestrian deaths fell by 11 percent in California last year, finally reversing an increasing trend in the Golden State since 2010, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News. Have you recently been a victim of a hit and run [...]

Cars accidents are a grave reality in this country. More than 37,000 people die in crashes each year, with an additional 2.3 million injured. About 1,600 children under 15 die each year and 8,000 are killed in crashes that involve a driver age 16 to 20. They happen to be very expensive, too, incurring costs of $230 billion a year in the United States, nearly $300 per person. On our home turf, traffic deaths have increased 43 percent in 2016 over 2015, where Los Angeles saw 260 people killed in car crashes, says the LA Times. Thousands more are injured [...]