Fighting For Your Rights
Anyone who has ever drunk alcohol knows how it can affect their mood and inhibitions. And we all know that drunk driving is against the law in Virginia for a reason. But have you ever wondered how alcohol affects the brain and makes drinking and driving so dangerous?...
Autumn is a great time to be a motorcyclist in Virginia. The heat of summer dissipates and fall color abounds making your scenic ride even more special. Still, other motorists may not be paying attention to motorcycles in their vicinity and could easily strike one....
A rising number of Virginians are shunning automobile use and are instead choosing to walk or ride their bicycles to get back and forth. This makes sense in several ways. It saves money and enhances physical fitness. In addition, it is good for the environment....
For many riders, motorcycles are synonymous with freedom. Freedom to take a ride and enjoy the calm that concentrating on one task brings. Virginian motorcyclists responsibly maintain their bikes, wear safety equipment and carefully share the road. Unfortunately for...
After a car accident, most injuries are easy to see and feel, but others may develop minutes or hours later. The most dangerous such injury is known as traumatic brain injury, or TBI. In car accidents, TBI typically stems from a blow to the head, such as when the...
In a classic, textbook scenario of a car accident, one driver is clearly at fault and the other driver is clearly blameless. For instance, let's say one driver is stopped at a stoplight when another driver fails to hit the brakes and smashes into the back of the...
Virginia law provides certain criminal penalties on drivers who injure others, but criminal penalties are not the only way to hold careless drivers accountable after they have injured others. In this post, we will discuss some of the differences between criminal...
In Virginia, as well as across the United States, incidents of motor vehicles crashing into commercial and residential buildings are way more common than they should be. There could be many different reasons why these accidents happen, but it is rarely as simple as a...
For a lot of car accident victims, money was tight before their wreck. Now that medical bills in excess of their insurance coverage are coming due, especially in conjunction with the reality that they’ve had to take significant time off work to focus on their...
Most personal injury lawsuits are based upon the legal theory of negligence. The basic idea behind this theory is that all of us owe a duty to others to minimize the risk of harming them in an accident; if we fail in that duty, and our failure causes an accident that...