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How do I Choose the Right Personal Injury Attorney?

If you have been injured, you get only one chance to get the compensation you deserve. One of the most important decisions you make in your lifetime will be choosing the right personal injury attorney to represent you. You must choose the right lawyer the first time If you hire the wrong lawyer to represent…

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Insurance Company Liens

Here is an excellent video of how insurance companies use ERISA to swoop in and take injury victim’s recovery money. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 is a federal law that protects employee benefit plan participants and their beneficiaries. Although it was initially aimed at safeguarding retirement plan benefits, it has seen…

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Doctor Denies Health Insurance After Accident

Yesterday a new client called me.  After being hit from behind on the freeway on the weekend, he was in severe pain and went to see his family doctor. The doctor he had always gone to when something was wrong.  The doctor who knew him.  The doctor who took his health insurance. The doctor who,…

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Williamson County Man Sentenced for Sixth DWI

Oscar Barbosa, 51, of Williamson County was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to his sixth driving-while-intoxicated conviction on Monday. He had been arrested in September because he was weaving on U.S. 183 in Liberty Hill, according to Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley.  A breath test found that Mr. Barbosa had…

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New signs to memorialize DWI wreck victims

A new state program will allow friends and relatives of people killed in drunken driving wrecks in Texas to buy memorial signs that will be placed near the crash site for a year. The $300 signs will be 42 inches high and 48 inches wide, with a blue background and white lettering and have the…

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Nine people involved in Interstate 35 crash

Four people were hurt in a wreck Sunday on an Interstate 35 frontage road, including two children who at first were though to be critically injured.  Authorities said te accident on the northbound frontage road near East 11th Street involved a minivan and a truck.

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Electronic Stability Control

Electronic Stability Control (ESC) selectively applies brakes to individual wheels to help keep the vehicle under control when swerving to avoid an accident or cornering on slippery pavement, and it can help a vehicle stay out of a situation that could lead to a rollover. By model year 2012, the government will require automakers to…

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Another Death on 71

Sadly, another youth was killed on Sunday on Texas 71 near Bee Creek Road in western Travis County where 10 people have died since October, 2006.  The wreck occurred about half a mile west of the spot where three teenagers were killed in a head-on collision February 16th. James McDouglad, 50, lost control of his…

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We've come a long way

Yesterday I wrote about Electronic Stability Control and how Consumer Reports calls it the greatest safety advance since seat belts. Last night I read a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Unsafe at Any Speed, With Any Driver, On Any Kind of Road.”  It is a fascinating look back at how lax safety standards used to…

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U.S. Crashes Cost $164.2 Billion Yearly

Traffic crashes cost America motorists $164.2 billion a year, or about $1,051 per person, according to a AAA research report.  That’s more than double the $67.6 billion in annual costs from congestion, or about $430 per person. To calculate the crash costs, researchers took into account factors such as property damage, lost earnings, medical costs,…

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