Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Employers That Provide Blackberries to Employees Must Prohibit Texting While Driving or Face Liability

  Jack Landskroner | March 24, 2007 10:32 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Workers Comp Insider Blog raises a very interesting and concerning work related issue in its posting March 16, 2007 concerning employee use of Blackberry or cellular devises and the practice of texting while driving. As if we don't have enough distractions as we hurtle ourselves from Point A to Point B in four ton vehicles, we read that DWT - driving while texting - has become an issue of...

• Truck Crashes Into Ohio Bridge

  Jenny Albano | December 19, 2007 7:02 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Tuesday, December 18 a cargo container truck crashed into a Ohio Bridge, killing the driver of the truck and rupturing a gas line. Because of the gas line six homes had to be evacuated. Part of the bridge was damaged and is still closed until inspected..The truck had its boom raised which hit the underside of the bridge and hit the gas line. There were other vehicles involved in the...

• U-Haul Failure to Warn Leads to Verdict

  Paul Grieco | February 13, 2007 7:02 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Cincinnati Federal Court Jury recently awarded damages in excess of $2.6 million dollars to passengers in a vehicle that was towing a U-Haul Trailer. The trailer caused the vehicle that was pulling the trailer to roll over. The jury determined that U-Haul failed to warn the occupants of the dangers in pulling the trailer. The verdict included punitive damages , which were rendered to punisnh ...

• $4.1 Million verdict for woman hit by driver using BlackBerry

  Rebecca Castell | December 14, 2006 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 71-year-old Illinois woman was recently awarded $4.1 Million for injuries suffered after a van driver ran a red light and crashed into her car. The driver of the van was on his way to a job for his employer and trying to navigate using his BlackBerry handheld device. When questioned later, the man could not even recall whether the light was red or green, but witnesses testified that the...

• Reckless Driver Pleads to Aggravated Vehicular Homicide

  Jack Landskroner | October 25, 2006 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Barberton, Ohio woman plead guilty yesterday, in Summit County Common Pleas Court, to aggravated vehicular homicide after striking a car and killing an Akron, Ohio woman.Jennifer Long, 25, was driving east on the interstate in Norton when she lost control at 12:15 a.m. June 30, 2005.She struck a car driven by Justin Curtis, 22, of Akron. His fiancee, Karey Scott, 21, of Akron, was killed....

• Broken Traffic Signals Can Cause Accidents

  Paul Grieco | November 15, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Drivers have enough to think about when driving down the road in terms of watching out for other drivers. All drivers have a duty and responsibility to maintain a proper look out and act as any reasonable driver would. If they don't and they injure someone they can be held liable and responsible for compensating the person(s) they injure. But what if someone is injured because of a broken...

• School Field Trips - Free From Mishaps?

  Justin Madden | October 17, 2006 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When signing a school permission slip for your child to go on a school field trip, be sure not to assume that it relieves the school for everything that might go wrong. Sometimes the bus carrying the school kids may be involved in a motor vehicle accident and the school would still have responsibility for any injuries that might occur.No one ever wants to think that an incident would occur...

• Judge Helps Settle Multi-Million Dollar Case

  Paul Grieco | May 17, 2007 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Justice was served in the Cleveland Justice Center when a local judge put a piece of paper with a seven figure dollar amount on it in two envelopes and presented it to the lawyers involved in the case with the option of accepting the figure and settling the case or go to trial. The case involved a serious car accident which led to an 18 yeaar old college student losing his eye sight. The young...

• Car-Buggy Accident Kills Amish Man

  Jack Landskroner | June 29, 2006 12:03 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Amish man who apparently fell asleep while driving his buggy died Saturday when the buggy failed to stop at a stop sign and was hit by an oncoming car. The accident occurred approximately 40 miles southwest of Cleveland in Huntington Township.Joe Keim died of internal chest injuries within minutes of the accident, Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus said.Family members said the victim apparently...

• Bedford Man Killed in Car Accident

  Jack Landskroner | April 19, 2007 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Another Cuyhoga County car accident has resulted in a death. A 27-year-old Bedford man died Thursday morning when his car hit a utility pole on Rockside Road. Paris T. Millsap was transported to University Hospitals in Bedford where he later died, according to police. Millsap was driving west on Rockside Road near Greencroft Park when his car left the road about 6:23 a.m. The cause of the...