It’s Trick or Treat Time Again: Don’t be Tricked Into Not Knowing your Legal Liability
For most people, with or without young kids, Halloween is a fun time However, your Halloween night would be a lot less fun if you later found yourself slapped with a lawsuit for an unintended consequence that happened on Halloween night. So, let’s talk about what you can do to keep your potential liability to […]
School Transportation Liability
What happens if a school bus driver causes an accident while transporting your child to or from school? Is there school transportation liability? That’s an easy one. If your child, god forbid, is hurt in the bus accident, then yes, you have the right to sue the school district. It is difficult to sue the government, […]
The Special Challenges of Transit Bus Cases
National media attention naturally goes to interstate bus crashes—either charter bus accidents or tour bus and motorcoach crashes along regular routes between cities. Because those accidents involve lots of people from many communities, those accidents have widespread news value. When you consider news as a business, such accidents sell to a wider area than a […]
45+ Passengers injured in i80 Greyhound Bus Crash
45+ Greyhound Passengers injured and One Killed in the FOURTH Highway Bus Crash of 2013 At least 45 Greyhound passengers were injured, and one tragically killed, due to a horrific Greyhound bus crash that occurred in the middle of the night at about 1:30 am. This October 9, 2013 crash occurred on Route 80 near […]
Liability when Transporting Kids
Liability when transporting kids Can you transport a kid without express permission from his or her parent? In a time of soccer season and other sports after school and on weekends, should you worry about personal liability in connection with transportation of children? Probably not, cause you have enough to worry about anyway. However, a […]
Don’t Bet on a Class Action Suit to Get You Fair Compensation for Fracking Industry Losses
If you have been hurt—or if a member of your family has been hurt—due to the careless or negligent actions of an energy company or its employees, how are you going to get the recovery you deserve? It’s a fair and timely question. As the practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction—“fracking,” as it’s […]
Greyhound’s Distracted Driving Policy
Greyhound has a written policy prohibiting bus operators from using cell phones while operating a bus However, the company does not enforce the policy. In one case, the evidence confirmed that a Greyhound driver and his bus was unable to be located for several hours. The passengers at the terminal in Philadelphia waited over four […]
