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Thoughts from Jean Maxwell, an Auto Accident Legal Specialist with 25 years of experience: It’s been my experience working with our clients that whenever they’re involved in any kind of a motor vehicle collision and they sustain an injury and it causes long-term pain, that pained kind of manifests itself, or can manifest itself, into depression….

MARCH 2017 – Federal prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges against eight individuals accused of scamming insurance companies through a fraudulent car accident conspiracy scheme in three counties: Harrison, Taylor, and Marion, in West Virginia. The charges involve various violations of federal law, including mail fraud charges. Typically these scammers stage a fake collision in a…

Takata Corporation, a Japanese auto parts maker, has agreed to pay $1 Billion after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud for concealing a defect in millions of its airbag inflators. Takata airbag manufacturers admitted to covering up the defective inflators which can explode with too much force and send shards of metal into…

In contrast to the many Senate and House Bills before the West Virginia State Judiciary Committee in this 2017 Legislative Session that threaten to undermine the legal rights of every West Virginian, there are clarifications and additions that we can agree with inHouse Bill 2099as introduced by Delegate McGeehan to the Committee on the Judiciary….

Woman Rushed to Hospital After Charleston, West Virginia Police Cruiser Crashes Into Vehicle An elderly woman in Charleston, WV was hospitalized for injuries after her car was struck by a Charleston areaPolice Department vehicle. The officer driving was responding to an emergency burglarycall, but had neglected to have his lights and siren on while exceeding…

Early Monday morning, a Morgantown Police Officer was transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital after a vehicle ran into his cruiser while he was stopped at a red light in Morgantown, WV at the corner of Patteson Drive and University Avenue. The accident happened around 3:15 a.m. when the driver of the second vehicle was speeding…

Tragedy struck Christmas shoppers in a small town in Iowa when a small truck crashed through the barriers and front doors of their local Wal-Mart, killing three and injuring two others. The driver of the truck was an older man, driving alone, and the preliminary investigation indicates that this was heart-breaking and tragic, but not…

Who is liable when a car is stolen and the driver subsequently causes a collision and causes injuries or death? It is unlikely that the thief driving the car has any personal car insurance or assets. So, how would an injured individual or family be compensated after the accident for medical treatments and any other…

It was 8:30 a.m. on a freezing winter morning when I received the call, the call all parents hope they will never receive. The call was from the Ruby Hospital emergency department notifying us that two of our young adult children had been taken by ambulance for treatment after a motor vehicle collision in Morgantown….

Morgantown, WV: Why Roundabouts Are Safer and Prevent Accidents: Now that Exit 153 off I-79 in Morgantown is open for traffic to the University Town Centre, we are hearing a barrage of criticism about the inclusion of the roundabout traffic circle. Why it was a smart move to build a roundabout at the end of…