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Masontown, West Virginia: When you are in a serious accident, it is a life-changing event. There is nothing in life quite like it, and it is often difficult to know what to do next. All in a moment, you and your family are often faced with new health issues, vehicle damage, and financial problems. That…

Causes and Treatments of Whiplash Every day there are thousands of car and truck accidents, and many injured people are taken to the hospital for treatment. We hear about broken bones, damaged organs, and terminal injuries, but we don’t often hear about the less life-threatening and less visible injuries that can affect people more in…

Why it Matters: V2V Communication Guest Post by Elisabeth Campbell Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication is a communication system between vehicles for increasing driver safety by reducing collisions. It is not communication between drivers, rather it is communication between the vehicles themselves. When there is potential danger between two vehicles, the vehicles alert their drivers…

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…