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A fully-loaded semi-truck traveling at highway speeds (i.e., around 65 miles per hour) can traverse the length of two football fields before coming to a complete stop. This long stopping distance is due mostly to their enormous size. The average commercial truck is much, much heavier than the average passenger car. They can weigh anywhere…

As Amazon continues to expand its operations throughout West Virginia and the United States, the company’s delivery vehicles are becoming more and more common on the roads. These Amazon delivery vehicles include everything from Amazon-branded semi-trucks and vans to gig workers using their cars to make a delivery. But the more Amazon vehicles there are…

Accidents involving large commercial trucks can result in devastating injuries for residents and visitors to West Virginia. These incidents can occur in a wide variety of ways. For injury and property damage victims to recover compensation, it is crucial to determine liability for a truck crash. Here,  our West Virginia truck accident lawyers discuss who…

You’ve been involved in acollision, and the insurance company wants you to sign a medical authorization form in order to gain access to your medical records. What should you do? West Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer Explains: Keep in mind that if you sign a medical authorization, you give the insurance company adjuster access to all…

A large part of the reason we exist as a personal injury law firm is to aid and assist the seriously injured and their families in obtaining the best possible settlement and outcome for their case. We do a lot, but we cannot do it all. There are responsibilities which rest solelyon the injured person…

Accidents on the Shoulder of the Road or Highway Vehicles parked along the side of the road is a common sight. There are many reasons for a driver to pull the vehicle over including car trouble, phone calls, and health issues. When a vehicle is parked completely on the shoulder of the road, it should…

The hot celebrity news at this moment concerns Justin Bieber running his monster pickup truck tire over the leg of one the many paparazzi blocking his path as he left a church service on Wednesday evening. Running over a pedestrianis always horrible, but the one thing Bieber did right was to immediately stop his vehicle,…

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…

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…

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….