After suffering injuries in a car accident that resulted from another party’s negligence, your own driving record should not affect your pursuit of compensation. If the opposing counsel starts citing your driving records, you can...
Tips for Choosing a Motor Vehicle Accident Lawyer
After getting in a car accident, the most important thing you can do is find the right lawyer to take on your case. With the right legal team by your side, you may have a...
Recovering Compensation for Accidents Caused by a Sudden Medical Emergency
You can file a claim with your insurer if you want to recover compensation for an accident caused by a sudden medical emergency. Usually, when someone else causes an accident, they are liable to pay...
How Testimony From Witnesses to a Car Accident Can Help Your Claim
Testimony from witnesses, especially independent ones, to a car accident can help your claim because they can provide insight into the details of the accident. They can also support your story about how the accident...
Determining Liability for Accidents During Heavy Rainfall
Inclement weather, such as heavy rainfall, can increase the risk of a car accident. However, determining liability for car accidents during heavy rainfall may be more difficult because of several factors. First, you might have...
How an Accident Reconstruction May Help Your Claim
Determining liability after a car accident is not always easy and straightforward. Both parties could claim they aren’t responsible for the accident in any way. When this happens, it is easy to rely on witnesses...
The Difference Between Car Crash Injury Claims and Commercial Truck Injury Claims
While car and truck accidents have many similarities when filing an injury claim, there are also many differences. Knowing the legal process for each type of injury claim is essential to fighting for the compensation...
Ohio Driving Safety Laws
Every state has laws to keep drivers, occupants, pedestrians, and others on the roadways safe. Ohio is no different. The state has strict regulations on behind-the-wheel behaviors, seatbelt and car seat use, texting and driving,...
What You Should Know About Crash-Related PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after any trauma. For example, people involved in a serious motor vehicle crash are at an increased risk for PTSD. Car accidents are a common cause of psychological trauma,...
Ohio Car Accident Compensation Laws
If you were injured or suffered property damage in an automobile accident, you might have grounds to file a car accident claim or lawsuit against the at-fault driver or a related liable party. However, before...
Columbus OH Police Accident Reports – How to File and Get a Copy
Filing a police report and getting a copy of it can be crucial in jurisdictions such as Columbus, Ohio, and the report can bolster your claim for compensation. Alongside your police report, photos, video footage,...
Rideshare Accidents: Lyft and Uber Accident Statistics, Insurance, and Accident Settlements
For many Americans, ridesharing services have now become a part of life. Companies like Uber and Lyft provide a mobile app where individuals can offer driving services using their own personal vehicles, and people in...
Ohio car accident settlement – examples
If you are hurt in a car accident caused by someone else, you could recover damages through an insurance settlement. Our team at the Fitch Law Firm LLC has successfully negotiated car accident settlements for...
Woman and Young Child Killed in Car Accident With Train
The Chillicothe Gazette reports that two people were killed Friday afternoon when the car they were riding in collided with a train. The accident occurred near Piketon in the vicinity of 400 River Road. Piketon...
Understanding Contributory Negligence in Ohio
In any car accident claim, fault is considered to be one of the most critical components taken into consideration. When a claim for damages resulting from an accident is filed, the first thing that needs...
Trial Alternatives
Following an auto accident, you may visualize resolving the conflict through a full-blown trial with witnesses, lawyers and a judge. However, there are many reasons why proceeding to trial may not be the ideal...
Texting Ban For Ohio Drivers
Drivers using hand-held electronic devices while driving in Ohio will now be subject to prosecution. Police and state troopers will issue just warnings — instead of $150 tickets — for the first six months. Teens...
Texting and Driving: the Road to Disaster
Cell phones have never been more integrated into our everyday life than they are now. We can use them to navigate, keep in touch with friends, and check our email at a moment’s notice. But...
Suit Filed in Ohio to Halt Photo Traffic Enforcement System
An individual filed a civil complaint on Thursday, September 12, 2013 in the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County, Ohio seeking to halt Columbus’ Photo Traffic Enforcement System as being in violation of Ohio’s Constitution....
Senior Citizens on the Road
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, more elderly drivers are out on America’s roadways. Senior citizens (people over age 65) can be very good drivers, but as their vision, hearing and motor skills worsen, the...