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Save Lives and Money By Stopping at Red Lights

January 31, 2012 16:45

According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), more than 1.8 million intersection crashes occur each year, costing more than $7 billion and resulting in more than 1,000 deaths.   On April 7, 2009, Jamie, a 39 year-old-wife and mother of two, was on her way home from work when her...

Robert Bork: Tort Reformer and Hypocrite

Stuart A. Carpey
August 21, 2009 21:17

Tort reform is a buzzword for limiting the average guy's rights to the court room by big business and their supporters.  When one time Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork settled a case against Yale University last year for injuries he sustained when he fell at the alumni club, he reached the...

Is the recession affecting my personal injury practice?

Stuart A. Carpey
February 27, 2009 22:32

Yes, but not the way the recession is affecting everyone else. What I’ve notice is this: Vendors I deal with are more willing to negotiate prices with me. Many of my clients are more anxious and hope that the courts will give them earlier trial dates, (they won’t)....

Jury Trials In Personal Injury Cases

Stuart A. Carpey
February 17, 2009 22:41

Our founding fathers did not foresee subprime mortgages, credit swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and the housing bubble, but they did foresee the need to preserve the rights of citizens to have jury trials in civil cases. The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as...