A car insurance company that is trying to allocate fault for an automobile accident might request a driver’s cell phone records to determine if they were distracted by a call or text message. Before you comply with any insurance company request for your cell phone information, call Douglas and London …
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How Do Insurance Companies Decide to Total a Car?
Following a serious car accident, there is one important decision that your insurance company will make that could have a dramatic impact on your life and finances. That decision is whether or not to declare your vehicle as “totaled.” Many times after a car accident, your vehicle will need only …
Do You Really Need Collision Coverage?
In New York, there are extensive requirements for auto insurance. Drivers in the Empire State must carry liability insurance. This coverage is designed to pay for bodily injury or property damage caused by another driver. However, it does not provide compensation for the insured driver’s own vehicles. Thankfully, collision coverage …
How Do You Determine if a Car is Totaled?
Following a serious car accident, an insurance company will consider a car to be damaged beyond repair, or totaled, if the cost to repair the car exceeds a certain percentage of the car’s actual cash value immediately before the accident. This may sound like an objective and unbiased definition, but …
What You Need to Know About JUUL
What did JUUL do wrong? JUUL Labs Inc. – which is 35% owned by Big Tobacco company Altria, the makers of Marlboro – has been implicated in multiple issues. The first one, which is the base for many of the harsh allegations against them, is their illegal marketing to minors. …
White House Calls for FDA to Ban Sales of all Flavored JUUL Pods and E-cigarettes
After yet another death in the U.S. from a severe respiratory illness linked to vaping, the White House is pushing to ban all non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes from the market. U.S. health officials are urging people to avoid e-cigarettes while the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigates over 450 cases …
Commercial Truck Driver DUI
We expect professional drivers to be safe and attentive of all rules of the road no matter what. This is especially important for commercial truck drivers who operate tractor-trailers. These vehicles can be extremely dangerous in collisions, causing catastrophic truck accidents that result in serious or fatal injuries. In some …
3M Earplugs: Valuing Profits Over Country
The Department of Justice issued a press release which stated: “Through rigorous enforcement of the False Claims Act, we protect taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud, and abuse”, said U. S. Attorney Sherri Lydon for the District of South Carolina. “And in this case, in particular, we are proud to defend …
Rollover Car Accidents
Rollover crashes are among the most serious kinds of auto accidents that can occur. As a vehicle tips over and rolls, occupants of the vehicle will be tossed and turned around. Even if you are wearing seatbelts and proper restraints, the trauma can be severe. This is especially true if …
Human Sex Trafficking in America
What is Human Trafficking? The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended (22 U.S.C. 7102), defines ‘severe forms of trafficking in persons’ as: Sex trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial …
