Car accidents are frightening and traumatic, especially for victims who’ve sustained serious injuries. In some cases, car accident victims feel fortunate when they’ve escaped catastrophic or life-threatening injuries so they put off medical care for perceived bumps, bruises, stiffness, and soreness. But these seemingly minor soft tissue injuries can worsen in the days and weeks…
Serious car accidents are always terrifying to experience and witness, but no accident is as harrowing as a rollover accident. Any vehicle can roll over under the right (or wrong) circumstances, but vehicles with high centers of gravity or tall vehicles with narrow bases like tractor-trailer trucks, SUVs, and vans are more likely to roll…
Car accidents are sadly common in the United States with nearly four million accidents per year resulting in property damage and 1,593,390 accidents with injuries. In a single recent year, 35,766 fatal car accidents occurred. When accidents happen, some victims aren’t immediately aware of all of their injuries. Adrenaline and other stress hormones sometimes mask…
The trauma and painful injuries associated with car accidents often leave accident victims vulnerable to the insurance companies that protect their profits at the victim’s expense. In fault-based insurance states like Texas, an injury victim must prove the at-fault party’s liability to gain compensation for their property damage, medical expenses, lost income, and pain and…
The holiday season deserves its reputation as “the most wonderful time of the year” but with the holidays comes wintery weather, poor road conditions, holiday traffic, travel, and shopping in busy, overcrowded stores staffed by exhausted employees and overwhelmed managers. Emergency rooms report increases in patients by as much as 12% during the Christmas holiday…