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This is another post based on a search that someone used to reach our website.  In this series of posts, I normally try to answer  the question that the person asked.  But I'm adamant that an attorney that tries to give you an early answer to this question is doing you a disservice.  There...

For the second time in less than a month, Austin has experienced a traffic fatality from a driver driving the wrong way on a highway.  Early Saturday morning, a woman in her twenties was killed as she was driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of the I35 lower deck.  The wrong-way driver hit two other...

Today, the legislative Sunset Advisory Commission released its staff report on the Capital Metro Transportation Authority.  Unfortunately, the report raises a number of questions about the safety of the new Capital Metro rail system.  The first real safety issue involved the bridges along the rail system.  The report notes: Most...

This is another post inspired by a Google search that someone used to find our website. And the short answer is "Yes."  A person filing a personal injury lawsuit may seek to recover medical expenses even if  those medical expenses were paid through health insurance or some type of other...

One of the most frustrating parts of our work is dealing with Medicare.  When Medicare pays for accident victims' medical care,  the victims have to pay Medicare back for that care out of any settlement or verdict.  But it can be an almost impossible tak finding out (1) how much Medicare claims it paid...

After yesterday's post, my friend Steve Lombardi, a Des Moines personal injury lawyer, sent me links to a number of posts on his blog dealing with wrong way drivers.  If you're interested in the problem, check out some of Steve's links: Wrong Way Collisions in Iowa Wrong Way Driving On...

I'll be honest.  I groaned when I saw this first question listed for our I-35 blog group.  The first reaction I had to writing about this question was that it was too similar to obnoxious billboards I've seen for personal injury lawyers in Dallas or Houston. But then I thought back to some...

Wrong-way drivers are a bigger problem than one would think. I've written a couple of blog posts about wrong-way drivers on the Austin Injuryboard blog, and Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer Steve Lombardi has written extensively on his Des Moines blog with a 20 part series on the problem. But...

Earlier this week, Austin news station KEYE ran a news story detailing the problem of increased traffic fatalities in Austin.  Unfortunately, 2012 saw a 42 percent increase in fatalities compared to 2011.  That was the biggest jump among major cities in Texas. As part of their research, KEYE also identified...