Last month Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, known as the FAST Act. This bill is a compromise of a few previous bills that did not pass. This new law allocates $305 Billion towards fixing America’s transit system, which includes fixing roads, reducing freight costs, and boosting productivity in freight related industries. The [...]
Congratulations to Mark Kitrick who received the Central Ohio Association for Justice 2015 Past President's Award on January 12, 2016 "In recognition of his unending efforts to promote justice, assist the legal community and serve the citizens of Central Ohio".
Low Fuel Costs Brings More Trucks and New Drivers on our Roadways For quite some time the trucking industry has had to contend with a national shortage of drivers and additional regulations are on the horizon in Congress. These realities can hurt businesses and consumers by increasing general costs. However, this new year may mark [...]
Over the holidays I bought a well-known weekly national magazine. As I started paging through it, I noticed a multitude of medication ads; so many that I decided to rip out all those pages. Interestingly, after doing so, I was reading a much smaller and lighter magazine. But when I studied the ripped pile of [...]
Study after study including this one from October, 2015 proves that we are seriously distracted when we drive and use hands free devices. The AAA considers a mental distraction rating of 2 or higher (out of 5) as potentially dangerous. In this study the drivers’ attention was distracted with a rating of 3.4. And notably, [...]
Stay at the scene-Assess your passenger’s injuries and ensure that the environment is safe. Call 911 to dispatch the police and medical personnel. It is extremely important that you receive a police report documenting the incident. Ask the officer for a report number. Exchange information-Keep conversation with the other driver to a minimum and be [...]
The American Association for Justice has just released a report, Concussions and the Courthouse (http://concussion.justice.org/), detailing the decades of concussion incidents in sports, culture change surrounding concussions, and research on the cognitive effects of repeated brain trauma. Learn how “having your bell rung” and continuing to play went from a mark of courage to players, [...]
Many people do not know important details on how the trucking industry works. Such knowledge is essential if we are to have any true and lasting success reducing truck collisions which would in turn lower the overall driving fatalities in the U.S. The first notable fact about the industry is that there is a serious [...]