Top 5 Reasons for Winter Weather Crashes According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation, severe weather traffic accidents cause a greater number of deaths in the United States than tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, and heat waves combined. Earlier this winter, an article from The Weather Channel related a few grim totals: “more than 5.8… Read more »
Are Your Tires Safe for Winter Driving? During the winter driving months, it’s important to remember that your brakes stop your wheels, but your tires stop your car. Brake maintenance is vitally important, but you also need to take a good, hard look at your tires to determine whether you can trust them as the… Read more »
Who Is Liable for Slip and Fall Injuries on Icy Public Sidewalks? The first snowstorm of Fall 2018 was a stark reminder of how the white stuff can bring our lives here in New Jersey to a screeching halt or worse. If your life was suddenly changed due to a slip and fall on an… Read more »
Early NJ Snowstorm Causes 1,000+ Traffic Accidents and Two Fatalities If you attempted to commute home on Thursday, November 15, you won’t soon forget the experience. All across northern New Jersey cars got bogged down in the heavy snow and traffic came to a crawl. As minutes turned into hours, the accident toll climbed, and… Read more »
How Traumatic Brain Injuries May Impact Future Employment If you or a loved one has sustained a serious injury, what are the prospects for your future? With certain injuries, medical specialists can offer a reasonable prognosis, but when an injury affects the nervous system, the victim’s potential for recovery is often cloudy at best. Most… Read more »
How to Stay Safe While Sharing the Road with Large Commercial Trucks If you’ve ever been delayed for hours on I-78, because of an overturned tractor-trailer, you have a sense of the destructive potential of a large truck accident. At Brach Eichler, our personal injury attorneys have represented many clients who suffered catastrophic injuries in… Read more »
Why Are Workplace Fatalities Rising in NJ? After a sharp drop in 2014, workplace fatalities in New Jersey rose in 2015 and again in 2016, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. NJ.com reports that the Garden State ranked 17th in the nation in workplace fatalities in 2016 with 101… Read more »
Recent NJ Turnpike Rollovers Raise Tractor-Trailer Safety Concerns In June of this year, two horrific crashes on the New Jersey Turnpike snarled traffic for miles and raised concerns about the safety of large commercial trucks traveling throughout the Garden State at highway speeds. On June 8, two people were killed when a tractor-trailer truck overturned… Read more »
Can a Landlord Be Liable for Injuries Due to an “Open and Obvious” Hazard? New Jersey premises liability law holds a landlord accountable when a hazard the landlord knew or should have known about causes injury to a visitor. However, a major requirement is that the hazard be hidden or at least not obvious to… Read more »
Wrong Way Accidents Present a Deadly Threat A head-on collision on a South Carolina highway that killed a wrong-way driver made national headlines recently, but not because wrong-way driving is an anomaly. The accident made the 24-hour news cycle because it left Congressional candidate Katie Arrington with multiple, severe injuries. Arrington sustained a fracture to… Read more »
