With the beautiful fall breeze, that fully decorated Christmas tree you put up the day after Halloween, and holiday cheer filling every place you go, how can anything go wrong? While you may have gotten the day off work, the stress of planning, traveling, and family make for one of the deadliest days of the…
FLORIDA—DID YOU KNOW that total crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday period, defined as the ten days beginning the Friday before Thanksgiving Day and ending on the Sunday after Thanksgiving Day, increased 18 percent from 2013 to 2015? From 2013 to 2015, fatalities during the Thanksgiving holiday period increased 27 percent. The number of total crashes…
NATIONAL—Uber requires their drivers to have car insurance, but if the app is on, then they provide supplemental insurance coverage. According to Uber, here’s how it works: Drivers are covered by their own insurance when they are offline. A driver is protected by a commercial automobile insurance policy with $1 million of liability per incident. This…
A car seat is one of the most important purchases you’ll make for your child. Why? Because child car seats save lives; indeed, that’s a fact. However, finding the right car seat for your child is no easy task. SaferCar.Gov recently released a video to help you through the decision-making process and keep your child safe. Check…
Wet season is about to begin in Central Florida. The attorneys here at Tripp Law Firm want to remind our fellow motorists that it’s illegal—and dangerous—to drive in the rain with your hazard lights on. FLORIDA—Summer is coming. All Floridians know what that means. Rain, and lots of it. Some drivers switch on their hazard…
NATIONAL—Distractions include cell phone use — texting and talking– grooming, eating, and talking to passengers. People who text while driving are 23 times more likely to die in a crash. In 2014, 3,179 people were killed and 431,000 were injured due to distracted driving. NHSTA Stats The NHTSA compiled a list of stats that demonstrates…
NATIONAL – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at Yeshiva University in New York, have linked areas of brain injury to specific altered mental processes caused by concussions. The colored areas show locations of brain injury, including injury to the frontal lobe, in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury. Closed head injuries are…
