With impressive performance, especially in the last quarter of 2015, Nashville has been described as the new “hottest banking market” in the country by bank analysts and finance experts. However, Tennessee road safety has become a major public health issue, with more than 187 recent incidents in Nashville alone, according to the Accident Data Center. [...]
Last January, the state of Tennessee joined 13 other states in adopting a primary seat belt law that fines first offenses. Last year, Tennessee was one of the states with the lowest penalties for first-time violations of the seat belt law. Today, the fine can top out at over $100 with a basic fine of [...]
Mediation is a tool that is often used in personal injury cases to try and settle the case before trial and is one of the most popular ways to resolve a personal injury case. Mediation is an informal process in which a neutral third party, called a mediator, helps the parties to a personal injury [...]
The last time anyone counted, back in October of last year, nearly 260 million vehicles were operating on America’s roads. Ever wonder what kind of shape are they in? According to a recent release by IHS, Inc., the corporate parent for used-vehicle history providing website Carfax, over 47 million -- almost 25% of vehicles on [...]
According to CityLab, there is an average of 90 deaths from car accidents every single day in the United States. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says that its latest figures show that in 2013, California, Texas, and Florida registered the largest number of fatal crashes, and that 57% of the country’s fatal vehicular [...]
According to a 2013 study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), mile for mile, motorcyclists were 26 times more likely to die in a traffic accident than individuals in a passenger car. The same data showed that motorcycle riders were five times as likely to sustain injuries in a traffic accident compared to [...]
When you are injured due another's negligent behavior, you have the right to pursue a personal injury lawsuit in order to be compensated for any injuries and financial losses they caused you to suffer. However, in order to succeed in a personal injury lawsuit, your case must possess 4 essential elements: Element #1: Duty of [...]
Southwest Flight 31 from Houston to Nashville suffered some type of equipment failure upon landing at Nashville’s BNA airport on Tuesday, December 15th. While it is unclear how the Boeing 737 ended up in a ditch along the runway, we do know that several people were injured in the incident. There were 133 passengers aboard [...]
Two years after the accident that left several passengers injured, the NTSB has released its report on the cause of the Southwest 345 "hard landing" and it shows it was pilot error. It also shows that the plane did land nose gear first, which is a point that many in the aviation field have argued [...]
People were awakened in the middle of the night by knocks on theirs doors and automated reverse 911 alerts and told told to evacuate their homes immediately after a train derailed near Maryville. The CSX train was carrying, among other materials, cars filled with acrylonitrile, a caustic and highly flammable material used in carpet manufacturing. [...]
