by Alison Frankel (Reuters) - The biggest difference between a John Grisham novel and the allegations in a racketeering class action State Farm settled Tuesday for $250 million is that Grisham would have had the insurance company buy off a state Supreme Court candidate with a briefcase full of cash. By contrast, the amended complaint [...]
With Christmas this week and New Years next Friday, a significant increase of vehicles traveling Tennessee roadways in holiday anticipation will occur with people paying visits to friends and relatives to celebrate the season. According to AAA, the number of holiday travelers around the country will top 100 million for the first time on record. [...]
With a month yet to go before the One Hundred Ninth General Assembly of the Tennessee State Legislature convenes, according to WSMV one state lawmaker is already working on legislation he is planning on addressing during the 2016 session which he says will make Tennessee roads safer. State Rep. John Holsclaw has drafted legislation to help eliminate [...]
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than three million people are injured each year in vehicle accidents across the country. Not all automobile accidents are the same. Depending on various factors, some people walk away unscratched from an accident as dramatic as a rollover while others are paralyzed from a low speed collision. [...]
Although all Tennessee drivers are aware of the laws regarding driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, distracted driving is somewhat of a gray area simply because most acts of distraction are not illegal in most states. As a result the odds of you encountering a distracted driver while behind the wheel is statistically [...]
In the United States, roughly 30,000 people each year are killed in automobile accidents. In Tennessee, just under 1,000 people succumb to their death due to a fatal car collision. This translates to 83 people dying on a daily basis in Tennessee due to car crashes. The next question these statistics beg is what [...]
Ride sharing companies, such as Uber, are quite popular as of late for a myriad of reason chief of which being convenience and one button smartphone simplicity. But what happens if you are in an accident while using a ride-sharing services? What happens if you are in an accident while driving your own vehicle, but [...]
One of the most common reasons for an automobile and eighteen wheeler crash to occur is because the driver was operating his or her vehicle while distracted. There are a myriad of actions a driver can do that would constitute being distracted. For example, texting or talking on the phone while operating a motor vehicle is [...]
It is a common misconception that only high-impact automobile crashes can lead to serious injuries, meanwhile research data fleshes out that the reality many Tennesseans have experienced life altering injuries in low impact automobile collisions. The term “low impact accident” is one coined by insurance companies to describe automobile accidents where there was little or no property [...]
Robert Carradine comes from a family of actors, and made his first appearances on television as a kid on various western shows such as Bonanza as well as his older brother David's TV series Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne. But Carradine is probably best known for portraying Lambda Lambda [...]