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January 9, 2012

Liability for the Layman

The term “liability” has survived in the English vernacular for some years now. Its common usage has rendered it in the minds of many as yet another mundane facet of “lawyer-talk”— a simple enough concept inflated by legal jargon. Even I admit to often falling into this line of thinking. (...) MORE

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December 28, 2011

Slippery Conditions Across Tennessee Driving Up Rate of Accidents

As precipitation soaked the Volunteer State the week before Christmas, TDOT saw a significant surge in highway accidents. Officials report that a total of sixteen unique automobile collisions occurred on Interstates 75 and 24 in the days leading up to the holidays. Fortunately, according to a dispatcher at the Chattanooga (...) MORE

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August 4, 2011

Church Field Trip Tragically Ends Awry

The alleged negligence of a church volunteer has lead to the death of a young girl. On July 28, 2011, 24-year-old Bobby Joe Sasser was driving a group of teenagers back to their homes in Columbia from a overnight “lock-in” concert hosted by the Christian band Skyhook in Mumford. The (...) MORE

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August 4, 2011

Foley Man Killed in Accident

One man was killed and another two injured in a tragic accident occurring on emile outside of Foley on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Fredrick O. Barlow, aged forty-seven and of Foley, Alabama, was killed when his 1991 Pontiac Bonneville left the roadway and struck a utility pole. Investigators arrived pronouncing (...) MORE

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July 22, 2011

Truck Driver Facing Serious Penalties

A tragic highway accident may result in serious jail time for a tractor-trailer driver. Ronald Eugene Graybeal, 50, has been charged for killing three innocent drivers while under the influence of illicit substances. While driving his tractor-trailer at 65 mph on Interstate 40, Graybeal slammed into a pick-up truck, causing (...) MORE

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June 28, 2011

Woman Robbed After Car Wreck

Every once and a while, we are met face to face with one of life’s curveballs. Thus, always should we demonstrate resiliency and caution in the face of calamity or otherwise. On July 25, 2011, a female stripper leaving her club was rear ended at 3:00 in the a.m. at (...) MORE

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June 10, 2011

Bus Collides with Big Rig

“I could hear in the background a lot of children screaming…She said she was bleeding and her head was hurting.” Rueben attempted to recreate for reporters the June 6th phone call which changed everything. A group of high school students hailing from Texas were en route via bus to Orlando, (...) MORE

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July 30, 2010

Foley Alabama – TRAGIC MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT

A tragic motorcycle accident on July 1, 2010 left one dead and three injured in Foley Alabama. At 1 p.m., a motorcycle and an SUV collided at the intersection of the Beach Express and Baldwin County 20. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime, while the (...) MORE

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June 2, 2010

Texting and Driving Allegedly More Hazardous Than Drunk Driving

Texting while driving has become a very common practice in America today. Although cell phone use behind the wheel is quite obviously dangerous, surveys suggest as many as 71% of Americans have texted on the road. In June of 2009, the scientists at Car and Driver Magazine put it upon (...) MORE

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June 1, 2010

Two Alabama Women Involved in Major Tennessee Accident

Around 5 a.m. EDT, Maria Weathington, 81, and Judy Pollard, 57, passed away in a wreck approximately ten miles north of Cleveland, Tennessee on Interstate 75. The two Alabama residents were allegedly traveling for a trip to the Smoky Mountain region when Judy Pollard drifted off the left side of (...) MORE

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