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Attorney News New Laws on Texting While Driving Will Likely Affect West Virginia

14 Mar

It used to be that applying make-up or slurping coffee from a commuter mug were most common reasons drivers got distracted while behind the wheel. Now, with the number of car accidents going up every year, there is a far more deadly reason people are being distracted: Driving While Texting.

The state of being distracted by texting even has a name: “Intextication”, which can produce the same erratic driving maneuvers that alcohol causes. Some research shows that drunk drivers actual handle their cars more safely than those who are sober but texting. Texting accidents and injuries are on the rise and laws are changing because of it.

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Medical Payments NC North Carolina regards MedPay coverage as supplemental

6 Mar

Often times those injured in a car accident struggle with paying for medical treatment, but are unaware that their own car insurance policy may provide coverage for medical expenses. By the time the injured party calls an attorney there may be large gaps in medical treatment that can significantly damage the case. One way to pay for hospital and doctor bills related to a car accident may be through “Med Pay” See: Medical Payments coverage North Carolina .

Medical Payments coverage, also known as Med Pay, may be used to pay for reasonable expenses incurred for necessary medical and funeral services because of bodily injury caused by an automobile accident.

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Legal News Why Are So Many Attorneys Wanna-Be Web Gurus? 3 2 2

2 Mar

Get this: Only about 1 in 20 law firms have their websites professionally managed. The other 95% have a site built, then decide they’ll somehow make it searchable but they have no clue what they’re doing, so their big investment starts collecting cyber dust like a box of brochures on a shelf. See: Websites For Attorneys

I know, I know-your firm doesn’t need site-management help because you’re good with Google, your paralegal made a site for a friend once and your admin likes blogging. Hell, for that matter, why not have your dentist handle depositions and the mailman can take your place in court? Eventually you’ll panic, hire a bunch of piece-meal vendors to try to keep it afloat and then waste time trying to manage them.

If you want high search rankings, you need a proven site-management company with the expertise, dogged mindset and dedicated hours to systematically keep your site in step with Google’s constant algorithm changes. (Admit it-you don’t even know what that means, do you?)
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Lawyer News Car seat safety often ignored in car pools, study finds. NC safe?

29 Feb

Think all North Carolina drivers take every precaution to keep children safe? Think again. A recent national study discovered that parents often don’t use booster seats when carpooling with preschoolers or young school-age children, increasing the risk of serious injury in a crash.

“I think it’s a complex issue of convenience, expectations, and peer pressure,” Michelle Macy, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan, told WebMD in a recent article. North Carolina has tough car safety seat laws aimed at protecting children from being hurt in a car accident. North Carolina requires all children 8 years old and younger ….

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