I recently came across a pretty good article that discusses the various types of automobile insurance available to most drivers and what benefits each afford. The Auto Insurance article denotes there are five basic types of insurance coverage: bodily injury liability, property damage liability, medical payments, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and comprehensive and collision...
The Department of Transportation's statistics show that there are about 6.5 million auto accidents a year and of those, over 3 million suffer minor to very serous injuries. Of these 3 million injuries 2 million are said to cause permanent injuries and over 40,000 of them end in death each year. Of these 40,000 plus fatalitiles, over 40% result due to drunk or impared drivers and another 30% are...
In San Francisco, a crazed man used his sport utility vehicle to run down innocent pedestrians killing one man and injuring at least 13 others. The man started his spree in Fremont California where he stuck and killed one man before moving on to San Francisco where he ran down the others including small children. Witnesses of the mad man said the driver never tried to slow down and he stuck the...
Georgia Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Schuster granted class action status against Orkin's parent corporation Rollins, Inc., after they allegedly failed to honor their contracts promising to protect homes from termite damage through re-inspections and re-treatments. Ernest Warren and his wife Dolores Warren, of Marietta, Georgia first filed their suit in 2001.According to 11alive.com:The suit...
Just one day after the Comair Flight 5191 tragedy, a second plane has crashed into the wooded mountains in western Kentucky. The passengers on the twin engine Cessna plane were all from the same family and all were killed in the unfortunate incident. The pilot of the plane, Jason Christie, failed to file his flight plans with the airport before leaving but they were believed to be headed another...
Ambien, the United States most popular insomnia medication, has been linked to numerous accidents on the roadway in recent months. The sleeping medication, manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis, has been said to cause "rare adverse events of sleep walking" and can be deadly when taken by an unwary driver. Forensic toxicologists Laura Liddicoat in one study examining blood samples of 2300 impaired...
In a follow up to my previous blog on the tragic Comair Flight 5191 accident, investigators are still uncertain as to why the twin-engine commuter jet took off the wrong runway as it departed Lexington's Blue Grass Airport. According to the cockpit recorder, the only discussions of runways referred to #22 which is the longer than runway #26 which the jet reportedly used.According to the...
A commuter jet, Comair Flight 5191, that took off the wrong runway at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport crashed shortly after take off and killed all but one of the fifty people on board. The flight headed to Atlanta apparently started on a 1,066 meter-long strip, which is only half the length of the airport's main runway usually used for commercial flights. Officials of the National Transportation...
Bextra, released by Pfizer in 2001, is a cox-2 painkiller that was promoted as a miracle drug for many arthritis sufferers. However the promises provided by Pfizer did not deliver as expected for hundreds of thousands of unwary consumers. After being linked to heart attacks, strokes and the potentially deadly allergic reaction Stevens Johnson syndrome, Bextra was pulled from the market on April...
Last night about 3 a.m. westbound on I-285 a vehicle traveling in excess of 100 mph rear ended a tractor trailer in Clayton County leaving the driver and passenger of the vehicle dead at the scene. According to witnesses, the driver of the Volkswagen Jetta made no effort to stop prior to striking the tractor trailer's rear tires and eventually struck the median ejecting both occupants....