Personal Injury

Although many people drive cars daily as they commute to work and school, visit friends, and run errands, certain behaviors can make driving dangerous and cause fatalities. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that 38,824 people perished in car accidents in the United States in 2020, a seven percent increase from 2019. Of those who...

Drivers who are distracted and cause accidents that harm others are usually negligent according to the law. If you were the victim of a distracted driving accident, you could hold the driver responsible under West Virginia law. With the help of a skilled West Virginia car accident attorney, you could recover monetary compensation for...

In West Virginia, an estimated 1,000 fatal and non-fatal truck accidents occur yearly. Truck accidents can cause some of the most severe accidents because of the weight of a fully loaded truck. As a result of the seriousness of potential accidents and because the trucks travel through multiple states, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

Car accidents can be traumatic experiences, even when they do not involve a fatality. That stress can increase exponentially when a fatality is involved because criminal and civil liability may follow. Between 2010 and 2019, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reports System showed that speeding was a factor in 32% of all fatal...