Huntsville Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

Children are vulnerable creatures. As a society, we feel the responsibility to protect the well-being of children. They are the future of our communities. And when we have our own children, the felt need to protect gets even stronger. If a child sustains a traumatic brain injury in a car accident, a parent's protective nature should reach a high level.

Kids fall. They bump their heads on tables. They fall off of the playground. It is quite common for children to hit their heads. But a severe brain injury should not be ignored. Two recent studies suggest that TBIs in kids can leave them disadvantaged in the areas of cognitive development and long-term mental ability. One bad accident that happens in a mere second can change the trajectory of your child's life.

Sure, many people might have some amount of cynicism when it comes to law enforcement. Many of us have had stressful or frustrating experiences with police officers. But for the most part, the public expects that law enforcement exists to keep us and the community safe, whether it's from car accidents or other types of crime.

What happens when it's a police officer whom a family believes is responsible for causing harm? An Alabama family blames a Mobile officer for a car accident that took the life of one man and left his wife with a severe brain injury. They have filed a claim, leaving the opportunity open for them to pursue personal injury claims against the officer and potentially the entire police department.

Construction can seem like a constant in our lives. Projects begin and sometimes never seem to end. When one project does finally end, then construction work begins somewhere else. Often, the projects are entirely necessary and beneficial to society. But the benefits of construction can quickly seem less valuable when a construction accident takes place.

This personal injury blog is no stranger to sharing posts about construction workers who sustain workplace injuries. But this post is a bit different, while still highlighting the importance of safety at construction zones. A young boy was involved in an out-of-state accident when he fell into a manhole at a construction site.

It might not always be easy to say goodbye to the kids in the morning. It can be tempting to want to spend as much time with them as possible until they grow up and move out. But the reality is that most parents do have to part with their children at the school bus stop in the morning.

What's already a tough moment in the day, however, shouldn't have to be a scary one. A fatal Alabama accident that occurred earlier this week is a reminder that safety can't be taken for granted. Accidents happen. Life can be lost, all because of a careless moment behind the wheel.

If you are like many U.S. workers, you likely spent a bulk of your morning waiting in frustrating traffic today. It can seem like we are living out the definition of insanity by sitting in stopped congestion just to get to and from work every day.

A recent AAA study looked at more than the frustration of traffic, but it looked at the cost of traffic, as well. Sure, there's the cost of time, but there is actually a financial cost to society as a result of congestion. The study also looked at how much society spends on car accidents and uses the number to emphasize the continued need to improve traffic safety.

Distracted driving has become a hot topic of conversation within Alabama and the majority of the U.S. in recent years. Its danger is compared to the dangers of drunk driving, which is why some states already have laws in place to ban certain cell phone uses behind the wheel.

The most common ban among U.S. states related to distracted driving is against texting while driving. Even though the great majority of states already have a texting ban in place, Alabama is yet to have adopted such a law. But that's not due to at least one lawmaker's lack of trying to prevent car accidents caused by distracted driving.

We have written about and worked with so many car accident cases in the past. Tragically, wrecks happen just about every day, some much more serious than others. Among the most serious types of crashes are those wherein the injuries are fatal.

When accident victims survive, some of the most serious injuries that they and their families are left to deal with are traumatic brain injuries. Damage to the brain is more than physical; it has behavioral consequences. And a new study suggests that a brain injury can mean a behavior change in a victim that could also affect the well-being of others.

Last Friday, the unthinkable happened for an Alabama mother. Her two daughters were both in a severe car accident together. They and a friend were in one vehicle, while a single driver was in the other that was involved in the wreck.

The mother has already lost one of her 20-year-old twins to the crash. The other is currently in critical condition in a Huntsville hospital. Sadly, the girls' friend, also 20, didn't survive the accident. But the fatalities didn't come without attempts at saving the girls' lives.