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The first edition of The Ultimate Guide to Car Accident Cases in Pennsylvania: A Roadmap to Justice has been out only a week and already readers are calling in their edits. Most are helpful. Some deal with typos. But one mistake led to a wildly inflated value and so we note it here and promise to have it corrected for…

The Erie Times News reports that William D. McCray was killed Sunday, August 1, 2010 in an Erie County motorcycle head on collision on Route 77 in Richmond Township, Pennsylvania. Reportedly, Mr. McCray was westbound on Route 77 when he passed on a hill. An eastbound Saturn coupe apparently crested the hill and struck Mr. McCray head-on. None else was…

On August 1, 2010, Christa Logue was driving her 2006 Dodge Caravan south on I-79 in Erie County, Pennsylvania when she apparently lost control, hit the median strip and caused a rollover car accident. Her 14 year old son, Joshua Gibson, was thrown from the vehicle and killed. Ms. Logue has been charged with DUI and reportedly had a blood…

A connection between truckers and sleep apnea is being explored as a way of increasing truck safety. Truckers are more likely than average Americans to be overweight, which can lead to health problems such as sleep apnea which disrupts sleep and causes fatigue – a factor contributing to thousands of highway truck crashes every year, according to a recent report.…

A proposal championed by Governor Ed Rendell to put surveillance cameras on Pennsylvania’s public streets and highways in order to enforce insurance laws is being met with resistance by insurance companies. The problem of uninsured drivers in Pennsylvania is more common than many people appreciate. As Erie car accident lawyers, we see too often the “coverage tragedies” that these drivers…

Meaningless lawyer advertising is a problem. It poisons our jury pools. It cheapens the image of lawyers. Ultimately, it hurts our clients. That’s why we’ve committed to an education based marketing campaign for our Erie injury law firm. The only good thing about meaningless lawyer advertising is the grist it provides for funny people. Here is another installment of truly…

In a story I posted earlier this morning, I related the recent Erie Times News article about Pennsylvania’s teen driving laws and one organization’s suggestion that they need to be improved to limit Pennsylvania car accidents. The article did not include the suggested improvements to Pennsylvania’s driving laws so I went to the site myself to find out what the…