You would be hard-pressed in this day and age to come across someone who is not on at least one social media site. From Facebook and Twitter to YouTube and Tumblr the masses are obsessed with social media. For some reason, we all feel the need to divulge information about our lives and what we are doing—information that, before social media, we wouldn’t bother sharing in a

For years there has been a constant debate regarding the so-called need for ‘tort reform,’ also known as caps on damages, and whether or not this is a beneficial practice. The main argument is that by placing caps on the amount of money that can be received when someone is the victim of medical malpractice will help ease the staggering costs of healthcare in our country. The

Country Throwdown doesn’t begin to describe it.

More than 160 people sustained injuries at XTU’s Anniversary Concert at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden this past weekend. Police arrested nearly 200 concert goers in connection with a host of assaults causing personal injuries. Live Nation, which promoted the Country Throwdown Tour, may have provided inadequate event security for parking lots. Witness accounts of the violence that took

Text while driving is illegal in New Jersey, but up until now the fines for committing the offense haven’t been too serious. Currently, the fine is only around $50 per infraction, which doesn’t go far to deter drivers who can’t put their smart phones down. That’s about to change in the hopes of decreasing violent car accidents, according to The Trentonian. The Senate Law and Public Safety

Fatal accidents in New York and New Jersey have prompted regulators from the U.S. Transportation Department to shut down 26 separate bus companies. The bus accidents in question happened over the course of last year and resulted in the deaths of 17 people in the Bronx and on the New Jersey Turnpike. The safety violations – compiled by federal inspectors – site three main companies as owning

When you make the decision to pursue a personal injury claim there is certain information that you will want to immediately disclose to your law firm. This information is necessary not only to inform them of the specifics surrounding your accident, but also so that they are fully prepared to handle any issues that could potentially be raised by the opposing party over the course of the

Over the past few years there has been a troubling trend with regards to accidents that result in fatalities on the Garden State Parkway. All of the fatal accidents on the Parkway from 2010 through May 2012 occurred within approximately a mile of an exit. This begs the question of what is so inherently dangerous about these areas of the highway that people are dying in staggering

Car accidents are an ideal source of inspiration for musicians because of the sudden change these violent acts can force into lives. Bands and solo artists don’t shy away from the emotional material because listeners everywhere instantly identify with the subject matter. That fact shows up in the success of the best car crash songs.  Most of these tracks have sold millions of copies worldwide and sustained

After the recent news story about the death of a 21-month-old child, the public is finally becoming aware of an often ignored danger to their children—the laundry room. Tiffany Hebb of Oregon was just doing some laundry. When she had to step out of the room for a minute a disaster occurred.

In just the short time Hebb was out of the room, her son Ollie was

The frantic moments after a serious car accident are often difficult to remember. The body floods with adrenaline, focuses on simply staying alive. For 18-year-old Desaleen James, the video she shot of her and her friends that evening captures the terrible impact of the vehicle as the driver, drunk behind the wheel, loses control of the vehicle and crashes into a brick embankment at 94 miles per

Have you ever filmed one of your friends doing something completely idiotic and reckless and then posted it to YouTube? Well, for one man this very action led directly to his arrest after his friends filmed him driving erratically—nearly causing a car accident—and his attempts to evade police and posted it to the video site.

25-year-old Steven McInulty from Coventry, England had been speeding along a

On a Saturday night a couple weeks ago I was taken to the hospital because I was experiencing extreme pain on the right side of my lower back. It was just past dinner time when I arrived, but of course I would be there well into the night. It turned out that the pain I was experiencing was due to a kidney stone, but once I was

Not all accidents are cut and dry when it comes to determining fault. There are times when the fault is both yours and the other entity, but that does not necessarily mean you do not have a personal injury claim. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania there is what is referred to as Modified Comparative Negligence, which is the system used to determine how much fault bars you

This heroic action by two Barnegat police officers was caught on the dashboard camera in one of their cruisers on Monday night. Officers Lauren Keilitz and Michael Diblasi responded to the report that a man was trapped inside his burning vehicle Monday night around 8 p.m.

Upon arriving at the scene they saw that the car was parked in the driveway and it was fully encased in

Last week, Libia Mendoza and her brother Leonel Mendoza (37 and 39 respectively) were indicted on charges of conspiracy, insurance fraud, tampering with public records, and attempted theft by deception according to the Insurance Journal. Grand jury documents show that the pair allegedly reported a hit-and-run accident that was false.

Their attempt to commit insurance fraud was reported to have happened between May 2010 and September