by Slate Stern | Jul 9, 2024 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Millions upon millions of American households own pet dogs; the percentages vary from one place to another, but the percentage is especially high in places like New Mexico, where there is ample space for backyards where dogs can roam around and where you are never far...
by Slate Stern | Jul 2, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Most car accidents are simply the result of a driver making a mistake, but most car accident lawsuits that go to trial have a large company or a local government as a defendant. One reason for this is that most individuals do not have the money to pay the damages the...
by Slate Stern | Jun 25, 2024 | Slate's Law Blog
Now that a third of 2024 has gone by, trucks are perfectly capable of driving themselves, but should we let them? Machines can do a lot of things with minimal human supervision, but sooner or later, it becomes obvious that they lack human judgment. Chatbots can write...
by Slate Stern | Jun 18, 2024 | Slate's Law Blog
When a new vehicle safety feature becomes available, the public tends to grumble about it before they embrace it. In the 1970s, when the movement for seatbelt laws gained traction, people complained that they took away the danger of driving, even though reducing...
by Slate Stern | Jun 13, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Head-on collisions, also known as frontal collisions, are one of the most dangerous car accident scenarios. The risk of death or catastrophic injury from a head-on collision is substantial, even if the cars involved in the accident are not traveling very fast upon...