by Slate Stern | Jul 23, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
As soon as you are old enough to speak full sentences, you learn that you should look both ways before crossing the street. Pedestrians use caution when walking beside the road, especially in places where there are no sidewalks, and keep an eye out for moving vehicles...
by Slate Stern | Jul 16, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Anyone whose experience of intoxicating substances goes beyond elementary school “say no to drugs” classes knows that alcohol and cannabis are not interchangeable. Cannabis has never made anyone more belligerent, for example. While alcohol and cannabis both impair...
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 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...
by Slate Stern | Jun 4, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Almost everyone has gone to work when they were sick. The COVID-19 pandemic, despite the public messaging that people should stay home when they are sick in order to avoid exposing others to contagious diseases, further increased the economic pressure on most members...
by Slate Stern | May 28, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
The panic over cannabis has subsided substantially since you were in elementary school, and the guidance counselor told you that drugs are bad. It is now possible to buy cannabis legally in New Mexico as long as you are old enough to buy alcohol. The folks who have...
