by Slate Stern | Jun 9, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog, Wrongful Death
Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for traffic accidents that involve fatalities or severe injuries or fatalities, and so is lack of driving experience. About a third of fatal motor vehicle accidents involve a driver who was drunk or under the influence of...
by Slate Stern | Jun 2, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog, Wrongful Death
In most collisions between a passenger vehicle and a commercial truck, the occupants of the smaller vehicle sustain more serious injuries. Companies that own and operate commercial trucks must carry commercial liability insurance policies with multimillion-dollar...
by Slate Stern | May 26, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Driver Flees the Scene After Striking Water Tanker Near Lybrook In most collisions between a passenger vehicle and a commercial truck, the occupants of the smaller vehicle sustain more serious injuries. Companies that own and operate commercial trucks must carry...
by Slate Stern | May 12, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Most motorcycle rides go the way you planned for them to go, and they make for good stories, as long as your audience is amenable to tales of the freedom you feel as the wind rushes past you on the open road. Motorcycle accidents, by contrast, do not make for good...
by Slate Stern | May 5, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
The warnings on prescription bottles range from boring and mundane, such as “may be taken on an empty stomach or with food,” to the painfully obvious, such as “for external use only, do not ingest,” to the perplexing, such as “do not eat grapefruit within three hours...
by Slate Stern | Apr 28, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog, Unfair Competition
Memory is notoriously unreliable. Criminology professors know this when they ask their spouse to visit class unexpectedly, have a brief conversation with the professor in the front of the classroom, and then leave; the students’ descriptions of the apparently...
