by Slate Stern | Nov 5, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
The purveyors of clickbait are skilled in remixing reports about the most horrific car accidents. The tales of wrong-way crashes at speeds above 100 miles per hour are enough to make anyone cagey about motor vehicles, but these are less common than the news...
by Slate Stern | Oct 29, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Dealing with insurance companies is a frustrating lesson in reading the fine print. You buy car insurance because state law requires it, and you think that the insurance will cover you if you get injured in a car accident. t turns out that the insurance will pay...
by Slate Stern | Oct 22, 2024 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
The days of summer recreation are coming to an end, and soon, New Mexico’s ski resorts will open for the skiing season. While skiing has the reputation of being a recreational activity for leisurely classes, snowboarding has an edgier image, but both sports involve...
by Slate Stern | Oct 15, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Those statistics that tell you that a car accident happens once every X number of seconds make it sound like the collisions are equally spaced as if a collision occurs once every X number of seconds like clockwork. Accidents are more concentrated around the riskiest...
by Slate Stern | Oct 8, 2024 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Waiting for treatment in the emergency room always seems like it takes forever. A visit to the ER is a series of “hurry up and wait” cycles, from triage to testing to an examination by a physician and then if you are lucky, an interminable wait for discharge...
by Slate Stern | Oct 1, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Just after midnight one night this past spring, a white Infinity G37 skidded out of control on Unser Boulevard in Albuquerque. As it approached the Western Trail NW intersection, it veered out of the right lane, across the shoulder, and off the road. After...
