Over the past few years, more and more people in Texas have become comfortable with the idea of hopping into a stranger's car in order to receive better service at a lower price than traditional taxi cabs. However, rideshare services also come with the risk of getting...
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Unwanted distinction: Texas leads nation in this undesired category
Everything is bigger in Texas.Have you heard that expression before? A quick dash to a google search will readily confirm that many people have, with the saying being referenced by a number of different media outlets. And although the declaration isn't of course...
Texas parents might want to note this annual safety campaign
Texas residents might understandably feel overwhelmed and just flatly fatigued by the incessant onslaught of writ-large public campaigns and linked underscoring of various causes and subject matter.Put another way: It might reasonably seem to many that there is a...
What might reduce rear-end crash risks involving big trucks?
Nothing is more obvious concerning a commercial truck operating on American roadways than its outsized dimensions compared with other vehicles sharing the road.Except perhaps this: the typically severe injury consequences for third parties who suffer in accidents...
What is perplexing to regulators about small commercial vehicles?
Just about everything.In a nutshell, a complete lack of familiarity and related confidence concerning small commercial vans and trucks is what is admittedly baffling federal safety regulators presently. What officials from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
Seasonal injury risk focus turns to water-linked events
Modern life is fast-paced and frenetic. Successfully negotiating it requires the exercise of due care and fundamental prudence across many dimensions.One of those is injury prevention. Of course, most of us don’t step out the door each morning to confront an...
What does a Texas wrongful death remedy provide for?
First of all, let’s state the obvious: Commencing a legal action is not foremost on the minds of surviving family members following the death of a loved one.And, as true as that is in any instance, it is even more of a certainty when a family fatality owes to...
Just how vulnerable is the motorcycling public?
Very vulnerable, indeed.That is the only accurate answer that can be given to today’s above-posed Michalk, Beatty & Alcozer blog post headline. We state the obvious on a page of the firm’s website addressing biker challenges and risks, namely this:...
Spotlighting liability linked with Texas’ dramshop law
Sometimes a given Texas legal matter featuring liability will closely depend on the proven culpability of one designated third party.At other times, such is not the case, which we prominently note on our website at the experienced Killeen law firm of Michalk, Beatty...
Accident risk factors outsized for this specific group
We periodically revisit specific subject matter relevant to the personal injury realm at Michalk, Beatty & Alcozer. That is especially true regarding information germane to injury concerns for particularly high-risk groups.Where that is the focus, it is not even...