by Chaikin & Sherman | Dec 21, 2016 | Medical Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that it will not consider challenges to the concussion settlement between the National Football League and over 20,000 former athletes. The Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on Monday December 11th, settles a long-running class...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Dec 16, 2016 | Auto Law
The last few years have seen a spate of bad news for Metro (officially known as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or “WMATA”). There have been safety failures and accidents resulting in death and injury. The Federal Government has been forced to step...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Dec 14, 2016 | Auto Law
Lawmakers were recently successful in blocking safety rules designed to keep tired truck drivers off the road. The rules, which were supported by the Obama Administration, concerned mandatory rest periods that require truckers to take two nights off after a work week...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Dec 8, 2016 | Auto Law
A report released Tuesday by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says that sleep-deprived drivers are just as dangerous as drivers who have had one too many and are too drunk to drive. In fact, driving with four to five hours of sleep was comparable to driving...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Dec 5, 2016 | Auto Law
One victim was killed and several others injured in a fatal collision between a school bus and a commercial tractor-trailer in Texas this past Friday. According to authorities, the crash took place Friday evening on Interstate 20 in Big Springs following a football...
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