Category: After the Crash

Scott Faultless: Safety costs money. Bad trucking companies, bad actors don’t make that investment in safety. They usually have the worst equipment, and they have bad brakes, they have fatigued drivers, and those are factors right there that if you have a semi coming down the road at highway speed,…

Kevin Swenson: The knowledge, the experience, and the ability to do it – having those three things in place, handling the case right from the beginning, taking the right depositions, being prepared for those depositions, getting the information you need, then you need to put it together so it makes…

Mark Metzger: David, you and I do disagree on a lot of things, but I still respect you. At the end of the day, I still consider you a person that I know, a friend, but when we’re going to head to head it’s like a basketball game. I want…

Stephen Mader: It’s a cliche that a picture’s worth a thousand words, but that is entirely what it is that I’m doing. My team and I are taking complex subject matters associated with medicine, and by creating visuals, we can explain those concepts in a clear and straightforward manner. David…

Yesterday, Congressman Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (IL-04), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, reintroduced the INSURANCE Act designed to ensure that the federal minimum insurance requirements are periodically adjusted to the inflation rate of medical costs.  The minimum requirement of liability coverage for motor carriers since 1980 has…

As an attorney who has dedicated my entire career to helping families who have had family members seriously injured or killed by collisions with commercial trucks, I am opposed to Indiana House-passed bill, HB 1190. What does HB 1190 Indiana propose? This bill would permit overweight trucks weighing as much…

According to an Indiana State Police Press Release, Susan Konkle and her passenger, Renee Stouder were injured when the 2007 Ford F-150 pickup truck they were in was rear-ended by a semi-tractor driven by Trina Fay Carlson.  The preliminary crash investigation by Indiana State Police Trooper Caleb Clark indicates that…

Record Snow Indianapolis, along with most of the state of Indiana, was hit with a winter storm this past weekend.  In fact, according to the National Weather Service the single day snowfall record of 3.4” set back in 1901 was broken on Saturday when the city received 3.6” of fresh…

Tanner L. Carpenter of Marshall, Illinois, age 23 was killed in an early morning crash on Interstate 70 near Terre Haute on Wednesday, December 16th. According to police, Carpenter lost control of his 2005 Ford Mustang which spun and struck concrete barriers on a bridge several times.   According to Sgt….

Indianapolis saw the first measurable snow fall of the season this morning.  Often, the first snowfall of the season catches motorists off guard resulting in drivers not giving themselves enough time to safely get where they are headed.   Failing to reduce speed when the roads are wet, or snow-covered leads to…