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Atlanta DAR Collapse Reiterates what can Happen to Adjacent Buildings

The building collapse attorneys at Denena Points, PC emphasize that when a building collapses either partially or completely like the DAR house in Atlanta, it’s not just the people inside that structure that are in danger. It’s also people in adjacent buildings and in the “collapse zone” area around the building. A collapse zone is generally […]

Attaching a Child’s Car Seat using a LATCH System in Your Car

A recent article mentioned that child crash injuries and fatalities had decreased by around 45% over the last 10 to 15 years. Authorities attribute the substantial decline in serious injuries and deaths largely to the increased usage of proper child safety restraint systems like car seats and booster seats. But many parents still find these essential child […]

U.S. NHTSA Proposes New Rule for Enhanced Child Car Seat Safety in Side Impact Crashes

The NHTSA first informed the U.S. Congress in 2004 that better protection of children from side impact collisions was a priority. But little has been done since then to work towards that goal. Last week, the NHTSA took up the safety banner again, and proposed rules that would require children’s car seats to withstand T-bone […]

Negligent Entrustment and Financial Liability after a TX Car Wreck

If a person lets someone else drive their vehicle and that person causes a Houston, TX car wreck and injuries, the person who owned the car could be financially liable for the costs of the accident even if they weren’t in the car at the time. This is called “negligent entrustment.” And our Houston car crash […]

Is truck driver fatigue to blame for East Freeway big rig wreck?

Our Houston truck accident injury attorneys have been writing recently about truck driver fatigue. A spate of recent accident and a lawmaker’s call for more stringent oversight have brought the ongoing problem into the public eye once again. And Wednesday’s big rig wreck during the morning commute on the East Freeway shows that the problem endures […]

Collapses of 2 Cell Towers in Clarksburg Kill 3 Workers

Two of the workers were repairing a cell phone tower in Clarksburg, West Virginia on Saturday about 11:30 a.m. when it collapsed. The sudden structural collapse of the tower caused them to fall between 80 and 100 feet to the ground. The fall of the tower trapped 4 other workers. A firefighter trying to help […]

Gathering the Evidence after a Serious Crash Injury from a Heavy Truck

The average, fully loaded 18-wheeler weighs around 80,000 pounds, or 25 times more than your car. So after a serious crash with a heavy commercial truck, the occupants of a passenger vehicle might have life threatening or fatal injuries. When you’ve been injured in a wreck with a semi truck, you suffer heavy physical, emotional, […]

Winning Your Truck Crash Injury Claim against Big Insurance Companies

You might not know that the average truck liability policy carries a value more than 50 times that of your average car insurance policy. This is because commercial trucks, with their huge mass and enormous momentum, can cause such catastrophic damages in a crash. In collisions with 18-wheelers, typically other vehicles are crushed and drivers […]

Financial Recovery after a Major Truck and Car Pileup in Kemah

Monday morning around 8, two 18-wheelers and three passenger vehicles were involved in a serious crash on Highway 146 near FM 518 in Kemah. The 5-vehicle pileup resulted in closure of all northbound and southbound lanes. One of the vehicles rolled over after striking one of the big rigs. An account of the pileup mentioned […]