Jury Awards Baltimore City Resident $1.5 Million
One of The Yost Legal Group’s own, Attorney Bruce Powell, received a 1.5-million-dollar verdict for a Baltimore local who suffered from a traumatic brain injury at his job in September of 2018. The man was, at the time, an employee at the Thames Street Oyster House in Fells Point. He had been on break, sitting...
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Risky Business: Tractor-Trailer Accidents on the Rise
Tractor-trailers are responsible for transporting 70% of all products and goods across the United States. Unfortunately, these tractor-trailers can pose a serious threat to those they share a road with. There has been a significant increase in trucking accidents over the last decade despite new regulations intended to promote safer transport. According to the National...
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Unskilled Truckers Creating Deadly Roadways for Passenger Vehicles
In April of 2019, a 23-year-old lost control of the truck he was driving and plowed into stopped traffic in Colorado. This tragic accident cost four people their lives, and catastrophically injured six others. While the driver was later found guilty of vehicular manslaughter, a bigger problem still remains. Trucking companies across the U.S. are...
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What You Need to Know About Back-to-School Bus Safety
Schools are back—and in person. Across the nation, tens of millions of students are leaving their houses every morning and venturing out to school. Some are walking. Some parents are taking their children. And some students catch busses. On their ways to school, students are out early in the morning when drivers might not be...
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All Concussions Are Traumatic Brain Injuries—What You Need to Know
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) cause disturbances in brain activity and function and can have long-lasting negative effects on a person’s quality of life. In severe instances, traumatic brain injuries can even lead to death. In fact, in 2019, there were 61,000 TBI-related deaths just in the United States. Even mild concussions qualify as traumatic brain...
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Tractor Trailers Leave a Trail of Death Across U.S. Highways
In the United States, a person is killed or seriously injured in an accident caused by a tractor trailer every 15 minutes. In fact, around 500,000 trucking accidents occur every year in the U.S. and approximately 5,000 of those involve fatalities. In 2019, in Maryland alone, statistics showed that there were 60 tractor trailer accidents...
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Thousands of People are Injured or Killed Each Year Because of Fatigued Truck Drivers
Each year, over 200,000 accidents occur between large trucks and automobiles killing approximately 4,000 people and severely injuring thousands more. Most collisions occur during good weather conditions on straight roadways. A large number of accidents are due to sleep-deprived truck drivers. Despite the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration setting industry regulations which limit the number...
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Alert Today – Alive Tomorrow: How to Avoid The Dangers of Distracted Driving
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately nine people are killed and more than 1,000 are injured in the United States each day as a result of distracted driving. The increased popularity of cell phone use in recent years has drivers paying less attention to the road and more attention to...
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Maryland Drivers Ignore School Buses’ Red Flashing Warning Lights, Needlessly Endangering School Children
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) boasts that students are 70 times more likely to get to school safely than traveling by car. Buses are also equipped with many safety features bright yellow paint, flashing red lights, and stop sign arms to direct and navigate traffic. But Maryland drivers are often ignoring the bright...
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Increasing Motorcycle Fatalities in Maryland
The Governors’ Highway Safety Association’s most recent report indicates that nearly 5,000 people are killed in motorcycle accidents each year. Even with Maryland’s strict helmet laws, motorcyclists are still dying at a higher rate than other motorists. When a motorcycle rider does survive a crash, their injuries can be life-changing. Injuries such as fractures, loss...
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