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Insurers sometimes stonewall large retailers, too

Nov 1, 2015

Individuals aren't the only ones who have trouble getting insurance companies to pay after an accident. The retail giant Walmart recently sued two of its insurers–Liberty Insurance Underwriters and Ohio Casualty Insurance– for breach of contract and bad faith after the two insurers declined to pay their share for the settlement to Tracy Morgan following last summer's accident. The crash seriously injured Morgan and killed fellow comedian James McNair when sleep-deprived Walmart truck driver Kevin...

Vehicles’ center of gravity and mass play a role in accidents

Oct 30, 2015

One person is dead and eighteen are injured after a bus carrying the Lehigh University rowing team collided with a car on Route 22 in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. None of the students was seriously injured; the driver of the car was pronounced dead about an hour after the crash. It is remarkable that the accident only seems to have caused minor injuries for the people on the bus. That’s because the bus rolled over. Our...

Mercer County $2.2 million car accident verdict awarded

Oct 26, 2015

The Pittsburgh car accident attorneys at Dallas W. Hartman, P.C. have reached a verdict of $2,200,000.00 for a Mercer County woman injured in a car accident. On Friday, October 23, 2015, a Mercer County Court of Common Pleas entered a jury verdict that awarded the seventy-five-year-old victim of a 2009 car accident $2.2 million. In 2009, a Stoneboro, Pennsylvania woman was driving south on State Route 173 between Grove City and Mercer, Pennsylvania. At that time,...

Dreams of crumpled metal, shattered glass and pain

Oct 21, 2015

At one point or another, all of us have had a bad dream. Some are pretty common, including a dream in which you're in school and the teacher is about to test the class on a subject you have not studied. Other common dreams include visions of falling, being chased, flying and showing up to work or school in your birthday suit. People who have been in serious car accidents sometimes have nightmares for months...

Dallas Hartman scholarship recipients from Penn State Shenango recognized

Oct 14, 2015

Among many other things-such as being a father, husband, and dedicated attorney-Dallas Hartman is also a philanthropist. Attorney Dallas Hartman has set up three different scholarships-one for him and his wife: the Dallas and Kristina Hartman Trustee Scholarship, one for his firm: the Dallas W. Hartman P.C. Attorneys at Law Trustee Scholarship, and one on behalf of himself: the Dallas W. Hartman P.C. Trustee Scholarship. Each year in the fall, Penn State Shenango hosts the...

Pedestrian accident victim dies 50 years later of severe injuries

Sep 3, 2015

Most of our readers were not yet born when an 8-year-old Pennsylvania boy was hit by a car on July 8, 1965. The day after the pedestrian accident, the Allentown newspaper reported that the boy hospitalized in critical condition had suffered broken legs, cuts and bruises — as well as massive head injuries. The severe brain trauma he suffered that day resulted in quadriplegia for the boy. Fifty years later, he was still being treated...

Driving too fast for conditions?

Aug 18, 2015

The thunder rolled from a memorial to benefit the daughters of a paramedic who lost her life in the line of duty earlier this year, according to a WJAC report. Two hundred motorcyclists rode in a show of support for the 38-year-old who earlier this year was struck by a coal truck as she helped at the scene of a car accident to the east of Pittsburgh. The Upper Yoder Township fatal accident was the...

Route 65 truck accident claims two lives

Aug 11, 2015

A truck driver told a Pittsburgh TV station that an Audi driver made a fatal decision on Route 65 near the I-79 interchange. The trucker said the northbound Audi tried to pass him on the left. Just went straight into oncoming traffic while she was going around me," he told WTAE. The car slammed head-on into a southbound tractor-trailer. The big rig erupted in flames which set fire to a transit van. The Audi then...

Pittsburgh building boom means more construction injuries

Aug 4, 2015

It's that time of the year: the summer sun is shining and the air is filled with the sounds of baseball games, family picnics, children playing and the bangs and booms of busy construction sites. The website BuildingPittsburgh.com says construction activity is "up significantly" this year in metropolitan Pittsburgh. Commercial construction projects are up 24.3 percent and residential construction is up 31 percent over last year. While that is good economic news, it also reminds...

Will bigger rigs roll over Pennsylvania and Ohio?

Jul 29, 2015

The biggest vehicles rolling on Pennsylvania and Ohio highways are tractor-trailers. The behemoths could get significantly bigger if Congress has its way. The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed a measure and sent it on to the Senate that would enable trucking companies to roll 85-foot double tractor-trailers across America. The giant new trucks would be 17 feet longer than those currently allowed on Pennsylvania roads. Naturally, shipping companies are excited about the prospect,...