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- Mercer County woman injured in two vehicle accident
Jun 24, 2015
A car accident in Shenango Township, Pennsylvania sent three people to local hospitals. The accident happened at Wheatland and Sieg Hill roads in Shenango Township, a township in Mercer County. A female driver, traveling south, was hit when a male driver, traveling west on Wheatland road, ran a stop sign. The woman suffered moderate leg injuries and was treated at UPMC Horizon in Farrell, Pennsylvania. The male driver claimed that the brakes of his vehicle...Read More - Three local motorcycle accidents injure four on Sunday
Jun 21, 2015
Three separate motorcycle accidents this weekend have injured a total of four people. One of these motorcycle accidents involved a state trooper. The state trooper was injured after a motorcycle accident on I-79 north in Franklin Park Borough, Pennsylvania. The officer was operating his motorcycle when a vehicle made an unsafe lane change, causing the state trooper to be thrown from his motorcycle. He was transported to a local Allegheny County hospital for medical treatment...Read More - Kwiatkowski speaks up about hepatitis C exposure scandal
Jun 19, 2015
This past week, "serial infector" David Kwiatkowski granted an interview with Newsweek magazine, the details of which are extremely frightening. Though he had been in contact with the journalist just months after his sentencing, he and jail officials at Hazelton maximum-security prison in West Virginia were scared of the backlash from other prisoners, perhaps placing him in harm's way, though Kwiatkowski says he now has no enemies. In his two years in prison, Kwiatkowski has...Read More - Pennsylvania motorcycle accident causes death of 60 year old female
Jun 19, 2015
A motorcycle accident in Eastern Pennsylvania has killed a Fayettesville woman. The accident occurred on U.S. 30 in Greene Township, Pennsylvania and it was a hit and run accident. The victim of this tragic motorcycle accident was a 60 year old woman that was eastbound on U.S. 30 when a pickup truck driver pulled out of a driveway and caused the motorcycle to rollover and cross the center line of U.S. 30. The victim was...Read More - Is Pennsylvania too lenient when it comes to DUI?
Jun 17, 2015
Drunk drivers can cause massive amounts of harm on the roads. Their conduct can cause auto accidents that leave innocent individuals with injuries that can have major physical, mental, emotional and financial effects. The civil legal system in Pennsylvania provides victims of drunk drivers with various different avenues for seeking compensation for the harms done to them. Now, the laws regarding personal injury claims related to drunk driving accidents can be rather complex and personal...Read More - Preventing boat accidents this summer
Jun 16, 2015
Severe weather is the cause of a vast majority of boating accidents. The last seven days in Western Pennsylvania have been filled with tornado warnings, flash flood warnings, thunderstorms, and high winds. This time of year, many of our areas inhabitants like to take advantage of the warm temperature and spend time out on the waters of Lake Erie in Erie County, Conneaut Lake in Crawford County, the Shenango Reservoir in Mercer County, Lake Arthur...Read More - Honda adds over a million cars to air bag recall
Jun 16, 2015
A recall of airbags created by Takata Corporation and used in many Honda vehicles has been expanded to over a million of Honda's most popular vehicles. The Takata Corporation airbags are being recalled because the ammonium nitrate propellant used in the air bags has been determined to burn too quickly. This can cause them to blow apart a metal canister and send shrapnel out, injuring passengers and drivers. The defective airbags have been the cause...Read More - Pittsburgh bus accidents injure 17 people in less than 12 hours
Jun 15, 2015
Two separate bus accidents have injured 17 people in less than 12 hours in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Both incidents involved Port Authority buses. The first of these two motor vehicle accidents happened at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh. The accident was caused by a car running a red traffic signal and hitting a bus. The driver of the car and of the bus in this accident suffered head injuries...Read More - Workplace safety? There are apps for that
Jun 13, 2015
There are many things that individuals and companies do to try to keep workers safe. As technology has infiltrated so many parts of our lives the area of workplace safety has not been left behind. Instead, many apps focused on that objective have been created. There are so many that the national director of Compliance Programs for ASSE recently conducted a study focused on the subject. As a part of the study, more than 150...Read More - Pipe crushes Beaver County workers’ leg
Jun 12, 2015
A tragic workplace accident in Ambridge, Pennsylvania has caused severe lower body injuries to a steel worker. The worker was transported to a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area hospital after the incident. The injuries were caused when the man's leg was crushed by a piece of pipe in a Beaver County steel fabrication plant. If you or a loved one has been involved in a workplace injury, it is critical that you seek representation as quickly as...Read More