With the new school year right around the corner, you want to feel secure that your children are safe within the confines of their school buses. Rest assured: school buses are considered one of the safest modes of transportation because of their unique construction. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) requires full-sized school buses to incorporate “compartmentalization” into their construction. It’s a crash protection design that provides a prot

Understanding the basics of personal injury law and personal injury claims can be very helpful, if you find yourself or a loved one a victim of an accident caused by another person’s carelessness or negligence. Accidents do happen, and sometimes they are your fault and sometimes it is the fault of someone else. Does this mean all accidents turn into personal injury cases? The answer to that is “no”. How do you know if you have a personal injury claim? A personal injury occurs

Regardless of your take on the issue of whether all motorcyclists should wear helmets, the fact remains that they save lives and reduce injuries. Unfortunately, the number of motorcycle fatalities continues to increase. Must you wear a helmet in Wisconsin? The simple answer is “yes” and “no.” Wisconsin law (Wis. Stat. sec. 347.485) requires anyone, cyclist or passenger who is under the age of 18 to wear a motorcycle helmet. This also applies to anyone driving with an instruct

There are a lot of informative articles about liability when a driver is injured in a car crash, but not as much has been written about what happens when a passenger is injured. Such information is very important. The big question centersaround who is responsible for paying the passenger’s medical bills and all the other associated costs (lost wages, pain and suffering, death benefits, etc.) when injured or killed while riding in a vehicle. How are the passenger or passenger’

Motorcycles are wonderful for long or short trips, for the camaraderie of other cyclists, and for their economy. While it is true that most motorcycle accidents are caused by unaware drivers, some personal injury accidents are caused by the lack or improper maintenance of the bike. Unique causes of motorcycle malfunction Motorcycle riders may experience the same types of malfunctions as cars, such as flat tires, running out of gas and dead batteries; however, there are some p