Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers Obtain a $1,650,000 Settlement for a Pedestrian Hit by an Autonomous Car in San Francisco A Nebraska native and influential figure in the Artificial Intelligence gaming industry was in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference. After the conference in the early evening, he was walking to dinner downtown […]
Black Lives Matter – Race is a Factor in Personal Injury Settlements On average, a Black man in the U.S. earns 25% less than a white man. Black women earn 36% less than white men, and Latinx women earn 46% less. Have you heard statistics like these in the news? Sadly, these statistics are due […]
Drunk Driving Remains a Leading Cause of California Car Accidents Despite California’s tough laws on drunk driving, DUI fatalities have been on the rise in recent years. Drunk driving remains one of California’s top causes of car accidents. If you’re hit by a drunk driver, it will likely be a confusing and traumatic situation. What […]
Next time you’re sitting in California traffic, take a moment to consider this: You’re surrounded by delivery drivers. They’re driving for Uber Eats, GrubHub, DoorDash, Lyft, Instacart, goPuff, Shipt, Postmates, Amazon, FedEx, UPS, pizza places, local restaurants, department stores, and thousands of other companies. In fact, San Francisco is one of the nation’s top 5 […]
What is the Liability for Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana? California has a history of progressive marijuana laws, including one of the nation’s oldest medical marijuana statutes. The more recent California Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) allows people over age 21 to possess, privately use, and give away up to one ounce of […]
How Is Liability Determined in Autonomous Vehicle Accidents? Driverless cars may seem like a thing of the future, but is the future here now? And are we ready for it? Engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk believes that we are. He also has plans for even more “superhuman” vehicles than those that have been rolled out […]
Despite the stay-at-home orders issued during this recent coronavirus pandemic, some travel on roads is necessary: for essential workers like doctors and nurses, for delivery workers, and to buy groceries and necessities. So while we have seen a huge decrease in traffic accidents due to fewer cars on the road, the fact of the matter […]
We’ve all experienced it. We are sitting at a traffic stop, running late for work. The light changes to green…and the car in front of us fails to move. We see if we can spot just who the driver is–what are they doing and why aren’t they driving? We may be tempted to honk. We […]
The COVID-19 outbreak has seen the shutdown of schools, universities, and small and large businesses throughout the United States, with important dates and deadlines for things like taxes, graduations, and even loan payments postponed. Our everyday lives are being rearranged to make room for the “new normal” of a safe, socially distant existence during this […]
The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic has disrupted lives all over the world since it first emerged in December 2019. Here in California, we have adopted a “new normal,” with many being forced to work and learn from home and find creative ways to continue business as usual while maintaining safe social distance from others, […]