Shortly before the Christmas holidays, Anchorage law enforcement officials challenged the community to refrain from drinking and driving. To bring awareness to their campaign, police erected a Christmas tree and said they’d add a blue-ribbon ornament to the tree for each charge of impaired driving. How’d it go?
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Statistics tell us that roughly 29 percent of all traffic fatalities each year involve an alcohol-impaired driver. Running the numbers even further, that’s one death directly related to drunk driving every 48 minutes. What happens to the family members who are left devastated in the aftermath?
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Even though recreational marijuana use in Alaska has been legal since 2015, there’s reason to believe the move could have devastating effects for drivers in our state. Hopefully, those of us here in the Last Frontier state will not experience the devastation that legalized pot has had in nearby Washington state.
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A man whose wife was killed by a drunk and drugged driver has been awarded 44.8 million by a jury. Interestingly, the guilty driver’s father was also charged for letting his daughter drive his car – even though he knew she had lost her driving privileges. Those charges, though, were later dropped.
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An alarming report by SafeHome.org has found that Alaska sixth most arrests in the nation for driving under the influence (DUI). Researchers used FBI and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data from 2017 to compile the report.
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We’ve long held the view that drunk driving is a scourge on the nation. Simply put, when drinking and driving are combined, bad things often happen. When you toss a large dump truck into the mix, things can go from bad to catastrophic in a hurry.
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The skyrocketing rise in jury awards for victims of large truck companies was a topic we wrote about just as the new year began. The reasons, as we noted, are numerous. Just as we published the article, we heard the news of a stunning $70 million jury award for the family who was devastated when
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In a recent post, we shared news of a 47-year-old woman awarded of nearly $2 million for falling in a convenience store. Such accidents happen often, and can be especially dangerous for members of the elderly population. In this issue, the Alaska personal injury lawyers with Barber & Associates will talk more about the potentially
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When victims of large truck accidents seek justice and compensation for their injuries, they’re likely to get a sizable judgment. According to recent reports, the average verdict against a trucking company found to be at fault for an accident has skyrocketed from $2.6 million in 2012 to over $17 million today.
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A stunning $42 million jury verdict will hopefully put increased pressure on the trucking industry to add side guards to their vehicles. The verdict was made on behalf of surviving family members of a young man whose vehicle was dragged more than half a mile after being caught underneath a large truck.
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