Recently, the second floor of the Freedom Baptist Church in Myrick, Mississippi collapsed, sending about 70 young parishioners tumbling through the floor. The incident occurred during a youth worship service. The drop was estimated at about 12 feet, but miraculously, no one suffered serious injury. Nearly half of the churchgoers present did sustain minor injuries, […]
A rash of recent pedestrian accidents across Mississippi serves to highlight the national increase in incidents involving pedestrians and motor vehicles. Recently, Tony Harrison, a 42-year-old man from D’Iberville, was walking on the side of the Lamey Bridge Road at around 1:00 a.m. Harrison was struck by a vehicle. The driver of the offending car […]
Despite strong national efforts to curb distracted driving, an estimate 421,000 people in the U.S. are injured in accidents blamed on distracted driving each year. Another 3,000 individuals a year are killed in accidents involving a distracted driver. Text messaging is known to be the most dangerous form of distracted driving, as it pulls the […]
Recently, the derailment of an 85-car train carrying fuel oil and liquid fertilizer made headline news as it forced the evacuation of several residents. The train was traveling from Jackson Mississippi to Mobile, Alabama, and derailed at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, January 31, 2014, in Augusta, Mississippi. It was operated by Canadian National Railway Company. […]
Personal Injury Claims
Mississippi Accident Attorney Discusses Common Causes of Traumatic Brain Injuries
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Every 21 seconds, someone across America will suffer a traumatic brain injury. Over 15 million people each year suffer this serious and sometimes fatal type of injury, Moreover, nearly 5.3 million live with permanent disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injury, or TBI. A TBI can be one of two types. The most common TBI results […]
The case of Stella Liebeck vs. McDonald’s, more commonly referred to as the hot coffee case, remains one of the most famous tort cases of all time. The case made national and even international headlines, spurred a whole reform movement in the arena of personal injury law, and became the punch line for late-night television, […]
For the last several years it has been surprisingly simple for a man to report symptoms such as low sex drive, lack of energy or loss of muscle mass and be prescribed testosterone to correct any number of ills. Doctors refer to the condition as low t. Typically the treatment is simple enough, with the […]
Every driver knows they should never flee the scene of an accident, but the recent case of a Hattiesburg man who did just that should serve as an important reminder of how serious an offense leaving the scene of an accident can be. In September of 2011, in the early morning hours, Shelby Johnson, a […]
The first week of 2014 saw 49 daily record lows set across the county. A vicious cold snap brought the coldest weather in decades to the central, eastern, and southern states. In Vicksburg, Mississippi, a low of 13 degrees was recorded, breaking the previous record low of 17. In Meridian, it reached just 11 degrees, […]
How much do you really know about personal injury attorneys? In Part I of this two part series profiling Mississippi personal injury attorneys, we addressed some basics about what a personal injury lawyer is, how personal injury law developed, how one becomes a personal injury attorney, and what a personal injury lawyer makes a year. […]