purchase, george & murphey.
purchase, george & murphey.
August 7, 2010
The Erie Times News reported today that a pickup truck crashed into a tavern on Route 8 in Green Township Saturday near 4:45 pm. The truck’s driver apparently lost control while traveling south on Route 8 and ran into Dan’s Route 8 Boardwalk Tavern, 8651 Wattsburg Road. According to Kuhl Hose Company Chief Don Erbin, Jr, the driver and a…
August 5, 2010
The Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery became effective July 1, 2004 for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery facilities. The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing problem of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery in American hospitals. The Universal Protocol drew upon recommendations that had been made…
August 4, 2010
The first edition of The Ultimate Guide to Car Accident Cases in Pennsylvania: A Roadmap to Justice has been out only a week and already readers are calling in their edits. Most are helpful. Some deal with typos. But one mistake led to a wildly inflated value and so we note it here and promise to have it corrected for…
August 2, 2010
On August 1, 2010, Christa Logue was driving her 2006 Dodge Caravan south on I-79 in Erie County, Pennsylvania when she apparently lost control, hit the median strip and caused a rollover car accident. Her 14 year old son, Joshua Gibson, was thrown from the vehicle and killed. Ms. Logue has been charged with DUI and reportedly had a blood…
August 2, 2010
The Erie Times News reports that William D. McCray was killed Sunday, August 1, 2010 in an Erie County motorcycle head on collision on Route 77 in Richmond Township, Pennsylvania. Reportedly, Mr. McCray was westbound on Route 77 when he passed on a hill. An eastbound Saturn coupe apparently crested the hill and struck Mr. McCray head-on. None else was…
July 31, 2010
A connection between truckers and sleep apnea is being explored as a way of increasing truck safety. Truckers are more likely than average Americans to be overweight, which can lead to health problems such as sleep apnea which disrupts sleep and causes fatigue – a factor contributing to thousands of highway truck crashes every year, according to a recent report.…
July 31, 2010
A proposal championed by Governor Ed Rendell to put surveillance cameras on Pennsylvania’s public streets and highways in order to enforce insurance laws is being met with resistance by insurance companies. The problem of uninsured drivers in Pennsylvania is more common than many people appreciate. As Erie car accident lawyers, we see too often the “coverage tragedies” that these drivers…
