purchase, george & murphey.
purchase, george & murphey.
April 4, 2011
April 5, 2011, ERIE, PA — Police are looking for a hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian on East 12th Street in Erie last night. Witnesses describe the vehicle as a dark colored Jeep or Dodge Magnum with heavy front-end damage and a deployed air bag. If you have any information about the driver or the vehicle involved,…
April 4, 2011
April 5, 2011, ERIE, PA — A Chester County jury returned an unusually large verdict last week. In Evans v. Behrmann, the jury heard evidence about a Pennsylvania auto accident case in which the “at fault” driver went through a red light and struck the plaintiff’s van on the driver’s side. The injured driver suffered injuries to his right elbow…
April 4, 2011
April 5, 2011, ERIE, PA — We often write here about the adversarial relationship between people and their insurance companies. For those of you who are regular readers, it might sound like we’re something of a one note band. The problem, though, is that we keep running into people who trust their insurance companies to be fair with them…with depressingly…
April 1, 2011
April 2, 2011, ERIE, PA — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported Friday that car accident deaths have fallen to their lowest rate since 1949. The numbers reflect an ongoing trend nationwide. Motor vehicle accident deaths fell 3% since last year and a whopping 25% since 2005. Even accounting for fewer miles being driven (as a result of the…
March 29, 2011
March 30, 2011, ERIE, PA — This morning I was doing my usual cruise through the internet searching for new personal injury information (yep, I know how that sounds). I started to type in the Google search box, “personal injury…” and Google suggested, “Personal Injury Calculator.” That got my attention. An on-line calculator for judging the value of a Pennsylvania…
March 29, 2011
March 30, 2011, ERIE, PA — We watch the news of trials and judgment from other counties carefully. Unfortunately, when we see cases from other areas that involve limited tort, it’s almost never good news for injured people in Pennsylvania. The latest case from Monroe County was no exception. In Stout v. Deleo, a Monroe County judge threw an injured…
March 26, 2011
March 27, 2011, Portland, NY – A Westfield man was seriously injured when struck by a farm tractor Saturday afternoon. The operator of the tractor had difficulty seeing as a result of the sun in his eyes and struck James R. Weary, 50. Mr. Weary was taken to Hamot UPMC Hospital in Erie. No information was available on his condition.…
