If you have an auto accident in Tennessee and damage your car, or someone else’s, or you or anyone else is injured you will be glad that you are insured. Here are some FAQs to help you understand this complicated but necessary aspect of driving. Is insurance compulsory in Tennessee? Yes it is. You must [...]
If you have been hit by a drunk driver or a driver who was high on drugs, you may be considering claiming compensation from that driver, assuming that they were insured. The driver who hit you may also be charged with an offense such as DUI or reckless driving, but this won’t pay your hospital [...]
No-one wants to experience a car accident. The first time it happens, it can be hard to know what to do or say. It’s hard to avoid making mistakes which can be used by others later on to stop you from recovering compensation if you were injured or your car damaged through no fault of [...]
Road rage is unfortunately quite common and is often a cause of car accidents. The actual term “road rage” doesn’t show up in the state’s crash statistics, but it doesn’t take too much detective work to work out that many car accidents are caused when drivers’ anger interferes with their concentration or ability to drive [...]
Few vehicle accidents are straightforward. There is a myriad of factors that can affect the outcome, both from a health point of view and a financial one. Things can get more complicated still if you were in a vehicle usually used for work purposes when the accident took place. These are some of the variables [...]
Most people tend to think that car accidents happen more on busy highways than anywhere else and there is some truth in this, at least some of the worst accidents happen on busy highways and freeways as most traffic is moving at higher speeds. The only consolation is that most drivers tend to concentrate more [...]
Most accounts of people suing other drivers after a car accident are drivers themselves. They are most likely to be the victims of someone else’s negligence and for that reason may instigate a personal injury claim against the at-fault driver. But what about passengers who just happened to have been in the car that was [...]
Of the approximately 200,000 car accidents that happen every year in Tennessee, about a quarter results in some kind of injury. That’s about 50,000 car accident injuries every year, of which about 1,000 are fatal. That might sound a lot and to be honest any figure is unacceptable, but put the figures round the other [...]
The world has been turned upside down. Here in Nashville, residents have been instructed to stay at home and only travel on essential business in a bid to suppress the growing threat of COVID-19. As of the time of writing this blog, there were 5,823 cases of the disease notified to the Tennessee DoH [...]
Were you hit by a Nashville city bus? Has a cop car rammed you while on a routine patrol? Did a city owned vehicle back into your car when it was legally parked in a city parking lot? If so, you face the daunting prospect of persuading the city administration to pay compensation for the [...]