Important Personal Injury and Car Accident Laws in Rhode Island
Important Personal Injury and Car Accident Laws in Rhode Island Rhode Island’s personal injury and car accident laws include several rules that meaningfully differ from neighboring states, from a notably generous comparative negligence standard to a strict liability rule for dog bites to a specific statutory bar on the “seatbelt defense.” Understanding these laws, and […]
Significant Car Accidents in East Providence, Rhode Island
Significant Car Accidents in East Providence, Rhode Island East Providence sits at a major crossroads in Rhode Island’s transportation network, with heavily traveled routes like Pawtucket Avenue, Wampanoag Trail, Taunton Avenue, and Warren Avenue carrying substantial daily traffic between Providence, the East Bay, and southeastern Massachusetts. That volume, combined with the mix of highway on-ramps, […]
Supermarket Slip and Fall Liability in Rhode Island
Supermarket Slip and Fall Liability in Rhode Island Supermarkets are among the most common locations for slip and fall injuries in Rhode Island, and for good reason. Grocery stores combine constantly restocked shelves, spilled products, wet floors near produce and refrigerated sections, and a steady flow of customers moving quickly through narrow aisles — a […]
Deadly Motorcycle Accidents: Understanding Liability
Deadly Motorcycle Accidents in Rhode Island: Liability, Wrongful Death Claims, and What Families Need to Know Rhode Island’s roads carry a disproportionate risk for motorcyclists. Between Interstate 95’s heavy commuter traffic, the seasonal surge of tourist and beach traffic along Route 1 and the coastal byways, and a dense network of local intersections in cities […]
10 Types of Truck Accidents That Cause Death or Severe Injury
10 Types of Truck Accidents That Cause Death or Severe Injury Commercial trucks are among the largest and heaviest vehicles on public roads. A fully loaded tractor-trailer can weigh up to 80,000 pounds — roughly 20 times the weight of an average passenger car. When a vehicle of that size collides with a car, motorcycle, […]
Vehicle Accidents Causing Spinal Fractures, Vertebroplasty, and Kyphoplasty
Vehicle Accidents Causing Spinal Fractures, Vertebroplasty, and Kyphoplasty Back pain after a car accident is common, and it’s easy to dismiss it as a strain or a bout of whiplash that will resolve with time. But some car accident victims are dealing with something far more serious: a spinal compression fracture, a small but potentially […]
Injured in a Providence Accident? Here’s What You Need to Know
Injured in a Rhode Island Car Accident? Here’s What You Need to Know Getting hurt in a car accident that wasn’t your fault is stressful enough without also worrying about mounting medical bills and lost income while you try to recover. Unfortunately, this is the reality for many crash victims across Rhode Island. The good […]
Mesothelioma Lawsuit Compensation Asbestos Class Action
An asbestos mesothelioma lawsuit can lead to a multi-million dollar jury verdict or a lucrative settlement from an asbestos trust fund. This post explores how to get an asbestos settlement from a mesothelioma trust fund via a mesothelioma lawsuit. We detest asbestos class action suits! We will never file a mesothelioma class action lawsuit. A mesothelioma […]
The Avoidable Dangers of Drowsy Driving
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 34 to 36 percent of adults in Rhode Island regularly get less than seven hours of sleep. Those sleep stats put them at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, but it also puts drowsy drivers on the road where they’re more likely to get […]
Rhode Island Rollover Accident Lawyer | Slepkow Law
Despite overall improvements in traffic safety over the last few decades, rollover crashes continue to be a major source of death and injury on the roads and highways of the United States and in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. This threat is related to the nature of the crashes and to the vehicles involved in […]