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Car Accidents and DWI Accidents
- Texting While Driving Can be as Dangerous as Drunk Driving
- Negligence and Your Texas Personal Injury Claim
- Factors in the Value of a Texas Personal Injury Claim
- The Trial Stage of Your Texas Injury Claim
- Defendant Answers to Personal Injury Claims
Truck Accidents and DWI Accidents
- Brazoria Car Accident Takes One Life
- Houston Drivers Face Risks Imposed By Speeding Truckers
- Houston Drivers Face Risks Imposed By Speeding Truckers
- Dangers of Bigger and Heavier Trucks in Texas
- Trucker Texting Ban May Reduce Houston Truck Accidents
Construction, Refinery, Industrial, On the Job Injuries and Workers' Comp
- Scaffolding Accident Statistics
- Preventing Elevator Shaft Accidents
- Texas Construction Workers Sometimes Suffer from Heat Stroke
- Texas Construction Accidents Often Involve Falls
- Texas Workers’ Compensation
Maritime and Offshore Cases
- Gulf of Mexico Rig Explosion Still Creating Problems
- Death on the High Seas Act Benefits
- What Makes a Vessel Unseaworthy?
- Compensation for Maritime Injury Cases
- Are You Considered a Seaman Under the Jones Act?
General
- Exposure to Asbestos Can Lead to Asbestosis
- How Does Your Insurance Company Perform?
- Banks Aren't the Only Ones getting a Bailout
- Get Ready for Insurance Company Hassles
- More NHTSA Statistics
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- The Effect of Comparative Negligence in a Texas Personal Injury Claim
- What is my Texas personal injury case worth?
- The Basics of a Texas Personal Injury Lawsuit
- Stages of a Texas Personal Injury Case
- Filing a Personal Injury Claim in Texas
- Do Houston Red Light Cameras Reduce Car Crashes?
- Avoid Houston Drunk Driving Accidents
- Paraplegia is a Horrific Injury Sustained in a Houston Car Accident
Truck Accidents and DWI Accidents
- Speeding Truckers Are A Danger To Houston Drivers
- Avoiding Truck Accidents in Texas
- Everything is Bigger in Texas, But What About Trucks?
- The Effect the Texting Ban Will Have on Houston Truck Accidents
- When a Texas Truck Accident Leads to Serious Burns
- Texas Truck Accidents Caused by Improper Cargo Loads & Other Problems
- Jackknife Accident Causes and Injuries
- Responsibility in a Texas Truck Accident
- Truck Accidents Can Lead to Life Threatening Pelvic Fractures
- Truck Accidents Often Lead to Traumatic Brain Injury
Construction, Refinery, Industrial, On the Job Injuries and Workers' Comp
- Texas Trench and Excavation Accidents
- Texas Scaffolding Accidents and Injuries
- Texas Elevator Shaft Accidents and Injuries
- Common Texas Construction Accidents that Lead to Injury
- Preventing Texas Construction Injuries Caused by Heat
- Texas Construction Workers at Risk of Eye Injuries
- Falls Are Leading Cause of Construction Deaths
- Construction Sites and Nail Guns
- Refinery Employees Have Rights Too
- Collapsing Cranes are a Sad Nationwide Trend
Maritime and Offshore Cases
- The Rig Explosion In The Gulf of Mexico Continues to Create Problems
- What Every Seaman’s Family Needs to Know about the Death on the High Seas Act
- Maritime Workers at Risk of Harmful Benzene Exposure
- Unseaworthiness Claims
- Falls Are Leading Cause of Maritime Injuries
- Maintenance and Cure for Injured Seamen
- Rights for Injured Longshoremen and Harbor Workers
- Determining Seaman Status Under the Jones Act
- The Jones Act: Your Rights as an American are Safe at Sea
General
- Injured? An Attorney is Crucial
- New Report on Insurance Company Tactics
- Insurance Companies Use Race, Education as Basis for Higher Premium Rates
- There is More to Your Case Than the Trial: Depositions
- Having Trouble Contacting an Insurance Company? Click Here.
- Insurance is Never Bulletproof, But You Can Get Close
- Insurance Industry Systematically Overcharging and Underperforming
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Houston Accident Attorney Steven Lee P.C., frequently posts important information regarding rights for injured construction, refinery, longshoremen, seamen and maritime workers, as well as car and truck accident victims. We represent clients throughout Texas in Jefferson County, Montgomery County, Matagorda County, Liberty County and Wharton County. Check this webpage regularly to read our latest blogs.Car Accidents and DWI Accidents
Have a Teenage Driver? Don't Opt out of PIP
In Texas, Personal Injury Protection is automatically added to the policy of any teenage driver, unless the parents opt out of it.We are urging you to not take that option.
Personal Injury Protection is a smart way for you to protect yourself in the event that you get into an accident that causes serious injury in which you were responsible.
We think that even if you are an adult, having PIP is the smartest thing to have on your insurance. It doesn't matter if your car is brand new, or if your car is fifteen years old. Any time you get into an accident, you are at risk of being found at fault. Personal Injury Protection is just that; It helps protect your finances in the event that you are found liable for injuries to others.
If you or a loved one has been injured in an auto accident, contact Attorney Steve Lee for a free legal consultation today.
NHTSA Poll
This NHTSA poll done by the Gallup organization should not only make you nervous about being on the road, but should also make you rethink your own driving habits.The percentage of people who routinely engage in unsafe driving behavior (cell phone use, eating while driving, messing with the stereo, talking to passengers) is mind boggling. But you should take a moment to think about how many of these bad habits YOU practice on a daily basis.
Never forget that you are behind the wheel of a vehicle that is moving very fast. It would be a tragedy if you caused someone else to get injured or worse because you got distracted from your primary objective.
Event Data Recorders for Your Car
Here is an interesting article from Slate, which describes new technology for cars.It seems that many cars are currently carrying the automotive equivalent of "black boxes," which are those data recorders that are used in airplanes and are used by the NTSB to help determine what happened when there is a plane crash.
We believe that these event recorders could prove invaluable to car accident injury cases, as these recorders can help prove in court exactly how fast each individual car was going, and we can use that data to find out all sorts of information that is pertinent to the case.
If you have been in an accident, having an attorney to subpoena that information could be the difference between getting fair treatment from the insurance company and getting nothing at all.
If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident, contact Houston attorney Steve Lee for a free legal consultation today.
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How Does Your Insurance Company Perform?
You should always bear in mind that the cheapest insurance is not always the best insurance.
Those companies that offer such cheap rates are often able to do so because of the way that they treat their policyholders when they file a claim.
A company called AM Best bases ranks insurance companies, but does not base the rankings on their profitability, or the amount of money that they spend on advertising. Rather, AM Best ranks insurance companies based on their willingness and ability to pay out claims.
This is the best way for you to figure out which insurance policy is the best for you. Go to their site and see where you insurance company is on their lists.
As always, if you have been injured in a Houston car accident, contact Attorney Steve Lee for a free legal consultation today.
NHTSA Releases 2007 DUI Fatality Statistics
The NHTSA has just released their 2007 statistics of DUI fatalities by state, and the good news is that Texas' rate has dropped considerably.
To read the report, follow the link below.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811016.PDF
More NHTSA Statistics
It's good news for Texas all around, as our traffic fatality rate has dropped 4.8%. For whatever reason, it seems that Texans are taking safety a little more seriously these days.
To read the report, follow the link below.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811017.PDF
Get Ready for Insurance Company Hassles
Hurricane Ike has really done a number on Houston, and while the damage wasn't nearly as bad as it was in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina, we can expect some similar behaviors from the insurance companies.
The link below leads to an article that gives you some very good advice on how to get your claim moving efficiently. A lot of it is common sense, like keeping a record of any and all correspondence with your insurers, and to make sure that you don't rush it when it comes to having your property inspected. Remember, once you accept a settlement from an insurance company, they are usually under no real obligation to come back and take a second look.
http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3901
Hurricanes are always tricky, in that insurance companies are always looking for an excuse to claim that the damage was caused by water and not wind. But you are not required to just passively sit there and accept whatever decision the insurance company comes to.
Banks Aren't the Only Ones getting a Bailout
If you follow this link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aMf_JWeNUttU&refer=us
you will find a pretty interesting article about how two of the biggest insurance companies in the country lost half of their money in the stock market, which as we all know, just took a pretty serious plunge.
The end result is that they want a piece of that eight hundred billion that the government is giving to the financial corporations to keep them afloat.
We have to wonder why insurance companies never seem to make public thier losses in the stock market, which can evaporate half of their wealth, yet feel the need to shout to the high heavens over lawsuits, which don't account for the loss of any of their wealth at all.
Just something to consider.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident in the Houston area, contact Attorney Steve Lee for a free legal consultation today.
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