Recent Blog Posts
Cable Cars: The Most Dangerous Form of Public Transportation?
Muni Cable Car Accident Payouts Revealed Cable cars serve as a historic symbol of San Francisco; however, they have been under fire after the Associated Press (AP) obtained records showing payouts for personal injuries sustained as a result of cable car rides. According to NBC News, the AP report revealed that the city of… Read More »
SF Attorney on Stricter Teenage Driving Laws
State Laws Enacted To Protect Against Teenage Drivers In the name of safety, states have begun enacting a variety of laws meant to restrict the driving privileges of teenage drivers, the New York Times reports. A 2010 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) report concluded that these enhanced restrictions significantly reduced the number of… Read More »
San Francisco Lawyer Discusses Fatal “Right Hook” Bicycle Accident
Deadly San Francisco Bicycle Collision with Semi Truck Highlights Right Turn Dangers A bicyclist was fatally struck by a semi truck in San Francisco’s South of Market district. The incident occurred just after 7:00 a.m. The woman, reportedly 30-years-old, was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The semi-truck operator… Read More »
Most Common Injuries in Motor Vehicle Accidents
According to the California Highway Patrol, 159,115 motor vehicle collisions occurred in 2011 that caused injuries to 225,602 Californians. No two car accidents are the same, and the types of injuries that result can vary widely. The following are some of the most common injuries that Californians suffer in motor vehicle accidents: Neck Injuries… Read More »
Bay Area Businessman Dies Due to Bicycle Accident
Recently the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, based in San Francisco, California, lost its former board member, Duane Roth, to a bicycle accident. The accident, which occurred on July 21, caused injuries which led to Mr. Roth’s death on August 3. Mr. Roth was an important player in the San Francisco organization’s development of… Read More »
An Airplane Crash Attorney Evaluates the Causes in the Crash of Asiana Flight 214
Evaluating Causes in the Crash of Asiana Flight 214 Since the last blog on the topic, it has been discovered that there was a third fatality associated with the crash of Asiana airlines flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport. Evidently, two of the fatalities occurred due to injuries sustained from the plane… Read More »
Legal Questions Surrounding Issues of Driverless Cars
As San Francisco law firm, we’ve been dealing with personal injury cases resulting from auto accidents for decades. New technology such as airbags and lane departure systems work to protect drivers from harm, but also have raised new liability issues in car accident cases. One particularly progressive form of automotive technology that may raise… Read More »
Lawsuits Filed from Asiana Airplane Accident at SFO
Asiana Airplane Accident Lawsuit Charges The passengers of Asiana Airlines Flight No. OZ 214 bound for San Francisco, California—which crashed on July 6, 2013 at San Francisco International Airport — filed personal injury actions. Younga Jun Machorro and her son, Benjamin Hyo-Ik Machorro, who were among the passengers aboard Flight 214, filed a six-page… Read More »
San Francisco Muni Light Rail Train Collision Ends in Personal Injury
Muni Light Rail Train Collision Injures 19 People A light rail train and a van collided in San Francisco at about 1:00 p.m. PDT on July 13, 2013. Nearly two dozen people were injured in the incident. According to City spokesperson Paul Rose, the van driver made an illegal left turn as the light… Read More »
Can California Restaurants Be Held Liable for Injuries from Criminal Activity On Premises?
According to a recent San Francisco news report, on June 16, 2013 at about 4:00 p.m. near Grant Avenue and Sutter Street, someone threw what looked like a quarter stick of dynamite through a restaurant’s window. A witness named Jonathan Danielson says that he followed the bombers and took a photograph of them with… Read More »
