Automobile Accidents

• Distracted Driving

  Jeremy Thurman | March 13, 2008 6:27 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I've become more and more fascinated with people who drive distracted. Whether text messaging, talking on a cell phone, doing makeup, shaving with an electric razor, styling hair, watching a movie, writing a grocery list, or putting in contact lenses: These activities have become common place on the America Road. Simply, with technology and are busy lives coming into one, more and more...

• As Prom Season Approaches

  Jeremy Thurman | March 13, 2008 4:15 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Being the father of a girl who will be going to her first prom this year and a trial lawyer, I have to admit that I'm paranoid. I'm paranoid about her behaviour because she is a great child. What I'm concerned about is the other chiildren attending these events and the statistics about car wrecks that come with the prom. Studies show that alcohol related crashes kill more people from the ages...

• Cell Phones and Car Accidents

  Jeremy Thurman | March 10, 2008 10:07 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I recently bought a blue tooth headset for my phone. I bought this because I caught myself doing exactly what I condemn to insurance companies and juries in a car wreck case. What is that? Well, see I have this bad habit of talking on my cell phone while I drive. Many of our serious injury cases can be directly attributed to a driver talking on a cell phone and being inattentive. So i took...

• Two Teenagers Die In Weekend Traffic Accidents

  Jeremy Thurman | March 10, 2008 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  According to the Oklahoman, Two teenagers died inatraffic accident early Saturday, , according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The two teens from Sasakwa were killed when the car they were riding in crashed about 2:30 a.m. on State Highway 56 in Seminole County, troopers said. The driver, an 18-year old, also of Sasakwa, refused treatment for his injuries at the scene of the...

• Automobile Passenger Liability

  Jeremy Thurman | March 09, 2008 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Yesterday we ended with a brief discussion on joint and several liability for injured automobile passengers. Today I want to talk about why this is important. Lets say Susie Q suffered a back injury that left her a quadriplegic. Her medical bills will be more than $2,000,000.00 not counting the millions she will need over the course of her lifetime. John Doe only has the state minimum of...

• Automobile Passenger Rights - Continued

  Jeremy Thurman | March 08, 2008 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  In a follow up to yesterday's post, I want to discuss what rights a passenger in automobile driven negligently by John Doe would have. In my previous scenario, John Doe rear-ended an automobile doing 50mph. Lets make that automobile a tractor trailer which made an abrupt lane change in front of the speeding John Doe. Lets also assume, John Doe was 60% at fault and the trucking company was 40%...

• Edmond Woman Sentenced For DUI in Injury Accident

  Jeremy Thurman | March 07, 2008 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Drunk driving is a serious problem that continues to plague our society. As an attorney, its a wonderful thing to help those who have been harmed by a drunk driver. These accidents are usually castastrophic and my heart goes out to the families. Anyway, what brought this to my attentnion is I just read that an Edmond woman was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for causing a deadly car...

• Automobile Passenger Rights

  Jeremy Thurman | March 07, 2008 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  As a personal injury attorney I foolishly assume that people know they have a claim when they call or even are hurt in an accident. This foolish assumption has recently been eroded. I was recently discussed with a member of my church the rights of passengers of an automobile who were hurt in a train accident. Sometimes people fail to realize that if they are in an individual's care that is at...

• Personal Injury Statute of Limitations - Oklahoma

  Jeremy Thurman | March 06, 2008 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I just recieved one of those calls that every attorney fears. A potential client calls telling me how his daughter was hurt seriously in an accident and that he has been unsuccessfully trying to deal with the insurance company for a long time. He stated his daughter had numerous medical bills and needed an attorney. He told me she had back surgery and permanent injuries. For those of us in...

• American Fidelity to pay $10.8M

  Jeremy Thurman | February 04, 2008 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  An Oklahoma jury ordered American Fidelity to pay $10.8 million for improperly reducing the benefit owed to the mother of a policy holder who died. Dolores Metzger claimed the company improperly changed its policy for paying "actual charges" for limited benefit health insurance policies, such as the cancer policy purchased by Metzger's son. Before 1994, American Fidelity paid whatever the...