All of the great things about summer: long days, warm weather, and (hopefully) time off of work or school, are also the very same reasons that summer in the San Fernando Valley can be the most accident-ridden time of year for many residents. Visits to the emergency room, resulting from serious auto accidents, off-roading accidents, pool…
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) are quite popular in Southern California and are considered ‘safe’ by many people, including the parents of teenage drivers. Unfortunately, because of a higher center of gravity than smaller automobiles, SUVs can also be at risk of rolling over. In fact, the deadliest risk facing an SUV, minivan, or truck occupant…
Each year, thousands of California municipal and city bus riders are seriously injured or killed in bus accidents. Due to their often cumbersome size and weight, buses cause especially catastrophic damages when they are involved in crashes with smaller passenger vehicles. Unfortunately, a bus’s large size often does not act as a guarantee that the…
Personal injuries, especially those suffered in auto accidents, can expensive, debilitating, and life changing. In many cases, it can be friends, neighbors, and colleagues who cause our personal injuries. While it may not seem to be socially acceptable to sue someone you know for damages, sometimes the failure to do so can cost you in…
Unfortunately for drivers in the San Fernando Valley and their passengers, truck accidents are a fact of life on the 101 — and elsewhere. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), there are approximately 500,000 truck accidents in the United States each year. Due to their massive sizes and heavy weights, trucks…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney, Barry P. Goldberg, is asked from time to time whether it is possible to sue a relative and obtain a recovery. While there are definitely times when we would all like to sue one of our relatives, you should be aware that obtaining insurance coverage for such an eventuality may be difficult. Typically,…
One might think it is a rare and unusual occurrence to get in a car accident with an animal – let alone a horse or a deer or a coyote, but there have been hundreds of these reported accidents across the U.S. (yes, even in California) in the last few years and most of them…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney, Barry P. Goldberg, has found that most clients are shocked when they learn that they could lose their licenses after an accident—even if they were not at fault and even if they had sufficient liability insurance! Moreover, most people incorrectly think that reporting an accident to the police or to their…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney, Barry P. Goldberg, is confronted from time to time with dangerous situations that cause a serious accident and is later repaired by a defendant. Logically, most injury victims would assume that those repairs are like a “smoking gun” admission that the defendant was at fault for the accident. Not so fast.…
Accidents involving pedestrians happen more often than one might think. In fact, pedestrians make up the second largest category of motor vehicle accident deaths, after vehicle occupants. The numbers show that approximately 5,000 pedestrians are fatally injured and another 64,000 suffer non-fatal (and often serious) harm in auto-related accidents every year in this country. It…