April 15th marks the three-year anniversary of the death of Nikki Kellenyi, an 18-year-old young woman who didn’t have to die. She was a victim of distracted driving. Ironically, April is National Distracted Driving month, a time [...]
In recent years, we've all become more aware of how distracted driving accidents are on the rise. In April of this year, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a bill into law that will increase the penalties for [...]
It is almost axiomatic how dangerous distracted driving can be. We hear about it on the news, in lawsuits, and we know that people are being seriously hurt and killed because of cell phone use in automobiles. [...]
Many of our Maryland and West Virginia automobile accident clients tell us that they believe the negligent driver was illegally using a cell phone at the time of the collision. Often this is because our clients witness [...]
Effective July 1, 2012, West Virginia has a comprehensive law restricting the use of cell phones by drivers. As the 36th state to ban texting and driving, West Virginia’s legislators clearly agree that cell phone use is [...]
If there is one significant trend we have noticed over the past ten years in our automobile accident lawsuits, it’s that a significant number of accidents are caused by drivers who are distracted by cell phones, [...]