According to cycling magazine, Minneapolis ranks as the #1 urban city in America to pump the pedals despite its frigid environment. As an active cyclist, I understand the love of cycling. There’s nothing like the feeling one gets after a great ride. But as a bike accident attorney with over 25 years of bike accident personal injury experience, I also understand the dangers.
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Plenty of attorneys have the law in their blood. But with Jim Carey, one gets a sense he might actually test ABA positive.
The Carey name goes way back in Minnesota, particularly on the Iron Range. Carey’s great-grandfather, after whom he’s named, was a judge in the city of Virginia from early in the century until 1946. Carey’s father, Thomas, practiced insurance defense on the Range before becoming a judge in Hennepin County. His uncle John ran a small firm in Fairfax before coming to SiebenCarey.
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Seventeen SiebenCarey attorneys were selected to the 2015 Minnesota Super Lawyers list. Fourteen were chosen as Super Lawyers in their specific areas of practice and three were selected to the Minnesota Rising Stars list. Just five percent of all lawyers in Minnesota are named to this list each year.
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With summer in full swing and July upon us, many folks will be using one of our 10,000 lakes to go swimming and boating. Having seen a number of injury and fatality claims it’s important to implement safe practices on the water.
The top 3 causes of non-fatal boating accidents from 2014 were capsizing, injury from water sports, and collision with another watercraft.
With that in mind it is important to consider water safety before and during all water activities. Here are a few tips to help you and your family have a safe summer season on the water.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Railroad Administration and many other organizations have recently been joined by Google to make railroad crossings safer for drivers and pedestrians. More about that announcement and safety tips for highway-rail crossings.
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Simple, innovative, and sleek though Uber’s marketing campaign may be, there are some details about the company everyone should know. What’s not quite as trendy as Uber’s advertising is the effects the company is having on both riders and drivers. Multiple journalistic approaches have worked to delve deeper into what makes Uber tick.
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On a scale of F to A+, The Better Business Bureau recently gave Uber an F rating. Using a system that maintains 13-factors for accurate assessment, the BBB determined Uber a failure for a plethora of reasons. But, what is the BBB and why should we care what they have to say?
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Motorcyclists are particularly vulnerable on our Minnesota roads, with 24 fatalities already this season—including four deaths in four days—a colossal jump from previous years, over a 50% increase from this time last year.
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The prodigal son of recent start-ups, Uber is now firmly planted in 200 cities and 51 countries. Uber’s popularity has risen alongside some pretty major backlash - as rapid acclaim usually does. Contention exists in the States around Uber’s history of competitor sabotage, and threatening journalists. However, the implementation of Uber into countries around the world brings with it different laws for its services to accommodate, which has resulted in more controversies abroad.
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Recently Angela Champagne-From was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission as a Felony Victim Representative. This is the most recent step in Angela’s journey to educate and empower women to fight back against violence. We’re very proud of Angela and her accomplishments. She has been a paralegal at our law firm for over 7 years and since her assault, has been featured in television interviews, has received numerous awards and her story has been published in national magazines. Angela is the Executive Director of The Fight Back Project, a non-profit organization created to raise awareness of violence against women and to promote personal safety.
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Despite these astounding numbers and the seemingly bright future in store for Uber, the company hardly turns a profit. With nearly all the revenue spent on marketing to recruit users and drivers, the ride-sharing service is often left with little for themselves. Regardless, these astronomical numbers are still astounding for any five-year-old business.
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Expected to hit $10 billion in revenues by 2015, Uber has skyrocketed in popularity nationwide. And yet, legislation that restricts ride sharing services, or bans them altogether, is now trending in many cities, states, and countries. How can this be? Let’s all think for a moment about why we should hesitate before hitting “Set Pickup Location” this weekend.
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717 children have died in overheated cars since 1990 - that’s one in every 10 days! And it can happen to anyone. Multitasking parents who need to run into the store for “just a sec” should take caution. Here are some things to keep in mind, as well as tips for bystanders.
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Minnesota kids are too fat to fight.
That’s the message from a group of retired generals who say the state’s kids are too fat, eat too poorly and don’t get enough exercise to qualify to join the military.
As part of a nationwide effort, generals recommend more physical education classes and better meals in schools and more walking and biking trails in the state’s communities to get kids in fighting trim.
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While we should all be grateful that an under regulated industry is finally getting its act together, the sudden flash flood of recalls has turned many lives upside-down in its own way. Moving past 2014, higher expectations must now be set for the auto-industry, as our lives depend on its success.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety presents three solutions to the most frequent causes of fatal truck-related accidents.
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SiebenCarey has adopted a new workplace policy to end distracted driving. The policy includes a Safe Driving Pledge that more than 30 SiebenCarey employees signed following a presentation by Art Kosieradzki, a partner with the firm and long-time advocate of distracted driving awareness. National Distracted Driving Awareness Month is underway now through April 30.
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In what Lee calls “his whistle-blower case,” Joshua Harman stood at the forefront of bringing the truth behind Trinity’s guardrails to light, and the Texas jury ended up substantiating his claims. But how were Trinity’s guardrails modified? And why does it even matter? Lee goes on to explain, “Trinity’s modified ET-Plus end terminal—which is a steel mechanism mounted onto the end of a guardrail to absorb the impact of a crash—was impaling cars instead of slowing them down safely.”
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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 98% of the deaths resulting from collisions between trucks and cars were car passengers in 2011 - only 2% of the time, the accident was fatal to the truck driver. When it comes to pedestrians, motorcyclists, and bicyclists the numbers change slightly but the gist is the same - trucks are a larger force on the road and are not to be taken lightly.
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According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 37% of injuries and fatalities happening in work zones are due to large trucks.
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