A suspension of trucking safety laws has been extended due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s unclear when things will return to normal, and the suspension is valid at the federal level through the end of 2020. The suspensions, which began shortly after COVID-19 started to…
Driving while sleep-deprived, often called drowsy driving, causes drivers to be less attentive. At its worst, it causes fatalities. With drowsy driving, an individual’s reaction time is altered as is his ability to make decisions. Now more than ever, everyone needs to practice caution when…
Back in March, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) suspended Hours of Service (HOS) laws. The agency’s decision, made after President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was to support commercial motor carriers…
As states begin to lift their stay-at-home restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, companies are welcoming employees back to the office after months of teleworking. You probably don’t miss your morning commute, but traffic isn’t the only concern now that the roadways will be crowded again.…
For the first time in history, trucking safety laws that have been around since 1938 have been temporarily suspended at the federal level due to the COVID-19 virus. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a national emergency declaration in…
Every 9 seconds, someone in the United States sustains a brain injury. More than 3.5 million children and adults sustain an acquired brain injury each year. One of every 60 people in the U.S. lives with a traumatic brain injury-related disability. Clearly, the stats show…
I frequently talk with people who offer up a kind of an apology when they tell me that “I didn’t have a contract though”. In fact, we form contracts all day long, although we don’t think of them that way. We tend to think of…
A new blood test developed by a team of international scientists has shown great potential to identify and possibly prevent infant brain injury just hours after birth. The research, sponsored by Imperial College London, was conducted in India, where there are up to a million…
On October 2, 2020, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized all federally filed JUUL lawsuits into one court in the Northern District of California. U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick was assigned to oversee the pre-trial proceedings. Currently, the parties are working toward…
In the early days of the pandemic, Americans reconnected with an old friend – the bicycle. To stay away from COVID-19 hotspots, people quickly began bicycling to work instead of taking a bus, riding a bike trail instead of exercising inside a gym, and spending…
