As a truck accident trial lawyer, I’m neither an economist nor an investment guru. However, I have ridden through a few economic cycles during my career. Earlier I wrote about some of the short term implications of the current Wall Street debacles on trucking and insurance. I expect to see…
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Impact of the Wall Street crisis on trucking and insurance
As a truck accident trial lawyer in Atlanta, I’m puzzling over how the falling dominoes in the current crisis on Wall Street will impact the trucking and insurance industries. High fuel prices, hurricanes, dependence on foreign oil, the subprime mortgage mess, the economic rise of China and India, the cost…
In trucking accidents, consider a claim against a freight broker or logistics company
As a Georgia trucking attorney, I sometimes see motor carriers create a shell game in which they claim after a tragic accident happens, to have been acting as a broker or logistics company, rather than as a motor carrier. Of course, when you dig into their marketing materials, they usually…
Truck safety implications of rising fuel prices
As a trucking accident trial lawyer representing both occupants of passenger cars and truck drivers who are badly injured in trucking collisions, I have been thinking a lot lately about the implications of rising oil prices on the trucking industry in general, and trucking safety in particular. If truckers are…