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At The Doan Law Firm, we have successfully represented dozens of clients who lost a family member to an accident involving a commercial truck. We are thus all-too-well aware of the terrible emotional and financial impact that these accidents can have on a family. At the same time, we have come to recognize that relatively up-to-date information on commercial trucking accidents is difficult to obtain. In response to this lack of information, our commercial truck accident lawyers have directed our…

Despite their less-than-stellar safety records, “party buses” and “stretch limos” remain the favored method of transporting groups of riders to a common destination. Read more about some of the accidents that occurred in 2018 from the bus accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm.

Regular visitors to our Fraternity Hazing website know that we monitor both the local and national news media for reports of hazing and other types of misconduct by college fraternities. In today’s post, the fraternity hazing lawyers at The Doan Law Firm take a look at how the University of Iowa is dealing with fraternity misconduct involving hazing and alcoholic beverage policy violations. Alcohol Related Fraternity Hazing At about 7:00 AM on April 30, 2017 Camden County (MO) EMS personnel…

On Tuesday, January 15th Pennsylvania State University complied with the provisions of the recently-enacted Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law (18 Pa.C.S. § 2809 et seq) by publishing its report on “hazing” and other types of potentially-dangerous conduct carried out by fraternities, sororities, and other organizations with ties to the multi-campus Penn State system. In today’s post, the fraternity hazing lawyer at The Doan Law Firm presents a summary of that report. The tragic accident surrounding the Piazza law The incident…

Under the provisions of the recently-enacted Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law, each college and university in Pennsylvania is required to publish a twice-yearly report detailing instances where hazing is alleged to have occurred on its campus and its response to such reports. In today’s post, the fraternity hazing lawyers at The Doan Law Firm present a summary of those reports. Bucknell University Bucknell University reported that one organization, “Bison Chips,” had been suspended for 2 years and that it’s Men’s…