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Read more about New York’s “Dram Shop” and “Social Host” Laws, and their potential impacts on DUI/DWI accident injury cases from the experienced car accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm.

It should not come as a surprise to learn that Pennsylvania, like other states, appears to be losing its battle to rid our streets and highways of “impaired” drivers and the tremendous costs associated with injuries and deaths that are due to drivers who are convicted on charges of DUI/DWI. Although it is not widely known outside the law enforcement and legal professions, one tactic that is meeting with some success in reducing the costs associated with such accidents is…

In 1987, the Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a bar, lounge, tavern or similar business where alcohol is sold has a legal duty not to sell alcoholic beverages to a patron who is showing “… obvious signs of intoxication …” (Poole v. El Chico Corp). Within days of that ruling, the state legislature passed what has become known as the “Texas Dram Shop Act” (after the English term for an establishment that sold alcohol “by the dram,” where 1…

By now, our readers are aware of the deadly April 26th commercial trucking accident in the Denver suburb of Lakewood that killed 4, injured 6, and destroyed 24 vehicles. Many readers will also be shocked to learn that the trucking company whose driver has been charged with four counts of vehicular homicide carried only $750, 000 in accident liability insurance, which is theminimum amount of such insurance that isrequired by federal law. In today’s post, the commercial trucking accident injury…

The family of Apple engineer Walter Huang claims that “…Tesla Model X was defective in its design…”. The engineer was killed in a car accident that is said to be the cause of an autopilot malfunction. Read more about the legal implications from the car accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm.