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  • What Happens If a Driver Hits You and Is Underinsured / Uninsured?

    Imagine you’re driving down the road and suddenly, another vehicle hits you. They’ve caused significant amounts of damage to your vehicle and you’ve suffered injuries as a result. You try to gather the necessary information only to find out they don’t have the minimum insurance. What do you do? Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence as many drivers do not abide by the laws in the state of ...
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  • Protecting Your Family: Having Enough Insurance When You Need It

    Unfortunately, many drivers make the decision to drive with the minimum amount of car insurance even though they have personal assets. This can be a big mistake and is not only a danger to yourself, but also to your family. Before selecting how much insurance to purchase, you should consider your assets like your home, property, savings, and investments. Without the proper amount of insurance, ...
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  • What Is the Minimum Insurance Coverage Required by Law?

    Every owner of a vehicle in California must have car insurance. If you don’t, you can be ticketed and fined. But how much coverage does the law require you to carry? The answer is: Not much. California Insurance Code § 11580.1b requires all drivers and owners be insured for the minimum limits of “15/30/5”; that is $15,000 for injury to each person with a maximum of $30,000 for injuries to more ...
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  • California Auto Insurance Policies: Understanding Limits

    California roads are some of the busiest and most populated in America. In 2017, the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued about 27 million driver licenses. In the last few years, statewide reportage of accidents has been upwards of 500,000 annually. In San Francisco alone, the number of traffic fatalities increased by 43% from 2010 to 2016. Why does this matter to you? It does because ...
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  • 2 People Killed in I-880 Accident on Union City-Hayward Border

    Interstate Crash Involving Tour Bus Results in Multiple Casualties At about 10:40 PM on Tuesday evening, a tour bus was heading northbound on Interstate Highway 880 near the Union City-Hayward border when it collided with and drove on top of the back of a Lexus, killing the driver (a 57-year-old woman from Hayward). The bus continued to roll forward and hit a 2011 Ford, which was then pushed into ...
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  • Runaway Truck Causes Second Tragedy for Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn Clients

    Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn Partner Cynthia McGuinn was recently quoted in the news in connection to an update on a tragic auto accident case that occurred in Santa Rosa in early February. Partner McGuinn and our personal injury legal team are representing 76-year-old Barbara Schmidt, who was catastrophically injured in the crash, and her wife. Just four months prior to the crash the couple had ...
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  • How to Identify Symptoms of a Traumatic Brain Injury

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 1.7 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) every year in the United States. Furthermore, it is estimated that TBIs are responsible for about 1/3 of all accident-related fatalities each year. Traumatic brain injuries occur through a sudden force or jolt from a fall or an object hitting a person’s head. They ...
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  • Traffic Deaths Continue to Rise in California and US

    The death toll on California’s roadways is on the rise as a result of risky driving and, according to a report authored by the National Safety Council, a fatalistic complacency present in many drivers. In 2016, traffic deaths rose 14% over the previous year in California, and 19% over the past 2 years. The national death toll rose 6% during the past year and 14% over the past 2, which marks the ...
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  • New Child Car Seat Law for Children Under 2

    As of January 1, 2017, California now requires children younger than two years old to be in rear-facing car seats, unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is taller than 40 inches. The previous law only required rear-facing car seats for children up to one year old or who weighed 20 pounds or less. The increase in age requirements was introduced after experts found that children are far safer ...
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  • Hands-Free Driving Is Not Safe

    Since the adoption of texting and talking bans in many states nationwide, hands-free devices have become a popular choice for drivers. In fact, many drivers use hands-free devices because of the safety factor. According to a poll by the National Safety Council , 80% of drivers believe that using a hands-free device is safer than using a hand-held device– but research shows these assumptions to be ...
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  • California Bans Hand-Held Phone Use for Drivers

    As of January 1, 2017, it will be illegal for all drivers in California to hold or operate their cellphone while they are driving a motor vehicle. The state’s total ban on hand-held phone usage is in response to the rise in distracted driving accidents and the need to close a loophole in the previous law – one that banned texting and talking, but did not address other actions such as shooting ...
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  • Reasons Traffic Fatalities are On the Rise Again

    The National Safety Council (NSC) tracks a myriad of car accident statistics year over year. The NSC reported an 8% increase in deaths in 2015 than in 2014. In addition, there was an increase of 9% of car accident related deaths in the first 6-months of 2016 than those same months in 2015. The last time car accident fatalities increased so dramatically and consistently was decades ago, when the ...
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  • Half of Serious Injuries in San Francisco Are Caused by Car Accidents

    The Department of Public Health reported that roughly 50% of all those injured and admitted to San Francisco General Hospital were related to a car accident . The report analyzed more than 4,000 patient injuries between 2012 and 2014. These patients totaled more than $30 million each year in medical treatment. 44% of those injured were pedestrians struck by a motorist. 22% of those injured were ...
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  • New law may require those convicted of DUI to install ignition interlock devices in their vehicles.

    Senate Bill 1046, authored by Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown late last month and will expand on an existing pilot program statewide which requires those convicted of drunk driving to install an ignition interlock device (IID) to their vehicle. The IID device, which acts as a breathalyzer attached to the vehicle’s ignition, will prevent cars from ...
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  • RFTM secures $24 million settlement for Bay Area woman paralyzed in automobile crash.

    A woman who was left paralyzed by a crash caused by a drunk driver spoke out about her experience. Attorney Timothy G. Tietjen is featured in this CBS San Francisco coverage: A Walnut Creek woman has settled a personal injury lawsuit for $24 million for injuries she suffered in a highway collision on Cinco De Mayo that involved an impaired driver and a Good Samaritan-turned- vigilante. The ...
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  • Most Dangerous Roads in San Francisco & California

    Driving can be dangerous on any road and in any condition if people behave recklessly or negligently behind the wheel, but there are a few roads in California that are statistically more hazardous than the rest. If you are going to take a road trip across the Golden State, you should be aware of certain roadways which have earned unpleasant nicknames such as “Slaughter Alley,” or which are ...
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  • Winter Driving Safety

    Winter is well upon us. While we are in California, wet and snowy weather affects everyone. One of the saddest aspects of our work is the realization that many of the cases we handle could have been avoided had the drivers been more cautious. You cannot control how everyone else drives. But you can increase your odds by exercising caution yourself. The advice we provide below applies to all ...
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  • Combating the Low-Speed Impact Defense

    Low-speed impacts can cause debilitating injuries. These incidents are a major component of insurance payouts historically. Instead of properly setting reserves and adjusting claims, the insurance companies have been waging a two-front war on low-speed impact claims. The first is over the airwaves in an effort to poison the jury pool. The second is in the courtroom itself with junk science. We ...
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  • San Francisco Adopts Vision Zero

    The streets of San Francisco should be safe for all, whether we walk, ride a bicycle, take a cab or drive. As residents live, work and play in the City by the Bay, no one should be in danger while using the streets and intersections throughout the city. Zero traffic fatalities in San Francisco by the year 2024 – that is what Vision Zero San Francisco is all about. Community members, city officials ...
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  • Finding Dangerous Intersections in San Francisco

    San Francisco is the cultural and financial center of Northern California. Its land area spans 46.9 miles, with a density of nearly 18,200 people per square mile, making it the second most densely populated city in the nation, with New York City being the first. Due to San Francisco’s densely populated areas, tourists and residents alike are in danger of being injured or killed in a pedestrian or ...
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  • Zachary Katz Kills Tourist in Drunk Driving Collision

    Pedro Juan Soldevila, 62, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, died when he was ejected from a taxi cab en route to San Francisco International Airport. A Stanford Business School student has been arrested in connection with the tragic accident that killed Soldevila and injured his travel companion. Zachary Katz, 24, drove an Infiniti sedan north in southbound lanes of Highway 101. The collision occurred ...
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  • Tiffany Burnoski, 20, Dies in I-5 Crash

    Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of a young woman killed in a car accident on I-5. A 20-year-old San Francisco resident, Tiffany Burnoski, died in a car crash along Interstate 5 in Fresno County. At the time of the crash, Burnoski was a passenger in a 1998 Toyota. According to the CHP, the driver of the Toyota, Casey Chow, 20, lost control of the car along the northbound I-5 near ...
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