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Virtually all attorneys who handle injury and death cases handle them on a contingent fee basis. Most attorneys charge 33 1/3% if a case is settled before litigation and 40% if litigation is...

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The Federal Government on Thursday warned owners of about 4.6 million recalled Ford vehicles to bring their cars and trucks immediately to dealerships to disconnect cruise control switch systems that have been linked to engine fires. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that about 9.6 million Ford vehicles have been recalled since 1999, but only 5 million have been...

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A 2001 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that 16-year-old drivers have a crash rate three times higher than that of 17-year-olds, five times greater than 18-year-olds, and almost 10 times greater than drivers aged 30 to 59.Sixteen states and the District of Columbia ban the use of wireless communication devices for some teenage drivers, particularly those 16 and...

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed a law on Thursday which bars the use of cell phones by drivers under 18. The law will take effect July 1, 2008. California joins 15 states and the District of Columbia in banning the use of wireless communication devices for teenage drivers. Nearly a dozen other states are considering similar action, according to the American Automobile...

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A national study released by the Insurance Research Council, a nonprofit study group funded by insurance providers, released a study showing that 26 percent of Mississippi drivers lacked insurance between 1999 and 2004. Alabama and California were tied for the second-highest percentage of uninsured drivers in the 50 states. Twenty-five percent of drivers from those states were uninsured."Even...

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With high gas prices and even higher prices projected for the future, many drivers may be considering switching to mini-cars such as the Nissan Versa or the Mini Cooper. In recent crash tests measuring crash ratings for front, side and rear impact, tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris were the top-rated and the Hyundai Accent and Kia Rio were...

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Father's Day was a bad one for drivers in Southern Mississippi, as car accidents claimed the lives of five men. The men died in three separate wrecks in Jackson and Hancock counties.The first fatality occurred at 2:21 a.m. in Hancock County at the crossroads of Mississippi 603 and Paradise Lane. Gazzo said that the 2003 Ford F150 that Jason Dossett, 26, of Kiln, was driving went off the road to...

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A Louisiana State University graduate student was killed in a car accident in Gulfport as she was driving to a Destin, FL. The 29-year-old woman was driving on I-10 when she went over the center lane and hit at semi-truck. The victim died at the scene of the accident because of trauma to her head and chest, said Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove.Hargrove said the accident occurred near...

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