Utah Personal Injury Lawyers

Oprah Winfrey is a powerhouse media figure whose influence is felt far beyond her TV talk show. When she lends her name to a cause, a candidate or a new book, people sit up and take notice.

Her latest effort is to raise public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. Earlier this year, Winfrey launched a campaign to persuade drivers to pledge to stop focusing on their cellphones and refocus on the roads and safety.

"No one needs to die today, be paralyzed or maimed today because you were distracted by your phone while driving," Winfrey said. "So if you have to use your phone while driving, please pull over to a safe place."

Even though commercial trucks constitute only a small percentage of the traffic on the road, they are involved in a significant number of fatal motor vehicle accidents every year. There are a number of common issues and situations faced by truck drivers and the trucking industry that all too often lead to serious truck-related accidents...

As sports headlines regularly remind us, full protection against brain injuries for athletes who play football, baseball, hockey and other high contact sports may never be achieved. But many states around the country have recently required high school athletic programs to implement head injury policies that reliably identify concussion victims and closely monitor their return to action.

Families who entrust their elders and other vulnerable loved ones to nursing homes and long-term treatment facilities rightly expect capable and kind care. Nursing home negligence is an institutional problem that is completely avoidable if administrators are willing to adequately train and supervise employees. Yet every year Utah nursing home residents suffer broken hips, infected bed sores, dehydration or malnutrition because of substandard care...

The lives of a couple from suburban Pittsburgh ended abruptly at the beginning of a three-week vacation as they drove to Las Vegas in mid-July to look for a retirement home. Russell and Emelda Welsh were pronounced dead on the scene on I-15 near Pintura after the trailer of an oncoming semi struck their Kia SUV head on. State troopers responding to the motor vehicle accident determined that a distracted truck driver swerved toward oncoming traffic to avoid rear-ending vehicles after failing to notice a slow down where each direction of I-15 narrowed to one lane due to a summer construction project. A separate accident an hour earlier in the same construction zone left a Utah woman in critical condition after she hit a bump and veered out of her lane into parked construction equipment.