http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com California Car Accident Lawyers Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:41:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As California and the rest of the country prepare for a new generation of senior citizens who may need care, laws are being toughened to make sure that these baby boomer retirees face none of the elder abuse that has gone neglected for so long. There's no doubt that these new ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2009/01/06/california-toughens-elder-abuse-laws/ Now that the holiday season is well and truly behind us, sobering traffic accident statistics seem to suggest that the trend this year was a decrease in drunk driving arrests, but an increase in alcohol-related crash fatalities. In Sacramento, California Highway Patrol officers arrested 106 people for drunk driving this holiday ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2009/01/05/fewer-drunk-driving-arrests-more-accident-related-deaths-this-holiday-season/ It's been a horrible beginning to 2009 for the family of a San Marcos man who was killed in an alcohol-related car accident on New Years' Day. Guadencio Reyes-Guaintana leaves behind a girlfriend and newborn baby girl. The accident, the only fatality-causing one that occurred in San Diego County on New ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2009/01/02/san-diego-county-motorist-killed-in-new-years-car-accident/ A Santa Rosa motorist who was responsible for a multi-car accident earlier this week that killed her and another motorist had at least 4 previous convictions for drunk driving. 52-year-old Rosanne Starr Webb was also wanted on a warrant dating back more than three years, that had been issued for driving ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/31/mystery-surrounds-santa-rosa-woman-killed-in-multi-car-accident/ A new change in federal rules relating to nursing home inspections makes it harder for people to get accurate information on what exactly is going on in these facilities, News & Observer reports. In its final days before it vacates office, the Bush administration has made changes to a federal law ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/30/federal-rule-change-will-make-it-harder-to-access-information-in-nursing-home-inspections/ As police officers step up their DUI crackdowns over the holiday season, there are two groups of offenders they will be dealing with – first time offenders who have been stupid enough to get drunk and drive, and habitual offenders who are harder to handle. In Sacramento alone, there is an ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/29/holiday-season-casts-attention-on-habitual-drunk-driving-offenders/ A former Tustin High School trainer was arrested on Friday on charges of sexual abuse of a minor athlete. According to the Orange County Register, the trainer had been involved in a sexual relationship with the student for about a year before it came to light. The relationship would have ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/26/tustin-teacher-arrested-for-sexual-abuse-of-student/ A few weeks after former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker filed an aviation accident lawsuit against the companies that owned and operated the plane and others, the only other survivor of the fiery South Carolina crash has filed a lawsuit of his own. The plane crash occurred in a South Carolina ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/24/dj-am-files-lawsuit-in-plane-crash/ A federal law signed by President Bush last year requiring greater safety measures to prevent swimming pool drownings, marked December 19th as the last day for compliance, but because it's a federal law, state agencies can't enforce it, and property owners can't be cited for violations. The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/23/new-federal-pool-safety-law-to-prevent-accidents-takes-effect/ Back in October, we reported on a San Mateo truck accident that killed a 9-year-old boy, and left his mother and two other women seriously injured. The family of the boy had filed a civil lawsuit against the driver of the truck, Carlos Siordia, and his employer. He has now ... http://www.accidentandinjuryblog.com/2008/12/22/driver-charged-in-fatal-san-mateo-truck-accident/