Philadelphia Car and Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

In the United States each year, approximately 3 million people are injured in a motor vehicle accident. These accidents result in billions and billions of dollars worth of damage. If you have been involved in a car accident, you know how devastating it can be physically, emotionally, and financially.

The experienced car accident attorneys at Pomerantz, Perlberger & Lewis in Philadelphia can help you through this difficult time.

According to Pennsylvania law, if you were injured in a car accident that was due to someone else's negligence, you may be entitled to recover damages that include the following:

Medical costs
Lost wages and future lost wages
Property loss
Pain and suffering

The attorneys at PPL will review your case at no cost to you and then will discuss with you whether or not you have a case.

Please contact our office today to schedule your initial consultation.

In Cottonwood, Minnesota, a school bus and several other vehicles crashed killing four of the students and forcing many motorists to rush the injured to nearby hospitals. The bus and a van collided and then the bus hit a pickup truck and tipped over on its side. At least 14 people were hurt in the collision.

As motorists approached the wreck site, rescue workers asked them to help get injured children to hospitals. The bus driver was handing kids out of the bus doors as fast as he could, and the other children were terrified and screaming. The children were ages kindergarten through twelfth grade, and there were approximately 28 children on the bus at the time of the accident.

At the time this blog was posted, the names and ages of the children who were killed were not available for release.

If you or a loved one has been injured or killed in a vehicle accident in Philadelphia or anywhere in Pennsylvania, please contact the experienced accident attorneys at Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis today to schedule your initial consultation.

Two people were killed and dozens more were hurt after about 100 vehicles collided into each other on Interstate 90 outside of Madison, Wisconsin in early 2008, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol.

Area hospitals reported that about 54 people were taken to Madison area after the massive pileup in the eastbound lane near the Sigglekow Road to the Badger Interchange. Authorities said that the pileup was actually two incidents, concentrated near the 143 and 146 mile markers on I-90, affecting a roughly five-mile span.

State Patrol officials said on Sunday night the number of cars involved in the pileup included about 100 cars.

Bolch said that the crashes appear to be fog-related. Law enforcement agents and emergency workers are still trying to sort everything out, he said. Authorities said that the crash apparently began as some drivers began to slow down as fog rolled in. Then, other drivers did not see traffic slowing and vehicles began to ram into each other in a domino effect, WISC-TV reported.

About 10 agencies from around the region responded to the crash with nearly 75 to 100 emergency workers, not including police officers. Some emergency workers said that the pileup looked like a war zone.

If you or a loved one has been injured or killed in an automobile accident in Philly or anywhere in Pennsylvania, please contact Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis today to schedule your initial consultation.

Ever since their 13-year-old daughter Sara was killed when she drove a friend's ATV into a tree, Duane and Cathy Hennarichs wanted to save other children from a similar fate.

A Palm Beach County jury helped their cause on Friday, finding that the family that owned the four-wheeler Sara rode to her death in September 2003 was negligent and ordered them to pay the Hennarichses $3.6 million. The suburban Boca Raton couple said they are hopeful the jury's verdict will spur other ATV owners to realize the perils of letting youngsters ride the vehicles alone.

"We just wanted to make parents realize how dangerous these machines are and that they shouldn't be entrusted to young children without their supervision," Duane Hennarichs said of the lengthy legal battle he and his wife waged since their middle daughter's death. "This was done for Sara," said Cathy Hennarichs, who plans to lobby more actively for tougher regulation via the group Concerned Families for ATV Safety. "She's going to be saving children, and that's important to me."

John Richards, a Fort Lauderdale attorney who represented Roger and Karen Fina and their son Nicolas, now 17, in the weeklong trial, said he disagreed with the jury's verdict, but no decision has been made as to whether it would be appealed.

The Hennarichses claimed that the accident could have been avoided if the Finas had simply heeded the warning stickers on the ATV. The stickers clearly stated that the ATV shouldn't be driven by any one under the age of 16, and that no one should ride with a passenger.

Sara, an eighth-grader at Eagles Landing Middle School in suburban Boca Raton, had borrowed Nicolas' ATV and was riding with another youth when she lost control of the vehicle and was thrown headfirst into a tree in the gated Tierra Del Rey North community. She died of head injuries three hours later at Delray Medical Center. The other youth sustained minor injuries.

If you or a loved one has suffered a serious personal injury or death due to someone else’s negligence in Philadelphia or anywhere in Pennsylvania, please contact the personal injury lawyers at Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis today to schedule your initial consultation.

The mother of a 6-year-old Massachusetts boy who was killed by a tractor-trailer earlier this year has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the driver and the Canadian trucking company that employed him.

Brendon Mahoney was killed when the tractor-trailer, driven by Francis Hammond, 41, jackknifed, striking the vehicle that Kimberly Kyle, 27, was driving. The tragic accident happened as the vehicles were approaching a traffic backup caused by a snowstorm that hit the night before. Highway workers were still clearing snow from the road when the accident occurred.

The lawsuit alleges that Kyle was traveling at about 20 mph in a southbound lane of Interstate 93 when Hammond lost control of his tractor-trailer, which contained forty tons of plywood. Hammond was allegedly driving 30-40 mph, too fast for those driving conditions.

According to the lawsuit, “Brendon was deprived the joys, pleasures and accomplishments of life, was caused to suffer the excruciating and humanly unbearable conscious pain and suffering.”

If you or a loved one has been injured or killed in a truck accident in Philadelphia or anywhere in Pennsylvania, please contact the experienced truck accident attorneys at Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis today to schedule your free, initial consultation.