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  • Drunk Driver Causes Deadly Accident in Tacoma

    Ryan Nute | December 29, 2007 10:34 AM | 0 Comments
    Category: Automobile Accidents

    On Christmas Eve Peter Pung, 18, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Pung was driving on Golden Given Road East, a road in Tacoma, Washington, when a pickup blew through a stop sign and T-boned Pung's Honda. The driver of the pickup, Aaaron Wayne Bell, 26, crashed into Pung's car with such speed it drove the Honda's passenger-side door into Pung and crushed him against the driver's side...

  • Passengers Injured in Sumner Crash

    Chelsea Gilbert | December 28, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 Comments
    Category: Automobile Accidents

    On Christmas Eve a 35-year old man was killed and two men were critically injured in a car crash on West Valley Highway in Sumner, Washington. According to the police, the driver was speeding, lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and then hit a tree. The driver was declared dead at the scene of the accident; the two passengers were transported to Harborview Medical Center. Alcohol was...

  • Opportunity Cost Key Factor in Assessing Personal Injury Damages

    Michael Myers | December 21, 2007 10:47 AM | 0 Comments
    Category: Automobile Accidents

    Personal injury cases are typically valued--by insurance adjusters, personal injury attorneys and juries--based on medical expenses. Oftentimes lost wages and, to a greater extent, opportunity cost, take a back seat. Should people who get hurt in accidents be compensated for the opportunities they miss because of someone else's negligence? On Monday, Brian Ebersole, former state legislator,...

  • Deadly Crash on I-5 Highlights Important Issue for Injured Workers

    Michael Myers | December 17, 2007 1:48 PM | 0 Comments
    Category: Automobile Accidents

    I was looking through my email and found an alert from KIRO. It described an accident that happened on Friday involving a DOT truck. During the morning commute last Friday an SUV slammed into a Department of Transportation worker's truck on Interstate 5 in Fife. The collision killed the SUV driver, Roy P. Fuentes, and injured the 56-year-old State worker, David Ball. Ball was outside of...

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