New commercial truck safety regulations stalled by President Trump executive order
Bloomberg reports that some new safety regulations intended to reduce highway fatalities have been delayed by one of President Trump’s executive orders. One regulation mandates the placement of speed limiters on semis. President Trump issued the “Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs” shortly after taking office in January, and it requires the Department of Transportation to cut at least two other rules before it can implement the new safety regulation in order to save money. The new speed limiter regulation is supported by safety [...]
Common Reasons Claims are Denied
Unscrupulous insurance companies often attempt to deny health insurance claims by either delaying payment or making the process so onerous that the claimant simply gives up and drops the claim. This type of bad faith insurance behavior is more common than people want to think, and the following are some of the most common ways it manifests. Patient Went “Out of Network” Some insurance companies will act in bad faith by creating very limited networks of physicians for patients to see. When a patient seeks care from a [...]
Why It is More Dangerous than Ever to be a Pedestrian
The numbers of pedestrian injuries and deaths have been steadily rising each year, and despite many efforts to educate drivers on safety, these numbers are expected to continue climbing for the foreseeable future. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that a pedestrian is killed every 1.6 hours in the United States. There were approximately 5,376 pedestrians killed in 2015 and a total of 70,000 injured. That same year, 5,295 highway accidents involved fatalities to one or more pedestrians. These numbers average out to a pedestrian being [...]
