Anchorage Alaska Personal Injury Law Blog

Commercial truck accidents continue to be among the deadliest and most injurious crashes on U.S. roads – including roads here in Alaska. Trucks are so much larger and heavier than other vehicles that collisions are often deadly or debilitating for occupants of smaller personal vehicles.

While trucking accidents have many common causes, it’s not always clear how common certain risk are. Truck drivers who cause accidents are predictably reluctant to admit what led to the crash, fearing that they will lose their job, get sued, or both. But technology is making it easier than ever to track truck drivers on the job. And according to one company supplying such technology, more than 70 percent of truck crashes it studied were the result of distracted driving.

When you go to the doctor, you trust that they will provide adequate care for your medical conditions. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of dedicated medical professionals, sometimes nature triumphs over modern medicine.

However, in many cases, death is preventable. And if your doctor is at fault, you might be able to hold them accountable for their negligence.

Most of us don’t think much about how the civil justice system works until we need to use it. For instance, have you considered how financial damages are awarded in a personal injury lawsuit?

That’s what we’ll discuss in today’s post. Specifically, we’ll talk about Alaska’s negligence law, which helps assign liability for an accident or injury. We’ll use the example of car accidents, since that is one of the most common reasons for a personal injury lawsuit.

Before the 1950s, a spinal cord injury was almost the same as a death sentence. There was little likelihood that people survived and recovered mobility from severe spinal damage. However, modern science makes full recovery possible.

According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, the average stay for injured patients dropped from 24 days in the 1970s to 11 days in 2018; the rehabilitation lengths also dropped from 98 days to 34 days.