Be careful where you go to drink alcoholic beverages.  Not all bars provide the same protections and standard operating procedures that protect their patrons and protect the public from their patrons. Things Bars Should NOT Do To Keep You Safe Overserve their patrons such that they drive intoxicated and pose a threat to themselves and others on the road. Overserve their patrons such that the patron suffers the risk of falling in the bar or outside the bar. Allow patrons known to be on criminal probation or other criminal case release to be in the bar at all, let alone serve them alcohol ..read more

This is a challenging subject to write about, and one that we wish would never claim or ruin another young life.   The following are accounts of some of the related real cases our firm has handled. No parent wants to get that phone call. The call that breaks their heart forever. The call informs them that their child died or was severely injured in a car accident. These stories are of actual cases, but names are kept confidential to protect the surviving clients, relatives, and friends.  Facts are stated with generalities for the same reason. A Young Driver Dies in Alcohol-Indu ..read more

Motor vehicle accidents can result in serious and debilitating physical and mental injuries.  Injuries include broken bones, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), internal injuries, mental and psychological anguish, and physical pain and suffering.  The reasons for such accidents run the gambit of causes ranging from driver inattention, fatigue, driver impairment, disobeying traffic signs and lights, mechanical failures, and defective vehicle design or construction, to name the most common. Garrison Law Firm concentrates much of its practice on representing folks with injuries caused by mo ..read more

Imagine This: Your brother-in-law or a neighbor asks you to borrow your car, truck, or another road-worthy vehicle.  You have all allowed someone else to borrow our car before because you trust them or have sympathy for the jam they are in.  This time, the person runs a red light and causes a severe collision resulting in personal injury to folks in the other vehicle.   Where does this leave you and your insurance company? If someone asks to borrow your vehicle, what are the risks?  If that person has a car accident that is his or her’s fault, what does that mean to y ..read more

You would think motor vehicles getting struck by trains would not be a common occurrence these days, but they still happen more often than you would think.  Obviously, a train hitting a car at high speed usually ends in the death of the vehicle’s occupants. Slower moving trains can result in the survival of the car occupants. Wrongful Death in Train versus Car Accident We had a terrible train accident case involving an automobile driver several years ago where a freight train traveling at 70 MPH hit a car at a crossing that did not have any flashing lights or crossing bar.  The cros ..read more

Imagine This: You are on your way to work. Today is just like any other day. You turn on your favorite music or podcast and take the same route you have taken hundreds of times to get to work. You pull up to a stop sign, look, and proceed when it’s your turn. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a truck comes flying into the intersection in front of you.  BANG! You run directly into the truck.  Your airbags blast out of the steering wheel, and you feel a sharp pain in your head.  You’re dazed but thankful to be alive. Fast forward a few days. Your spouse says to you, “Are you sure you’re f ..read more

At Garrison Law Firm, we handle many serious injury cases. However, what if your injury is not debilitating, not permanent? What if it is just a hassle over a period of a few weeks as you recover from a sore neck or back, a stiff knee or elbow, or any other temporary injury that will heal but, in the meantime, will be no fun to deal with?   Can you benefit from hiring a lawyer with only minor injuries?  The short answer is probably. Suppose you require and get physical therapy or chiropractic treatment to get over the effects of your injury. In that case, the proper lawyer can ..read more

Much of the following information is derived from an article in the Chinese Journal of Traumatology 2009. Whiplash injuries are generally considered soft tissue injuries of the neck with symptoms such as neck pain and stiffness, shoulder weakness, dizziness, headache, and memory loss.  Three Stages of Neck Injury Based on studies, three distinct periods have the potential to cause injury to the neck.  In the first stage, flexural deformation of the neck is observed, along with a loss of the cervical natural curve. In the second stage, the cervical spine assumes an S-shaped curve as ..read more

You are driving down a two-lane highway when an oncoming car enters your lane. Enough to force you off the road causing you to hit a tree or light pole head-on. Your life is saved by your front airbag, but you are still injured sufficiently enough to go to the hospital in an ambulance.   You suffer several injuries requiring imaging tests and several weeks of physical therapy. Now here is the problem, you never made contact with the car that ran you off the road, and the driver did not stop as he or she should have.   Also, there were no witnesses that could identify the ca ..read more

How Businesses and Insurers Will Avoid Liability CALL NOW GET A FREE CONSULTATION Often in personal injury cases, businesses and their insurance companies will try to spin the facts of a case to avoid paying the amount the injured party deserves for their suffering. Even when there is video evidence of an accident, the business may try to hide it or prevent access to it by the injured party. In these cases, Garrison Law Firm can step in and help. Here is a real slip and fall case Garrison Law Firm handled. The client’s name has been changed.   Delivery Slip and Fall Accident Dan is ..read more