Traffic Tragedy: Teen Driver Accidentally Kills Her Brother in Crash
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on January 14th, 2012
In one second, a crazy car accident can happen and lives can be changed forever. That's what any traffic accident can do, but it's even more tragic when the victim accidentally is killed by a family member. Sadly, that happened this week in Ormond Beach, Fla., when a 12-year-old boy died in a freak accident as his 18-year-old sister picked him up from his middle school in her pickup truck, according to WKMG TV 6...
On Court Radio: Limited Tort and Full Tort Car Insurance — What You Need to Know
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on January 7th, 2012
When you buy car insurance in Pennsylvania, one of the first questions an insurance agent will ask you is whether you want "limited tort" or "full tort" coverage. It's actually one of the most important questions an insurance agent can ask you and one that most people probably don't spend enough time to consider. So what are the limited tort and full tort options all about? They are all about determining your future legal rights...
How to Make Older Drivers Safer on Our Roads
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on January 4th, 2012
Older drivers, especially those over 80 years of age, have been involved in a number of deadly and tragic vehicle accidents in recent months across the Philadelphia area, and the trend is worrisome. As drivers get older, their eyesight, hearing, reaction time and judgment can degrade, causing them to lose many of the needed skills that are critical to operating a motor vehicle safely. It's not their fault, of course. It happens to all of...
Yo, Baltimore: Who Are You Going To Call for Legal Help? MyPhillyLawyer’s Court Radio Can Help Starting Jan. 1, 2012
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 31st, 2011
"Court Radio" expands to Baltimore on New Year's Day, 2012, with its host, attorney Dean Weitzman Since January of 2009, MyPhillyLawyer's hour-long "Court Radio" program has been on the radio airwaves live each Sunday at 7 a.m. on WRNB FM 100.3 in the Philadelphia metro area, providing legal advice, comfort, folksy assistance and humor to callers who have legal questions and want to get help from a lawyer. The show's success and its popularity with...
If Collection Agencies Harass You After A Loved One Dies, Know Your Legal Rights
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 30th, 2011
After her husband died in March 2010 from colon cancer, 68-year-old Linda Long, of Cape Coral, Fla., began to receive phone calls from a collection agency trying to intimidate her to pay a credit card bill that was under her deceased husband's name. She received LOTS of phone calls from the collection agency, as many as 10 per day, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. This week, a Florida judge ruled that...
Snow is Coming: Get Ready for Winter Driving Safety
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 29th, 2011
Remember that Halloween weekend snow that surprised drivers in the Philadelphia region and across much of the East Coast two months ago? Well, that was just a dress rehearsal for the real snow that will soon be hitting our area now that Winter began officially on Dec. 21. With that in mind, we here at MyPhillyLawyer prepared this handy guide to winter driving safety to remind you of good driving habits when the roads get...
NTSB Recommends a Nationwide Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving: A Good Idea?
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 27th, 2011
Aren't you sick of all those drivers who are getting into crashes and killing or injuring innocent people in recent years because they are talking or texting on cellphones while they are driving their large and heavy steel, glass and plastic vehicular projectiles on public roadways? So is the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). That's why the NTSB recently recommended that all 50 U.S. states should forbid operators of motor vehicles from using cell phones...
Holiday Toy Safety: What You Need to Know
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 26th, 2011
The holiday gifts from Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are all unwrapped now and the children in your household are probably playing happily with all of the new toys they received, from games to action figures to battery-operated, remote-control helicopters and more. But are all the toys that you and your family members selected age appropriate for all of the youngsters in your household and are there cautions you should take when the children are playing...
Holiday Home Safety: A MyPhillyLawyer Guide to Keeping Your Family Safe This Holiday Season
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on December 12th, 2011
The holidays are here and your friends and family will gather for joyous times together as you make new memories and relive fun times from past years. It's a great time to be together, but it's also a good time to remember some basic safety rules to be sure that the holidays are happy and disaster free. That means simple precautions when enjoying fires in fireplaces, displaying and enjoying holiday trees and decorations inside your...