Nashville Personal Injury Law Blog

Before this year ends, many Tennessee residents will be injured. Some will be involved in workplace accidents. Others may wind up with serious injuries after car accidents or mishaps on another person's property. In addition to medical attention, it is helpful to speak with an experienced personal injury attorney if another person's negligence was a causal factor in a particular incident.

A moderate to severe injury might prevent you from returning to work right away. In fact, in some accidents, injuries might be so serious that a victim is never able to go back to work due to permanent disabilities. During recovery, medical bills, your mortgage payment and other expenses keep rolling in.

The construction industry is known to be high risk for on-the-job injuries. Depending on a particular worker's assigned duties and the circumstances surrounding a specific project, the injury risk may be quite high. Many accidents involving construction workers also involve others, such as passing motorists, if a job site happens to be located near traffic. A truck accident recently occurred in Tennessee that sent a worker to the hospital with injuries.

The investigation following the collision is still active at this time. As often happens in such situations, there are numerous questions that remain unanswered. The severity of the worker's condition was not publicized. The worker in question was in a bucket truck when the crash occurred; however, no information was provided as to whether he was in the cab of the truck or the bucket at the time.

Your life would no doubt become suddenly inconvenient if you were forced to function for an extended period of time without driving or traveling in a motor vehicle. While it might be possible to do so, chances are you'd rather have your car or motorcycle at your full disposal on a daily basis. There are downsides, however, to traveling by motor vehicle. For instance, you have pay for gasoline and find somewhere to park.

There are worse things about driving in Tennessee as well. You may, in fact, be at great risk for serious injury if a distracted or drunk driver is nearby. It's never pleasant to think of such possibilities, but it pays to know where to seek support ahead of time if another person hits you and causes you injury.

Most adults in Tennessee either own a smartphone or know someone who does. Such devices took surfing the internet, cellular phone communication and advanced technology in general to a whole new level. The problem is that many people are now addicted to their smartphones and evidence suggests this may be closely related to an increase in car accidents.

Smartphone addiction often includes certain symptoms such as having trouble sleeping, irritability when denied access to one's phone and losing track of time due to excessive smartphone use. As with other types of addiction, a smartphone addict doesn't typically take well to suggestions that he or she has a problem. Current data shows at least one in eight people are addicted to smartphones.