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• Escalator Catastrophe Frames Tort Reform Debate for Alaskans

  James Cool | February 24, 2009 2:38 AM | 6 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Anchorage Daily News reports that on February 8, 2009 a three year old girl lost 3 fingers in an escalator accident at an Anchorage J.C. Penny’s department store. According to news...

• Warm Roads? Slow Down in Alaska

  Ward Merdes | February 18, 2009 1:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It's February 18th and getting warmer in interior Alaska. We're gaining sunlight every day and are up to eight hours. Roads are thawing on sunny days. Black ice is upon us. My phone is ringing with...

• Sterling Highway Crash leaves 1 dead and 3 in critical condition

  James Cool | February 18, 2009 12:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Soldotna, Alaska—KTTU and the Anchorage Daily News report that a head-on collision left 1 dead and 8 injured (3 critically) on February 16, 2009. At around 3:25 p.m., while traveling along...

• Why You Need Uninsured Motorist Insurance

  Ward Merdes | February 07, 2009 7:37 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  After twenty years representing people who are injured and killed in motor vehicle wrecks, I've learned a thing-or-two. The most important one - for you - is to buy the right automobile insurance....

• Juneau Woman Dies in Glacier Highway Auto Accident

  James Cool | February 03, 2009 12:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Fort Mill Times report that Mary Grace Needham, a 31 year old Juneau woman, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash on the Glacier highway on Sunday, February 1, 2009. ...