Automobile Accidents

• Protect Your Rights

  Ward Merdes | March 30, 2006 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  If you, or someone you know, has been injured in a motor vehicle crash, and there is a related injury or death claim act quickly. Alaska state laws limit the time Alaskans have to file a claim or bring a lawsuit.A statute of limitations is a law limiting the time for you to pursue a legal remedy. Once the statutory period lapses, unless a legal exception applies, an injured person loses his/her...

• Road rage can be fatal.

  Ward Merdes | March 21, 2006 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  An Anchorage driver, whose road rage may have contributed to the death of Gail Fejes, mother of three, was sentenced to three months jail time for his part in the crash. Twenty-three year old Mark Elkins plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.The district attorney's office charged Elkins with manslaughter, first-degree assault and leaving the scene of an accident without rendering...

• Car Accident Claims Teen's Life

  Ward Merdes | March 17, 2006 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  A Ketchikan girl lost control of her car Tuesday morning on the North Tongass Highway, careening into oncoming traffic and being hit by a pickup truck carrying five people ages 15 to 23. All five of the pickup's passengers were injured in the wreck and taken to Ketchikan General Hospital.According to the Anchorage Daily News:Troopers said driving too fast for the road conditions and...

• Ward Merdes, P.C.

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2005 6:45 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Ward Merdes is a Board Certified Specialist. We focus our practice on injury/death claims arising from car accidents, airplane crashes and industrial accidents and have extensive experience with brain injury claims. The bottom line is that we help injured people. We fight insurance companies. We're honest, hard-working, fully computerized and Insured and have extensive trial experience across...