Automobile Accidents

• Single Car Wrecks - "Can I Sue Daddy?"

  Ward Merdes | March 10, 2007 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Kids hurt when a family vehicle goes off the road are doubly-helpless. A driving parent doesn't want to admit fault, and their own insurance carrier will deny benefits to the injured child. Call an attorney ASAP when your family is in a single-vehicle wreck. You have rights that your insurer won't mention.Motor vehicle wrecks. Nobody wants to think about them - but they happen anyway. Real...

• HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED IN A CRASH?

  Ward Merdes | April 25, 2006 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The insurance company of the individual responsible for injuring you will contact you very soon after the crash. They will want to ask you questions about your injuries. These first conversations after the crash may by difficult. You may be agitated or in pain. But common sense and a few guiding principles will prevent you from saying anything that may negatively effect your claim in the long...

• 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...

• 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...