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• Help maximize your personal injury case

  Anneke Kurt | March 14, 2008 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys have compiled ten tips to help you avoid insurance company traps and receive fair compensation for your personal injury. If you've suffered personal injury in an accident, the initial steps you take can make a big difference to the outcome of your case. Here are the first three:1. Seek treatment immediately.The best thing you can do for both your...

• Attorney-client privilege addressed in Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorney's "Legal Briefs" column

  Anneke Kurt | February 13, 2008 11:09 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys handle car accidents, medical malpractice, worker's compensation, dog bites, wrongful death, as well as criminal defense and DUI cases. Below, Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorney Dale Emch addresses the attorney-client privilege and what types of information remain protected under the relationship in his Toledo Blade column, "Legal Briefs." Dear Dale:...

• Can prospective bill banning texting prevent car accidents, personal injury?

  Anneke Kurt | January 31, 2008 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Text messaging has become the fastest new way to keep in touch with family and friends. While sending text messages is fun, texting behind the wheel is dangerous and can cause car accidents resulting in personal injury or wrongful death. Ohio State Representative Diane Fessler believes that the practice is so dangerous, that she has introduced a bill that would make text messaging while driving...

• Make sure to have proper insurance coverage in case of a car accident

  Anneke Kurt | January 07, 2008 6:55 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys frequently see cases where parties are seriously injured in a car accident, but the state minimum policy limits are not enough to cover the costs of their injuries. In some circumstances, a trip to the emergency room alone could eat the $12,500 state minimum reserved for someone suffering personal injury. Increasing the policy limits to a higher amount...

• Fatal car accident takes life of two Bowling Green State University students

  Anneke Kurt | January 02, 2008 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Changing weather patterns of snow and ice during the winter are often the cause of car accidents resulting in personal injury and wrongful death. Slick roads and poor visibility contribute to the failure to control a motor vehicle, many times resulting in a car accident. Bad weather may have been a contributing factor in a fatal car accident that killed two Bowling Green State University...

• Kids left unattended with pits bulls and loaded rifle

  Chuck Boyk | August 31, 2007 4:22 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Five children were left home alone in a house filled with pit bulls and a loaded rifle on August 28th, according to the Toledo Blade, resulting in a child endangerment charge for the kids' mother. Alison Gilmore allegedly left the children unattended in the house the family shared with the dogs, and it was apparent that pit bull fighting had occurred on the premises. A picture window overlooked...

• Talk to lawyer before signing medical authorization forms

  Chuck Boyk | August 06, 2007 12:07 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  I often am hired to represent a client several months after the accident. The client has already signed a medical authorization for the insurance company to obtain medical records. Medical and personal issues that an individual would not disclose to anyone but their doctor are now open for scrutiny. I then send the insurance company a letter canceling the medical authorization and requesting...

• Tiffin student passes away after accident with truck

  Dale Emch | April 10, 2007 3:10 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Justin Passarge, a University of Tiffin football player, died today as the result of a traffic accident that occurred last week.Mr. Passarge and two other students from the university, located about 25 miles northeast of Findlay, Ohio, were in an accident on April 3 on County Road 38 in Pleasant Township, according to an article in the Toledo Blade.Police said Mr. Passarge failed to stop at a...

• Findlay-area personal injury attorney starts Blade column

  Dale Emch | March 06, 2007 5:08 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  "Legal Briefs," a column unveiled Sunday in the Toledo Blade, will provide information to readers from Findlay and northwest Ohio about a variety of topics, ranging from auto accident cases to will contests. My hope is that I'll be able to give some basic information for people trying to decide if they need an attorney. The goal of the column is to provide practical legal information about a...

• Accident east of Findlay leaves two men dead

  Dale Emch | February 23, 2007 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Two men died Thursday in an accident that happened about 40 miles east of Findlay, Ohio.The Toledo Blade reported that two pickup trucks collided on Reed Township Road 106 near State Rt. 4 in Seneca County. One of the men died at the scene, while the other died after being lifeflighted to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo.