Automobile Accidents

• Hancock County women sustain personal injury from commerical car accident

  Anneke Kurt | September 27, 2007 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Three Fostoria women were treated at Blanchard Valley Hospital last week for personal injuries sustained by a car accident caused by a UPS driver, according to the Toledo Blade. The Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys at Charles E. Boyk Law Offices, LLC frequently see car accidents involving commercial vehicles, especially those resulting in personal injury.Carol L. Berkley, Lynn A. Myers and...

• 16-year-old Findlay boy dies in fatal car accident

  Anneke Kurt | September 25, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  A fatal car accident occurred last Sunday as a 16-year-old boy lost control of his SUV and struck a tree, mirroring many of the cases we see as Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys. The Findlay, Ohio boy was pronounced dead at the scene on Liberty Township Road 89 in Hancock County, and the evening car accident is still under investigation, according to the Toledo Blade. Unfortunately, the...

• Seatbelts on school buses prevent personal injury

  Anneke Kurt | September 14, 2007 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Ohio law requires seatbelt use in all vehicles, for all passengers, to prevent personal injuries resulting from car accidents, and are used in all motor vehicles except school buses. Many school-aged children ride buses twice a day for over 200 days a year, yet they are not required to use this most basic safety precaution. "Every time a bus stops short, kids get smashed against the seat,"...

• Driving distracted can be deadly for teens

  Chuck Boyk | August 22, 2007 1:09 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Driving while distracted seems to be getting about as much attention these days as driving while drunk. That makes sense because both are inherently dangerous.Increased popularity of electronic devices such as cell phones and iPods have added to the distractions present in vehicles driven by teenagers. But for the young drivers who are also afflicted with attention deficit disorder, the...

• Crash near Bowling Green kills 1, injures 5

  Dale Emch | August 13, 2007 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  A head-on collision near Bowling Green, Ohio, injured a family of five from near Oak Harbor and killed the 16-year-old driver who caused the crash. Five members of the Lutman family were injured in the head-on collision that took place on U.S. 6 in Wood County, according to the Toledo Blade. Amy Lutman, 35, was in critical condition, while her husband Ronald Lutman, and two of their daughters...

• Recorded statements to insurance companies can hurt your case

  Chuck Boyk | July 30, 2007 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  A major mistake that I have found in my 24 years as a Toledo, Ohio, auto accident attorney is unrepresented people giving recorded statements to the insurance adjusters. The goal of the insurance adjuster is to lock the injured person into a set of facts that can be used to discredit the victim and their injury. This helps the insurance company pay less money.After I am hired to protect the...

• If you're hurt, go see your doc

  Chuck Boyk | July 27, 2007 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  It always bothers me, after 24 years as a personal injury attorney in Findlay, Toledo and throughout northwest Ohio, to see clients destroy their cases by not getting consistent treatment for their injuries.I am a strong believer that actions speak louder than words. Someone who is legitimately hurt seeks medical treatment in a consistent and timely matter. A client has a duty to ask tough...

• Whiplash injuries are no joke for the person in pain

  Dale Emch | July 18, 2007 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Despite being the subject of numerous lawyer jokes, whiplash injuries can cause pain that lasts for years.The lawyers in our offices, which are located in Toledo, Findlay, Swanton, and Bowling Green, have handled thousands of soft-tissue injury cases for clients who have had their heads snap forward and back after being struck in a rear-end collision. Most people rebound after a short-period of...

• Tragic accident devastates university south of Findlay

  Dale Emch | March 03, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  A tragic traffic accident has killed four baseball players from Bluffton University, which is just 18 miles southwest of Findlay, Ohio.The baseball players were traveling to Sarasota, Fla., to begin their season when the tour bus the team was traveling in failed to navigate a turn on an exit ramp and flipped over a railing on to I-75 in Atlanta. The driver of the bus and his wife also were...

• 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.