For most Californians, whether they live in Bakersfield, Manhattan Beach, Inglewood or L.A., shopping is a favorite pastime, particularly in beautiful outdoor malls with all the major retailers. Many retail stores are situated alongside spacious courtyards, up dramatic escalators and around elegant fountains. However, consumers don’t usually consider the hazards in those sophisticated shopping malls when they’re out browsing. There may be puddles near fountains, broken stair steps or torn doorway rugs. That can mean premises liability injuries, because accidents happen in the most unexpected locations, including those gleaming, spotless, spacious department store bathrooms.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 234,000 people over 14 years old were treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 2008 for injuries that took place in bathrooms. Nearly every bathroom accident is a slip and fall injury due to wet floors-which can mean sprains, broken bones, scrapes and cuts, even traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries, which could require surgeries.

As an experienced personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, Mickey Fine has seen all types of slip and fall injuries. People slip and fall in Bakersfield department stores and have Manhattan Beach shopping mall injuries in all kinds of areas-in restrooms with cracked floor tiles, in crowded dressing rooms, cluttered aisles and on malfunctioning escalators. Shoppers sometimes have parking lot slip and fall accidents on the way to or from their car, in oily, slick parking garages, on rain-soaked parking lots sidewalks and in poorly lit store entrances off of dark parking lots.

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According to the study, over $3 billion was saved in 2010 alone, with total costs saved due to helmet use ranging from $2.6 million in New Mexico to $394 million in California. Economic costs saved from helmet use per registered motorcycle ranged from $48 in New Mexico to $1,627 in North Carolina, with a median of $286. In Texas, the savings was approximately $500 per registered motorcycle. Swapping motorcycle accident brain injuries for more dollars in the state budget sounds good all around, and yet every biker knows that motorcycle crashes are usually due to negligent car drivers who are speeding, texting or driving drunk.

Fort Worth, Texas personal injury attorneys at Glenn Law Firm are well-versed in helping injured bikers in Texas recover damages for their bike crash injuries, regardless of whether they were wearing a helmet or not. Helmets don’t guarantee motorcycle safety and Texas motorcyclists know they should always drive defensively, no matter what.

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Other cars on the list of most dangerous cars on the road were the Chevrolet Colorado Super Cab, the Mazda CX-7, the Mazda CX-9, the Nissan Pathfinder, the Jeep Wrangler and the Suzuki SX4. There were no European automakers among the worst-scoring seven models, which contained three US-made cars and four Japanese-made models.

Here in Texas, we love our pick-up trucks. We use them for work, personal errands and fun with friends and family. But some Texas pick-up truck accidents involve one of the most popular trucks in the country: the Dodge Ram 1500 pick-up truck. It’s a top selling truck and yet has just been named as one of the most dangerous vehicles in the country, due to very poor safety ratings. That means Texas truck driver injuries could be avoided, if truck buyers take the time to read safety reviews before making their purchase.

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For professionals who travel frequently on business, the idea of being involved in a rental car accident while away from home is a continual possibility. When we’re in new cities, just driving away from a busy airport car rental lot can be daunting. New reports about car rental companies choosing not to do repair the vehicles they own which have been recalled make the prospect of driving a business trip car rental even more unnerving. I could mean rental car accident injuries while attending a business conference.

According to recent media report, Senator Barbara Boxer has asked car rental companies to make a public promise “not to rent or sell any vehicles under safety recall until the defect has been remedied.” The only company that took her up on her challenge was Hertz; all their competitors declined to make any such pledge. For anyone who was thinking of renting a car from one of those other rental companies, there is new worry about defective rented car accident injuries.

The Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyers at Jeff Martin Law hope Hertz’s competitors rethink their decision and that consumers become more vigilant about checking out the cars they rent, before driving them off the car rental lot. Once you know what make and model you’re renting, for instance, you could go online and check for any car recalls it may have had imposed on it.

In a letter addressed to Sen. Boxer, Hertz said its pledge was aligned with a “long-standing Hertz policy.” New legislation sponsored by Sens. Boxer and Charles Schumer would make it a legally binding issue, so that it would be mandatory for car rental companies to stop renting recalled cars until necessary repairs have been made. Rosemary Shahan, president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety says Hertz has been supporting efforts to write the policy into law.

Shahan says Avis Budget Group and Enterprise are among numerous rental car companies who are seeking to propose alternative legislation. One of the ways they want to change the language is so that it allows car rental companies to hold off on repairing recalled cars until it becomes “practicable”. Another possible modification to the legislation would let them only verbally apprise customers of needed repairs before rental agreements are signed.

Because Hertz has publicized their policies on this issue, they’ve set the bar for the car rental industry as a whole. Hopefully, car rental company competitors will respond in kind and rethink their repair policy. It could make roads and highways throughout the country far safer, particularly those just outside of airport car rental counters.

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