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The unprecedented development speed of the COVID-19 vaccines has created a lot of new questions and few answers. One of them is the legality of mandating your employees to get a vaccine or face termination. Lawsuits arguing against it are landing in courtrooms all over…
Driving while distracted is not smart or safe, but you may not realize it can have multiple consequences beyond just getting into a car accident. Of the more than half a million car accidents that occur each year in Texas, approximately 18 percent of them…
New statistics released this year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that U.S. traffic deaths are higher than they’ve been since 2007. Road fatalities rose 7% last year alone, despite the fact that the highways were emptier than ever due to the…
After more than a year of lockdowns and dealing with so many restrictions, COVID-19 vaccinations have changed the landscape of the pandemic to one resembling normalcy. One of the most vital parts of our lives, travel, is opening back up too. The Center for Disease…
Distracted driving is the number one cause of fatal car accidents in the United States. Approximately eight people die every day in highly preventable crashes because drivers focus on something other than the road. Examples of distracted driving include eating or drinking, reading or watching…
More than 582,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 in the last 16 months. People have been living cautiously by wearing masks and social distancing while grieving the loss of loved ones. They have also been thinking about estate planning by organizing financial records, designating a…
While Texas leads the nation in wrong-way driving fatalities, another cause of car accident fatalities is not speeding, as you might guess, but rather distracted driving. In 2020 alone, a staggering 80,000 crashes involved Texas drivers paying attention to something other than the road. Of…
With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, a collective sigh of relief spread across the U.S. Pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech developed vaccines in less than a year, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving both vaccines for emergency use in December 2020. As…
On Oct. 29, 2019, Melvin Taylor, 57, was killed on the Dallas North Tollway by a drunk driver in a wrong-way crash. Taylor, the father of five children and a military veteran, was driving home from an overnight job. The intoxicated driver, Chaz Thames, whose…
Did you know that Texas has been at the top of the list for traffic-related fatalities since 2017? From March through December 2020, nearly 500 people were killed in car accidents throughout just four counties. Over 3,600 lost their lives across the state in 2019.…
COVID-19 vaccinations are rolling out lightning fast – as of April 1, over 54 million people in the U.S. have received it, and states are lowering the age requirement every day. But now that the vaccine is so widely accessible, the next natural question is,…
