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Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe recently announced the hiring of attorney Josh Becker. He will be a part of the firm’s truck crash, bad faith and catastrophic injury practice groups.    Becker began his legal career learning the ins and outs of personal injury litigation by defending the types of businesses and insurance companies…

JJ Burns wrote an article recently published in the American Association for Justice’s Truck Litigation Group’s semi-annual newsletter entitled Automated Commercial Vehicles: Developments in 2018. Here is a copy of the article: The use of some automated vehicles, including autonomous CMVs, will almost certainly be commonplace in the future, however, there remain significant technological…

Founding partner, Jeff Burns, was appointed to the Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). This practice section is comprised of attorneys throughout the country who are experts in tort and insurance law. Throughout the year they meet to review and discuss the latest happenings…

With the onset of fall, highway construction crews are out in force to try to complete repairs before winter. Government-contracted construction projects have no sympathy for your commute time, so when weather permits the orange vests are out in full force. Work zones can be a minor inconvenience for civilian drivers, but they can…

If you’ve ever driven through a thunderstorm or a winter flurry, you know how drastically weather can affect the roads. Sometimes even the smallest puddle can cause a traffic accident. Truck drivers should be even more careful when driving through bad weather because of the sheer size of their vehicles, and the danger that…