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• Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorney answers readers' questions

  Chuck Boyk | July 22, 2008 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorney Dale Emch addresses a wide range of topics in his bi-weekly column, "Legal Briefs," in the Toledo Blade. Questions for attorney Emch, including those on car...

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  Chuck Boyk | June 17, 2008 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

• Protect your family from trucking accidents during summer travel

  Chuck Boyk | June 10, 2008 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  According to Road Safe America, more than 5,000 people die and over 130,000 people suffer personal injury from trucking accidents. The heavy weight of trucks and the extended amount it takes...

• LED stop signs could prevent Toledo, Ohio car accidents, personal injury

  Anneke Kurt | January 18, 2008 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Newly installed stop signs could prevent Toledo, Ohio car accidents. Seven signs with bright, LED lights surrounding the perimeter have been put up in the northwest Ohio area, at intersections where stop signs have previously been ignored, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation, or ODOT. ODOT hopes that these attention-grabbing signs will prevent car accidents, in turn reducing the...

• Car accidents cause worst Labor Day in five years

  Chuck Boyk | September 08, 2007 1:15 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  As Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys, we see the devastation car accidents can cause to families. Holidays are especially dangerous. This past Labor Day weekend marked the deadliest Ohio Labor Day holiday in five years, according to the State Highway Patrol, as reported by the Toledo Blade. The death toll rose by 71% this year when 24 people were killed in car accidents from midnight...

• Car Accident Leaves Parents Pushing For Traffic Lights

  Staff Writer | September 06, 2007 2:02 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  A 13 year old boy was hit by a car on his way to school last week, and the accident has parents of Toledo-area children pushing to add traffic lights in front of the school.Toledo police say the eighth grader's parents were dropping him off Tuesday morning when they let him out in the middle of Glendale Ave. "They made a bad decision at the time," said Molly McHugh Branyan, candidate for Toledo...

• Treat consistently if you're injured in an accident

  Chuck Boyk | July 27, 2007 12:02 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Something that drives me crazy after 24 years as a Toledo personal injury attorney are clients who destroy their cases because they're not familiar with how the process works. A major pain for me are clients who claim they really have serious personal injuries but do not get consistent treatment to justify and help prove their claims.I am a strong believer that actions speak louder than words. ...

• Arbitration clauses show up everywhere these days

  Dale Emch | June 26, 2007 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  People sign contracts everyday containing arbitration clauses, but I'm guessing most people have no idea that they're there or what they are.Sunday, I wrote about this issue in Legal Briefs, my Toledo Blade column that appears every other week. A reader wrote that she had signed a contract with a cell-phone company after receiving assurances that it would provide good coverage in her area. She...

• Judge who lost pants lost $54 million lawsuit

  Dale Emch | June 25, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Justice prevailed today in a case where an administrative law judge had sued his dry cleaners for $54 million because his pants were allegedly lost.The lawsuit was an embarrassment for all lawyers - not just trial lawyers - because it did further damage to our profession. It allowed the people who are trying to curtail the rights of the injured and wronged to point to an obvious abuse as if it...

• Putting head in sand won't make legal problems disappear

  Dale Emch | June 18, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  Ignore legal documents you receive in the mail at your own peril.That's the answer I gave in my most recent column in the Toledo Blade to a reader who had received what I suspect was a complaint and summons more than a year ago. The reader wondered whether she still had to respond because so much time had gone by and she hadn't heard anything else.The problem with that approach is that the...