New Hampshire and Massachusetts Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

Winter is a lovely time of year in New Hampshire, especially when the landscape is covered with a fresh blanket of white snow. However, winter can also be a very dangerous time of the year for drivers when the roads become slick with ice. Since it isn’t practical to not drive at all during the…

The Granite Law Group is happy to report that we have obtained an award of $50,000 during an arbitration hearing. The award maxed out the underlying insurance policy. Arbitration is a binding, informal “mini-trial” which is conducted at one of the party’s law offices in front of a neutral party who assigns responsibility and assesses…

Attorney Joe Russo was selected to be one of the presenters at this year’s Personal Injury Fall Forum hosted by the New Hampshire Association for Justice (NHAJ), a preeminent statewide professional organization of trial attorneys committed to ensuring that those who have been injured due to the negligence of others receive justice through the legal system. The day-long…

Every October, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) hosts the Drive Safely Work Week™. The objective of NETS is to improve employee driving safety and encourage awareness and a culture of safe driving. Motor vehicle crashes cost employers billions of dollars annually in lost productivity. For those employers who employ drivers such as trucking companies,…

Every 33 seconds, one child under the age of 13 is involved in a crash. Many times deaths and injuries can be prevented by proper use of car seats, boosters, and seat belts. A lot of us have spent our childhood riding in cars before seat belts were mandated. We remember sliding around the bench…

It’s that time of the year again when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launches its Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign. This year it runs from August 17th to September 5th. A wise person once told me that “failure is making a few poor decisions each and every day”. Nothing could be more…

It’s almost back-to-school time! Parents and children alike need to know some facts about the school buses they rely on for school and other activities that use school buses. Some 25 million students nationwide begin and end their day with a trip on a school bus. Designed for safety, with flashing lights, giant mirrors, high seat backs…

We all know a red light means stop, – but despite knowing we should stop, many of us run the red light. It seems to be a trend that a yellow light means “step on it” and people press the gas instead of the brake. In our increasingly hectic world, more and more people are…

The word Pokémon is a contraction of two Japanese words, “Poketto” and “Monsut,” meaning “Pocket Monster.” Definition of Monster: an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. The Pokémon are supposed to be “monsters” that have special powers and share the world with humans. The idea of the game is to learn how to…

In many professions, conflicts of interest have to be disclosed to the consumer. For example, if you are a homebuyer and you want to buy a house owned by ABCXYZ Real Estate Corporation and one of the partners of ABCXYZ Real Estate Corporation is a licensed real estate agent, then said agent must disclose to…