This week, two car accidents left two drivers dead and a 3-year-old in the hospital in stable condition.The first accident happened on Sunday night just before 11 p.m. on the eastbound side of Airline Highway in Baton Rouge.A 1996 Cadillac Deville veered into another...
Simien & Simien is pleased to announce that the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys (AIOPIA) has chosen Ashley E. Philen as one of the 10 Best Personal Injury Attorneys in Louisiana for Client Satisfaction. The AIOPIA annually selects the "10 best"...
In a new survey from auto insurer Everquote, 96 percent of respondents said that they consider themselves to be safe drivers, even though more than half of them said they use their phones when they are driving.This is particularly troubling given the increase in fatal...
According to recent data released from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Safety Council (NSC), there has been a significant increase in auto accident deaths in recent years.According to final numbers from the NHTSA, 35,092...
After several days of continual rain throughout South Louisiana tens of thousands of residents in the Northshore, Hammond, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Iberia areas have been displaced from their homes because of damage to their roofs and properties from high flood...
An attorney from the Center for Biological Diversity says that fracking released more than 76 billion gallons of waste into the Gulf of Mexico in 2014, with much of the waste coming from fracking wells off the coast of Louisiana. These wells were approved by the U.S....
The number of car accidents involving road debris has increased by 40 percent since 2001, according to a study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. These types of car accidents caused 500 deaths and 39,000 injuries between 2011 and 2014. In more than one third...
After years of litigation, a New Orleans federal judge has approved a $20 billion settlement that BP must pay. The settlement is for the destructive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Included in the settlement is $5.5 billion for Clean Water Act civil penalties, along...
In the past two weeks, approximately 9,000 gallons of crude oil have been spilled into Louisiana waterways and marshes in three separate oil spills.The first spill happened last week when a Hilcorp Energy pipeline spilled between 1,160 and 4,200 gallons of crude oil...
