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Motorcycle riding is a favorite past time for many Americans.  A sunny afternoon drive, however, can take a deadly turn on the roadway resulting in tragic accidents and serious personal injuries.  Motorcycle accidents can be caused by a host of varied circumstances.  Some may involve the motorcyclist’s negligent conduct or careless driving; however, many others are caused by the fault of another driver on the road.  The most common cause of motorcycle accidents is the failure of motorists to detect and recognize motorcycles in traffic.  Given a motorcycle’s small size, its visibility may be limited by glare or obstructed by other cars on the roadway.  It comes as no surprise then that intersections are among the most common places for collisions to occur when drivers do not see the motorcyclist and fail to yield the right-of-way.  

In the state of Ohio and across the nation, there is a growing number of hit-and-run accidents.  While it is difficult to determine why individuals flee the scene, it may be that drivers in hit-and-run accidents are intoxicated, under the influence of an illegal substance, have a warrant out for their arrest, or may be driving without a license or proper insurance for their vehicle.  

In the unfortunate event that you or someone you care for has been involved in a hit-and-run accident, the immediate consequences from serious personal injuries, damage to property, expensive medical bills, and lost earnings and income are significant.  The reverberations may carry forward and have implications throughout your lifetime as you struggle to live with permanent injuries or disabilities and the impaired ability to seek gainful employment.  While many victims of hit-and-run accidents make the costly mistake of assuming that nothing can be done to recover for the injuries that they sustained, our Cleveland injury attorneys have worked with countless victims of hit-and-run accidents to recover money damages to compensate them for their injuries.

In Ohio, a wrongful death lawsuit can be filed by the estate of any person who died as the result of the negligent, intentional or wrongful misconduct of another person, a medical professional, or a company. 

A wrongful death lawsuit in Ohio can also be filed where there is no misconduct, but the death occurred because the decedent was mortally injured by an unreasonably dangerous product.  A product can be unreasonably dangerous if it was manufactured with a dangerous defect, or because the product’s design is unreasonably dangerous.  A product can also be unreasonably dangerous if it is marketed without proper warnings and instructions for the safe handling of the product.

 Often a governmental agency, office or department is responsible for causing an injury. The scenarios in which a governmental agency, office or department can negligently cause injuries are too numerous to list, but they can vary from school bus accidents, transit authority accidents, allowing abuse to occur at a publically owned facility such as a group home for the handicapped, permitting a nuisance to remain on a public road that causes an automobile accident, or permitting a student to be subjected to excessive harassment by other students.