To reduce supply chain backlogs, drivers as young as eighteen may soon be behind the wheel of a vehicle that weighs over 80,000 pounds. 
Currently, truckers who cross state lines must be at least 21 years old, but an apprenticeship program required by Congress to help ease supply chain backlogs would let 18-to-20-year-old truckers drive…

Excessive speed may have been a factor in a crash that sent a 16-year-old girl to the hospital in critical condition. She died less than a week later.
The crash, which involved a Subaru Forester and a semi tractor trailer, occurred in the 4000 block of Alexandria Pike, near the intersection of St. Michael Drive.…

Few details were available after a buggy and motor vehicle crashed into each other in the western part of Barren County.
A male subject was being transported to T.J. Samson Hospital for a blood draw. Several children, including one as young as 1-year-old, were involved in the crash. One person was flown from the scene…

In most states, the federal Graves Amendment is almost meaningless. But in the Bluegrass State, 49 U.S. Code § 30106 could make or break an injury case. Kentucky has an imputed contributory negligence law. This law mostly applies when a teen borrows a parent’s car and causes a wreck. However, this law could also apply…

Most injury cases (torts) are unintentional torts. Abuse is an intentional tort. Other intentional torts include battery, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Battery is any harmful or offensive touch. Usually, false imprisonment is confining a person in a room or other small space without justification. Physically blocking a doorway is a form…

Clever lawyers are bypassing restrictive federal rules and filing cases on behalf of victims in state court.
In the multidistrict litigation, plaintiffs originally identified 10 cancer types. But that list was pared to five types—bladder, esophageal, gastrointestinal, liver and pancreatic. Many of those who were pared from the multidistrict litigation—including plaintiffs with breast, kidney, colorectal,…

A man is dead after he crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a commercial roll-off truck.
According to Wilder Police Chief Chad Martin, a 35-year-old Cincinnati man died at the University of Cincinnati Hospital from injuries he suffered in the crash. A preliminary investigation indicates that his 2019 Kia crossed the centerline and into…