Articles Tagged with “motorcycle accidents”

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50cc scooter.jpgWe posted recently about the new law requiring moped and scooter riders to wear helmets, procure insurance and have their vehicles titled (Maryland Helmet Law Now Extends to Scooters). An interesting question is what this will do for Maryland’s finances?

One article cites that there are 3,500 scooters in Maryland–with a price tag of $25 for the title and decal, that means the state should get about $194,000 in net revenue.

But wait, there’s more! The requirement to wear a helmet means that some injuries will be prevented entirely, and others will be less serious. It is estimated that it will save Medicaid $120,000.00 per year. That’s money that they won’t have to spend on serious, long-term care of people who were injured. Though, one wonders if there might in fact be more injuries–a rider without a helmet might be killed, though a rider with a helmet in the same accident might have a severe and permanent brain injury. It’s hard to know where these estimates come from. Only time will tell, and that’s only if someone comes in and analyzes the data.

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distracted driving accident attorney.jpgThe New Jersey couple who were hit by a texting driver while riding their motorcycle settled their case against the driver for $500,000. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kubert, who were on the motorcycle, lost a leg because of the motorcycle accident.

We wrote about this story in May (Distracted Driving Lawsuits: Suing the Sender, and Lawsuits Against Text-Senders: Conclusion). There, the trial judge ruled that the plaintiffs did not have a case against the person who sent the text message, only the driver who read it. The lawyer in the case is appealing that decision, though I still wonder how he will get paid if he wins.

The $500,000 settlement only applies to the driver of the car. It looks like that is the policy limit, so the driver’s insurance paid everything it had.

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