Brush The Snow Off Your Car. It’s The Law! Almost.
Last year at this time, the House failed to adopt SB 435, which attempted to accomplish a public safety measure related to the removal of ice from motor vehicles. Last month, the Senate voted unanimously [...]
Bayer Will Pay $10 Billion+ to Settle Roundup Cases
Sometimes a widely-used product has unusual and unpleasant results. For example, people who want to keep their plants healthy typically use chemicals to kills bugs and organisms that target the plants. Pest-fee plants look better, [...]
Avoiding Electrical Hazards At Work
In 1906, over a century ago, James Powell, Sr. founded a law firm to serve the residents of Northeastern Pennsylvania, mainly the burgeoning towns of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Today, Powell, Zero, Mundy serves a far greater metropolitan [...]
Avoid These Bad Driving Habits
While the number of motor vehicle deaths has decreased significantly in the last fifty years because of advancements in vehicle safety technology, new data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that the [...]
Auto Makers Implement Automatic Emergency Braking Technology
In 2016, several automakers, twenty in fact, that control 99 percent of the U.S. market agreed to make Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) a standard feature across almost all of their models by 2022. As the [...]
Assured Clear Distance Ahead And Sudden Emergency
Although titled “Driving vehicle at safe speed,” the Pennsylvania statute found in §3361 of Title 75 is sometimes referred to as the “assured clear distance ahead” rule. The rule requires that “no person shall drive a vehicle [...]