Transportation law presents attorneys and their clients with a very broad legal field to navigate. Maybe you represent a long-haul transportation company facing a myriad of challenging regulatory and legislative restrictions or the often harrowing task of negotiating with an insurance company on behalf of a commercial client after a terrible accident on the highway. Whatever legal situation you are handling, click below on FindLaw’s collection of Transportation Law articles as part of the Corporate Counsel Law Center Law Library. Check out other articles geared towards attorneys representing motorcycle injury victims, a discussion of the most common spinal cord injuries, and more information on what to do if your client is involved in a driving under the influence (DUI) case.
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Minnesota Driver's License Revocation
FindLaw's breakdown of Minnesota laws pertaining to driving under the influence and license revocation.
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Motor Carrier Public Liability Endorsements and Financial Responsibility Laws
FindLaw's analysis of trucking deregulation efforts and the resulting impact on insurance and financial responsibility requirements in that sector of the economy.
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Auto Accidents and Personal Injury in Colorado
Automobile accidents are now the source of most personal injury lawsuits. They provide a good example of how this area of law works. You have a negligence claim if you are injured by a driver who failed to exercise reasonable care, because every ...
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Passengers with Disabilities
The Air Carrier Access Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of handicap in air travel and requires air carriers to accommodate the needs of passengers with disabilities. In 1990 The Department of Transportation issued a rule defining the rights ...
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Keeping Young Drivers Safe, Graduated Licensing
Young drivers are involved in fatal crashes at over twice the rate as drivers aged 21 and older. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is encouraging states to adopt a graduated licensing system to ease young drivers into the driving ...
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Expanded Hazardous Materials for Registration
The Research and Special Programs Administration ("RSPA") of the Department of Transportation promulgated new regulations on February 14, 2000, that expanded the number of businesses that must register and pay fee assessments if they transport, or ...
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Lunch at Ophelia's or Summertime and the A/C is Humming
The third Wednesday of the month rolled around with the inevitability of a fourth Bulls' championship. Stuart - forty-two, thin as an oboe with a hairline that was receding like high tide on the Jersey shore - was to met Maurie - same age, shaped ...
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Health Care Financing Administration Issues Payment Suspension Rules
The Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") recently issued final rules, effective January 2, 1997, governing suspension of Medicare payments. Existing regulations provide that payments to providers and suppliers may be suspended by a Medicare ...
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What To Do In Case Of An Automobile Accident
Hopefully you will never need this brochure but in case you do, time spent now considering what to do in case of an accident will avoid legal, financial and personal problems that can result from any accident. If you are involved in an accident ...
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Radio Rules: They Should be Life Savers
Although January 29, 1997, began as a normal workday for 49 year old Patrick Smith of Waseca, Minnesota, it ended without him. He went to work that day on his regular job running trains from Blue Earth, Minnesota to Mason City, Iowa for Union ...