A judge recently denied the release of Baton Rouge Police Department body cam footage of the apprehending of a 13-year-old boy. Bryan Fisher, the teenager’s attorney, stated he doesn’t think it is in the boy’s, or his family’s, best interest to view the video at the police station and is still waiting for a copy …
2018 Worst Year for Pedestrian Deaths Since 1990s
Fisher Injury Lawyers has regularly reported on pedestrian crashes in and around the Baton Rouge area and the overall lack of safety for pedestrians in the state of Louisiana. While pedestrian safety is clearly a problem in Baton Rouge, it has also been on the rise throughout the country. The Governors Highway Safety Association has …
Attorney Chris J. Day Convinces First Circuit to Reverse Trial Court Opinion
In an opinion handed down Friday, the First Circuit Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the decision of a Workers’ Compensation judge dismissing a claim brought by the descendants of a worker killed while working at a Georgia Pacific plant in August of 2013. The employee’s children made a workers’ compensation claim for death benefits in …
Tweeting ban bill advances
Drivers would be banned from tweeting, posting on Instagram or using other social networks under a bill approved Wednesday by the state Senate Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee. The measure, Senate Bill 147, cleared the panel without objection. State Sen. Dale Erdey, R-Livingston, sponsor of the proposal, spelled out details of his bill, fielded …