INDIANAPOLIS, IND – With attorney Sidney Lewellen’s recent admission into the Iowa bar, Indianapolis-based law firm Craig, Kelley & Faultless LLC is now licensed to practice law in Iowa and five more states. Craig, Kelley & Faultless is proud to announce that Sidney, who holds licenses in Indiana and the…
Commercial truck drivers and trucking companies must abide by stringent federal laws and regulations to help ensure motorist safety. When they fail to do so, drivers and motor carriers can be held liable for resulting accidents. If you sustained injuries in an Indiana truck accident, understanding how state and federal…
More people are killed in large truck wrecks in St. Louis County than in any of the other 113 Missouri counties. That’s not a surprising fact, considering it is the state’s most populous county, home to the city of the same name. But it reinforces an important fact: Metropolitan areas…
In 2021, across the state of Indiana, 167 people lost their lives in crashes involving large trucks. That number was up 49% from the benchmark recorded 10 years earlier in 2012, according to the Institute for Safer Trucking. In a previous blog post, I discussed the nationwide increase in large…
Personal injury attorney Scott A. Faultless has been named recipient of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) President’s Award for the third time. Faultless is a founding partner of Craig, Kelley & Faultless, an Indianapolis-based personal injury law firm specializing in commercial motor vehicle wrecks. This recent award is one…
Before Craig, Kelley & Faultless LLC was a nationally recognized law firm, before books were published and cases were won, it was an idea tossed between three coworkers. It was a dream no one knew they’d see come true. But they hoped. They believed. After all of the dreaming and…
The number of people in the United States who were killed in large truck wrecks rose, higher and morbidly higher, between 2012 and 2021. Within a decade, the yearly death toll rose from 3,944 in 2012 to 5,788 in 2021. That’s 5,788 people in one year, dead from collisions. Nearly…
Cutting corners kills. Thousands of people die each year when trucking companies fail to ensure that their drivers are fit to work. In an industry where hypertension, obesity and sleep disorders are rampant, too many drivers slip under the radar. Undiagnosed sleep apnea affects commercial motor vehicle operators across the…
Nightmares plague your sleep. You wake up anxious, clammy, on edge. Your hands shake every time you get into the passenger seat. You still can’t bring yourself to get behind the wheel of your own car. Although your physical wounds have healed, and your family and friends seem to think…
As online shopping and delivery services have become more integrated into our daily lives, safety features on delivery vans are increasingly critical to protect the public with whom they share the road. With giants like FedEx and Amazon constantly working to meet consumers’ demands, new safety features have the potential to significantly reduce delivery van…