Moving Violations

If you receive any points on our driver’s license record, your auto insurance premium is going to be increased. So the key to prevent an increase in your auto insurance premium is to not have any points added to your record. Speeding tickets, in most cases, add points to our driving record and most of us just have to grin and bear it. If an attorney represents you in court for your speeding ticket, he or she can most likely prevent any points being added to your driving record.

The fee for an attorney to represent you in court at their normal billing rate likely matches or is more than the increased auto insurance premium. So it is cost prohibitive to bring in an attorney under these billing rates. But luckily for us there is a legal insurance program out there that allows an attorney to represent you in court in any state in the US for a small monthly premium. This makes it very easy to have an attorney represent you in court and if the situation is defensible, you may even get the speeding ticket waived all together. Also a lawyer is much more likely to know if there was an mistake made by the ticketing officer and that does happen on occasion.

Having representation in court for any situation is best and this is true for moving violations as well. You have the right to have an attorney who knows the law in detail to protect your interests and with legal insurance, it is not cost-prohibited.

Certain Motor Vehicle Criminal Charges

Imagine you or someone in your family is driving down the road and you decided to switch lanes. Did you see that motorcycle in your blind-spot? Unfortunately you didn’t and let’s just say to make this case he dies. Have you ever seen a commercial, a billboard or other forms of advertisement’s by lawyers saying “Have You Been INJURED in an ACCIDENT?”

The cost to defend yourself, your spouse or your child if they are charged with manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide or vehicular homicide due to a car accident while they were driving and someone else was killed can start $10,000 and extend up to about $30,000. Auto insurance policies will not cover these costs even though many people assume they do. What you need in this unfortunate case is a legal insurance program that covers these legal defense costs as part of its small monthly premium. With the high statistics of young drivers being involved in car accidents, the ability to have that high cost risk covered by an insurance plan is very important.

Definitions:
Vehicular Homicide (also known as vehicular manslaughter) in most states in the United States, is a crime. In general, it involves death that results from the negligent operation of a vehicle, or more so a result from driving while committing an unlawful act that does not amount to a felony. In the Model Penal Code there is no separate category of vehicular homicide, and vehicular homicides that involve negligence. Both are included in the overall category of negligent homicide. It can be compared to the offense of dangerous driving causing death in other countries.

Involuntary Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention. It is normally divided into two categories; constructive manslaughter and criminally negligent manslaughter. Negligent Homicide is a criminal charge brought against people who, through criminal negligence, allow others to die.

Negligent Homicide is a lesser included offense to first and second degree murder, in the sense that someone guilty of this offense can expect a more lenient sentence, often with imprisonment time comparable to manslaughter. U.S. states all define negligent homicide by statute. In some, the offense includes the killing of another while operating a vehicle, an aircraft, a snowmobile, a watercraft or etc… while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.