http://www.gjel.com California's Preeminent Personal Injury and Auto Accident Lawyers Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en November 6 First Friday Reception at Blankspace This is Not My Beautiful Life—a two person exhibition with Michael Hall and Daniel Healey For this exhibition we are pairing two painters with radically different approaches to painting, but whom are both dealing with subjects of history, domesticity and narrative. Michael Halls work begins with an ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/TlkLaQJwymA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/TlkLaQJwymA/events-november-6.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/events-november-6.html When texting kills, Britain takes it seriously. A recent poll by the New York Times suggests that Americans would like to do the same. Britain has a nationwide ban on texting while driving,  with a law that considers it to be a serious aggravating factor in “death by dangerous driving.” The ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/dKXWKx6T8t8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/dKXWKx6T8t8/will-the-us-soon-take-texting-while-driving-as-seriously-as-britain.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/will-the-us-soon-take-texting-while-driving-as-seriously-as-britain.html Over the years, GJEL has seen its cases involving uninsured motorists increase by roughly 20 percent. Add to that underinsured motorists, unlicensed motorists, aging drivers, and teens with their first license, and the safety of our streets is downright scary. Not to belabor the point, but, with each percentage point ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/O4Z4olZd-Z4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/O4Z4olZd-Z4/how-much-do-you-know-about-your-car-insurance.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/how-much-do-you-know-about-your-car-insurance.html October 30 Montclair Lions Club Halloween Parade Kids and their parents and grandparents can give their costumes an early start at the annual Lions Club Halloween parade this afternoon in Oakland's Montclair Village. Mountain Boulevard from Colton Boulevard to La Salle Avenue and La Salle Avenue from Mountain Boulevard to Moraga Avenue ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/v2nQjUIBWiI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/v2nQjUIBWiI/events-october-30.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/events-october-30.html It's commonly said that there are two types of motorcyclists: those who have been in an accident and those who will be. For the past eleven years, motorcycle fatalities have been on the rise, seemingly proving that assertion to be true. But some news this week may help to change ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/h4nu5Ie7Mdg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/h4nu5Ie7Mdg/motorcycle-fatalities-finally-decreasing.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/motorcycle-fatalities-finally-decreasing.html October 23 Betting On A Cure" Poker Tournament and Auction Benefiting The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Don't miss this event!  Presented/hosted by Blue Dog Events!! Texas Hold Em - Easy to learn, cheat sheet available, all levels welcome!!! ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY Buy-In - $50 Re-buys $10, Add-on $20 Unlimited re-buys for first ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/UndhasXrwQY" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/UndhasXrwQY/events-october-23.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/events-october-23.html Next time you go for a drive and hit a red light, pay attention to where you stop your car. If you find yourself stopped behind another car, take note of how close to it you stop. Can you see the rear license plate of the car in front of ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/Z0SNqdomnRM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/Z0SNqdomnRM/cars-backing-into-cars-at-red-lights.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/cars-backing-into-cars-at-red-lights.html At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, 206 patients were given CT scans that delivered a dose of radiation many times higher than they were supposed to. The excess radiation was due to an error made by the hospital. Officials from the hospital said yesterday that the error was a result ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/c6r2BHGKy34" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/c6r2BHGKy34/hospital-error-causes-206-to-be-given-radiation-overdoses.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/hospital-error-causes-206-to-be-given-radiation-overdoses.html Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills Sunday that will require or encourage convicted drunk drivers to install ignition-interlock devices in their vehicles. The devices allow a car to be started only if the driver blows into the device and has an acceptably low blood alcohol content. "I took action and signed ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/GJa-35AziuU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/GJa-35AziuU/ignition-interlock-devices-approved-for-trial.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/ignition-interlock-devices-approved-for-trial.html October 9 Kirchenabendmusik. Music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert Take a musical trip to Old Vienna, and in your mind’s eye, sit in historic St. Stephen’s Cathedral for a candlelit Vespers service.  This is exactly what Artists’  Vocal Ensemble (AVE) will bring to life on the second weekend of October.  With ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GJEL/~4/4PN1k4PobQ8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GJEL/~3/4PN1k4PobQ8/events-octobe-9.html http://www.gjel.com/blog/events-octobe-9.html